~H!P Encounters in the Wild~

[otaku_blue]

I was watching Twice's new show Private Life


when at 36:03 I suddenly hear a familiar song

and its friggin Be Genki by Berryz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5nmDDUglVM

their Korean activities still exist post-hiatus

[Yattaruchan]

Not sure if this counts, but came across this when flicking through YouTube.

During this comedy womens wrestling (WAVE) match, one of the girls starts singing Love Machine for a moment.

Spoiler: show

At the 1m20s mark.

Also while I'm here, anybody know what song the other woman is singing just a little earlier at the 1m mark?
I know I know the song, but it's not coming to me, and it's just bugging me.

[Yattaruchan]

Not technically H!P, but close enough.

In April, I was in Japan and went to the Super Potato in Ikebukuro, the retro game store. I saw 3 girls in yellow/blue outfits.

(This is my photo, as I was waiting in line to buy something.)

At first, I thought they were maybe store clerks, walking around the store. Then when I went to the counter, I saw them interviewing store clerk, with pro style cameras. Never got a good look at all their faces (I didn't want to just keep staring), and had no idea who the girls were, and had no way of finding out.

Anyway, yesterday I came across a pic from a show called Game Maniax with girls with the same outfits, and Marin Miyazawa (LoVendoR) was one of them. Finally with something to go by, I eventually found the episode of the show that was being filmed, and Marin was one of the girls I saw.

The girl in the back of my photo is Marin.


This is the video, and that segment at Super Potato starts at about 2m48s.


I can't help but wonder what I would have done if I'd recognized her then.


On this day, after I left Super Potato, I went to the ANGERME CD release event at Sunshine City. Was a good day.

[Celedam]

Anyway, yesterday I came across a pic from a show called Game Maniax with girls with the same outfits, and Marin Miyazawa (LoVendoR) was one of them.

She's been doing that show for a while…

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Frankly, I'm surprised the show is still going and she's still doing it. Good for her.

[Yattaruchan]

She's still in the newest ep (19/08/03), so I wonder if she'll continue with it.

The episode with Super Potato was from 19/05/25 (recorded on 19/04/11, a day after her birthday)

To think if it wasn't for the H!P/Up Front connection, I probably never would have found that video. It was still a little surreal going into a Family Mart (or was it Lawsons) a few times and hearing Tsubaki and Angerme on the radio.

[Celedam]

Gomen Nasai (2011), starring Buono, is on CONtv right now as I post this…

https://www.twitch.tv/contv

If you miss it, it's also available on demand at the CONtv website…

https://www.contv.com/details-movie/CEG10010121/ring-of-curse:-gomennasai

If you don't even remember this movie…

https://helloproject.fandom.com/wiki/Gomennasai

[erilaz]

^ Tokyo Shock released it on DVD in 2013 with the ridiculous title Ring of Curse, making it one of the few H!P-related movies ever to get a legitimate DVD release in the U.S.

[Celedam]

^ It was on again but just ended as I post this.

It's weird seeing Pacific Heaven (i.e., that first-floor café in the Up-Front building) being used as a movie location. We as fans of H!P see it used so much for everything else that it's difficult to achieve any suspension of disbelief.

[Amped]

So IKEA is doing this furniture theme based on vacations "Vacations in a box" and one of them is on Tokyo

https://www.ikea.com/ae/en/campaigns/te ... ube25d5772

in their pdf booklet on Tokyo, they list some recommended J-POP songs. I immediately saw those were songs H!P members sung at the H!P Summer Covers ~The Ballad~


https://www.ikea.com/ae/en/files/pdf/33 ... ooklet.pdf

ANGERME Takeuchi Akari - Yuki no Hana (Nakashima Mika)
Morning Musume. '20 Yamazaki Mei - Tegami ~Haikei Juugo no Kimi e~ (Angela Aki)

Same artist but different song
Juice=Juice Dambara Ruru also sang a Sakamoto Kyu song
Juice=Juice Uemura Akari sang a Takeuchi Mariya song

That's my H!P related encounter for the day.