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Country Girls DVD magazine vol.3 preview - Country Girls deepen their group chemistry with a challenge to work together + more ski trip footage that couldn't be fit in DVD magazine vol.2 - Sledding competition.

Promotion

While promoting the new single at the Nationwide handshake events yesterday, Eripon, Ayumi, Kudo, and Akane were also promoting new charm bracelets sold at the H!P shops





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Sato Masaki 17th birthday event goods
http://www.up-fc.jp/helloproject/news_Info.php?id=8773

I'm not sure if I trust a "Pizza-flavored Sato Masaki Snack" snack from Maa-chan.

Towel & tshirt for ℃-ute's Taiwan & Hong Kong Cutie Circuit...




I can't stop laughing, holy shit. The joke here (maybe) is that ℃ is pronounced "do" in Japanese, and the Japanese pronunciation of "dragon" is "doragon". So... ℃ragon balls. Dragon balls. Oh my god.

That might be overthinking it, because the pun does not translate well. The individual balls have Chinese names, and Dragon Ball itself is not actually called "Dragon Ball" in China. It's called 七龍珠 (Qi Long Zhu).

It could be that the legend of the Monkey King, on which Dragon Ball is based, is the only bit of Chinese mythology or folklore that many Japanese people know. So when it came time to produce goods for those appearances, the designers said, "Hey, Dragon Ball! That's Chinese, right?" That sort of thing happens all the time in other countries and cultures (see the ongoing debate over so-called "cultural appropriation"), and I don't see why it couldn't happen in Japan as well.

Probably . I didn't come up with the joke, I saw it on Twitter. I want to believe it's ℃ragon ball though.

a special Maa-chan video introducing a new T-shirt for the Morning Musume. '16 Emotion in Motion concert tour

Suzuki Kanon's last FC event goods
http://www.up-fc.jp/helloproject/news_Info.php?id=8797

special Maa-chan video part 2