<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Madara" data-cid="204949" data-time="1486509678">In researching the tracklist for Juice=Juice's 2015 concert DVD, I came across the terms, "Event V" and "Memorial Edit," and have no idea what t...

I like to shorten Kasahara Momona's name as Kasmo (read: Cosmo). That's... about the most interesting thing I have to say about her.

I feel like I'm late to the party, but I've just recently been introduced to the mashup work of Neil Cicierega. Albums Mouth Sounds , Mouth Silence , and the new one Mouth Moods can be freely downloaded or listened to on YouTube. Some are just funny or strange combinations ( Imagine + All Star , or ...

Where's the advantage for them? The argument usually given for a forced shortage is it encourages people to snap up further shipments more quickly, but keeping things at a trickle during their biggest sales time of the year would be a pretty fucked-up fail of that strategy. I didn't think that thing...

Lately I've been really into the Creeper World series on PC. I played 3 a few years ago when it was the only one on Steam, and enjoyed it quite a bit. Last year the developer added its predecessors, and I recently ended up playing them consecutively and now back onto 3. They're all different enough ...

Similar to what I did last year , I've looked at the H!P releases for 2016 to see who the top contributors were in this Tsunku-lite era. The short version of what I counted is new non-musical songs. If a song has something like two credited lyricists, I give them each half a point for the song. Full...

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Mugi" data-cid="204024" data-time="1483920372">Not sure if this is where this goes but I was watching this random anime today and I saw Tsunku's name and I was surprised. He wrote the opening (link below) Its inte...

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="JPope" data-cid="203883" data-time="1483479770">Miki sounds like half school teacher, half nervous teenager. I'm less put off by her diction than by her not having anything prepared. Her command of the language is...

Miki's got quite an interesting accent. Her time in the U.S. was in Illinois and Alabama, but it doesn't sound like what I'd expect from people from either of those areas. Probably a mixture of those, however her parents talked, and various other sources.

Wow, your video store has some pretty quick turnaround time.

A bit rambly, but: Listening to some old Final Fantasy V music and I ran across the piano lesson excerpt of Arabesque No. 1 (though no, I didn't remember that name). I primarily knew a version of it from an old astronomy segment on PBS, called Star Hustler / Star Gazer. I searched for the version th...

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Thea" data-cid="203811" data-time="1483385350">Thank you for the compliment.  </blockquote>I am the same way about different things, like whether C-ute's first album is VOL.1 or Vol.1.

The old system of temporarily deals pretty much shot itself when they introduced refunds. People could buy anything they wanted at the beginning, and refund it if it ever became cheaper. Personally I prefer the convenience now, especially versus those crazy times when they did like 4 or 8 hour flash...

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="arcobaleno" data-cid="203787" data-time="1483373434">Oh lord, for sure. When trying to pick out the "exact shades!!!!" for projecthello, Thea and I went through quite a few years of H!P goods and even me...

Only a few hours left to get in those last-minute Steam sale purchases. My haul this time: The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, LogiGun, Superstar Dance Club, Oh...Sir!! The Insult Simulator, Creeper World Anniversary Edition, The Thrill of the Fight, House of the Dying Sun, Disgaea PC, SUPER Is...

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="iDOL1641" data-cid="203585" data-time="1482817875">What I'm saying is that fans, AKB or MM, being upset about this doesn't really make sense.</blockquote>Being a crazy fan doesn't always make sense. Like, as a cra...

Somebody's going to accidentally search for Shining Musume and get a surprise.

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="WonderBuono" data-cid="203519" data-time="1482470808">But I totally did not expect them to pull out the Tron: Legacy* digital face thing.   *idk this effect may have been done before then but that was the first ti...

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There's a new H!P logo aaaand it's pretty much the same as the old one.

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Farrah" data-cid="203462" data-time="1482219913">So, apparently these auditions overlapped with 48 group auditions BOTH TIMES (with both 48 auditions pulling 45-50k applicants versus less than 10k for MM)... no wo...

I assume I am not the only one to have seen Rogue One. Without getting too spoilery, I was overall impressed. Direct connections to Episode IV worked pretty well, mostly without seeming too dumbly fanservicey. Some of the CG effects that I didn't even realize were CG effects to begin with were prett...

Almost everything made it to US iTunes except for the NEXT YOU song. Interesting to look at the Popularity column on iTunes and see what people grab. I wasn't surprised that all the straight up repeats from singles weren't popular, but it seems like the newly available songs from musicals are equal...

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Madara" data-cid="203259" data-time="1481593696">H!P Wiki has problems loading on my computer and it sometimes crashes on me before I can get all the info I want. And it's harder to copy and paste from that site o...

Haven't tried Google Earth yet. Thanks to SteamVR acting as a middleman, most things built for Vive and its controller will automatically work for Oculus / Touch (and vice-versa I guess), but Google Earth apparently specifically blocks it. Just read of a workaround so I'll have to give it a go.

The Oculus Touch controllers came out. Not perfect, but a pretty neat compromise between standard game controllers (analog, face buttons, trigger and grip buttons on each side), complex motion controls, and slight finger tracking. Most of my time with it so far has been in little demo programs. Prob...

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Thea" data-cid="202908" data-time="1480966776">Never trust google  :lesson:</blockquote>Yeah, separating things I was able to get it to say things like "romp" or even "having a conversation", b...

Looking up some official info on old DVD magazines, in this case Abe Natsumi Vol. 4, fed it into Google Translate to get the gist and uhhh... <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">なっちとカントリー娘。のメンバーが屋形船で大はしゃぎ。このDVDのためだけに撮影した映像が満載の楽しい１本になってます！</blockquote><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote&quo...

I've been into Final Fantasy since VI, but being burned by XIII and the many dumb spinoffs and freemium games released in recent years my hopes for forever-in-development XV have been pretty low. I still haven't played it (No PS4/Xbone, probably get inevitable PC version), but I've heard surprisingl...

I was just searching on Twitter for Tsunku, as one does, and saw a recent tweet from Laurus International School about how their new school song was by Tsunku. Lyrics and recording here . Written and composed by Tsunku, arranged by Suzuki Shunsuke, English portion of lyrics by Alisa K (who I'm guess...