True Life Seek

Some time has passed since the last “Was Haromoni Worth Watching?” entry on TLS. I believe the fact that I am not talking about the show anymore should give you an indication of whether or not you should be watching it.

The last Haromoni that I touched was May 25, 2008. That is a considerable backlog. That’s five episodes for the month of June. Let’s say each episode is 22 minutes long. That would be somewhere around 110 minutes.

What else could I do with that time? Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) was 102 minutes. Rear Window (1954) was 112 minutes. American Beauty (1999) was 122 minutes. All of them provide quality entertainment.

If you believe that I am going to sit down and watch every minute of all of those Haromoni episodes that I missed, you got another thing coming.

Why should I? What could I possibly have missed on those episodes of Haromoni? Nothing ever happens on this show.

And that is the theme for the latest episode.

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Posted on July 10th, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under TV.
Tags: Berryz Koubou, Eri Kamei, Erika Miyoshi, Haromoni, Reina Tanaka, Rika Ishikawa, Risa Niigaki, Risako Sugaya, Sayumi Michishige, That Damn Baby, Tsunku, v-u-den, Yui Okada

In this round:
4. Risa Niigaki vs. 13. Makoto Ogawa
5. Yuri Sawada vs. 12. Erika Miyoshi

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Posted on March 16th, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under March Madness.
Tags: Erika Miyoshi, Hello!Project, Makoto Ogawa, March Madness, Risa Niigaki, Yuri Sawada

It’s been a week since v-u-den has announced their split. I think that it is time for me to relive some of their career. For this, I am breaking deep into the TLS Vault and watching their first concert tour from 2005. They only had 3 singles and no albums to their credit at this point, so there was no not enough material to fill up a ful concert. Joining them to solve this were Atsuko Inaba and Country Musume.

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Posted on February 2nd, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under Concerts, Reviews.
Tags: Asami Kimura, Atsuko Inaba, Country Musume, Erika Miyoshi, Hello!Project, Mai Satoda, Miuna Saito, Rika Ishikawa, v-u-den, Yui Okada

It seems like times are bad for Hello!Project. Berryz Koubou is going to release another uninspiring single. C-ute is going to follow up the fantastic Tokaiko Junjou with Lalala Shiawase no Uta, a song that’s already frowned upon by many after the 58th Kouhaku. Morning Musume’s next single is delayed. Natsumi Abe and Maimi Yajima’s single, 16sai no Koi Nante, did not sell well and I have a sneaking suspicion the blame for it will be laid upon Maimi. Risako Sugaya is dangerously risking overexposure by releasing a third photobook, which is unjustly coming before the first photobooks of Aika Mitsui, Li Chun, Chinami Tokunaga, Kanna Arihara and others.

Despite all of that, good news has arrived today! V-u-den is breaking up! It may not seem like it, but it is good news.

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Posted on January 26th, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under Articles.
Tags: Aika Mitsui, Arisa Noto, Aya Matsuura, C-ute, Chinami Tokunaga, Erika Miyoshi, Erina Mano, GAM, Hello!Project, Hitomi Yoshizawa, Junjun, Kanna Arihara, Maimi Yajima, Miki Fujimoto, Natsumi Abe, Ongaku Gatas, Rika Ishikawa, Risako Sugaya, v-u-den, Yui Okada, Yuko Nakazawa, Yuri Sawada