H!P Trivia thread!

[Celedam]

THAT GIRL HAS TO BE IN MIDDLE SCHOOL SHE LOOKS SO YOUNG AH.

You mean elementary school? 'Cuz she is in middle school.

[forgetmenots]

^I just mean she looks very obviously her age, perhaps slightly younger (first or second year middle school as opposed to her last year). She was the only girl they made that observation about even after various Hello Project videos that had Elementary and Middle Schoolers in it.

[Celedam]

Ah.

[Nayoko-Kihara]

Found this on Twitter. I've never noticed before.
https://twitter.com/anpyonchan/status/9 ... 3957167107
https://twitter.com/anpyonchan/status/9 ... 4688669696

Morning Musume - Souda! We're ALIVE


μ’s (Love Live) - No brand girls

[AyuHikaru]

I feel like there's a lot of homages in Love Live. Nothing can convince me that Nico wasn't based on Sayu.

[Amped]

2000 - Morning Musume / Happy Summer Wedding
2001 -Morning Musume / Dekkai Uchu ni ai ga aru, I Wish and The Peace medley
2002 - Morning Musume / I Wish, Souda We're Alive, Do It Now
2003 - Morning Musume / Dekkai Uchu ni ai ga aru
2004 - Morning Musume / Dekkai Uchu ni ai ga aru
2005 - Morning Musume / Dekkai Uchu ni ai ga aru
2006 - Abe Natsumi, Nakazawa Yuko, Matsuura Aya, Berryz Kobo / Dekkai Uchu ni ai ga aru
2007 - Morning Musume / Dekkai Uchu ni ai ga aru
2008 - Morning Musume, Matsuura Aya, Yaguchi Mari / Dekkai Uchu ni ai ga aru
2009 - Morning Musume, Berryz, Yaguchi Mari, Tsuji Nozomi / Dekkai Uchu ni ai ga aru

2010 - Morning Musume, S/mileage x AKB48 / Ghibi medley, Dekkai Uchu ni ai ga aru
2011 - Morning Musume, S/mileage, Dream Morning Musume / Love Machine, RR12 medley, Dekkai Uchu ni ai ga aru
2012 - Morning Musume / Dekkai Uchu ni ai ga aru
2013 - Morning Musume with OG / Love Machine
2014 - Morning Musume '14 with OG Iida Kaori, Yasuda Kei, Tsuji Nozomi, Niigaki Risa / Dekkai Uchuu ni ai ga aru
2015 - Takahashi Ai, Niigaki Risa, Iida Kaori (Hello! Project absent due to H!P concert)
2016 - Morning Musume '16 / Dekkai Uchuu ni ai ga aru
2017 - Morning Musume '17 / Dekkai Uchuu ni ai ga aru

[Zunu]

OK, point taken Amped

[boinsie]

I feel like there's a lot of homages in Love Live. Nothing can convince me that Nico wasn't based on Sayu.

I've literally never considered Sayu, always thought of Momoko. Hmm..

[JonCC]

Thsi is a very minute piece of trivia: I found out that choreographer YOSHIKO performed as a backdancer during Matsuura Aya's 2003 ~Matsu Ring PINK~ concert tour.

These were the days before H!P Kids/Eggs/Trainees backdancers. It took me a while to recognise her as I was watching this concert (for the first time at that).
She was also credited as the choreographer of the tour.

[JonCC]

Another minute piece of trivia related to:

Wow, Shin Hashimoto has gone public in a big way. He's been there behind the scenes for years, of course, as one of the great and powerful "management" whom we're always either thanking or cursing,

He's been with the company quite a while. I've gone through the 2004 & half the 2005 concert DVD's and he pops up in credits for the first time under the A&R section.

From 2005's 'v-u-den First Concert Tour 2005 Haru ~v-u-densetsu~'

Artists and repertoire (A&R) is the division of a record label or music publishing company that is responsible for talent scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists and songwriters.[1] It also acts as a liaison between artists and the record label or publishing company; every activity involving artists to the point of album release is generally considered under the purview, and responsibility, of A&R.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artists_and_repertoire