Hello! Project's Station '25 ~YT · TV · Radio · Magazines~

[Shoujo Q]

^The sickly girl trend has been around for awhile but it seems to hit mainstream now.

[Celedam]

^ Thank you for that.

However, I recommend skipping the middleman and going straight to the original article…

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/japanese-makeup-trend

[JonCC]

I don’t get it either.

Same here. I'm reminded of Takahashi Ai's fashion endeavours after her graduation everyone went gaga over.
Me I just thought everyone she styled looked like a hobo.

[Amped]

Wani Books celebrates it's 40th Anniversary this Fall. They plan to commemorate it first with Morning Musume. '19 being on the cover for two consecutive magazine issues titled "Uptoboy Morning Musume. '19 2 issue Special" starting in Uptoboy magazine vol.283 issue (Release is 9/21) and then continue with Uptoboy magazine vol.284 (Release is 10/23).

The 2nd issue featuring Morning Musume. 19 in Uptoboy magazine vol.284 includes :

all 14 members of Morning Musume. '19 together wearing fantastic dresses for the artwork cover and also life-size marine coordinates. A solo interview for all 14 members. A large volume with 28 pages.

10 pages of shots from Fukumura Mizuki's new photobook and 10 pages from Ogata Risa's first photobook.

Kobushi Factory also appears for 10 pages. BEYOOOOONDS Yamazaki Yuhane solo gravure photoshoot, 8 pages. Hello! Project members will deliver 64 pages in this issue.

bonus includes 1 random double-sided poster of 2 variations :
Poster A :
(Front) Fukumura×Ikuta×Ishida×Sato
(Back) Yokoyama×Morito×Kitagawa×Okamura×Yamazaki

Poster B :
(Front) Oda×Nonaka×Makino×Haga×Kaga
(Back) All of Morning Musume. '19

Also a bonus 20-page mini photobook “Morning Musume. '18-19 BEST”. A valuable Morning Musume mini photobook of all unpublished photos from UTB, featuring all the '18 and '19 members.

Also if you bought the previous Morning Musume. '19 UTB issue, they are planning to give a wall tearoff calendar. Details in the upcoming issue.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B07Y99XLSL/

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Its announced that Juice=Juice's Uemura Akari will appear as a new regular co-host on the MBS radio show in Osaka, "Akina no Shuukan Young Friday". Her first broadcast appearance is on October 4th at 11pm.

http://www.helloproject.com/news/11041/

The comedy duo Akina invites the "Juice=Juice Family" and Hello Wota to be a part of the "Shuukan Young Friday" family too.

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[Nayoko-Kihara]

Kobushi Factory's Hirose Ayaka Honcierge book recommendations for September 2019, which includes Breakfast At Tiffany's [Japanese Edition] with translation from Haruki Murakami. Also shes promoting the new album.
https://honcierge.jp/articles/shelf_story/8323

NOTE: Ayaka calls "Come with me", the song she leads, a stylish, jazzy song. I think she relates the group back to her theme this month? Something about Kobushi being at a point where the members are becoming women.

Hirose Ayaka's book recommendations for September 2019; Novels that seem "I'm glad I was born a girl".(?) (As per usual: not a translation, just tidbits, a lot left out, probably errors, etc.)

https://honcierge.jp/articles/shelf_story/8323
• March & May 2018
• June 2018
• July 2018
• October 2018
• December 2018
• February 2019
• April 2019
• July 2019

1. Tiny Tiny Happy (タイニー・タイニー・ハッピー) by Asukai Chisa (飛鳥井千砂)
Surely there is a Tiny Happy around you. Located in a large shopping center in the suburbs of Tokyo, called Tiny Tiny Happy (or TaniHapi), an intricate human pattern, a romantic story depicting eight men and women in conflict.

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• Originally Published in August 2011.
• Later adapted into a manga in 2014.

• Does normal mean happiness? The protaganists are adults struggling with work and love in everyday life.
A treat: Full translation of Ayaka’s comments, courtesy of Sohee
“When I was young I used to think it was cool to hit walls (struggle, deal with frustration). Then when I was in middle school I found this book. At the time I was troubled with everything in the world, and I just wanted to have a peaceful everyday life.

Now years later, I don’t know if an extraordinary or average life is better, but seeing how the characters in “TaniHapi” have troubles and worries in their average lives, reading about how they face those problems in order to find happiness, I really find that I still look up to them (as I did in middle school).”

