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Ikuta Erina & Sudo Maasa: “Tsunku♂ is the best!”

Posted by Henkka on April 4, 2018
Posted in: 2ch, Berryz Koubou, Morning Musume. Tags: Ikuta Erina, Sudo Maasa, Tsunku♂. 1 comment

1: 名無し募集中。。。 2017/01/23(月) 23:49:36.36 0.net

I went to karaoke! […] Tsunku♂-san is the best!!!

Song history:

Nakidasu Kamoshirenai yo
Mikan
Yowamushi
Motto Aishite Hoshii no
Tsuugaku Ressha
Kataomoi no Owari ni
Itsumo to Onnaji Seifuku de

http://ameblo.jp/morningmusume-9ki/entry-12240867554.html

53: 名無し募集中。。。 2017/01/24(火) 00:31:02.43 0.net
“Tsuugaku Ressha” and some of the others are pretty nerdy choices.

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How come no one ever told me how good of a song Tsunku♂’s “TOUCH ME” is?

Posted by Henkka on April 3, 2018
Posted in: 2ch. Tags: Tsunku♂. 4 comments

1: いち和食 ◆gohaXuCP. 2017/02/21(火) 23:13:49.03 0.net
He’s pretty much the Jamiroquai of Japan!

2: 名無し募集中。。。 2017/02/21(火) 23:15:57.37 0.net
The PV with Taisei cross-dressing as a woman.

5. ℃-uteな名無しさん 2017年02月22日 15:33 id:aQ0L.LH30
Wait, that silver-haired woman is actually Taisei?! (laughs)
And here I was thinking “man, who’s this crazy hot girl?” (laughs)

7. ℃-uteな名無しさん 2017年02月22日 20:49 id:BvYdavk70
Wait, that was really Taisei-san…!?
And here I was just thinking how this girl has the figure of a model…

I came to love this song after I returned to being an H!P fan and lately I’ve been playing it as a DJ (on the web). I regret that even though I got into them around “Single Bed,” I later drifted from them… I guess I was at an age where I was looking for something else.

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Wada Ayaka: “This whole past year feels like it never even happened.”

Posted by Henkka on April 2, 2018
Posted in: 2ch, ANGERME. Tags: Wada Ayaka. 14 comments

1: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/02/04(日) 00:52:50.69 0.net

Here are some pictures I took in the fall of 2017 when we were commuting on tour. It only took a few minutes for the day to turn into night. I was watching the whole time. It was such a poetic, unforgettable moment for me. And even though I say that, this scene is really the only thing I actually remember of it all. What prefecture was this? Where had we performed earlier that day? I do not recall.

I don’t even have that uncomfortable feeling of somehow needing to remember. It feels like I never even lived this moment. Actually, it has felt like that for the entirety of this past year. No matter how many times someone asks me “don’t you remember?,” I simply don’t.

Because to me, it almost feels like I never even lived this moment.

https://ameblo.jp/angerme-ayakawada/entry-12349901352.html

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Tsunku♂ Love Theory: “The Stupid Woman”

Posted by Henkka on March 30, 2018
Posted in: Other. Tags: Tsunku♂. 2 comments

Foolish women are a big favorite of men!

In this chapter, I will be talking about something of a different nuance than what you might typically take “stupid woman” to mean. In the Osaka dialect, calling someone “stupid” is usually done in good spirit, and what it really means in this case is “man, this girl’s a fun one” or “what an adorable girl this one is.” Thus, “stupid woman” is by no means meant as an insult. If anything, considering how essential the owarai culture is to Osakan people, calling someone a “fool” might actually be a word of praise.

… Now that we’ve gotten the excuses out of the way, let me reveal some of the stupidity of the members of Morning Musume.

In Morning Musume, every member has displayed her share of foolishness. Pretty much every member will every now and then come on stage during a concert while wearing their skirt the wrong way, or with their fly hanging open. It’s become something so commonplace that now the members, the staff, not even the fans are surprised when it happens. But the point where it really gets funny is seeing how their foolishness manifests itself beyond that, depending on their personalities.

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Fukuda Asuka: “My life would’ve been happier without music.”

