Hello! Project

I noticed this while watching the sports fest.

Is it just me or are most of the girls not so friendly to Rika? It seemed to me that she doesn't have that group feel with most of the girls, even other than the head ripping event.

I agree with you.. I watched it again early this morning and she really, what looked like to me did not have much support.

I found this playlist you guys might like this :) It plays in Windows Media player.

Morning Musume

(official site)
http://morningmusume.dream.com/

(combined playlist)
http://morning-musume.tunes.jumboshrimp.tv:8600

(availability)
all day, but goes off-line from 11:45pm - 12:15am EST

happyfeet wrote:I noticed this while watching the sports fest.

Is it just me or are most of the girls not so friendly to Rika? It seemed to me that she doesn't have that group feel with most of the girls, even other than the head ripping event.

Its true that the other girls don't hang with Rika as much. She used to be close with Yoshi (the odd couple) when they joined but now Yoshi is more with Makoto. These days I say the closest to Rika is probably Miki, ever since they did that movie together they've been closer...oh yeah Sayumi kinda idolizes Rika. But other than that all the other girls kinda like to make fun of Rika because its so easy to do :hehe:

Can N-E-Body recommend a good japanese actress?
thanks rony.

ruroshin wrote:

Its true that the other girls don't hang with Rika as much. She used to be close with Yoshi (the odd couple) when they joined but now Yoshi is more with Makoto. These days I say the closest to Rika is probably Miki, ever since they did that movie together they've been closer...oh yeah Sayumi kinda idolizes Rika. But other than that all the other girls kinda like to make fun of Rika because its so easy to do :hehe:

Rika comes off a bit pompous in general it seems to me.

I don't remember seeing her where I DIDN'T think to myself "man, she's really full of herself."

Some people just come off like that sometimes... she may be a total sweetheart in reality.

But there is obviously SOMETHING that people don't like about her. ;)

Ushiroyubi wrote:The first part of the post-games concert on that festival was SO awesome.

After Kago's solo... the crowd got totally AMPED during Mari's part... "MAAAARI HEY! MAAAARI HEY!" then on to Abe.... "AAAAABE HEY! AAAAABE HEY!"

that was eerie. :hehe:

yeah.. during the chants, you can notice how some of the members looked around a bit and felt uneasy..

and you reemmber Ayaya? she had the fans roar in the horseback vault, and when she came out, they all roared again and she almost smiled a bit when she first came out. but she had to stay in the mood of the song(The Last Night) and she did that very well. even during the complete instrumental sections of the song.

ruroshin wrote:

Ayaka's english lesson was a segment on the show Bishoujo Kyouiku and later Bishoujo Kyouiku II. Bishoujo Kyouiku II ended in late 2002 and so no more Ayaka's english lesson.

they are back.

SubaruWRX wrote:Oh.. Has anyone seen that Honda Snoopy Commerical? All the links I found to on the internet were dead.

I found it!

http://bunko.theppn.org/details.php?id=3350

bit of a correction, it is Scoopy. the other scooter is Dio

Ushiroyubi wrote:

Rika comes off a bit pompous in general it seems to me.

I don't remember seeing her where I DIDN'T think to myself "man, she's really full of herself."

Some people just come off like that sometimes... she may be a total sweetheart in reality.

But there is obviously SOMETHING that people don't like about her. ;)

Yeah I agree, first few times I seen her she was really annoying and kinda irratated me. I think its all the overly fake cute act she puts on all the time.

However, I have since seen many behind the scenes type video and she is pretty sweet girl thats just trying really hard. She's also very professional in everything she does and she always comes prepared to events and shows.

A good example was during the 2003 shuffle groups appearance on Hey!x3 the girls had to read from these cards but they had pretty hard kanji on them and none of the other speakers could get all their lines correctly. Even Kaori who is their leader and older than Rika stuffed her lines up frequently. When it was Rika's turn she got through her flawlessly and even the host was surprised and ask how come she's so good at it and she told him she did a kanji check before comming onto the show so as not to stuff up. :applaud:

Also, her overly cheerful cute act sometimes give off this bimbo impression but in many instances I found her quite level headed even more so than most of the other girls. During one show they did a prank on the girls by turning off all the lights in the house they were in. Of course they all freaked, the host told them they had to collect certain stuff from the house. Rika was the only one to have enough sense to grab the garbage can to put all these stuff in while the other girls were blindingly groping around in the dark (she also managed to get all the stuff while the others didn't even get one proving her memory was much better, remember all of this was in the dark).

The 2003 top tax returns are usually made public and out of all of Hello! Project Rika was the top tax payer meaning she got paid the most out of all the girls in Hello! Project. She beat Aya and Maki who are the 2 top H!P soloist and beat out all the other MM girls. This at least demand a bit of respect.

Another example of her professionalism was during the 2004 new year Unnan special. They had a crying competition to see how long it takes the girls to produce tears. All the girls had something to help them such as photos to remind them of sad times, mini disc players to play sad song etc. Rika had nothing. When it started Rika stared into space for 15 seconds and the tears came. Only a couple of the other girls could produce tears and it took them several minutes while the rest couldn't even do it.

Finally, she is quite a decent actress. I was impressed with her performance in The Last Present and she is currently starring in yet another drama this year.

So yeah Rika has moved from the 2nd bottom of my list to near the top over the past year. ;)

Sie_Kensou wrote:

they are back.

Really? In what show? I haven't seen anything suggesting new Ayaka's English Lessons?

All this talk of Rika demands a little gallery :D


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ruroshin wrote:

Really? In what show? I haven't seen anything suggesting new Ayaka's English Lessons?

this should help

Sie_Kensou wrote:
this should help

Those are old ones. Notice that you never see the 6th Gen in those shows and very rarely the 5th gen.

look again. there are some that haven't been.Feb 17th is the latest.

Sie_Kensou wrote:look again. there are some that haven't been.Feb 17th is the latest.

No no I think you're confused. that "new" 17th is just SMP saying he has posted a "new translated" Ayaka's English Lesson up on the 17th. That is is the original didn't have subtitles but SMP went through and subtitled it then made it available for people to download on the 17th. If you download it and unpack the rar file you will find the file label with a date that it air it will be either 2001 or 2002.

For example the files for the 17th actually aired on 2002-05-09.

I think Rika is cute.. But yeah she seems too much to herself.. she should open up.. Nothing went wrong with her a the group.. I hope not!

Does anyone know were I could find this song?

Coconuts Musume

"watashi mo I love you"

Wow.. Mari was on Local Tv in the U.S.??

http://www.jpopmusic.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=39836

Can anyone Confirm this?!?!?!?!?!? :love_eyes: