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The link doesn't go anywhere... is this really official, though? I mentioned it before but you should really request that a few of the posts directly below the OP get erased and turned over to you so you can put relevant information there.
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It's not their popularity in Japan, though, this is the global 48G fanbase (who are willing and able to spend money to vote in elections, of course). They're saying ai-zu(ju)-won in the beginning. They're just not fully synchronized so you misheard them collectively.
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48G don't seem to do that too often (or at all?) so I wonder how likely it would be.
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There are degrees to cutesy... like, VVV is not too cute for her. Gee or Oh (as delivered) feel like they might be a bit over the edge, though.
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Eh, I think her voice fits many girlgroup concepts. It's probably not ideal for something really cutesy, but aside from that....
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Vivian isn't that popular, is she? so this seems pretty good. Remember there are tons of kpop idols that literally make no money. Even with her usual bangs, I thinks she looks prettier than usual with her hair pulled back.
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I've been in the PD48 thread since slightly before the start of the show and here since slightly after the end! OH is kind of tricky now that we're in permanent light mode with search and tags not working... I've caught up on b.a.p's artist thread which was easy because it's been slow but otherwise I haven't really been browsing for random threads, just when something I hear about from somewhere else really piques my interest and I get the urge to check what the feeling is on OH. XD (Which pretty much how I wound up tuning into PD48....) IZ1 at least has more time to win more shows than IOI. XD IOI had a slightly slow start with Dream Girls, I guess. But I feel like, given the prior success of IOI and WannaOne, producers should actually be more eager to work with IZ1 than they were to work with IOI initially, so maybe they'll have a wider pool of good songs to choose from (if they don't restrict the title track to some Pledis producer or whatever). With IOI it seems like the highest-profile producer they got for the first EP was Duble Sidekick (and that wasn't the title track, so I feel like that means they didn't specifically write the song for them or they didn't put as much effort into it as they would a title track) and the last EP was of course JYP but Somi was in IOI so why not.
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You go to the wheel-thing (settings), subs, auto-translate, then select the language you want.
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Since PD48 started I think there have been a lot of intrepid translators who aren't used to having their stuff yoinked for copyright infractions who are putting up pure 48G stuff labeled as "Produce48" because there were PD48 contestants in there. I kept getting their videos recommended to me on youtube. Maybe they'll persist. One thing that I think kind of helps in this group is most of the girls, in spite of some predebut activities, are young and don't have much of a record. I think it's harder for antis to make up rumors and stuff that way. (Also they're girls and aside from that one girl in Lovelyz girls don't usually get accused of being rapists.) At worst they can say Yuri is shady and, I guess, Sakura has done gravure (and the J-girls in general "are rightwingers"), but I dunno that that's gonna stick. EDIT: lots of antis can stop a group if they come up with a scandal that tars the group in the eyes of the general public. Bullying, rape, certain political views, drugs, underage smoking/drinking. Antis stopped T-ara. Of course they fucked up by making snarky comments on social media beforehand (both because it's genuinely not a good look and because it was handing their haters material) but haters latched on to it and through their usual antics (editing video clips and lying about the contents) successfully turned everyone off of them.
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Sure, but as a concept it's understandable that it's kind of compelling. But it doesn't make any sense to make up zodiacs or whatever when it's supposedly based on some actual attribute that they have and you have to make things up so they can fit. If you do a zodiac concept it should just be something like... releasing an album with tracks that each correspond to some sign. The title track is the one that corresponds to the time you actually promote it and the followup is the next sign that corresponds to when you promote that.
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This is why zodiac concepts seem dumb to me... these girls have actual birthdates and corresponding signs, so why would you randomly assign them to a zodiac? Well, that's why the * is where it is, if people just use it. I've been abbreviating as IZ1 to remind myself, though. IOI had the same abbreviation as AOA, but it didn't seem to actually matter, I guess? What do you mean directly translated? It's アイズワン which is ai-zu-won which is the corresponding pronunciation to the korean, so how does that not make sense? Also, you wrote it wrong. (It starts like IOI and ends/rhymes with Wanna1... it fits in, I guess.) EDIT: alternatively, it could scan as a-(i-zu)-won, which sounds more like how I thought LSG pronounced it in ep12, but eh. Sooner or later we'll get the "hello, we're iz*one"-type intro from the girls and then that will stand as word of god, I guess.
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Hair down, even though she's less distinctive this way. High ponytail gives everyone an instant facelift she doesn't need. It skews her expressions.
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Yeah? None of that is new information. The situation isn't changed. The question was never whether she had a Korean passport, it was always assumed that she is at least half Korean. But even if she had a Taiwanese passport as well there's no real reason for her to use it.
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Does Kara's Jiyoung have a better career than most top 48G alums? She's certainly getting very regular film and drama work at least, but I dunno what former 48G acting careers look like. Someone implied that it was actually much better, so it's interesting what being from a top kpop group (in Japan) can do for your Japanese career as opposed to being a top 48G member. I feel like dramas would take up way too much time in the course of iz*one's career, though, if we are assuming that regular music releases and touring are in the plans. The time away from the group isn't worthwhile for the group/management if all the other girls aren't similarly tied up.
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That has been a rumor since before the show, but I don't see how they'd get a closeup picture of her holding her passports from that angle. EDIT: OIC, that photo is for viewers to compare. Anyway. She can probably have dual citizenship with Taiwan (especially as a minor) so it's not like she needs to carry all her passports around, so it doesn't really prove anything except that she's also korean, which was never in dispute. For the sake of the girls' health, the first option. In SK you typically release the album and start promoting right away, while in Japan it seems you drop the music video and then don't release the album (or promote on shows) for maybe a month, but I guess 48G might typically do that differently. But I always felt like for the kpop groups promoting in Japan, it was odd that they didn't all release the album in SK (and release both jpn and krn music videos on youtube), promote for about a month, and then go to Japan and promote there. If there's any concern about a certain title track not being to one market's taste I suppose you could still choose different lead singles to promote. It would be a litbut since they should be having japanese concerts they're going to have
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Eh, ppl can choose how they want to write their own names, I guess. Especially stage names (but even not). Like, wtf is Hyolyn, but ok, whatever she wants, right?
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Think they should have gone with IZ1subs instead... I feel like this leads to assuming the group is i-zone....
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Hmph... I didn't think it was at all controversial that Irene could dance, though.... Also... how do they know this isn't referring to when the k-trainees in the top 20 went to Japan for the guerrilla concert?
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What if it were set to HwaSa and Bigman's Subway jingle... the PTSD....
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12 girls, huh... they can do laundry every day. orz You know what, extensions are truly an amazing invention. She looks weirdly unrecognizable here, I'm just assuming from the dress that this is Yujin. XD Well, the show did use Minju, and they were using a romanization system that avoided diacritics and apostrophes, but I'm not sure they were actually using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Romanization_of_Korean(I don't know hangul or korean romanization, but it seems like if they were using that then Haeyoon 해윤 should have been Haeyun?)
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I think they should do something upbeat and catchy like VVV. They can co-promote a slightly more mature B-side (maybe not all the shows will let them do a second song but they can on MCD, at least). Since the show wasn't as popular as previous seasons putting in some additional predebut work like this should be helpful.
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They've also been living in a dorm for when they've been shooting PD48... given how busy they're probably going to be between practice and preparations and other schedules it might not even be too different. (I didn't watch ioi's reality show, though.)
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