Random Asian Goodness

[Meepichi]

Back to music videos!

A cute song from the now defunct Tanpopo, which was made up then of 4 Morning Musume members(Rika,Kago,Kaori, and Mari) in 2000:
Otome Pasta ni Kando (The girl is deeply moved by pasta) UPDATED 4/25/08: New Veoh link with subs!
http://www.veoh.com/videos/e129511YWZdrQyp?searchId=4426620577841893376&rank=7

This a fan made video of Risa(nick named Gaki, which means kid/brat), which was dedicated to someone named marimari who had died.  He apparently was a huge fan of hers. Pretty good, and sad song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBy4XfTRFME

[Meepichi]

A VERY beautiful song from the anime movie Tales of Earthsea, which I hear wasn't very good,  by the very talented Teshima Aoi: Edit:New video with just music and subs.
Teru no Uta ( Teru's song) Live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFPRp2dHrgo

Doh, almost forgot to add a Mini Moni short. Heaven forbid!! Although I've already ran out of the best ones:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peFgwIPjrkU

[Meepichi]

A quick addition as I found out they posted the Morning Musume concert performance of Genki+ off of the yet to be released concert DVD, which I of course ordered.   This is the song I made my video for:
Genki+ UPDATED 4/25/08: New Veoh link to the video.

http://www.veoh.com/videos/v739662wdgSSWjK?searchId=4058471539898542080&rank=3

[Entdaddy]

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto!

[Meepichi]

Time for some more Japanese goodness!

Ah man, I forgot how cute this Dokyu series with Koharu Kusumi was, she's 13 here and goofy as ever.  I'm not sure you'd wanna play darts with this girl.   I'll just post the 4th and 5th of a 5 part series but they're all cute.  This is shortly after she had joined the group. The last part is the beginning of Miki's Dokyu. EDIT: Err I probably should explain what she's doing if you didn't watch the first of this series.  Koharu was called the 'miracle' member by Tsunku for some reason or another, and Eri told Koharu in a letter to show her a 'miracle'. These goofy games are Koharu's way of showing a 'miracle'.   Each girl in these segments writes down something for the next girl to do at the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RSzGdQihwk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch5FOsoG6Ug

Oh what the heck here's another of Miki's Dokyu's, which is pretty good as well... these can get addicting! I'm sitting here watching a bunch of them again. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmJze4jOxGI

If you're interested in seeing all of them just click on the pic and it'll take you to youtube and you can select the other episodes to the right.

LOL, forgot about this one.  Morning Musume watch a clip of the Ring on some show and get a surprise.  Heh they are major pansies, but I was told by someone who had a Japanese girl friend that she'd freak out watching these kind of shows too, so maybe they're not just acting.  I remember watching a clip of Maki Goto watching one and she flew right out of her chair! I think I have a gif of that! Here it is:

Poor Mari(the one really crying) was scared to death, you could tell she was really frightened.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh_O9ndu3_w# (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

[Gren]

Wow, they are pansies!  And those first 2 in this series are quite freaky.

[Meepichi]

Which 2 in what series are you talking about?  Are you talking about the Ring 1 and 2? or one of the Dokyu series?  I'm confused. 

[Gren]

the one where the girl is throwing darts, scary stuff in that one

[Meepichi]

LoL, scary how?  She's just a typical VERY excitable goofy teen girl.      Love her dart throwing skills tho.   In the first ones I didn't post she is given a challenge to show her supposedly nifty abacus skills(i guess they still teach that over there) in a timed test, but she seemed to spend half the time tryin to frantically pick up her pencils eraser cap she kept dropping(does an eraser really need a cap?), and eating plumbs. Heh, I couldn't help but get a chuckle watching her antics.

[Meepichi]

I think I'll go ahead and post a couple more Dokyu's:


Poor Sayumi can't cook for nothing, and she has to cook a bento(basically a boxed lunch that every wife is supposed to be able to make well) for Eri.  I guess I should say poor Eri!  Japanese generally like to dress up their meals and make them appealing to the eyes, and Sayumi makes some what of an effort to do that.
UPDATE: 4/26/08 found Sayumi's videos again.. here's the last part of her series:
http://www.veoh.com/videos/e1609119rykDAfH?searchId=8385165555935012864&rank=2

Here's the part where Eri has to eat it:
http://www.veoh.com/videos/e162288qaKrwbjy?searchId=8385165555935012864&rank=8

[Gren]

LoL, scary how?  She's just a typical VERY excitable goofy teen girl. 

That's why it's so scary, there's just something not right about teenagers.  And having one of my own while not necessarily making me an expert does give me an insight into their weirdness.   

The dart throwing was classic though, when she turned around to look for it I almost spit out my drink.

[Aahzz]

I often find that the first sign of getting old is when you think teenagers are weird and scary....I just realized I'm very, very old.

[Omniverse]

Gots to love Godzilla.....

[youtube=425,350]BXCUBVS4kfQ[/youtube]

[Ryuken]

Egads LMAO!!! I remember that short film way back int heady, wasn't that the lead in to a movie like UHF or something? 

[Ryuken]

Gots to love Sky Cries Mary (while were on an illustrated animation theme and to hijack the japanese music theme )...great song and cool video for it.

[youtube=425,350]iPS4G3AnG7Q[/youtube]

[Meepichi]

Dame! Dame! (pronounced dah meh, Japanese for bad, or no good!), it has to have at least some Japanese theme to be in here.   Omni's had Godzilla so it's acceptable.   Interesting video tho.

[Meepichi]

A Hello! Project group that has been getting pretty popular as of late is called C-ute(appropriately named), and they range from 11-16 years old.  I'm not a huge fan of theirs but this is their biggest hit at this time:
Sakura Chirari UPDATED 4/25/08: New Veoh link.
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v237483Gha2Qpqs?searchId=7733213582009363640&rank=8 (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

Some more Suprise English lessons!
First off with Mari, who discusses seeing Spirited Away while practicing her English with Ayaka, and a young, cute Aya Matsuura makes a cameo appearance. Mari was my favorite member when I first started learning about Morning Musume. I love her personality. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ess_KoCOj6w&NR=1

A very cute Rika gets a lesson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ1dOydCiTA

Ahhh Rika is just too adorable not to have 2 of hers!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI2G0xxWsiw

[Ryuken]

Dame! Dame! (pronounced dah meh, Japanese for bad, or no good!), it has to have at least some Japanese theme to be in here.   Omni's had Godzilla so it's acceptable.   Interesting video tho.

Ummm they have played shows in Japan...I'm pretty sure of that ...besides the whole purpose of hijacking is to go off topic for a brief moment. I kept the youtube video theme at least.  

[Meepichi]

A couple more Suprise English lesson clips:
With Tsuji, who almost never gets these right... she's a bit slow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnTX3iZVNcI

With the always funny Mari, featuring Ayaka's funky English. She's been away from Hawaii for too long and she uses alot of weird English in this series. 'I ate it' sounds more like a surfer term or somethin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6yoxDI5now

[Meepichi]

More vidoes for yours and my viewing pleasure!

Here's Koharu's break out hit Balalaika, which was on her anime tv show that she does voice work for.  Nothin special about the video, but the song is catchy as hell.  It was the biggest H!P selling song of 2006.
Balalaika (Dance shot version, as the regular version is just too corny even for me)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8WdHhVU-oE

This is from 10ninMatsuri, one of the shuffle groups from around 2001 in Hello! Project. 
Dancing! Natsu Matsuri

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjg-U_iS4Gw