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Was Haromoni Worth Watching? July 06, 2008

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

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times

You stupid monkeys!

Being an idol is so easy a monkey can do it.

Being a monkey is so easy an idol can do it.

So does this means that a million idols typing at a million typewriters for an infinite amount of time can type out the complete works of William Shakespeare?

Finding some silver lining beneath this mess they call “Yuke Yuke Monkey Dance” will be hard, but I’ll try…

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Posted on June 28th, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under PVs.
Tags: Berryz Koubou, Chinami Tokunaga, Maasa Sudou, Miyabi Natsuyaki, Momoko Tsugunaga, Risako Sugaya, Saki Shimizu, Yurina Kumai

Was Berikyuu Worth Watching? March 31/April 1, 2008

Will I keep up with Berikyuu? Probably not. I didn’t keep up with Musume Dokyu or Uta Doki. Too many files to download, too much to keep up with. It’s going to need to be some kind of show for me to follow it regularly.

But before I get to watching it - I have high hopes for Berikyuu.

Haromoni is not the same show it was when I started watching it on a weekly basis. Two months ago, the majority of the show consisted of the Musume girls watching videos. Now an episode of Haromoni is more about the girls themselves. In an ideal world, the show would be better due to the changes. It isn’t. It is true that the girls are acting out the majority of the videos. However, the videos are still boring, predictable and repetitive. It makes me wonder if they filmed a month’s worth of episodes at a time. It’s possible to get a hit using the same format and the same gags over and over, but more often it’ll be a miss.

Berikyuu will save me from this! It just HAS to. We are all starved for variety entertainment from the H!P Kids. DVDs of material only come by so often. Appearances on the music shows only come with releases. There has never really been a steady stream of variety material from the H!P Kids. I am of the belief that the majority of them can be great entertainers in these situations. But am I giving them the benefit of the doubt? The fact is that the Kids - unlike Morning Musume - haven’t have the chance to disappoint yet.

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Posted on April 2nd, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under Reviews, TV.
Tags: Airi Suzuki, Berikyuu, Berryz Koubou, C-ute, Chinami Tokunaga, Chisato Okai, Erina Mano, Haromoni, Hello!Project, Kanna Arihara, Maasa Sudou, Mai Hagiwara, Miyabi Natsuyaki, Morning Musume, Risako Sugaya, Saki Nakajima, Yurina Kumai