Harimakenji's blog

Goodbye konnofan5~

10 copyright infringement notices just arrived here, all videos except the HiTsuji ones are gone. I don't know why they left those, but they'll probably be deleted along with my account in one or two days. At least that's how it went the last, huh, 4 times or so. konnofan5 was the account I used to upload videos on YouTube, if anyone doesn't know what I'm talking about. Anyway, I'll just start konnofan6 tomorrow. Just can't abandon YouTube, even if they regularly delete everything. The embedded videos here in the blog don't work anymore, since they were all from YouTube, but the links to Veoh are still working.

I'm still alive! Here's two more H!M Theaters (^o^)♪

It's late and I'm lazy, so I'll just copy & paste the description I made on YouTube for these two episodes, along with the links to Veoh.

Hello! Morning Theater - The Way of the Devil (2002.08.25)

Link to Veoh

This one is from 2002.08.25, two episodes before the Pyon Seijin Invasion skits I uploaded last time (but it's the last skit before that). Since it was briefly referenced in that skit and I love Yasuda-obaachan's appearance here, I just had to do this one too =P Now that I think about it, I'm not sure if this isn't already in those Until the bus comes episodes that HPS already subbed, I didn't check... Well, I think it isn't. Have fun watching =)

Hello! Morning Theater - Kemeko's Love (2003.06.22)

Link to Veoh

This one comes right before the two Love Revolution 2003 ones I uploaded before. Well, not exactly - it had a second part, which I'm not very interested in subbing. Second part is boring, it had way too much screentime stolen by Tamayo (the weird guest actor that's also present here). This one is great though. Don't blame me for the contradiction you might notice between the brief musical opening of this episode and the actual story itself, I'm just the translator =D Have fun watching.

Hello! Morning Theater - Pyon Seijin Invasion (2002.09.08 - 2002.09.15)

Back in 2002, MiniMoni had a segment called "MiniMoni. Pyon Seijin". The premise was that the MiniMoni members were aliens from a planet close to the Earth, called Pyonsei, and were researching all kinds of things about our planet to prepare for an invasion. In practice, that meant boring segments with jokes being made about random objects they'd "study" and a bunch of thing I didn't understand. I never liked this segment very much, with one or two exceptions. Well, these two days here were the major exceptions. These were the episodes when the Pyon Seijin finally made their Earth invasion, which was portrayed as a crossover between that segment and the Theater one. "Hello! Morning Theater - Pyon Seijin Invasion" is a name I made up, it's officialy two segments of Pyon Seijin and two of Theater making up a single story. The whole thing embedded up here is a little over 20min, 4 parts because YouTube doesn't like length over 10min and I decided to split them by segment. Here are the links to the parts on Veoh:

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

The Pyon Seijin segment got a little better (and more weird) after this episode. There was another exception I really liked, one with Yuuko (she had said before in the program that she'd like to appear in this segment someday)... These are a pain to translate though, because they scream a lot of stuff at the same time and some things are just too random. Lots of jokes with similar words/kanji that never work well in a translation, there's plenty of those in the first video here too.

There's a part in it when Rika says something about the Way of the Devil... That was in the previous episode, I'm not sure if that was included in the Until the Bus Comes DVDs HPS subbed. It refers to a black strip on the street that made any character who stepped on it act delinquently. I'm quite sure it appeared more than once in these skits... And there's a sentence Kaorin says which makes no sense at all, but it's not my fault. Translation is right. Maybe that's a catch phrase from some TV show or whatever, I don't know.

Hello! Morning Theater 2005.05.27

This episode is pretty cute, besides being funny. I thought it'd make a nice follow up for the HiTsuji videos... After one cute sheep, here are two puppies/dogs - Sayu and Yaguchi. And there's the great duo of Yossie/Ogawa characters, Hosoke Kazuko and, well, Hosoke Kazuko 2... It seems like Yossie is always on the best pairings in these skits, with Rika on the demon/angel characters, Ogawa in this case, and also the whole Tarako family characters. Tarako one might be unfamiliar to some people though, since I don't think she appeared on the Until the Bus Comes skits... Here's the Tarako family:

Tarako family

Anyway, have fun with this episode ^_^ There's a big one coming next.

Tsuji Nozomi as HiTsuji

羊 【ひつじ, hitsuji】� (n) sheep; (P)

Back in 2002, two H!M episodes were filmed in Hokkaido, and the Theater segment was adapted to fit in the Hokkaido theme. And that resulted in this great character, HiTsuji, which was used in these two episodes and then once or twice in other skits, but never had any other major appearance. Too bad. Oh well, I guess it'd get boring pretty fast. Anyway, HiTsuji had 5 appearances total in the two episodes, counting one NG scene; 4 of them are subbed here, I didn't do the 4th one because it didn't have much to translate anyway... It's pretty funny stuff, hope you'll like it ^_^ I love these Hokkaido episodes. The news segment in this Hokkaido theme was pretty good too, I should sub that one of these days...

Hello! Morning Theater - Love Revolution 2003 part 2 (2003.08.10)

Link to Veoh

Finally done =P Well, 90% done, or something like that, I couldn't undestand some sentences. It's up on YouTube already, I'll add the link to Veoh later. I should probably write some proper post one of these days too, since these don't bring many visits. But subtitling is good for when I have no idea what to talk about. Or better, I can't think of anything I could write that would be more interesting to my readers than watching a subtitled H!M video. It's kinda obvious that if I only do that visits should go down, but at least the videos get some views on YouTube.

