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sauder — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:52:28 +0000

Haromoni@ Moutube pt.21

Wow I can’t believe we’re onto part 21, this time I’m actually okay with it, because this episode was actually decent. So this weeks theme is
(シンデレラ) or Cinderella, of course to promote the upcoming Cinderella the Musical…musical.

I’ve got to say everyone looks quite stunning in their dresses.

But lets start off today shall we, so what have Sayu and Reina been up to…?

1/7: You know a yankee and a bunny never make a good combination…

I hope it’s okay that this reminds me of Team Rocket.

Anyway–it looks like they’ve been stalking another seemingly random person except this time they’re after her phone! (Keitai Spies)

And the person is none other than this week’s special guest Haruna Ai. In a different room, they’re watching her actions as she gets ready to get into an elevator.

Sayu: “Lets do it!”

So now they’re hiding around a corner, from an unsuspecting Haruna who’s stepping out of an elevator.

They ask if they can see her phone, to which she agrees, and as Sayu distracts her with a question Reina fiercely grabs her phone. Whoop, Keitai GET!

Well the first order of business is to observe the outside, aka the trinkets on her phone. Looks like she has some skulls and handcuffs…

Haruna is explaining why she has the trinkets when Reina points the other way and tells her to look, and she takes back the phone so that they can examine it further.

Next order of business.

They have to hand her her phone first so that she can open it, but ah~~ she’s receiving a call! And her ringtone is none other than Yeah! Meccha Holiday by Aya Matsuura.

And apparently every time her ringer comes on she just has to dance to it…

She actually isn’t half bad…

But the fact that her ringer stops actually surprises her…haha

Haruna:“Ahh!? Chotto?!”

As she professes her love for Ayaya her ringer goes off again and she stops talking and starts dancing immediately…(seriously), that is until Reina turns it off and declares that it’s mail CHECK time!

The look on Sayu’s face as she fends Haruna off with a clipboard lets you know that she’s well aware that her ass could be beaten any second now.

Of course it doesn’t stop there, they have to go through everything in her phone including photos. Aw…

Aww…

They also notice that when they were spying on her she was fixing herself every moment she got. Apparently looking good is everything to Haruna and she’d even go as far as using the bottom of the table to see her reflection.

If that’s true then why does she have this completely odd picture on her phone…

But then, Aww…there are pictures like this one that make up for everything.

Reina swipes her phone once again…and they both ask her if she’d do an Ayaya impersonation for them.

A better description would be a lipsync of an MC segment maybe…it’s actually quite creepy how well she can do it, but what the hell, everybody’s good at something.

She even takes off the shoes, and when someone in the crowd shouts “Ayaya I love you!” She responds immediately like she really is her.

Reina and Sayu are totally blown away by her 100% accuracy as she keeps going with her “impersonation”….

It ends and the members give some small “that was amazing’s”.

So in conclusion, never trust the two of them together when they’re loose in TvTokyo…hide your children, (and yes I’m running out of meaningful things to say.)

2/7: So with that onto the next video via Gaki request. (and after some massive confusion caused by JunJun, notice how Aika’s the only one to understand her right away.)

Cabbage-Kun and Ai-chan are coming back with the corner where they prank Musume’s, with last times victim being LinLin, but now that they’ve got one Panda they need to get the other.

The staff lead an unsuspecting Jun into a room with a bunch of really expensive items, and essentially they leave her there.

So essentially there’s going to be someone under the table that will move it so that the “expensive” brown bowl falls on the ground and breaks.

Before they leave they mention to her that the brown bowl at the corner of the table is especially expensive (so she knows if she touches it she’s in trouble), then they leave the room.

All of a sudden as she’s reading the names of things, the brown bowl falls and smashes on the ground.

Jun’s only terrified for a second before Ai happily busts into the room to tell her whats up.

Then the camera crew busts out from behind the wall to tell her whats up.

