I think I kinda liked it. The song, of course, doesn't lend itself to an exciting video, but at least the atmosphere of the set and camera shots had an interesting feel. The last two videos of hers were shot with an annoyingly blinding bright filter or something, so this at least doesn't go that roa...

Hooray, I'm happy she's coming back as a talent, I suppose. Although I selfishly wish she were making music, rather than just being a general show business girl, since with music I can actually get into it. It's like with Yaguchi for me, I like her so I'm happy she's all over the place but I can't u...

Well, it's slightly better this time. It's zoomed out a little, you know.



God, at least give her a prop or something.

[quote name='Madara' post='67748' date='Aug 22 2009, 07:25 AM']So what was the big announcement? All I could find on the Crunchyroll site was a video interview with MM with questions about all kinds of unrelated random things.[/quote] They brought us the wonderful world of Morning Musume videos. Wai...

The last episode made me think that this "season" is just to fill in some gaps. Perhaps they knew they'd waste all that time with Endless Eight, so they knew there was no purpose in putting exciting episodes in the season. The fan in me is hoping that means that they have an actual season ...

[quote name='Jessy' post='67466' date='Aug 17 2009, 02:26 PM']I am simply asking as everyone else is for a specific artist.[/quote] As everyone else is? We're not asking for specific artists. Most of us have been discussing 80s idols and providing links to youtube to show off to other people who mig...

Is the title of the photobook supposed to be a reference to the magazine that published the story that started the scandal? If that's the case, I just think it's a silly title that is merely shows how poorly attention-grabbing this all is.

If anyone stopped paying attention because of Endless Eight, the latest episode is new. I liked it, but it's nothing earth-shattering that would bring back any disgruntled fans.

[quote name='aisasami' post='67406' date='Aug 16 2009, 04:00 PM']Any who, got some questions: I know this is early 90s but has[/quote] Did you write so much that you forgot to actually ask your questions? [quote name='aisasami' post='67406' date='Aug 16 2009, 04:00 PM']Check out No. 14 Tomikawa Haru...

Here's a commercial showing them in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE5UGUALS6I



Yes, I'm only posting this because I believe the song is called "Black Boy"

Wow, that B'z single came out last week. It already sold 180,000 last week.

[quote name='neshcom' post='67319' date='Aug 13 2009, 11:08 PM']On Wed., SSLIA got 12 000 points, Nanchatte got 10 000. I missed Tuesday's rankings. Hmm....[/quote] You didn't miss anything. Those first numbers you posted were Tuesday's. In any case, you can always click "前へ" on Oricon's w...

I know a bit about Onyanko, but probably not as much as some other people here. It was the soloists who sprung from the group that really clicked with me. It's so huge a topic, since it spawned so many girls, I'm not sure what you want. Since you're already getting into the main group itself, I gues...

I'm gonna have to disagree. It was these shots from the preview that strongly made me think she can't hide her Martian ancestry any longer. I could see that hairstyle being attractive on someone, but her face doesn't seem real behind all that. I expect her to be in a horror movie.

[quote name='TnB' post='67285' date='Aug 13 2009, 07:50 AM']I'm not entirely sure why they don't just have AKB48 tour around the country rather than make a whole bunch of new groups, but maybe that would take away from the "girls you can meet" aspect that strawberry was talking about.[/quo...

That's a bit too overly sentimental.

I'm sure the inner workings of the empire are planning for just such an expansion. I think there were rumblings of a Fukuoka group followed by Osaka and Sapporo at least. Now seems like the best time to do it with the AKB machine growing so huge, but I guess most companies are done in by over-expans...

[quote name='strawberryjam' post='67249' date='Aug 12 2009, 06:37 PM']The 12 year old front girl of SKE is actually really polished.[/quote] That's because she's secretly 19. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/eek3run.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lesson:' />

The Stardust Promotion agency has a large stable of girls aged 8-18 in their Section 3 that they call "3B junior" (I think the idea is that they're all in the same grade and class--Year 3, Class B--but that means some of these girls have been held back, and some are really smart!) A lot of...

By "SNE48" do you mean SKE48? They're just the AKB48 for Nagoya, so that you don't have to go to Tokyo to see a show. They've been around almost a year, but now just released their own single (even though some members of SKE48 have been in AKB48 singles already...) If you don't mean SKE48,...

There's no pattern. Big round numbers just are big round numbers. If you're not one of the consistent 100,000-in-the-first-week sellers, then becoming a number one single is only about what other things came out in the same week. Day one sales are all about the pre-orders. The rest will be about the...

[quote name='Madara' post='67197' date='Aug 11 2009, 08:23 PM']I showed her a picture of Ai Takahashi and she asked if Ai-chan didn't have some other ancestry besides Japanese. I said, "You mean she looks Latina?" "Yes!" I pointed out that we had that discussion here on the board...

Thanks for the article. I'm still upset that I happened to wander over to the booth and people were all like "Hey, Yossi was here like 3 seconds ago!" Ah well, I still got to meet her at the signing. I liked your frame of figuring out the differences of America and Japan for these pop star...

[quote name='Ap2000' post='67155' date='Aug 10 2009, 05:14 PM']"Oh my God, this is really amazing. Her voice sounds better than I have ever, ever heard it, and... wow. I really, really love this. It really does have a Christmas-y feel to it, doesn't it? I think it's absolutely lovely. ;w; <333...

Noto was getting a bit too "old" to be an H!P Egg. (Get her out quick, she's not a teenager! That's supposed to mean automatic expulsion, we're supposed to be monitoring their ages, people!) I'd complain about how this affects Ongaku Gatas, but they haven't really existed for a year anyway...

I had to put "Ai no Tane" in since I like the song so much. Feel free to mentally delete it if you must. 1. The Peace! 2. Koi no Dance Site 3. Ai no Tane 4. Love Machine 5. Morning Coffee (The smallest details make me love things. In this case it's the "yes!") So, yeah, anything ...

I like listening to the instrumentation in this high quality version, but those raps are still annoyingly out of place in the song. But the music drop-offs at 1:35 and 3:51 are pretty awesome (if only because they make me fear a rap is coming up, and then I become relieved that there is no such thin...

Aw, wow, I love her early stuff. And I was a fan of Gunbuster when I used to like anime. [quote name='TnB' post='67067' date='Aug 7 2009, 07:50 AM']The replies over at the Tokyograph forum get confusing though - the article Story post mentions that she wasn't reported missing until the next day, but...

[quote name='TightWetPucchi' post='67047' date='Aug 6 2009, 07:56 PM'][quote name='EmEl' post='67045' date='Aug 6 2009, 07:23 PM']Momoko's vocals threaten to ruin the entire song. I can normally put up with it, but it is ear-shattering this time. It permeates the song and blends horribly during the ...

The outfits are terrible compared to normal Buono! standards, but I suppose it fits with the PV so I'm slightly okay with it. Momoko's vocals threaten to ruin the entire song. I can normally put up with it, but it is ear-shattering this time. It permeates the song and blends horribly during the chor...