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Oh, S/mileage
Here’s the thing: I really like S/mileage. I have mixed feelings about S/mileage 2.0, but I really enjoyed listening to the 1.0 version- the version with Ogawa Saki and Maeda Yuuka. It was a lot of...
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S/mileage – “Tabidachi no Haru ga Kita”
As the camera sweeps across the room, Wada Ayaka looks contemplatively at an open suitcase. Is she packing? Is she unpacking? Where is she going, or from where did she come? S/mileage’s new single...
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Hello! Station 15 – A Viewer’s Guide
This week, we get Nakanishi Kana as our host. You don’t know her? I’m not totally surprised: she’s a part of the new S/mileage and is NOT named “Dracula”. Kana gets the action going quickly with a...
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Hello! Station 16- a Viewer’s Guide
Another week of Nakanishi Kana! This edition is packed with performances, and like last week, Kanana keeps the action coming at a decent pace. These performances seem to all come from Hello! Project’s...
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Hello! Station 17- A Viewer’s Guide
Another week, another Hello! Station. If I seem to be writing these later and later each week, it’s because of my real life getting in the way of my wota life. Hopefully my schedule will clear up as we...
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Hello! Station 18- A Viewer’s Guide
Honey is back for her second week! Highlights this week are the premiere of S/mileage’s “Yattaruchan” (which I really like) and a metric ton of backstage footage from the Hello! Project concerts....
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S/mileage –“Atarashii Watashi ni Nare!/Yattaruchan”
I was looking through the clutter on my desk and I found these letters written to each side of the new S/mileage single. Is it just me, or is the double-A side trick just a clever way to get UF to pay...
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Hello! Station #21 – A Viewer’s Guide
This 21st edition of Hello! Project Station brings us S/mileage’s Takeuchi Akari for host. Take-chan was one of my initial favorites from the S/mileage second generation auditions, but my favoritism...
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Hello! Station #22- A Viewer’s Guide
S/mileage’s Takeuchi Akari gets us going this week as the latest host. How do I feel about Take-chan? When I watched the S/mileage 2nd gen auditions, I favorited Take-chan pretty early because of her...
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Hello! Station 24- A Viewer’s Guide
This week, we start off immediately with Morning Musume announcing their 54th single “Wagamama Ki no Mama Ai no Joke / Ai no Gundan”! Release date for the new single is 8/28/13. Yes, another double...
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Hello! Station 26- A Viewer’s Guide
I don’t remember the last time anticipation for a Hello! Station was this intense. As the release date for Morning Musume’s 54th single nears, this anticipation only heightened. Last week, Hello!...
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S/mileage “Ee Ka!?”
Why do I like these silly songs best? Witness the new S/mileage PV, “Ee Ka!?”. You’re going to say that there’s nothing to it. The girls simply dance in an interestingly lit room and pull faces for...
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Happy Valentine’s Day 2014
I’m usually very bitter on this day. I refuse to celebrate love just because “the man” tells me that I should spend more money. I refuse to celebrate love because Hallmark needed to right their account...
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Toobin #2- Hello! Station 60, UF Licks 58
Another week, another edition of Toobin. This week, I’m treated to some LoVendoR, Bitter & Sweet, Sato no Akari, Morning Musume ’14, and S/mileage. Along the way we have some KanaTomo the sadist,...
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THIS WEEK IN ERIPON (15.04.2014-19.04.2014)
Hey! I’m relatively punctual this week! Not that anyone is counting on these posts where I compile Ikuta Erina’s blog photos. You can get these photos anywhere, right? Thanks for stopping by on my...
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S/mileage “Smile Fantasy” images
You know how much I love S/mileage. I don’t think the girls have ever looked as cute as they look in these images from “Smile Fantasy”, the jukebox musical. Just look at them! They are SO CUTE I WANT...
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Angerme- “Taiki Bansei/Otome no Gyakushuu” [PV]
Just when we thought the new name would kill the group dead, Angerme punches us in the face with their new release “Taiki Bansei/Otome no Gyakushuu”. By now, we all know that S/mileage 3rd generation...
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Haro!Sute #112 and The Girls Live #64 [tweetstory]
Starting Hello! Station #112 now https://t.co/lWCf48hJDg — number244 (@thenumber244) April 9, 2015 its real early for me to start watching anything, I know. — number244 (@thenumber244) April 9, 2015...
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ANGERME “Nanakorobi Yaoki” [PV]
ANGERME come roaring out of the gate for the next round of Hello! Project releases with their effort “Nanakorobi Yaoki (Ups and Downs)”. When ANGERME was still S/mileage and the group cut their hair...
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ANGERME “Gashin Shotan” [PV]
ANGERME sends off one its original members with a song that tries to encapsulate the essence of the group’s first six years of work. Fun and funky blends equal parts with Smileage’s “Shortcut” and...
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