The H!P Musings/Rants Thread

[boinsie]

2017? Yulia would’ve been like 9 years old. Has H!P ever had trainees that young before?

Just as trivia, Miyamoto Karin also joined the Eggs when she was 9 years old (image from a little later on, but priceless nonetheless).

[Zunu]

Wow it feels like years since I've thought of Ume-san. The two of them look like giantesses in that pic next to Karin. Come on modders, where's our Hello! Evil Village with Lady Tension Agetrescu?

[Celedam]

First there were the Kids

For any lurkers/newbies who might be unfamiliar with that period (i.e., late Golden Era) in the history of H!P…



From the June 30, 2002, episode of Hello! Morning.

[erilaz]

Wow it feels like years since I've thought of Ume-san.

She was my favorite member of ℃-ute back in the day. When I saw them in Nagoya in 2007, a few fans there were wearing GEM t-shirts, where GEM (Great Erika and Maimi) was a parody of GAM (Great Aya and Miki).

[boinsie]

Wow it feels like years since I've thought of Ume-san.

She's the producer for idol group Turtle Lily!

She was my favorite member of ℃-ute back in the day. When I saw them in Nagoya in 2007, a few fans there were wearing GEM t-shirts, where GEM (Great Erika and Maimi) was a parody of GAM (Great Aya and Miki).

Shoot, you just dug Buono!'s faux rival group Bello! out of the depths of my mind.

[Zunu]

I saw that Turtle Lily reference somewhere, wasn't sure if the project was still around or not!

And dang boins... Bello! I feel so nostalgic right now. If memory serves they were sort of a response to the AKB subgroup No Sleeves, who were similarly ikemen style. But Momochi totally threw that drum battle on purpose. She's probably in some studio right now holding a pair of sticks with raised pinkies, banging away like Travis Barker.

[boinsie]

I think Bello only existed as a foil to Buono! in one of their DVD magazines, but it meant Kumai and Umeda were in a group together for a minute so I was there for it.
..also shoot, going on a no3b binge now.

[JonCC]

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Well that was a sentence I wasn't expecting to read anytime, ever.

[Zunu]

This web page makes my soul hurt

https://fanmade486.fandom.com/wiki/SKE48_Kenkyuusei

[Shoujo Q]

I feel like I might know what it feels like to have a stroke after trying to read that page. My brain hurt.