Hello! Morning Theater - Stories from the Women's Dormitory (2002-06-02)

Link to Veoh

I was busy yesterday rewatching Slayers Try, one of my favorite anime series, because I found out there's A SEQUEL COMING OUT, THANK YOU GOD! and since I already had the translation of this theater, I decided to just time this one. I'll try to upload the second part of the Love Revolution 2003 skit until tomorrow.

H!M Theater - Love Revolution 2003 part 1 (2003.08.03, subbed)

H!M skit subbed. This time I could translate all of it, so I'm pretty happy with myself. Too bad I can't say the same thing about this skit's second part... Subtitles are a little hard to read on YouTube, I'll make the next ones larger... Try Veoh, maybe it looks better there. I don't know, since Veoh blocked Brazil I can't test. Anyway, have fun watching.

Also, this episode has a reference to Dandy Sakano, so if you don't know him, here he is:

Dandy Sakano

He's the Get's guy, a comedian whose popularity peak was way back in 2003. H!P fans might've seen him appearing together with Ayaya in an Utaban episode that was fansubbed some time ago, or in a quick special appearance he had on good old Bakajo. I remember he appeared in a H!M episode too, together with two other guys, but I think that was about 2005-2006... Anyway, here's a nice introduction to his act, if you're interested:

Now back to figuring out what the hell Rika is talking about in a certain scene so I can finish and upload the second part of this...

Oh, and although I've translated the whole thing as Mashimaro-kun, now I'm thinking it sounds more like Mashumaro... But that doesn't really matter. Right? T_T

I want these MUGEN characters >_<

Tanaka Reina vs. Takahashi Ai

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As you can see in the video, some lucky wota has MUGEN characters based on H!P idols - this video shows Reina and Takitty, the other one below has Kamei and Mikitty. For those who don't know, MUGEN is a program that allows anyone with the right skills to create backgrounds and characters to be used in a fighting game, and these characters can then be distributed on the web individually or packaged in a full game.

I like the creativity that went into this, there are some funny choices for the special attacks. Look at how Reina finishes off Takitty in the first round, remember anything? (Yup, that's from Okajo) And Takitty's got some Sailor Moon powers here, with the way her clothes change in the beginning of the rounds and when she does some of her special attacks. Then there's Morning Musume's music playing on the background, which is a pretty obvious idea, and there's real voice clips from the girls during the fight, which are kinda obvious too, but look like a lot of trouble. I love Takitty's character the most out of these.

Fujimoto Miki vs. Kamei Eri

Here's Mikitty and Kamei. I think they could use some more work though, and I can't understand the inspiration for most of the attacks here. Kamei turning into a lion? =/ But he remembered to include that weird knee thing Kamei did on a classic Utaban episode, I think, well, she did it somewhere =P, it appears quite a few times throughout the video.

Too bad I've got no idea where to find these characters T_T It'd be a lot of fun. Someone could also make a character based on that puppet from HM@, I'd love to kick him.

You can find some more videos like these here, but these four girls are the only ones included.

Bikkuri Survey

1. You have found a magical J-pop genie who will grant you one J-pop related wish (so no wishing for a million dollars or world peace or anything like that). It can be virtually anything as long as it’s directly related to J-pop, and don’t worry, because this is the nice sort of genie, not the kind who will try to find a loop-hole and screw up your wish. So, what do you wish for???
I want to trade souls with Tsunku.

2. Is there any J-pop artist or group who seriously pisses you off? If yes, who, and why?
No. That happens sometimes, but I always end liking the same artists. Or I just forgot about them, so they don't bother me anymore.

3. Who do you think is the sexiest japanese singer out there?
Can I have two?

Mikitty

Koda Kumi

4. How about the cutest?
Now it won't work with less than three...

Konkon

Kamei

Kago Ai

5. Best personality?
Yuuko.

6. If given the opportunity, would you rather date person 3, person 4, or person 5?
Konkon.

7. You work for a Japanese music magazine, and you have the opportunity to interview your favorite artist or group. What are a couple of the questions you want to ask them?
I'd like to ask Momusu's OG what they think about the current line up, the Kids, and the way their career continued after they got out of Momusu. Some of them I think have no reason to complain (Yossie and Rika, for example), but I'd like to see what Yuuko would say. And Yasuda. Yasuda said back in some Utaban that she wanted to be an actress, and she's been in some plays since then, so it seems it worked... but is she happy now or would she want a solo singing career?

8. What’s the best (J-pop) song to listen to when you are really sad?
Hum... I choose music based on whatever I'm doing while I listen, instead of how I'm feeling. If I'm studying, it's classical or nothing; if I'm reading RSS, it's completely random from my whole collection; if I'm programming, writing or busy with anything else, it's J-Rock. Right now it's Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner though. J-Pop enters when I'm bored. Sometimes I get addicted to some group, so I'll listen to it all the time for about a week. Then it goes back to normal.
But then, if I had to choose the best "cheer up" j-pop song I know, it's quite easily ZARD's "Makenaide". Best sad j-pop song, I'd have to think a lot more about it...

9. When you’re really happy?
Best happy song would be... hum... Either Lucky Cha Cha Cha or Koko ni Iru zee... with Shiawase Beam definitely in third place.

10. Do you often sing along to your favorite songs?
Sure, all the time. Old habit. Just never in public.

11. How about dance?
Never.

12. Artistic integrity question!! If someone offerrered to pay you for blogging, but they were allowed to censor some of your opinions or veto some of your blogging ideas, would you do it?
No. Not really because I care about "artistic integrity"... Well, I do, but I care more about money. I see nothing wrong with writing whatever you're told to for money - isn't that what all marketers and most journalists do? But I wouldn't try it anyway, since I have no plans to make money writing. This is a hobby, and the moment it turns into anything else, I'm out.