Posted by Henkka on March 24, 2018
Posted in: 2ch, Morning Musume. Tags: Fukuda Asuka. 7 comments

1: 名無し募集中。。。 2017/12/05(火) 20:42:20.22 0.net

Currently living in a two-room apartment with her daughter, she spoke to us on the topic of living on part-time wages. “I buy most things from the 100-yen store. All my daughter’s toys are hand-me-downs from friends. When it was really bad, I would wash my hair with baking soda. If I really cut down on the food expenses, I can get by with 10,000 yen a month.“

On her sudden retirement: “My 12-year-old mind simply couldn’t deal with being thrust into such a hectic environment. I wasn’t able to sing like I wanted to; move like I wanted to… I just couldn’t keep up.“

She later quit high school, having become stricken with social anxiety. “Even after my retirement and going back to normal life, random people on the train or at the convenience store would recognize me as being a “national idol” and chase me around. I thus became something of a shut-in.“

Speaking softly, she looks back on her past: “I think that if it wasn’t for singing, I wouldn’t have ended up like this. If only it wasn’t for music, I would’ve had a happier life.“

She later went on to restart her musical activities thanks to a work acquaintance. She rediscovered the joy of singing in front of an audience. She now sings in a band she formed six years ago, while also working as a voice trainer. She finishes, smiling: “It’s the times when my singing actually reaches someone. That’s what keeps me going.“

http://www.hochi.co.jp/entertainment/20171205-OHT1T50162.html

2: 名無し募集中。。。 2017/12/05(火) 20:43:12.95 0.net
That’s the unavoidable price of fame.
It simply can not be helped.

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Tsunku♂ Love Theory: “The Tension-Inducing Woman”

Posted by Henkka on March 23, 2018
Posted in: Other. Tags: Tsunku♂, Yasuda Kei. 2 comments

This woman may just be the one who gets the last laugh…

Just like there’s the expression “every household needs one!,” there’s also “every classroom needs a person like this” or “every mixer party needs someone like this.” This expression is used to describe people who fill some necessary role in any gathering of people. To borrow that expression: I believe Morning Musume’s Yasuda Kei is the type of person you’d ought to have in your school club, or in each department of your company. Similarly, she’s an indispensable part of Morning Musume.

What Yasuda does is toughen up the atmosphere in the group — Yasuda is one of the members with true strength, so her simply being there is enough for others around her to go “oh man, we’ll have to do our best, too.” As a result, she ends up improving the quality of the group as a whole.

There are several reasons for Yasuda making everyone else feel like they’re in trouble unless they give it their all, but I suppose the first and foremost reason would be her great singing. At her audition she told us she loved singing so much she couldn’t help but want to become a singer, and she had by then quit school and was working part-time at McDonald’s. To tell you the truth, my initial thought was “come on, be honest: you only quit school because you hate studying.” But she truly meant what she had said, and indeed: her singing was good.

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Wota accuses Okai Chisato of not being a good friend to Yajima Maimi; Okai is not amused

Posted by Henkka on March 21, 2018
Posted in: °C-ute, 2ch. Tags: Okai Chisato. 8 comments

1: 名無し募集中。。。 2017/12/04(月) 18:38:42.80 0.net

@osuzu_nesmith
13:28 – 2017年12月4日
Okai-chan had a great response to a wota’s unsolicited advice:

@XXX: Chisato: you’re not going to go see your friend’s stage play? If not, don’t be surprised when she stops doing that kind of thing for you as well.

@chisatookai_official_uf: Me going to see her thing because she came to see my thing, or me not going to see her thing because she didn’t come to see my thing — our friendship isn’t something that worthless.

4: 名無し募集中。。。 2017/12/04(月) 18:43:40.16 0.net
She’s pissed off!

22: 名無し募集中。。。 2017/12/04(月) 19:06:59.39 0.net
Huh, so Okai-chan replies even to random people!

28: 名無し募集中。。。 2017/12/04(月) 19:16:40.49 0.net
Okai is completely right on this one.
It’s not some cheap friendship that’s only just begun.

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Tell me all your interesting Natsuyaki Miyabi-related episodes!

Posted by Henkka on March 20, 2018
Posted in: 2ch, Berryz Koubou, PINK CRES.. Tags: Natsuyaki Miyabi. 15 comments

1: 名無し募集中。。。 2017/10/21(土) 00:33:01.16 0.net
Don’t care if they’re crazy ones or just heartwarming ones. Tell me all of them. I already know the pencil one. (Note: apparently, when Miya was an elementary schooler she stuck a pencil in a flower pot and actively watered it — as you do — with the hopes that it would grow into a tree.)

6: 名無し募集中。。。 2017/10/21(土) 00:35:49.30 0.net
One of her seniors called her out for something. She was approached by several of them and she told them that they didn’t scare her. You’d think it would be frightening if there’s a large number of people approaching you like that, but apparently her thinking was that the reason her senior didn’t come alone was because they were weak.

12: 名無し募集中。。。 2017/10/21(土) 00:38:27.32 0.net
>>6
Wow, is this true?
I wonder who called her out?

73: 名無し募集中。。。 2017/10/21(土) 00:57:38.08 0.net
>>12
It was a senior of hers from school so there’s no way to know.

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