[1/23] Morning Musume's 52nd Single "Help me!!"

[Nayoko-Kihara]

Well, I like it a lot. The backgrounds end up making me think of paintings for an animated movie, or video game concept art, and I'm kind of digging the way the girls completely stand out against it. With that mindset I'm even mostly okay with the brick wall cover. It's interesting to look at and that makes me want to go back and watch it multiple times.

[sb]

It ain't horrible. But I don't know, almost seems like it coulda been done better, but I wanna see the whole thing before really judging it.

I really think with Sakura, her looks are gonna go as far as her personality can take them. Rather than her growing into a straight up super attractive girl. I can see her fitting the girl next door model more so than the other ones.

Btw, I'm half expecting this PV to have either a long version, or just straight up be 10-ish minutes long. I'm expecting to see footage of workers taking down an old Momusu billboard, as people look on. Then a new billboard is placed, with Sakura on it, and the people become intrigued. Then after the normal PV is played a scene of one of the male fans jamming to Help me!! as many people buy the cd. Then when there is only one left, a girl grabs the last copy, and the male notices that it is Sakura. She winks at him in a way that it looks more like its a spasm and he responds by making an "I just pinched my coin purse in the car door" face.

Hell yea bitches, give it the Love Machine treatment.

And if this sells well. As in REALLY well, I have a second expectation. People on this forum 15 years from now bitching cause 19th and 20th gen have to perform Help me!! on TV instead of their new songs

[Jessi]

Sometimes I feel like everyone's expectations are too high.

The PV looks amazing. One of my favorites. I love the background CG. One two three is one of my least favorite PVs. I preferred watching the dance shot. Wakuteka had quite a few things I didn't like about it too. This one looks professionally made and a lot less cheap. Even though I know everyone is attributing the green screen idea to being cheap since they never actually went to a location to film. But really you can't make the background look the way it does if they were actually at those places. It's a lot more clean this way and just looks awesome.

[Sohee]

I don't mind what we've seen so far. It's not my favorite type of PV, but it's definitely not bad. The girls look amazing and I absolutely love city/landscape/whatever shots. They're beautiful. @.@
It's difficult to judge by just half the PV, but so far it's not my favorite style. But who knows what the second half holds.

I love the part in Sakura's line where they zoom in on her and she's all "closed eyes -- slowly opening them". The way they edited it made it seem like she's some goddess. I love it. 8D

[AyuHikaru]

I hated it when I saw it in LQ, but in HQ it's actually not bad. I'm waiting to see the whole thing, though.

[Rm88]

I love it. My favorite PV since Pyoko I think.

[koregaboku]

I'm kinda digging it. All the girls look gorgeous in the individual/close up scenes.

Sure, a "plot" would be cool but this is H!P at the end of the day.

[zam_ho]

Well, I like it a lot. The backgrounds end up making me think of paintings for an animated movie, or video game concept art, and I'm kind of digging the way the girls completely stand out against it. With that mindset I'm even mostly okay with the brick wall cover. It's interesting to look at and that makes me want to go back and watch it multiple times.

One of the cityscape looked like a scene from TRON

After watching the HD version, Some of the shots are really good. If I didn't know this was done on green screen I would have said they shot it on location.
They do not look like paper cut outs They have even done the shadows correctly. Only Sayu's shots all look out of perspective

Screencaps from MV preview.

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[Sohee]

That's a nice thing to say, but there's no way they'd ever manage to get the lighting in some of the shots on location.... xD
Totally see what you mean though, some looks quite realistic.

[zam_ho]

Oda's, Masaki's, Kuduu's and Chokubo's solo shots were the best IMO. It looked real enough to be real for me