Tsuntube: Tsunku's new TV show

AEUGNewtype · Post by **AEUGNewtype** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 5:33 pm

I don't know how many people here still really care about this, since it's a little bit more TNX-related than it is H!P, but this is a godsend for those of us loyal Tsunku fans. As of July 1st, he started airing his new show, Tsuntube, where he sometimes has segments that talk about his current thoughts on the state of H!P, TNX, and the idol industry in general, many promotional stints for his current groups and interests, and a smorgasbord of other awesome content. You get to see him acting like a goofball on camera and lots of inside info on his projects and current events. They talk a bit about how AKB has taken over so much of the idol industry when it comes to the "getting new fans" aspect of it all, and talks about how he has new ideas to start to take some of it back to TNX, including this show, since he mentions AKB also has their own show and many other guest appearances on other shows, as well as reaching out to some of the more underground, unsigned idol groups out there, and giving them promotion and a chance to release stuff for TNX and take part in their events. The show only has 2 episodes out so far, but is already the most interesting show that I've seen in many years. It feels like the 2nd coming of Hello! Morning, just not so corny and rehearsed, and fairly obviously, the follow-up to TsunkuTV, which aired right around the time he started getting serious about TNX, back in 2007. I don't think it's actually running on TV, but it streams in Full HD quality on the TNX YouTube channel and people have also been making .avi rips of it and uploading to Hello!Online tracker, which I prefer to YouTube.

Has anyone else watched this or known about this?

Also, despite him saying at his Anime Expo 2009 panel that he wouldn't be making new music anytime soon, he has been releasing new singles and just had a new album come out of solo material, and he's uploading lots of content concerning that on the TNX channel at YouTube as well. Check them out.

Anderei · Post by **Anderei** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 5:55 pm

I saw the first episode, and while it was a bit dull, I'll be excited if he uses this show to showcase NGP a bit more.

AEUGNewtype · Post by **AEUGNewtype** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 6:07 pm

That seems to be exactly the idea. The 2nd episode starts to be much more about the girls, not just discussion.

Juju · Post by **Juju** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:26 pm

I haven't watched the second episode yet but the first one seemed really interesting, I wish I could've understood more of the things they were talking about. If this show is to promote NGP more then I'm all for it... although, it airs on TV in Japan at 2am <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... hahaha.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':hahaha:' /> I love that it's on YouTube pretty much right after it airs.

Here's the show's official sites: http://www.mxtv.co.jp/tsuntube/ http://www.tnx.cc/tsuntube/

kira · Post by **kira** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:38 am

I watched the first episode, but I think a lot of international fans found it boring, since they can't understand Japanese. I wish I understood him better as well, I'd love to know what he has to say about stuff he's working on right now.

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