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Ozeki Mai: “It irritates me to see Yajima-san and Momochi-senpai acting all friendly.”

Posted by Henkka on May 3, 2017
Posted in: °C-ute, 2ch, Country Girls. Tags: Ozeki Mai, Tsugunaga Momoko, Yajima Maimi. 8 comments

1: 名無し募集中。。。 2017/01/20(金) 21:38:15.17 0.net

@ 1/20 21:30 from Twitter for iPhone

Q&A corner; on the topic of the mini-photobook the members got to do with Yajima-san. It turns out Ozeko actually loves Yajima-san. Seeing her and Momochi backstage at Hello! Con talking all friendly with each other, Momochi calling her “Maimi” (without any honorific) to her face, them holding hands with fingers interlocked when taking pictures together… All of this really irritated Ozeko.
#country_girls

@ 1/20 21:31 from Twitter for iPhone

Ozeko was terribly annoyed seeing Momochi-senpai and Yajima-san being all friendly with each other.

Funaki: “I’m going to tell on you to Momochi-sensei~”
Ozeki: “Why do you have to be like that?!“

#country_girls

9: 名無し募集中。。。 2017/01/20(金) 21:41:38.26 0.net
That’s no way to be talking about your Playing Manager. (laughs)

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Tsubaki Factory’s Tanimoto Ami tries to open plastic bottle for 5 minutes; is not successful

Posted by Henkka on May 2, 2017
Posted in: 2ch, Tsubaki Factory. Tags: Tanimoto Ami. 7 comments

1: 名無し募集中。。。 2017/02/26(日) 20:16:09.75 0.net

I can’t get my tea open.
I’m inconvenienced.

I’m not sure what it was… I think I just couldn’t put any strength into my grip because it was so early morning. I kept trying and giving up for about five minutes. (laughs) In the end, I gave up for good and went back to sleep. When I woke up again, I got Kishimoto Yumeno-chan to open it for me. Gulping it down, the tea tasted more delicious than usual.

http://ameblo.jp/tsubaki-factory/entry-12251473069.html

2: 名無し募集中。。。 2017/02/26(日) 20:16:34.51 0.net
I don’t care, but that’s cute.

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Loitering Between the Lines of Hello! Project: Part 1

Posted by Henkka on April 30, 2017
Posted in: Other. 6 comments

Note: See here before reading.

Part One: “Incessant Praise Paradise”
Picking up from where they left off in their highly praised feature in the
Hello! Project COMPLETE ALBUM BOOK!
In this new, bi-monthly series, writers Yuzuki Asako and Asai Ryo
profile the lyrics of Hello! Project songs!

Song #1: Morning Musume ’15 – “Sukatto My Heart”
(Tsunku/Tsunku/Suzuki Shunsuke)

Yuzuki: So the A-side for this single was “Oh my wish!” What did you think about this release?

Asai: Honestly, for me, I easily liked “Sukatto My Heart” better. Hands down.

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Hello! Project Family Meeting: Married Couples Hooked on H!P

Posted by Henkka on April 23, 2017
Posted in: Other. 11 comments

Inuyama Kamiko. Oda Sakura oshi. Wife.
Tsurugi Mikito. “In the end… Michishige.” Husband.

Hello! Project today seems to be popular even among couples. Naturally, however, you rarely hear about the types of private conversations that happen between these “H!P couples.” Do they argue about their favorite members? Do they think about wanting to have their child join H!P…?

The married couple of Tsurugi and Inuyama, both passionate H!P fans, invited us to their home to have a thorough discussion about these kinds of subjects.

— Our theme today is “matrimonial happiness through H!P!” First of all, I want to begin by noting how it seems like are much more females at H!P concert venues these days. More and more couples have started popping up as well.

Tsurugi: Among the married couples I know, many of them are, indeed, H!P fans. Now that you mention it, it could be true that that sort of thing is becoming more common.

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Tsunku♂ helps lost, injured boy; leaves immediately after ensuring his safety

Posted by Henkka on April 21, 2017
Posted in: 2ch. Tags: Tsunku♂. 11 comments

0: RocketNews24 2017/04/05(水)
We’re reporting to you today on Tsunku♂ who has currently become a hot topic on the internet. According to an eyewitness report, he helped an injured boy who had become lost. What’s more is, once the boy’s parents had been found, Tsunku♂ simply took his leave without a word.

According to Twitter user @bada_0422, the events took place at Ueno Zoo. Let’s have a look at how they described what happened:

Today at Ueno Zoo, there was this boy who’d become lost who hurt himself by falling over in front of one of the shops. There was a cut on his mouth. The person who helped him was none other than Tsunku♂, who happened to be standing just in front of him. Even though he can’t speak properly (sorry for the impolite wording), he did his best to look for the boy’s parents and to comfort him.

