For those unaware, which I’m sure is quite a few, there are Japanese pop music groups made entirely of girls — some of them having anywhere from solo to upwards of 48 members. One particular collection of them, in the Hello!Project group (governed by Up-Front Agency, and includes Berryz Koubou, C-ute, and Morning Musume, among others) has a particular clause in their contracts that dictates to the effect that no female artist under contract with them may have a boyfriend or demonstrate any evidence of dating, romance, etc. At one point some years ago, a regarding a potential romance for one artist from the group C-ute (one of my favorite groups), — and the artist involved was let go, though it was instead reported that she simply retired to put more focus on her schoolwork (considering they are foremostly minors). Well, another such scandal has emerged, but it is actually not particularly certain whether or not the person in the video clips is actually the female artist that is accused of having these ties. Either or someone very closely resembling her is seen in pictures and video clips provided by Hello!Online’s. I personally don’t have particular preference to that artist, so I’m somewhat indifferent as to whether it spells contract termination should the verdict unfurl to reveal she is actually the person in the picture, but generally I would hope not. The Hello!Project groups in general have already had their share of scandals ( in a good way, after having been terminated for smoking, although signing with a different agency).

I’ve taken a few snapshots of my own, using Topaz Moment that I reviewed to extract a few slightly higher quality images from the grainy video if possible. The only one of her was the best possible version I could get, because the camera isn’t very stable and blurs a lot regardless of which frame, plus there is low lighting and they naturally don’t often turn to look at the camera anyway. Natsuyaki Miyabi?? Inspired by I decided to make a brief colly of these tables in action.

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I’d never seen these before — I’d only played the PC versions ^_^ This one shows the hole in the middle you push all the tiles into, and how new rows that had previously been prepared for you pop right up for another game within mere seconds. That would sure make for some quick round resets — I’d like the mixing and sorting myself. This one shows the tabletop surface lifted up exposing the innards and a general idea of how the table resets the tiles. I presume one side of each tile is magnetic, with a pole on a sorting edge so that the tile would flip the right direction up.? A slightly better view on the innards, looks very logical.

One comment on the video says that a game can last upwards of 2 hours. If playing 2 games, shuffling would be a welcome break for a moment, I think. The clicking actually sounds relaxing for some reason, perhaps because everything’s being put in a right, proper order all by itself in neat little rows ^_^ This table sorts them in the opposite direction (pushing them along counterclockwise) but also raises the tile rows up in a cooler pattern with edges overlapping slightly but not enough to give your neighbor a glimpse (though, perhaps, each right-side neighbor and equal glimpse, if any). Part of the wonder of these clips also seems to be the reactions of the people in the video as if seeing it for the first time. After watching this video (of four guys manually sorting them quickly) it looks like the angled layout is actually one step shy of actual gameplay, giving the players the opportunity to sort their own rows to some degree, I wonder. I’d like to find more of this kind, to see whether it stores three sets of tiles? Seems like that would just be more moving parts to need replacing (or perhaps that was the idea on the manufacturer’s part!

Heh) Posted in,,,,,,, . A clever way to get more revenue from J-pop concerts for music groups who consist of just singers (and no musicians who merely stand in one place and perform) — similar to America’s boybands like N*Sync or Backstreet Boys — is to make a DVD of a particular recording of the entire concert focused on one singer and nothing else. Many people have a certain preference of which singer they’re more there to see than just the entire group, and this is a great way to kindle that particular idol status even further, by having a concert experience centered foremostly on just the one. You can certainly get the entire concert DVD with multiple shots of everyone, also. Among others If a band had too many members to feasibly do this with, I could understand — but there’s not really a good comparison band in America to accurately describe the scope of a group of around 46 members, divided up into three teams (teams A, K, and B) of roughly 15 members each.

Posted in,,,, . I’ve been a fan of C-ute for a while now, but I can’t say their latest PV offering much followed along in the same quality as most the others have (except the Masara Blue Jeans video, not a fan). This particular tune was good but the video just never seemed to match up in its excitement. The costume design is lacking, being just a simple dress with two rows of fluff around the bust region. I’m not really sure what the intended effect was supposed to be, but it’s lost on me.

Like the Blue Jeans video, the image is rather plain and uninspiring to me. Install Vicidial On Windows. The tune itself is peppy and has grown on me more as I’ve left it looping in the background. The main trouble I find with it is the closeups at a particular part of the video — when they are forced to sing loads and loads of LALALAs and they seem to develop either a classic sweatdrop or seem to be thinking by their “ehhhh” expression on their attempts at smiling that, “Ok, this is weird having to say LALALALALALALALA for like 10 minutes.” Although it does give us English-speakers something to chime in with having little to no knowledge of the language per se, this particular repitition is something I dislike about even English songs have have it.

I’m anticipating it’s inclusion to be strictly an appeal to the mass audiences of the Hello Project concerts that seem to chime in at predetermined times — making this one of those moments to add a rallying cry. Naturally, my favorite of the bunch, Saki Nakajima doesn’t get much screen time, but admittedly moreso than some of the other lesser-shown gals. Airi has just been overpromoted IMHO, and although Maimi was a big draw for me in the beginning, my tastes have been a bit refined as they’ve aged a bit in facial dimensions since those earlier days. That said, I think I’ll just keep it on loop in the background, without watching the video all that much. A fair offering, but by no means a favorite.

Posted in,,, . Personally, I’m always interested to hear when Kudzu shows up in the news somewhere.

It’s a plant that grows incredibly fast and has been known to overtake houses and cars in a matter of weeks. Kudzu is native to the Japan region and has been used in the past as a method to reduce soil erosion and revitalize the soil’s nitrogen content — but the perfect conditions of the plains and tropics regions of the US along the southern coast of the Gulf made controlling Kudzu a tremendous chore and way more work than it was worth. As much fun as I think it would be to plant Kudzu in an offending person’s garden, I’m pretty sure you would get into deep, deep trouble for having done so if the gardener is unable to control its spread — because it grows so quicky. This plant grows at around 12 inches (30 cm) per DAY, and up to around 60 feet (20 meters) per SEASON!,,, and. Kudzu covering trees in Atlanta GA Anyhow, the recent Kudzu news is actually pretty tame, but still a bit of debate. A spelling bee kid supposedly spelled it correctly but all of the judges heard him spell it “K-U-D-C-U” (that delicate balance between the pronunciation of Z and C) and it has caused an uproar about the dispute of the correct bee champion.

To me, the judge herself pronounced it wrong. I have always known it to be pronounced “could-zoo” but with more emphasis being on the “dzoo” being one distinct syllable, rather than the hokey “cud-sue” version she stated. It would have helped if the kid had spelled it slower (a common spelling bee error, going too fast), but I heard KUDCU myself, although I admit there could have been a microphone hiss that is to blame. Posted in,,,,, .

I’m not sure I’d like exactly everything on this list, but it’s quite possibly the largest post I’ll ever make. I was trying to find the tune “Dear My Friend” by Every Little Thing and whilst hunting came across this giant list of downloads the dude had purportedly been capable of acquiring. As a cheap shot at getting hits, I figured I would backpost it. I guess we’ll see how well it works in the coming weeks. It’s just an experiment, I swear! I don’t have the links for any of these! Heheh edit — Or, you can try to download them.

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