The H!P Musings/Rants Thread

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Today at the live DA PUMP 2018 THANX performance, the live broadcast on WOWOW channel showed Harunan was at the concert with Nakagawa Shoko and were sitting in official VIP seats doing the USA dance. Their seat neighbor was Koike Teppei?


https://www.wowow.co.jp/release/004775



https://twitter.com/shoko55mmts/status/ ... 5806836738



https://twitter.com/shoko55mmts/status/ ... 7442710529

It is announced at the live that DA PUMP is a releasing a new Best Album on 12/12
http://dapump.jp/news/detail/20181010_bestalbum.html

[Amped]

people putting unnecessary trivia crap on H!P wikia :

The outfits in the "Akogare no Stress-free" music video are recycled outfits used for past releases or concerts.
http://helloproject.wikia.com/wiki/YEAH ... wa_no_Toki

The information I only need is the detail of the singles, and the sales numbers. They put all this other garbage I don't need.

[Starra]

trivia
ˈtrɪvɪə
noun
details, considerations, or pieces of information of little importance or value.
"we fill our days with meaningless trivia"
synonyms: (petty) details, minutiae, niceties, technicalities, trivialities, trifles, irrelevancies, non-essentials

Hence why it's under the trivia section. Nobody's asking you to read it. Some people actually give a shit about useless details like that. And, hey, some people are idiots who don't notice things like that.

I don't even like/use the H!P Wikia but this really isn't anything bad that they're doing.

[JonCC]

Putting this here because I don't want to clutter up the single thread with it.
I like the latest Morning Musume MV. No issues there.

But the subtitles


They're just going to omit words now? They're not going to recheck even once?
What does the world have that is full of contradictions? Or it is the world itself? Tell us UF, please.



I can't say anything about the worth of the actual translation (although from what other knowledgeable people have said that's pretty bad as well), but this is basic English.

Bad subtitles are embarrassing and distracting. The worst thing is they are hardsubbed so unavoidable.
There are better ways to avoid people ripping and downloading these MV's. Just put a banner with release info along the bottom or in the corner.
That way, people who want the pristine version can still buy the Blu-ray, be it via Petit Bests or included with album limited editions.
Even if I wanted to buy the 'clean' version on iTunes, that's only in standard definition, not HD.

Some say it's to appeal to international fans. Maybe. It's certainly one of the most half-assed ways to do it.
There's a function on Youtube that let's you crowdsource subtitles on videos. Let them enable that. No doubt in my mind that you'd get better results.

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The MV itself was nice though.

[Nayoko-Kihara]

Oh god, not the banners. I'd rather have bad to mediocre hardsubs than I would any annoying release banner. I hate those things, I think they're 10x more distracting than subtitles have ever been.

[Shoujo Q]

I don’t mind the subs. It gives me the jist of what’s going on. I’m glad they do it because if not I’d have to wait for someone else to do it.

Overall it’s better than google translating the lyrics, which is what I’ve done in the past.

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Yajima Maimi new photobook "Mabataki", release is 11/10 by Wani books. This will be her 12th photobook. Shot location in Hawaii.

https://wani-special-edition.com/produc ... l/81710-00
https://twitter.com/wani_UTB/status/1050765448566910977

Is 12 a record for the most number of photobooks by an individual H!P member?

[Shoujo Q]

^ Takahashi Ai has 13, not counting her style books.

[aerosuffly]

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/ ... 8FMNBZlDYU

Ran into this on Japan Times. I have faith in H!P system and management, but I really really hope that nothing like this will ever happen.

[otaku_blue]

Can we have a new Hello Project variety show please? Haro Morning comeback was so good.
Just something like Haro Morning or AKB Bingo again would be amazing.

We have so many variety personalities in HP, it'd be good for them to appeal to more people and develop those personalities.
I don't think most people know that Saorin is the new burriko character in HP.

Morning Musume and Angerme releasing 2 great singles at the same time, HP All Stars selling well, I feel like this year has really been "Let's show everyone what the good points are about HP". Now let's take it up another level and show off the member's personalities more to the general public (besides radio).

I really think one of the factors that helped Morning Musume make a comeback was from their Black Variety appearances.