I’m sorry it took me a while to run over to help — at first, I thought they were maybe in the middle of filming. But afterwards, thanks to the help of the staff there, they soon found the boy’s parents. I wanted to convey what had happened to the parents, but they were in a hurry to get their son treated for his injury so I didn’t have the time to tell them. I hope that this tweet will somehow reach the parents.

And to Tsunku♂, who left right away, I wanted to say that they found the boy’s parents in no time. I was so moved by Tsunku♂’s kindness.

In short: Tsunku♂ helped a lost, injured boy, and then made his leave without a word. If this touching story is true, it’s fair to say that it’s an episode for which he should be praised.

It’s only natural to help someone who is in need of help when you see them. But if push came to shove, how many of us would, in fact, be able to carry out doing that said natural thing? Tsunku♂ actually doing the right thing and then simply leaving without a word… This man is simply the best.

4: 名無し募集中。。。 2017/04/05(水) 11:26:09.83 0.net
As expected of our Terada.

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Tsunku♂ Love Theory: “The Misjudged Woman”

Posted by Henkka on April 20, 2017
Posted in: Other. Tags: Ichii Sayaka, Tsunku♂. 1 comment

Never underestimate an incomplete woman!

I have a minor problem that I’ve been trying to figure out.

It would seem that my taste in women is quite removed from the standards of most people out there. Whenever we hold auditions and I say about someone, “alright, this girl is going through!“, I can always hear the booing from the studio and the general public.

Thinking back, I’ve always gotten similar reactions even from my juniors. Whenever I had a girl I fancied in school, I’d mention it to my friends. “What do you think about that one? She’s pretty cute, right?” My friends would then look at me as if I was kidding. “What? Her? There are so many girls that are cuter than her. Why her of all people?” Even though in my mind this girl was absolutely the number one.

It’s true that I do have a large “strike zone.” I mean, I even like girls who aren’t cute. There were cases where I suppose it was no wonder my friends would dismissively call the girl I fancied by just “her.” Quite often, though, when I’d ask them what they thought of a specific girl, I’d be thinking about her not as she was then, but about how she might turn out in the future. As proof of that, there have been many examples of me setting my sights on a specific classmate or an idol who didn’t get any appreciation to speak of, who then went on to change into someone completely different. The more I hear people saying I have bad taste in women, the more confident I feel that I’m making the right choices.

I’ll give you an example.

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Tsunku♂ Love Theory: “The Smiling Woman”

Posted by Henkka on April 15, 2017
Posted in: Other. Tags: Abe Natsumi, Tsunku♂. 2 comments

Nothing affects men more than an imperfect smile!

The power that a woman’s smile possesses is truly remarkable.

There are many different kinds of smiles for many different kinds of situations. Each one of them can excite you, or tug at your heartstrings, or make you go “oh you little…!” and have you experience an overwhelming urge to just hug them.

When I come across a person with a pure smile that comes straight from the heart, I think to myself, “man, that’s so nice.” The smile a girl will have on her face when she wins at sports — is there anything better than that? And when it is a smile born under those kinds of circumstances, the person showing it is usually covered in sweat or dirt and they’re all messy. But even so, they just look adorable. They could be covered in mud for all I care — I’d still happily rub cheeks with them just to share in their joy. The smiles of the winning team at sports festivals… The smile of someone who’s just scored a strike when bowling… The smile of a person who’s eating something delicious and it just shows on their face as a smile. I adore them all.

Similarly, the smiles of Morning Musume when they took the first prize were so lovely. Me, I’m always the cynic — I could never be that genuinely delighted about it, no matter what sort of an award I’d received. “This isn’t going to last. There must be a catch to something as nice as this.” To someone like me, a smile like that would be impossible to replicate. I’m the sort of person who’d have to stare in the mirror, wondering “how does one smile as happily as that?“

You can see why I’m so easily drawn to those sorts of pure smiles.

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The Battle for Kaga Kaede

Posted by Henkka on April 9, 2017
Posted in: 2ch, Kobushi Factory, Morning Musume, Tsubaki Factory. Tags: Hirose Ayaka, Kaga Kaede, Makino Maria, Ogata Haruna, Ogata Risa, Yokoyama Reina. 12 comments

The conflict over Kaga Kaede
is getting intense!

1: 名無し募集中。。。 2016/12/31(土) 10:29:02.51 0.net
Apparently so.
Involved in it are girls like Yamagishi, Yokoyama, Hirose, and several others.

7: 【中国電 86.0 %】 ◆fveg1grntk 2016/12/31(土) 10:31:00.00 0.net
You can also add Ono Mizuho and Kanatsu Mizuki to that list.

8: 【中国電 86.0 %】 ◆fveg1grntk 2016/12/31(土) 10:31:14.28 0.net
Oh, and Inoue Hikaru.

12: 名無し募集中。。。 2016/12/31(土) 10:32:00.39 0.net
Nomura Minami, too.

13: 名無し募集中。。。 2016/12/31(土) 10:32:06.92 0.net
This isn’t going to end well.

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