My thoughts on recent H!P shenanigans
Posted by Shirow in Hello project, Morning musume, hitler, new single, tags: Guardians 4
Unless you’ve been in a coma for the past week you will no doubt be aware of the Morning Musume OPV competition.
When I first read about it I wasn’t really that interested in it … but after a few beers my mind started ticking over with the genius of this competition.
I’m 100% sure that Tsunku reads various message boards and comes across the term ‘this PV looks cheap!’ all the time, so it would seem that Tsunku has thrown the ball in ‘our’ court, maybe the UFA ran out of ideas or funding? … obviously I’m joking, this contest is pretty frickin awesome.
There’s quite alot of rules in regards to the freedom of what you can do, but with the amount of green screen videos they provide you really are only limited by your imagination (and technical ability of course).
There has been a healthy amount of OPV’s uploaded so far (29 as of now) and as the deadline approach’s this number will no doubt spike quite considerably.
Some of the videos uploaded are great, some are weak … and some are just amazingly bizarre.
I will defiantly be entering this, I’m in the process of toying with concepts and editing tricks to come up with something hopefully original … yet with this being a ‘world-scale contest’ this proves to be extremely challenging.
Will you be submitting an OPV? are you put off by the amount of submission this will no doubt get?
Personally I know that I have zero chance of coming even close to a ‘top 10′ winners list … yet I’m joining this to be part of Morning Musume history (plus this will show the UFA how much interest there is for H!P outside of Asia.
I’ll probably submit my video right near the end to prevent people using my ideas and concepts, I’m confident ALOT of people will be doing this, so in the last few days of the contest expect TONS of OPV submissions.
In other news Guardians 4 have finally released the PV to ‘Omakase! Guardian’.
I was intending on doing a full blog about this video yet there isn’t really that much to say about it.
I’m still kind of unsure how I feel about this new unit, Although I’m a huge fan of Risako/Yurina and Naki I somehow feel this unit is mismatched and not really suited for a cutesy anime group.
The track for ‘Omakase! Guardian’ is actually really trippy and addictive, I would totally dance to this if drunk.
The PV is (predictably) cheap and tacky looking with some Shugo Chara anime thrown in for good measure, the costumes are quite delicious, its a shame that Aika’s hair looks terrible (admit it).
There’s a few interesting moments in the PV …
Cheap and nasty … was this ‘location’ done for comedy value?
Another ‘caption potential’ screen cap for Risako
Naki is always eager to please …
at 1:02 into the video the camera jumps from each girl holding a yellow board, for some strange reason the camera avoids Aika’s face and does an quick shoddy edit to Yurina’s board … I wonder why? if you look at the video you’ll see what I mean … it looks really quite suspicious, the only reason I can think why this would happen is if the camera man didn’t like filming Aika’s face
when Naki’s around theres always a Hitler salute
I’ve said it before and probably say it again … the dance moves are pure strip club … hand on ass …
and slowly bend over … oh come on … I’m not even being pervy for the sake of it, ITS CLEARLY PERVERTED ALREADY.
as the video draws to a close each girl gives a peace sign … YET HOLD ON … DO THEY?
as you can see above Risako gives the peace …
Risako AGAIN gives the peace sign …
Naki gives the peace ….
and then Yurina gives the peace sign …
and then the video shows a closing shot then fades to black … where was Aika’s peace sign??? why did Risako get it 2 times?
the only answer I can come up with is that the director didnt’ like Aika … LOLOOLOLOLOLOL.
And I’ve run out of energy so I’ll stop now I’ll probably review the new Berryz pv in a few days … cant wait ^^
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Well it’s just rumor but one of my friends said there were a lot of angry johnny’s fans at the Osaka concerts over Golden Week, so speculation has gone up on a lot of message boards on whether Aika might be involved in a scandal. As it seems really suspicious to be “indefinitely resting” over a “surgery” for a hangnail. As although the Kanji for what she has look serious it literally means a hangnail has sort of bent itself into the one of the bones of the toe, so yes it involves surgery to remove it but generally would only be about a week healing time.
… I’m hoping it’s not the case that they’re going to indefinitely suspend her but there are definitely some rumors flying around from the past couple of weeks that could explain her being sort of edged out of things.
Strange.. the version of the video I got (Dohhh UP!) has Aika doing the peace sign and stuff o.O
But I would never pass up more Risako, so I might look for the video again, this is from the single v?
And that amazingly bizarre video is truly.. something else!
well.. technically, It was Risako => Saki => Aika => Risako => Saki =>Yurina
And based off of the split second of camera change from Aika to Yurina… yeah… they hate her.. XD
Risako looks like she hasn’t slept in a couple of weeks in the first peace sign shot, she’s possibly on drugs as well xD
That’s not a peace sign….
It’s V-sign it means Victory to japanese people…
Even though the girls ALWAYS say ‘peace’ when doing it?
Hmmmmmmm.