Morning musume...

Phew, finished reading 12 pages, this thread moves fast :mrgreen:.

aquarius*star* wrote:...Anyone's got Konkon and Ai's pics? I need to see them sooooooo badly!!!...

Did someone called for Ai-chan:
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Hanzo21 wrote:
I heard that those still in school study every day (Sat & Sun too) for 4 hours year 'round. Tsunku probably pays for the best education possible for his princesses. 4 hours intense one-on-one lessons then a lot of singing and dancing practice (and filming).

Don't know whats Tsunku paying for, but yesterday I watched Utaban 2003.12.18 with MM (available here). They were asked what country did t.A.T.u. come from and half of the girls give rather interesting answers, like this one:
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my sayumi chan n reina chan going to school together... :hehe:
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kawaiiii na both of them... :inlove:

japanese_boy wrote:my sayumi chan n reina chan going to school together... :hehe:
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kawaiiii na both of them... :inlove:

Gotta to sleep cause need to wake up early tomorrow and go to school with them together. Good night :hehe:

ShinYo wrote:

Gotta to sleep cause need to wake up early tomorrow and go to school with them together. Good night :hehe:

u go with reina n i go with sayumi chan.. :victory: :mrgreen:
i also going to bed now...oyasumi.. :sleep:

japanese_boy wrote:my sayumi chan n reina chan going to school together... :hehe:
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kawaiiii na both of them... :inlove:

Oh yeah! That top picture is of my kawaii princess. :love2:

This kind of reminded me of Morning Musume even though it's Chinese.

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Hanzo21 wrote:This kind of reminded me of Morning Musume even though it's Chinese.

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what is that actually?

kyon-kyon chan wrote:

what is that actually?

The text? Shay-Shay (sp?) or Thank you very much.

I work for an airline (not as a CA) so it was sort of cool and tied in with the "dance" theme.

Hanzo21 wrote:I work for an airline (not as a CA) so it was sort of cool and tied in with the "dance" theme.

I think it needs music. :beaten:

What does Hello! Project think of sites like Hello! Online where there's so much stuff available for download? It must be costing them a lot in lost sales?

Hanzo21 wrote:

The text? Shay-Shay (sp?) or Thank you very much.

I work for an airline (not as a CA) so it was sort of cool and tied in with the "dance" theme.

sou ka... i think the word is "xie xie". i took mandarin class when i was in

2nd semester (about 2 years ago) but it's a very basic class and i just learn

some word not their handwriting. so i cant read the word.

Anime Dad wrote:What does Hello! Project think of sites like Hello! Online where there's so much stuff available for download? It must be costing them a lot in lost sales?

You could be right about that. But most of material is downsampled (XVID, mp3, etc). After watching how good the downsampled stuff, I decided to start buying the real deal. Even pre-ordered all (except PB's) of the December offerings. Perhaps there's more folks like that.

The people that can't afford to buy the Morning Musume releases would miss it if it wasn't available at the torrent. And that wouldn't be good.

Then there's the fact that Morning Musume and their (real) fans are kind of a closed loop society. It's pretty difficult for foreigners to get merchandise other than officially released DVD's and CD's. So, I think the Hello-Project organization has made a marketing decision to not worry about the Worldwide market. If that's the case, the little bit of pirating of downsampled material is actually good for outfit. And it's real good that foreigners, for the most, are excluded from the Morning Musume scene.

kyon-kyon chan wrote:

sou ka... i think the word is "xie xie". i took mandarin class when i was in

2nd semester (about 2 years ago) but it's a very basic class and i just learn

some word not their handwriting. so i cant read the word.

Very good! Had forgotten about the "xi" in Madarin.

So, are you studying Japanese now instead?

Hanzo21 wrote:

Very good! Had forgotten about the "xi" in Madarin.

So, are you studying Japanese now instead?

taken that class already.. got A+ for that subject :victory: ..

and now i am still trying my best to learn more about this language..

kyon-kyon chan wrote:

taken that class already.. got A+ for that subject :victory: ..

and now i am still trying my best to learn more about this language..

wow..that's great...i also got A for the beginner level.... :thumbsup:
what level are u now???

japanese_boy wrote:
wow..that's great...i also got A for the beginner level.... :thumbsup:
what level are u now???

err.. i dont know what level am i now :sweat:

i just study randomly but the class that i had taken taught me grammar

and japanese words (katakana + hiragana).

kyon-kyon chan wrote:

err.. i dont know what level am i now :sweat:

i just study randomly but the class that i had taken taught me grammar

and japanese words (katakana + hiragana).

well..ganbatte kudasai nE...
i also ganbarimasu... :victory:

japanese_boy wrote:
well..ganbatte kudasai nE...
i also ganbarimasu... :victory:

hai... issho ni ganbaremasu :say_yes:

kyon-kyon chan wrote:

taken that class already.. got A+ for that subject :victory: ..

and now i am still trying my best to learn more about this language..

That's what's so cool about Morning Musume. You know, there's a lot of fanboys that watch pointless dramas just to check out the pretty J-Girls like Aya and Maki-chan. They don't understand the drama unless it's subtitled. But they don't care.

On the other hand, all the Morning Musume fans around the world study the Japanese language with great intensity so they can understand what the members talk about off stage on the television and radio shows. I guess the Morning Musume fans are just higher quality people. :)