Up-Front Thread

[boinsie]

Not really sure on where to post this, but
Nonaka Miki New Year's message on Up Front Link's Facebook page! She announces that she'll be making intermittent English posts on their page in the coming year.

https://www.facebook.com/upfrontlink/vi ... 283129986/

Possibly the most energy I've seen her have before, which is good, but I wonder if her vocal cadence is really like that if she were speaking directly to a native speaker?

[Chibs]

You didn't go to Houston did you? I remember her talking like that there.

[Celedam]

Not really sure on where to post this, but
Nonaka Miki New Year's message on Up Front Link's Facebook page! She announces that she'll be making intermittent English posts on their page in the coming year.

https://www.facebook.com/upfrontlink/vi ... 283129986/

For those who don't do Facebook (like me; I have the whole thing blocked in order to prevent tracking)…

Possibly the most energy I've seen her have before, which is good, but I wonder if her vocal cadence is really like that if she were speaking directly to a native speaker?

You didn't go to Houston did you? I remember her talking like that there.

I think it's a combination of giving a prepared statement — which can be awkward for anyone, even a professional entertainer — and over-enunciating in order to make herself more understandable to non-native speakers. (That's the weird thing about English being a lingua franca: we native speakers take it for granted and think it should sound a certain way, even when we're not necessarily the target audience.) I've seen other times, mostly in the DVD magazines, when she's spoken extemporaneously and sounds just like a normal American girl.

[CaptainBerryzGiraffe]

Yeah, it's definitely a thing because of the prepared statements. :p

Do you think Nonaka herself will comment on UFLink like Ayaka does/did? :O

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Upfront Channel Recommend #38

MC Momochi, Kenshuusei Takase Kurumi

[SaebaRyo]

Chisato Moritaka will be a guest performer next year (Jan 21&22) at an ice show (Prince Ice World) charity event held at Aqua Dome Kumamoto.
One thousand children and elderly will be invited for free to attend and there will be a charity skate classroom held.
http://www.daily.co.jp/gossip/2016/11/0 ... 9038.shtml
http://www.gakuon.co.jp/piwkumamoto/guest.html

http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASK1P5DWQK1PTLVB00F.html
http://www.nishinippon.co.jp/nnp/nation ... cle/302989

The mayor of Kumamoto thanked her for her support

https://twitter.com/K_Onishi/status/822715040352473088

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Nakajima Takui's new single will include his version of Umaku Ienai
http://www.takui.com/info/7447

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Concerning the fund raising for the Kumamoto 2016 earthquake

To all the people who suffered from the damages of the earthquakes in Kumamoto in 2016 and with the deepest sympathy from the bottom of our heart, we would like to express our sincere condolences to the victims and their bereaved families.

In order to help even a little bit the people who suffered and their families, since April 21st 2016 we started a fund raising during each concert and event at the venue and also through donation account, and now we report about the results.

Thanks to your understanding and your great cooperation, on December 31st 2016, 7,702,524 yen have been gathered from the donations, so we gave to the Japanese Red Cross Society 6,179,457 yen on July 6th 2016 and 1,523,067 yen on January 23rd 2017.

All the affiliated talents and all the staff appreciate all the warm feelings received thanks to the support of everyone. We would like to express our sincere gratitude.

The fund raising will continue until April 30th (Sunday) 2017.
We would like to thank you for your continued cooperation.

UP-FRONT GROUP

https://twitter.com/UpFrontLink/status/ ... 4862370817
http://www.helloproject.com/news/6382/

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Upfront Channel Recommend #39


MC Momochi, Kenshuusei Maeda Kokoro

[SaebaRyo]

Fan videos of Chisato Moritaka performing at Takamori Winter Festival.





News coverage of her appearance at the Prince Ice World charity event.