The H!P Musings/Rants Thread

[Zunu]

I am positively awful at this. Someone made an eye-region guessing game quiz, well, watch the video

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That was surprisingly easy. I got them all right except the first one. They got me on that one.

[erilaz]

I'm so out of the loop with current H!P that I won't even try. Make one with members from 15–20 years ago and I'll have a chance at getting some of them right.

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Odaiba's Palette Town will be redeveloped. So Venus Fort mall, Zepp Tokyo venue, will be closed down next year.

The Rinkai Fukutoshin Palette Town Management Council has announced that it will gradually close the Palette Town complex from December 2021 due to the progress of some development projects. Zepp Tokyo will close on January 1st, 2022, and VenusFort on March 27th, 2022.

Palette Town was established in the Rinkai Fukutoshin area (Odaiba) in March 1999 and has attracted about 400 million visitors to date. It houses a variety of facilities, including VenusFort, a commercial mall with a characteristic medieval European atmosphere, Zepp Tokyo, MEGA WEB, an interactive mobility theme park, and the Palette Town Giant Ferris Wheel.

MEGA WEB will close on December 31st, 2021, and the Palette Town Ferris wheel and the Mori Building Digital Art Museum: Epson TeamLab Borderless, an art facility created by TeamLab, will close on August 31st, 2022.

https://www.fashionsnap.com/article/202 ... wn-202121/
https://www.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1339728.html

Tokyo DiverCity building (the one with giant Gundam) is unaffected in the area.

H!P won't be able to use Zepp Tokyo next year.

It is announced that a next-generation arena with a capacity of 10,000 people at the former site of "Palette Town" in Odaiba will be built. It will be called "TOYOTA ARENA TOKYO"

Concept art :





Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Real Estate (formerly Towa Real Estate), and Toyota Albark Tokyo will construct a next-generation arena on the site of MEGA WEB, Toyota's former showroom in Tokyo, and promote the "TOKYO A-ARENA PROJECT".

The arena will also be used as a venue for games of "Albark Tokyo" of the professional basketball B-League, which is based on the Toyota Motor Corporation men's basketball team. It is planned to be a "multi-functional arena" that can host various events to promote the appeal of a wide range of sports as a stage for indoor sports such as volleyball and table tennis, urban sports, para-sports, e-sports, etc.

The "TOKYO A-ARENA PROJECT", a joint project by Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Real Estate Corporation, and Toyota Albark Tokyo, has decided to name the new arena to be built in the Odaiba area, scheduled to open in the Fall of 2025 "TOYOTA ARENA TOKYO", after Toyota Motor Corporation acquired the naming rights to the arena.


Toyota removed all the iconic Odaiba malls, Zepp Tokyo, and the Ferris wheel just to build a sports arena for a basketball team they sponsor.
http://building-pc.cocolog-nifty.com/he ... fc6a5.html

[Shoujo Q]

^Looks like they are adding more green space back in. You want that in the city. Parks are all the rage these days.

[Spaghetti-Western]

^Looks like they are adding more green space back in. You want that in the city. Parks are all the rage these days.

I hope so - I haven't looked into that story yet. But here's another story about Tokyo renovations that seems decidedly non-green.

https://japantoday.com/category/nationa ... tokyo-park

They want to chop down 1000s of trees near Meiji Jingu in order to build a couple skyscrapers and a new (replacement) stadium. It smells like BS to me

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Tsuji Nozomi's husband eats McDonalds Tsukimi burger while talking about watching his wife perform on stage at the Hello! Project 25th Anniversary Concert in Yoyogi

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Another new arena in Yokohama called "K-Arena" in the MM21 District will open soon






K-Arena Yokohama is the world's first arena entirely designed for live music performances. It has 9 floors above ground and seats 20,333 people. All seats in the three-tiered stands are fan-shaped, facing the front of the stage, so that the artists' voices and performances can be heard straight from the front.

It is one of the world's largest music-specific arenas, which will soon open in the Minato Mirai 21 district of Yokohama (opening on Sept. 29), and the adjacent Hilton Yokohama hotel (opening on Sept. 24th).

Yuzu, a local band from Yokohama, will perform for three days from Sept. 29 to October 1, and popular artists from Japan and abroad, including LUNA SEA, SOPHIA, Sam Smith, King & Prince, THE IDOLM@STER SideM, Motley Crue/Def Leppard, Awich, Spitz, IVE, INI, and Masaharu Fukuyama, will perform at the opening.

President Tamura explained that the reservation status for the opening year through the end of December this year is "80% occupancy rate" and "15 to 16 production dates per month. He revealed, "We have reservations almost every Saturday, Sunday, and holiday for the next year and a half," and appealed, "We have received applications from domestic and international artists in a variety of genres, so we believe that visitors will be able to enjoy various genres of music.


https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2295721/

[Shoujo Q]

It would be nice if Fukumura’s graduation could be held there but they probably will do the traditional Yokohama arena.

[Zunu]

The video short (with 2M views) speaks for itself, but the comments reiterate....

やっぱハロってダンス上手いんやな
After all Haro is better at dancing

ダンスのキレなら間違いなくハロプロ
If it's sharp dancing make no mistake, it's Hello Pro!

あんまり女の子アイドル詳しくないけど、
I barely have any knowledge of of idol girls,
左の子達すごいなんかTheアイドルって感じの踊りしててかわい
but the girls on the left dance so much like "the" idol and are cute

ダンスは圧倒的にハロプロの勝ち
When it comes to dance, Hallo Pro are overwhelmingly the winners

and they just go on and on like that.

It probably doesn't hurt that Rio literally looks like Hoshino Ai from the Oshi no Ko anime