And even the guy who was hiding under the table…busts out to tell her whats up. (…creepy)

3/7: And thats the end of that…next is some GakiKorea, and this time she’s impersonating Beyonce specifically from a Dreamgirls song. I love that movie though, but there really isn’t much to say other than it’s amusing to see Gaki try to lipsync something in English.

Even gesturing to the sides of her like the other two Dreamgirls are really there…hey, she’s gotta sell it.

4/7:Next is some Koharu voice-overs from an old MC with Kamei and Mako-chan.

And this time everyone actually laughed at it…

5/7: OK moving onwards, its GAKIKAME. So we join Kamei at school as shes finishing a bottle of ‘juice’.

And she tosses it behind her head to the recycle recpitcale and woop, how many times will it take her? 100BIG less than is SMALL.

And yes she completed it pretty fast at Take 60.

So someone from BIG will be punished later–ahem (Takahashi)

6/7:Next we move onto some footage that we weren’t allowed to see before, from Ayaya’s birthday concert.

And guess who shows up to surprise her…

Haruna…!

She’s even around for face smashing fun..

7/7:Now that that’s over (finally) Batsu game Ai-chan!! For all the crud you do to everyone else!

HM@Boss of the Week: Goes to Takahashi Ai for being Takahashi-ish. She pranked JunJun and had probably the best Batsu game results I’ve seen thus far. Thanks for making this episode bearable.

What in the hell happened to me…day one I was completely ready to do this, day two I thought I was pretty motivated to get this done, and then day three I found out what it’s like to be possesed with pure hatred. It was like all of a sudden I had this deep loathing for HM@ when I tried to finish this review, it was like everything around me was telling me to just screw it and do it some other time, but then of course my little shoulder angel reminded me that there are some people who read this pretty religiously, so I can’t let you down I suppose. Still, I’m pretty surprised at my subconscious reactions to this…!

Anyway, sorry for my less than enthusiastic comments at times. Some of it you’d truly have to watch to understand.

NEXT TIME:

-Tanakacchi memorization

-The best-best friend couple Kamei and Shige do a street quiz on the street with a camera

-GAKIKAME

-Poloshirts and Lacrosse sticks

-Someone acting very un-idol-like

(Shige, of course)

There are Cinderella/SNS pictures for this episode:

Haromoni@ Review and Preview

sauder — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:33:38 +0000

Haromoni@ Moutube pt. 20

Wow where the hell have I been? I’m sorry, it’s been what three weeks or so? I missed TsuboTsubo, High King, and more memory battles!? Well school is finally over, finals, goodbyes, and what not so I’m finally free. It feels really great to be back here and actually post something that (although very tedious) I like to do, so for once instead of writing in the dead of night. I made myself a stack of Pa-Pancakes, some fresh orange juice, and I’m going to sit down and enjoy writing this review:)

So this weeks theme is Summer Polkadot Dresses, and everyone is looking quite cute in their bright colors.

Sayu gets a little bit sexy during her introduction which generates a hot and bothered reaction from the rest of the girls.

Well lets move onto today’s Moutube lineup! Sayu decides that we should start off with some GAKIKAME. Sounds good to me.

1/5:So we arrive at a dreary school setting where the teacher is giving a lecture and everybody is bored as hell.

Including the class celebrity, Niigaki. That is until she notices something that catches her eye…

Of course she has to tell her friend behind her.

“Pssst the teachers fly is open!”

And yes the girl can’t hear worth crud, (blinking quickly doesn’t mean you’ll magically hear her) so Gaki needs a plan B..

So instead of asking someone to pass on the note, like a normal person, she makes a silly looking airplane with a message scribbled on it and tries to make it arc around the room to her buddy.

Since this is a quiz, of course they need to guess how many times it’ll take. Lower than 99 SMALL, high than 100 BIG.

Kamei: “I voted BIG because Gaki has no sense of direction.”

Gaki: “Since when!!!???”

