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  1. I kind of hope she's not actually fluent... and hasn't been looking in certain places at comments. T.T (Though I guess it's bad enough if she went to look with google translate turned on....) I guess lots of kpop idols get hate in korean already, though....
  2. "Aizu on me" is the catchphrase... had they already been doing that? I blipped out for a little while and only caught some official youtube uploads so I haven't been getting into the deep lore or whatever
  3. Woke up according to keikaku and saw the MV, I was a little underwhelmed by the teaser medley but the song is good! The line distro also seems pretty much fine (as expected) and there seemed to be nice parts in the choreo. And of course they all looked good. Haven't heard the rest of the songs yet but showcase is starting. ... well he has range, for sure. XD Surprised it was less than 2 times, they started pretty on time. XD
  4. Of course they're malicious, but if they get what they want out of it (less Japanese entertainment in SK) then it's not really misdirected, is it? :\ I'm going to pop off to bed... will hopefully wake up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed a few minutes before the showcase begins so I can check out the MV first!
  5. Casting AKB48 as a japanese right-wing institution is one thing, but pretending music, even pop (or maybe especially pop), is apolitical and thus an inappropriate target of these malcontents is incorrect. Entertainment is soft power, that is why the SK government supports hallyu (and the Japanese government supports (???) "Cool Japan"). Likewise, that's why these nationalists don't want Japanese entertainment making inroads in SK or getting attached to hallyu. (Obviously it's annoying/inconvenient for fans (and worse for the idols themselves) but....)
  6. I figured the triple center thing only happened because after switching to Sakura it would look weird for the formation to immediately revert the same way when it went back to Korean. I figured from when Sakura switched that Yuri would get a shot. But their other songs are not like the Pick Me song, generally, so people will have time in the center even if they aren't the center. The content I was looking for This... actually counts as pretty good? Wonyoung started off the mound but it got to the pitcher and he didn't have to go much out of his way to catch it. It wasn't hittable, so Sakura's swing was... a swing, even if totally late. XD
  7. lol, well I think the expectations on the batter is actually lower than for the pitcher... especially since the pitcher often doesn't send them a ball that's feasible to hit.
  8. Trocadero was pretty much the first that came to mind when I was wondering where they would go. XD I've only been there once. IIRC it's very... black inside, I guess. No assigned seating, though.... :\
  9. Dunno about how shoddily things will be managed, and maybe things have changed since they initially announced the ticket pricing, but the Indio Springs location has $60 tickets, so I'm hoping that there the lowest priced tier in Philly would be similar... it's not like they'd get a huge venue so I don't think even the worst seat in the house would be completely terrible, anyway.
  10. This is cute but why are they dieting. OK, I understand why Eunbi would diet (even though I have no problem with her looks myself) since she's a little thicc compared to other kpop idols but Nako is teeny tiny so won't she just disappear?!? Nako maybe you can just exercise to build some muscle tone instead? And cardio to improve stamina. Even if you're stronger and faster than Sakura already promotions will be really tiring if you don't have strength and stamina....
  11. Wow, I wasn't expecting that, although I think it's best that way (although I also think it would have been ok to have them participate in some handshakes throughout the entire contract period... for SakuNako it's like 8 times and Hitomi it's like 4, right? Or maybe 10 and 5 if there's an album along with singles. I was under the impression that even with lots of teams participating on B-sides there are still some girls that have no presence on their official musical releases (theater girls, right?) so it would be fine if they did not participate at all and still did some handshakes. Maybe not all the handshakes, though, especially if they go on multiple days.) ANYWAY. I was kind of expecting just a 1-1.5yr exclusive period, but when you think about it, it's probably going to take at least that amount of time to ramp up to "peak"(ish) popularity, and then it would be a waste to just have the J-girls go part-time at that point. That should be the time to do larger-scale tours and such. Newly established groups usually have to put in a lot of work before they can even get CFs, but IZ1 already has a bunch of CFs lined up for them. (Twice also had by the end of Sixteen, iirc.) I dunno about this... can't AKB management unilaterally transfer girls between groups/teams? Whereas here the girls even opted in themselves even if they didn't know the full terms ahead of time. I don't think main vocals can be too favored in a group of this size, but they will get ad libs on top of the normal share of lyrics. And some members (((Hyewon))) will probably get slightly less, but looking at how IOI was handled I think it should be reasonable (even if it's supposedly up to producers I think they were given a mandate to not make it too uneven.) https://colorcodedheaven.com/tag/i-o-i-color-coded-lyric/ lololololol I don't think it would take much space to do recording... depends if her gaming rig is portable enough, though (I haven't seen it).
  12. Hm... this outerwear line is pretty boring. Someone speculated their outfits during the songpyeon-making were from a endorsement shooting (do models usually get to keep those outfits?) so I kind of hope that's still the case. XD
  13. As far as the J-line goes, Sakura and Nako have the most status to lose, obviously, but Hitomi's situation within Team 8 actually seems more... precarious? Since it's the one girl per prefecture thing. I guess ultimately if she has to miss too many activities and they wanted to replace her she would just get transferred to another team, but that's a shame. I don't know how W1 is, but when I looked at a couple line distros for IOI it seemed pretty reasonable to me. Most people got two small parts to sing, Sohye tended to get a bit less, sometimes some people had a little bit more, but the main vocals didn't just take over everything. Not sure if you're referring to me (actually I guess it's possible you aren't) but I said what I did earlier because PD48 was obviously just one activity out of many that the J-girls had, just like any random gig is one activity out of many that a debuted k-idol might have, so it's understandable even if it's not the ideal way to compete on the program (and it was non-ideal for the program because they didn't have the leeway to do various promotional activities, and thus non-ideal for the eventual group). And right now that's how they handling IZ1. It seems fine since IZ1 hasn't actually started "for real" yet, but I think it will kind of be a problem if they don't ramp down non-IZ1 activities at some point. I'm sure there's some flexibility but if they wind up missing a lot of IZ1 things it will be a bit of a loss to the group and their status within the group.
  14. Also to, you know, actually be able to buckle down and properly learn all the singing and choreo to a high level instead of the "sometimes they just learn on-set when they're filming the PV" nonsense they apparently do. And preferably not like how they were basically part-timing PD48.
  15. Yena, Eunbi, and Yuri are absent... for a moment I wasn't sure who I was looking at but it zoomed in and it turned out I was right, whew. EDIT: 14,166,821 hearts, 119340 viewers during live broadcast
  16. Oh, I thought Stone M. was already separated from those functions. <wikis> OK, Stone was separate, but then "In May 2018, CJ E&M Music was merged into Stone Music Entertainment." >.>;;; These utter weirdos. So now they popped that part out again, or at least some of the artists, and we have OTR. Maybe they just wanted to avoid having a management agency with the same initials as SME.
  17. I wonder if Nako was wondering if it was going to be a trick... I saw Tomu eat a wasabi cream puff once, like a champ.
  18. The girls get to eat baskin robbins... but will they get a BR endorsement? EDIT: why is minjoo the only one eating, why did Nako refuse it, is it some weird flavor? XD EDIT2: 7 onscreen now, Chaeyeon seen earlier, no Yuri, Hyewon, Hitomi, or Sakura seen so far iirc
  19. orz EDIT: nako still there for vlive... hitomi though?
  20. Hm... will the Pledis CEO or whoever still produce the first album or whatever, then...? I guess the one thing is not necessarily connected to the other, but still.
  21. Not to be picky, but what is Asian dress? She clearly doesn't mean Japanese/Chinese/Korean, and she says there are various ethnicities, but then "Asian" is so vague. XD
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