The Official H!P Question Thread

[aine]

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Haru" data-cid="164289" data-time="1380760466">I know that I have to have a Japanese address to buy from Hello!Shop, but is there any third party I can go through that won't charge a giant amount of tax? Or.. is that Japanese taxes on goods? :s</blockquote>
You mean like White Rabbit Express or Tenso? We tried both of them, they work, their charges work out more or less the same depending on a few factors. White Rabbit is much more English-speaker friendly and has some great customer service if you ever need to ask them a question.


>trusting random people from facebook to buy you anything
>good idea

[pandapanda]

Does anyone know the official "start" day of MM?  Was it 1997 or 98?  I was curious as to when during the year....

[MejraThea]

Well, Ai no Tane was released on November 3, 1997, and Morning Coffee January 28, 1998...... Technically Morning Coffee was their 'debut', since Ai no Tane was just a test. I guess you kind of have to pick which one you think.

[aine]

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="pandapanda" data-cid="164308" data-time="1380795408">Does anyone know the official "start" day of MM?  Was it 1997 or 98?  I was curious as to when during the year....</blockquote><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Thea" data-cid="164313" data-time="1380807136">Well, Ai no Tane was released on November 3, 1997, and Morning Coffee January 28, 1998...... Technically Morning Coffee was their 'debut', since Ai no Tane was just a test. I guess you kind of have to pick which one you think.</blockquote>
Japanese Wikipedia gives September 14, 1997 as the date when the Morning Musume name was announced on ASAYAN, following the results of the SharanQ female vocalist audition which the original 1st Gen failed. It is also referred to as the official MM birth date on Oricon.

[MejraThea]

Oh, thank you, aine! I am glad I know now as well.

[Madara]

[quote="aine"]
 
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="pandapanda" data-cid="164308" data-time="1380795408">
Does anyone know the official "start" day of MM?  Was it 1997 or 98?  I was curious as to when during the year....
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Thea" data-cid="164313" data-time="1380807136">
Well, Ai no Tane was released on November 3, 1997, and Morning Coffee January 28, 1998...... Technically Morning Coffee was their 'debut', since Ai no Tane was just a test. I guess you kind of have to pick which one you think.
</blockquote>


Japanese Wikipedia gives September 14, 1997 as the date when the Morning Musume name was announced on ASAYAN, following the results of the SharanQ female vocalist audition which the original 1st Gen failed. It is also referred to as the official MM birth date on Oricon.
 
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Wow, that's Ai Takahashi's 11th birthday. Was she watching on that fateful day? Did she have any inkling of any future connection? If I'm ever blessed with the opportunity to interview her again, I'll ask that.

[Anderei]

[quote="aine"]
 
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="pandapanda" data-cid="164308" data-time="1380795408">
Does anyone know the official "start" day of MM?  Was it 1997 or 98?  I was curious as to when during the year....
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Thea" data-cid="164313" data-time="1380807136">
Well, Ai no Tane was released on November 3, 1997, and Morning Coffee January 28, 1998...... Technically Morning Coffee was their 'debut', since Ai no Tane was just a test. I guess you kind of have to pick which one you think.
</blockquote>


Japanese Wikipedia gives September 14, 1997 as the date when the Morning Musume name was announced on ASAYAN, following the results of the SharanQ female vocalist audition which the original 1st Gen failed. It is also referred to as the official MM birth date on Oricon.
 
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The current MM also celebrated this day with a cake and a couple of them mentioned on their blogs that MM was 16 years old now.

 

[ShiroiChanUK]

[quote="aine"]
 
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="pandapanda" data-cid="164308" data-time="1380795408">
Does anyone know the official "start" day of MM?  Was it 1997 or 98?  I was curious as to when during the year....
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Thea" data-cid="164313" data-time="1380807136">
Well, Ai no Tane was released on November 3, 1997, and Morning Coffee January 28, 1998...... Technically Morning Coffee was their 'debut', since Ai no Tane was just a test. I guess you kind of have to pick which one you think.
</blockquote>


Japanese Wikipedia gives September 14, 1997 as the date when the Morning Musume name was announced on ASAYAN, following the results of the SharanQ female vocalist audition which the original 1st Gen failed. It is also referred to as the official MM birth date on Oricon.
 