About the author:
http://chisalatte.petit.cc/

Links:
• https://www.kadokawa.co.jp/product/201012000047/
https://www.hakusensha.co.jp/comicslist/46835/
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=105181

2. Dareka ga Miteiru (誰かが見ている) by Miyanishi Mafuyu (宮西真冬)
There is a “hidden side” to couples, parents, lovers. Housewife Chikako, who works part-time in a supermarket, can't stop seeking praise through her fake "happy, stylish childcare" blog. Yuiko, the manager of an apparel store, is newly married and troubled over her sexless relationship with her younger husband. Nursery teacher Haruka overeats due to stress from her job, and seeks salvation through her lover. Yuki, a housewife who seems to have built a harmonious life with her gentle husband and young daughter. These four are connected to another person in various ways, and one day.. an unexpected incidenct occurs.

Spoiler: show

• Won the 52nd “Mephisto Prize”. (A Japanese literary award for unpublished genre fiction. The winning piece is published by Kodansha.)

• Originally published in April 2017.
• The author [roughly] said, “this is a story of women’s conflicts” . . . . “Everyone has a weak point. There are no perfect people, and that’s fine.”

• This is a fresh suspense novel, completely different from “Tiny Tiny Happy”. The twisting fate of women drowning in jealousy and resentment. Something about the linked negative emotions of the characters being a thng that happens in everyday life, how being part of that chain would be difficult. [. . . ] A suspense novel showing the courage of a woman standing up again and again.(?)

About the author:
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%AE ... F%E5%86%AC

Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephisto_Prize
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%AA%B0 ... %E8%AA%AC)

3. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
"The story of Holly Golightly, a hill-billy turned Manhattan playgirl, and the eclectic circle of friends who surround her. The unnamed narrator of the story is a young writer from a small town, out on his own for the first time." - BookRags

Spoiler: show

• Originally published in October 1958.
• The Tatsunokuchi Naotaro translation was released in 1960 (with a revision in 1968), and the Murakami Haruki translation was released in December 2008.
• Has been adapted several times; most famously as the 1961 film starring Aubrey Hepburn, a musical in 1966, an unsold TV pilot in 1969, and two stage plays (2009, 2013).

• When Ayaka first saw the film adaptation of this novel in middle school, she was struck by the beauty of Aubrey Hepburn and it caused her to become curious about the original work, eventually making her a fan. There are two versions [translations] in Japanese, one by Tatsunokuchi Naotaro (龍口直太郎) and another by Murakami Haruki (村上春樹). Ayaka likes both of them. The overall original story doesn't change, but the impressions of the characters are slightly different depending on the translator. She seems to have read the two translations and the original around the same time with the help of a teacher at cram school(?), and still remembers how moved she was feeling the subtlety of language and how just changing 1 word made a difference.

She thinks there are good points to both translations, but there's nearly 50 years difference between the publications. For the purposes of readability and a use of more modern expressions/language, she recommends the Murakami Haruki translation - but also thinks the Tatsunokuchi translation and the original have their merits, and ultimately would like people to include them both along with the film.

About the author:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Capote
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BE%8D ... A%E9%83%8E
http://www.harukimurakami.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami

Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast ... 0;novella)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast ... (film)
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86 ... F%E3%82%92

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Juice=Juice will be back on NHK Utacon, Airs October 1st. Something about Juice=Juice's Sexy Beam. The theme of the episode is "Nostalgic masterpiece songs"
https://www4.nhk.or.jp/utacon/x/2019-10 ... 9/1850379/

NHK Utacon 10.1.19

Tsukikage no Napoli / Mizumori Kaori x Juice=Juice

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Jingisukan (Berryz Kobo) + Koi no Dance Site / Juice=Juice

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Uruwashiki Bossa Nova / Itsuki Hiroshi with Juice=Juice as backdancers halfway through his song.

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https://ameblo.jp/juicejuice-official/e ... 82760.html


https://www.instagram.com/p/B3E2OAOl2li/


https://www.instagram.com/p/B3E1-3nhIkS/

Tsukikage no Napoli / Mizumori Kaori x Juice=Juice
https://www.bilibili.com/video/av69711095

Jingisukan + Koi no Dance Site / Juice=Juice
https://www.bilibili.com/video/av69711095/?p=2

Uruwashiki Bossa Nova / Itsuki Hiroshi with Juice=Juice
https://www.bilibili.com/video/av69711095/?p=3

[Nayoko-Kihara]

I approve of this costume switch, they look great. That backup was a lot of fun to watch.

I don't know who these girls are or which show this is from, but for whatever reason they're learning "Utakata Saturday Night!"

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[Amped]

^ On the show called "Ariyoshi Japon", the show started a project where they followed one girl with just 100% visual beauty, but she had no rhythm or just tonedeaf and observed if she can win the audition with a bunch of other girls competing. They were scouted and went through an audition camp to be in idol group "Imouto Sisters" (いもうとシスターズ). Utakata Saturday Night is their audition dance and Koi wo Shichaimashita is their audition song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvGI7MKWtn8
https://mollymam.com/ariyoshi-japon920-dare/

[Nayoko-Kihara]

Ohhh, thanks Amped! That sounds more interesting than I was expecting.