Up until now I've only seen the first Hello! Morning Theater skits available online with subtitles: the "Until the Bus Comes" series translated by HPS. Unfortunately, as good as they were, that series was before the introduction of 2 of my favorite characters: the Yossie one you see in the screenshot up here and one from Ogawa that maybe I'll do something about in the future... Truth is, I don't know, there might be a video online somewhere with one of Yossie's appearances as the devil subtitled, but I can't find them. So, I supposed these videos don't exist, and I decided to make one.
Watch or download Hello! Morning Theater 2004-04-18, which I believe is the first appearance of this character, here. I'm not embedding it here because when I do so, the video gets a little smaller and the subtitles look ugly.
There were some sentences I didn't understand - one by Kamei, one by Yuuko and a quick talk between Yuuko and Yaguchi. I left them unsubbed. Actually, I've been hesitating to upload this video for a while because I didn't know those... But now I thought it was time to give up and post the way it is. If anyone gives me a translation of those sentences in the comments, I could finish it. So please help me =)
While I was reading some H!P blogs today, I came across two posts on semified's blog with results from two distinct "Which Morning Musume member are you?" quizzes she took. I decided to do it too, and I thought my results on the first one were pretty strange...
So, I'm Kamei... I don't know what to think of that. I was expecting Yossie or maybe Mikitty. Well, but Kamei on first place is still OK, the weird part is that Tanaka is after that. And then there's Koharu, what is she doing tied with Yossie? I don't like this quiz.
Still, there's no point in thinking too much about this because there were some questions I couldn't really answer. Like "You are a tomboy". Well, I'd have to be a girl to agree or disagree with this... In doubt, I answered in the middle. That's probably what made my Yossie rating end up lower than Kamei. Yeah, let's blame the quiz.
Oh, and loved how there's a "You have a tendency to grope your friends." in the quiz XD I miss Mikitty.
Then I tried the second one. It's more complete, I think everyone up to 6th gen is here. Results seem a lot better in this one, probably because it didn't have questions like "You like to eat meat" (that was probably what gave Reina a high score in the other one)
#1 Hitomi Yoshizawa
#2 Asami Konno
#3 Eri Kamei
#4 Kei Yasuda
#5 Aya Ishiguro
#6 Kaori Iida
#7 Makoto Ogawa
#8 Yuko Nakazawa
#9 Ai Takahashi
#10 Risa Niigaki
#11 Asuka Fukuda
#12 Nozomi Tsuji
#13 Sayumi Michishige
#14 Ai Kago
#15 Maki Goto
#16 Natsumi Abe
#17 Reina Tanaka
#18 Sayaka Ichii
#19 Mari Yaguchi
#20 Rika Ishikawa
#21 Miki Fujimoto
If anyone finds a Johnnys quiz like this, post it somewhere covered by intlwota so I'll see it ;)
Like I did a long time ago, here's the setlist for the Morning Musume Spring Concert 2008, rearranged according to how much I want to see each of the performances and some comments.
01. Resonant Blue
02. Mr Moonlight ~Ai no Big Band~
This is one I'm afraid of. It all depends on who is going to get Yossie's part... Actually, I think none of the current members can do it, but that just makes me more interested to see what's coming.
03. Namida Tomaranai ga Houkago (Kamei)
I love Konkon's solo of this one in some past concert, and Kamei is the best I can think of to do it now <3 I guess Aika would be interesting too, but I prefer Kamei.
04. Morning Coffee (Takahashi, Niigaki, Kamei, Michishige & Tanaka)
Main vocals should go to Taka, anything else to GakiKame. Sayu and Tanaka should do nothing. That, and Tsunku would have my eternal loyalty. As if he didn't have it already. Oh well, he'll get my grattitude.
05. Morning Musume no Hyokkori Hyotan-Jima (Kusumi, Mitsui, JunJun & LinLin)
I'll be happy if this doesn't turn into "Kusumi & those others from the 8th gen". I'll be extra happy if they wear pirate outfits and false mustaches.
06. Manatsu no Kousen (Niigaki with Takahashi, Kamei, Michishige & Tanaka)
*Notice that there's two singles for 5th&6th gen, but only one for 7th&8th. And then 7th&8th doesn't get solos like 6th. It makes me sad.
**Thinking better, no solos from 7th actually make me happy. But 8th should have their moment.
07. Koko ni Iruzee
08. Summer Night Town
09. THE MANPOWER!! (Risa got Yossie’s lines.)
10. Iroppoi Jirettai
11. Osaka Koi no Uta (Mitsui does Yossie’s monologue.)
12. Kanashimi Twilight
13. Roman ~My Dear Boy~ (Niigaki got Miki’s lines.)
14. Medley
- I WISH - this one worries me. Who's going to get Aibon's lines?
- Happy Summer Wedding
- Koi no Dance Site (Kamei does the Sexy Beam) - Kamei?? O_O
- Souda! We’re Alive
- The Peace
- Renai Revolution 21
15. Medley
- Daite! Hold on Me
- Chokkan 2 ~Nogashita Sakana wa Ookiizo!~
- SEXY BOY ~Soyokaze ni Yorisotte~
- Joshi Kashimashi Monogatari (features one member only and its changes everyday. Chorus is made by everyone) - I wonder who will be the member featured on the DVD?
- Go Girl ~Koi no Victory~
16. Shabondama
17. Onna ni Sachi Are
18. Egao YES Nude (Eri has Yossie’s lines and Reina has Miki’s.)
19. Encore
- Ai Araba IT’S ALL RIGHT
- Love Machine
20. Mikan
21. Aruiteru
22. AS FOR ONE DAY (Michishige does Kago’s monologue)
Why isn't it "Gaki does Kago's monologue" or "Kamei does Kago's monologue"? I don't like to see Aibon's lines redistributed in any way, but giving them to Sayu is too much for me T_T Well, it's still better than giving them to Koharu I guess...
23. Do It Now (Takahashi and then everyone else)
If I were a Takitty hater, I'd love to say this "Takahashi and then everyone else" applies to most of their recent discography, but I'm not, so... Let me just say I'm not looking forward to this because I'm tired of the song, and not because it says "Takitty first".
24. Memory Seishun no Hikari (Tanaka)
This should be changed with a Panda-tachi song. Not necessarily Memory, another one by them.
25. Furusato (Michishige)
And this should be changed with an Aika solo. Or Takitty.
26. Ambitious! Yashinteki de Ii Jan