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Thank you, I've been wondering this for quite a while :)
 
Does anyone know the real reason as to why Fukuda Asuko left? I've read lots of speculation but I don't think I've ever found a confirmed answer.

[arcobaleno]

[quote="ShiroiChanUK"]
Does anyone know the real reason as to why Fukuda Asuko left? I've read lots of speculation but I don't think I've ever found a confirmed answer.
 
[/quote]
 
Well, honestly, I don't think anyone has the "real" answer for that. She herself says it was because she was "bullied" but I think she's contradicted that once or twice?

[Anderei]

The book she released shortly after supposedly implies she was bullied. She's never come out and said it herself.

[arcobaleno]

Ahh, I see! I knew I heard something about bullying, but I didn't know she wrote a book after she left. Anderei to the rescue once again

[Kahoryn]

Was Sonim considered part of H!P?

[al kusanagi]

Nope.

[Kahoryn]

Thanks for the quick response. O_O
That's what I always thought, but I guess I just thought today it was strange to think that since a lot of her early work was Tsunku produced.

[fujii hina]

Do we count the whispers, grunts, wows and wowowowows as solo lines?
 
Also, has anyone already made a line count for each Morning Musume single, like how many lines are there in a song, not how many lines a member gets in a song?

[Anderei]

I think PH counts them but I don't think they're usually included in the lyric booklets.

[andrewmarlin]

In the spirit of Halloween I thought I would share this video because for some reason I think Halloween when I see this video. (I do have a question, but I am leading up to it')
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg0aqSzJ_iU
 
Question: What was the song done a year or two ago by a Hello! Project group that had a major halloween theme? 

[kira]

I'm not sure what you mean by "Halloween theme"... are you referring to that zombie thing S/mileage did for an ad?
 
This one.

[NekoKaiSai]

There's this one by C-ute.  It was from their musical in 2010.
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[andrewmarlin]

[quote="kira"]
I'm not sure what you mean by "Halloween theme"... are you referring to that zombie thing S/mileage did for an ad?
 
This one.
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I used that for a lack of a better term. Which no it wasn't this. Sorry
 
[quote="NekoKai"]
There's this one by C-ute.  It was from their musical in 2010.
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I think this may be it. I thought there was a PV or something for it though. Not sure. Thats why I asked you guys.

[NekoKaiSai]

There's Cat's Eye by Cat's♥Eye 7 which is a group of four Berryz members and 3 C-ute members for a different musical.  The PV was released in August of last year.

[Solarblade]

The only one I can think of that's technically close is C-ute's Hae Otoko....but that's strectching it a bit...

[YuuakuRisa]

Is the mini moni and double u albums still available for sell somewhere? I could only get the mini moni movie soundtrack and I wanted to know if Upfront still had the right to distribute them?

[kira]

CD Japan appears to have some stuff.
 
W
 
Mini moni
 
I wouldn't know about distribution rights but I'd assume they continue to retain those, whether they'd bother to print more copies is another story altogether.

[YuuakuRisa]

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="kira" data-cid="165791" data-time="1382850872">
CD Japan appears to have some stuff.

W

Mini moni


I wouldn't know about distribution rights but I'd assume they continue to retain those, whether they'd bother to print more copies is another story altogether.</blockquote>


Thank you tons, it's just what I wanted.

[MejraThea]

Question.
 
Single V's/Event V's, is it read as Event Five, or as Event V? I thought it was V, but someone on fb said Five, so.

[al kusanagi]

Letter V.

[MejraThea]

Thank you, AI! For satisfying my curiosity. 

[Shoujo Q]

Single V as 5? What? Were they stoned, drunk, one of the special people? It stands for Video. 

[MejraThea]

I have no idea, Q, but you can never tell with people on facebook.