I’ve gotta agree with Kamei here, Gaki’s immediately failing at this right now… when she releases it keeps fluttering over to generally random places.

Take 46: She completely almost takes out the eye of some guy minding his own business in his desk.

Take 47: Then the very next take she hits the teacher in the head…

I’m not gonna lie…maybe they should have made a more legit airplane or something, because this is taking forever. As she gets better at arcing, she almost makes it to her friend quite a few times.

Take 96: Ah! The golden Take 96 she lets the plane arc around the room until it nails the girl in the chest. Atta kid! (the plane is hard to see but if you squint by where the map is on the wall in the background, you can see the white blur at the end of it)

You can see her give a small triumphant smile (despite pixelation). She’s so pleased with herself right now.

Because LinLin went BIG, shes going to have a punishment game later, I wonder what it could be…

2/5 :Oh my good lord. JunJun/LinLin speaking Chinese is the most win thing since $6 Little Caesars pizza–so damn cute! It’s got to be the first time I’ve heard them talk fluently, but more importantly they’re expressing their love of Takoyaki!

JunJun reveals some Black Takoyaki…

LinLin reveals her Red Takoyaki…

And the girls have to guess which one is real the Takoyaki and which is fake.

Jun’s is good, Lin’s isn’t and the black Takoyaki’ists win and get to eat it as a prize. They then show how Black Takoyaki is made by mixing that powder in with a mixture to turn it black (basically blueish) and then cook it.

As usual the rest (Mitsui and Kamei) look on in complete hunger, while JunJun and LinLin don’t even get to eat any either.

3/5:Well lets move on from that. As a matter of fact, where’s Ai-chan?

That’s right… while using an HM@ Laptop “Ai-chan’s been studyin’ hard to make sure she doesn’t forget all 20 tasty prefecture Bento Boxes!”. Did I mention that everyone gets Bento as a prize if she does it?

Somehow the camera catches a series of weird looks from Ai-chan…

She blazing through her Bento so far…

And now it’s the last one and if she gets it right, everybody gets a Bento. No pressure leader.

Of course, she aces it and everyone gets a Bento.

Kamei’s reaction to her leafy one is cute here also.

They call jointedly give Ai-chan a hearty thanks, since they now can fill their bellies with fish eggs and what not…

Everyone: “Arigatou Gozaimas~~~u!’

Takahashi: “I’m just glad I got them right.” and somehow all the staff laugh at this…

Oh but the fun doesn’t end. We forgot to punish LinLin didn’t we…?

4/5: Which leads us to more slo-mo screaming.

5/5:Next they show the completed GAKIKAME which is the same thing except duh, no NG’s and Gaki does an A-to.

HM@ Boss of the Week: This weeks HM@ Boss award definitely has to go to Takahashi Ai. Even though Niigaki went through 96 takes of horror, Takahashi earned food for her Kouhai by her divine powers of memorization. What’s better than winning something for everyone to share? Congratulations for making this episode fun (for the girls).

Ah, seriously, I’ve been gone too long! I really don’t have much to say about this episode except GAKIKAME could have potentially taken forever, it was surprising to hear the Panda’s not stutter since they were speaking Chinese, and the drooling looks in the minibox while Takoyaki was being explained was priceless. It was like going back to Magic Resturaunt days, except with even more seafood (which I HATE). Other than that the episode was fairly normal, but next week’s should be even more interesting. Haruna Ai is a trans gender TV personality, lol. It seems like she does a lot of idol impersonations, including Ayaya, so this should be quite an…amusing episode next time, especially with some very extravagant looking Evening Gowns. I’m sure everyone will look very pretty.

NEXT TIME:

Reina and Sayu examine special guest Haruna Ai’s cellphone!

Gaki-Kame (Kamei)

GakiKorea (Beyonce style)

Koharu voice-overs

Evening Gown costumes

There are Summer Polkadot Dress pictures for this episode: