Hi there! After some time of silence around here, because I had three exams last week and my parents were very persuasive when convincing me to study more, I guess I can gradually come back to the blog... There's still three more exams in January, but those are mostly math/physics, and that's not a big problem for me.
Keeping the tradition I plan to have, here's my Birthday Tribute to Kamei Eri =D She's 19 today, found that out on H!P Sauce. I'm no good with this birthday speech thing, so I'll just say "Otanjoubi Omedetou, Kamei-chan!" and "Do Elizabeth again when HM@ gets a News segment!". Here's some Kamei scenes I got from my collection of H!M screencaps, and three videos =)
I think most people have already seen Kamei's hilarious adventure in the English language =P but it's worth remembering <3
This is a pretty different H!M segment, I haven't watched many episodes from 2005 yet so I'm not sure what this is about... Kamei enters a room with a not very friendly tough-style guy, who announces right away he doesn't like talking to people, and starts attacking Kamei for making him wait too long. The poor girl does her best to talk to this idiot. And then, he starts showing some unexpected items he carried in his bag... I'm not saying what happens in the end, watch it =)
Hum... Thinking about it now, maybe this video is a little sad to put in her birthday post... Oh well, the last one is happier.
This is a pretty different H!M segment, I haven't watched many episodes from 2005 yet so I'm not sure what this is about... Kamei enters a room with a not very friendly tough-style guy, who announces right away he doesn't like talking to people, and starts attacking Kamei for making him wait too long. The poor girl does her best to talk to this idiot. And then, he starts showing some unexpected items he carried in his bag... I'm not saying what happens in the end, watch it =)
Hum... Thinking about it now, maybe this video is a little sad to put in her birthday post... Oh well, the last one is happier.
Finally, this is from a HM@ episode. After a segment where Kamei, Gaki-san and the Pandas had to make some bread with different ingredients, some children were chosen to choose which one was the best, and they chose Kamei's, to everyone's surprise =P The video starts when the kid are just making their choice. Since Kamei won, she gets to walk around town selling her own bread, while she advertises some random guy's business. I particularly like how she ignores the language barrier and sells the bread to some foreigners in the beginning. I chose this video because she keeps smiling almost the whole way through it, and that's always a good thing <3
Oh, and before I finish, I'm not sure if I'll be posting something again before Christmas, so here's my message to all of you, sent through Kamei =P
Oh, and before I finish, I'm not sure if I'll be posting something again before Christmas, so here's my message to all of you, sent through Kamei =P
Ah you've really shared a lot of Kamei happiness! I'm always happy talking to you about Kamei because you too have experienced all of those great H!M episodes when she was the most adorable reporter! Thank you for all of those screen caps as they bring back very fond memories and it's amazing how a single frame captures and reminds one of that particular episode! All of her cute "battles" with her guests and the Yukosan dynamic is priceless. I sometimes wonder if newer fans who missed all of these H!M episodes can really truly appreciate her as this character was the beginning of her growth in overall personality in a sense. Heheh...'hand in cheese.' :O One of the funniest episodes ever along with the legendary "bakajo tests." Ah the prank episode and if I remember correctly that guy had a "gun" that turned out to be something like a lighter... They did this to a few members and just watching Kamei try to work herself out of it was heartbreaking at times. UFA does come up with some mean stuff at times! :O She really thought it was a real situation! Aw the pan selling episode is one of the best as well! You've really chosen a lot of Kamei gems here!! I was trying to jam as much pics of her selling the bread as I could into this post as she looks so cute and I love the reactions she gets on the street. That's surefire way to sell anything I'd imagine...with Kamei leading the way I'd buy whatever she's selling no matter what it was! :P
Santa Kamei! I love this last capture!! Cute just can't be any cuter than this! :D I'm with you...bring back the news segment soon!
投稿情報: MorningBerryz | 2007/12/26 07:30
I'm glad to know you liked it, and that I'm reaching my goal =P My intention is exactly remember people about these great moments. I don't think there's need to worry about the newer fans, well, I'm one myself. I registered at Hello! Online in April, which is the best point I have to consider my beginning in Hello! Project's big world =D And exactly because it's so big, new fans will take a while to get around, but if they're really fans they'll eventually make it. It's true that watching the members grow is essential, and it's normal to make some wrong judgements if someone hasn't seen all... But many older videos are still available online, so there's oportunity for these fans to learn. I'm personally paying more attention lately to the 1st gen members, especially Yuko, after watching the original auditions... Well, the old H!M episodes are more difficult, I still don't have some of 2004/2005 and was lucky to download all the others when some people were reuploading them. A new fan that looks for those now probably won't be so lucky... The major problem is still the language, though... But I think at least the News segments should be translated, there have been some torrents with them separated from the H!M episodes, so they could sub those...
Thinking now, it's a very good thing that I started taking screencaps of H!M episodes while I watch them, just too bad I started so late T_T I got the idea from your posts, looking at all those pictures I thought that would be a much better way to remember and quickly find an episode that had a specific scene, if I ever needed it. I generally take at least one for every segment and try to make it so I can clearly remember what it was about, but some ones like the News and the Gekijou always go into the dozens =P When the pictures started piling up, I was thinking what I'd do with them, and then came Yasuda's birthday and I decided to do these posts. It would be impossible if I didn't already have the material. The only problem now is that I never know when the birthdays are coming, so when I read about them in some other blog, it's always a race to make the post in the same day =P Kamei's is the second birthday post and the first I made on time. I wish I had pictures from an old monomane episode when Aibon did Gackt. When her birthday comes up, I'll have to hunt for that.
Your memory is good, it's the lighter "gun" episode ^_^ And then after that, there's a false gold watch that Kamei "breaks".
"That's surefire way to sell anything I'd imagine...with Kamei leading
the way I'd buy whatever she's selling no matter what it was!"
That's a thought I always had when watching some of the Alo/Love Hello, the ones which have the girls asking for discounts from the stores. I always think I'd just give them everything they asked for =P I'm always impressed at how some of the store clerk can resist to their wishes, especially when they start doing all those cute faces while asking :D
投稿情報: HarimaKenji | 2007/12/26 08:31
It makes me happy to know that so much older H!P material is still available as these truly are great ways to learn about the whole group's history and it's ever changing members. Hello! Online is an amazing site and luckily a friend gets me the new episodes each week as I can't get them myself with my prehistoric computer. :P That's such a great idea having the news segments separated and it really shows how much this part of H!M was loved by fans everywhere. It was Kamei's perfect vehicle into fans' hearts!
Heheh the fake "expensive" watch! :O That guy was the perfect scary set up character for this segment but I think she really was freaked out by the situation...kind of a mean idea!
I love when they haggle the vendors for a lower price!! I would go out of business if they shopped often! :P
投稿情報: MorningBerryz | 2007/12/27 09:58