I finally watched the Sakura Night Fever MV, and I feel a strange connection to it... because as part of a school presentation in 1st grade I had to dress up in a cardboard Christmas tree getup.

Good point.

New profile images for the group up, but I don't know which song they're supposed to be for.

Let's go!

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Anderei" data-cid="195012" data-time="1454946254">Chapter's 1-3 of Tsunku's book have been translated for those interested:   http://kumomi.org/translations/2015/09/13/tsunku-dakara-ikiru-prologue-a-new-step-2015-...

Hyokkori Hyoutanjima is silly fun.

<--Monster who also voted for Pyocopyoco.

Mr.Moonlight is losing, so I move to disqualify the voters with concussions.

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="aine" data-cid="195578" data-time="1457495814">Better late than never indeed. I played the Japanese version for a few hours and it was just as fun as always. And if you played the previous game in English then you...

Is this an entirely new deal? Because something about it seemed very familiar, and I went on to find something on Wota in Translation about her using Proactiv nearly two years ago, which many responders thought sounded like stealth marketing.

Better late than never: the 3DS Rhythm Heaven was finally announced for release in NA and Europe, though there's not yet a more specific date than 2016.   Game-related, I've just learned of this YouTube channel which is worth a browse. All the videos are labeled as if they're regular game songs, but...

I didn't think this was worth a release thread of its own, but I saw another NEXT YOU song has been released as a digital single.

I never watch the Oscars, but I did last night watch the On Cinema live Oscar special. CG resurrection of a dead son, DNA testing to see if an old man was James Dean, thrown sandwiches, competitions refereed by Joe Estevez... what an experience.

Just saw Zoolander 2. It can never be the original again, and as with many comedy sequels it sometimes tried to hard to recreate or outdo some bit from the original, but I laughed a lot. If you enjoyed the original for its exaggerated stupidity, there's a lot more of that to be found here.

Re X-Files stuff without quoting:   Yeah, I've generally been enjoying it too. Were-Monster especially was pretty great--it was always a bummer that writer wasn't around for the original run past the third season.   Season 10 is I think because that's how Fox started referring to it on its website--...

And a U.S. citizen to boot.   EDIT: Thanks to crazy translation, when I first saw something about this on Twitter I thought it was about Lehua Sandbo instead.   Translated from Japanese by Bing [里田 the boy birth Mar you dad] field, Lieutenant-General major Mrs. sandbo birth no. 1 child boy in New Yo...

"Next is you!" always sounds vaguely Engrishy threatening to me.
 
"And McFly, don't go anywhere! Next is you!"

ANGERME's going to appear on an NHK World Tokyo Girls Update show, and they're accepting questions in English. It's not airing for over a month, but they're only accepting questions for 2-3 more days.

^So I read Before the Awakening. I'd skipped over it before because Amazon called the Kindle version a "digital picture book", so I thought it was something meant for the extreme younglings. But I guess what they really meant was essentially it's a light novel, with a couple illustrations ...

I wonder. The Wii Rhythm Heaven game came out in 2011, which is before at least some of those people were in NGP Kenshuusei. Without doing intense comparison the track sounded mostly the same as the version I'd heard before, with a few additional voiceover parts. But I guess especially with somethin...

Bokura no Seadi! I recognize from the Wii Rhythm Heaven game. Search for "Dreams of Our Generation" and you can even find the localized English version.   The other one I didn't recognize, but searching the Japanese name I find some mentions of it, including <a class="bbc_url" hr...

Book title reminds me of Kusumi's, A 17 Year Old's Career Change.

What was related to Rey and Finn? I read Shattered Empire which included Poe's parents.

I watched X-Files from near the beginning, though eventually fell out of it. In the last few years restarted it, and finally recently got caught up through the last season and movie. I think somewhere around the midpoint I switched my view on the series--in that I really started to prefer the monste...

Something I've been thinking about that is a bit tangential to The Force Awakens itself. There seems to be more major non-movie content than ever; it seems like Marvel has a dozen Star Wars comics going on, for instance. But unlike the last trilogy, it doesn't seem like they're leaving themselves ro...

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Hah, maybe he is secret marketing to try to get to holdouts like you. :) EDIT: And showraniy.

Considering some of the other things she's gotten wrapped up in over the years, the cigarette might've been the simplest out she could hope for.

With 2015 as H!P's first Tsunku-lite year, I was curious which people were most responsible for last year's songs. You can read fuller lists and info for how I counted them <a class="bbc_url" href="http://helloproject.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:73971">here</a>, but here's a top 5 for ...

[quote="JPope"]   The Joke/Gundam single was the high water mark for B-side releases, probably in the entire history of the group. It was almost a mini-album when you take all of the different songs across all of the editions, and they were all at least pretty good. [/quote] Pretty close. ...

[quote="Ap2000"] I just got the audiobook of The disaster artist. It's by one of the actors from The Room and details all the terrible and terrific films that happened before and during the shoot. Here's an excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K40IToeN51Y [/quote] I read the book about...

It struck me that 2015 made something of a reversal in terms of amount of content for various groups. A few years ago it might be that thanks to crazy amounts of different B-sides for different editions, a Morning Musume single might have nearly as many new songs as other groups got in a year. Last ...