The H!P Musings/Rants Thread

[erilaz]

R.I.P. Bakatonosama.

[TotallyUncool]

That is sad and horrible.

[JonCC]

Yaguchi Mari made a post about it on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/B-WPTbcH9Dz/

[yumepin]

Gosh I can't even begin to describe how awful that is... It feels like something really important was just lost. May he rest in peace.

[Amped]

Ken Shimura's show did a comedic sketch on the virus. One of my favorite actresses Rika Adachi plays the daughter on many episodes with him


Ken Shimura's English lessons


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Tokyo Olympics delayed till July 23rd, 2021. A lot of venues will be open this Summer for H!P to reschedule events.

[Celedam]

From another thread, regarding Rei Inoue joining Juice=Juice…

lmao I was just thinking about this kind of scenario last week. So why do I still feel like this is a very elaborate prank?

If it was the first time they did something like this, I could believe it's a prank. But after the Country Girls diaspora, it's S.O.P. now.

And frankly, I think that's a good thing. I know Japanese culture tends toward the belief that giving up is its own sort of failure, that failure itself is dishonorable (rather than the specific actions leading to failure), and that you should keep going until you either succeed or die trying.* But someone, somewhere at Up-Front finally realized it's okay to let dysfunctional groups fail and then reassign the members who actually want to continue working. I often wonder what might have happened if they'd had that realization earlier, before Berryz Kobo and ℃-ute each disbanded.

These days, the identities of H!P groups are based on broad themes…

Morning Musume – legacy, performance
ANGERME – energetic, a little crazy
Juice=Juice – mature, vocals-oriented
Tsubaki Factory – floral, elegant, ladylike
BEYOOOOONDS – multi-talented, theatrical

… rather than on particular groupings of members, so it's okay to add generations (previously an MM-only thing) and reassign members as needed in order to maintain the groups indefinitely.

* Contrary to what many weebs think, ganbatte doesn't mean "Good luck!" and ganbarimasu doesn't mean "I'll do my best!". They're both conjugations of the verb ganbaru, which means "to persist or persevere". Thus, "(I'll) keep going!" is a better translation, but even that sounds a little weird or rude to foreigners.

EDIT: Yeah, I know, that's a lot of edits for a post that doesn't have any links that might have broken and wasn't a running update of an event. But the post covers several different thoughts I've been having for a while and seemed unrelated until recently, and I also needed to clarify some things I said about ganbaru, so… <shrug>

[Shoujo Q]

Knowing the fate of Berryz and C-Ute and basically any past H!P that has now gone by the wayside, I do hope with addition of Rei to Juice, her Kobushi thread isn’t lost and it is somehow tastefully incorporated into her new life path. Just as she kept ahold of her TNX roots via birthday loves.

[Jessi]

Wait what?

Is this some rumor that everyone is speculating on, an April fools prank, or something really happening?

[Celedam]

^ In the "Pop Music" thread…

viewtopic.php?p=251247#p251247

[Amped]

Not quite sure where to put this so it goes here.

YU-M artists (Up Up Girls (仮), Up Up Girls (2), Wada Ayaka, Kikkawa You etc.) are holding a crowdfunding campaign.
https://www.makuake.com/project/yum-e/

They seem to be calling it a 'save our agency' campaign, after being hit hard financially due to all the cancelled events from the corona virus.

They have passed half way mark to their goal