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Mon Dec 02, 2013 11:02 pm
I just can't see her any other way than her boufoon character, so in those pictures as a "normal" woman, she looks just wrong! She's ruined it for me forever! >_<
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Tue Dec 03, 2013 3:49 am
Momoko is so damn amazing. .__. Will forever respect her for being able to go through with that character all the time. @.@
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Tue Dec 03, 2013 10:02 am
Now see,when 40 year old Momo becomes a teacher, she will make her students wear pink uniforms,pink hairties and they will learn how to be be the best talentos ever. And they will be banned from joining any idol groups besides H!P.
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Tue Dec 03, 2013 10:42 am
Celedam wrote:^ Let's try that again...
Who is he? Looks so much as a creeper (and I guess it's just his role) but the girls seem to take it so easy and they're havng fun! :O
Also, wtf, he performed on stage with Momusu back in 2001...
So, who's he?
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Tue Dec 03, 2013 11:03 am
^(I'm probably way wrong, but...) Takashi Okamura, one of the hosts of Mecha-Mecha Iketeru!. MechaIke used to have specials with Morning Musume in the past (one of them being Bakajo). The episode was related the DVD release.
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Re: H!P media thread ~TV, radio, youtube shows, movies, magazines~
Tue Dec 03, 2013 11:30 am
^Here is a photo of those DVDs.
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Tue Dec 03, 2013 12:04 pm
My copies are in the post. 
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Tue Dec 03, 2013 12:05 pm
stam4o wrote:So, who's he?
Wow.
I forget sometimes that we're still getting new fans who don't know the lore…
Takashi Okamura is a comedian. He's the boke of the manzai duo Ninety-Nine. His partner, Hiroyuki Yabe, is the tsukkomi. Together they're the hosts / principle members of the hugely popular and long-running show Mecha-Mecha Iketeru!, or "Mechaike" for short.
In the autumn of 2001, when MM were riding high on the Golden Era, Mechaike got together with Tsunku to arrange a special episode in which they took the girls on a school field trip, supposedly to make up for all of the normal experiences the girls miss while working after school and on weekends. Of course, being Mechaike, those normal experiences all went hilariously wrong.
As part of the premise, while the girls were on the trip they were no longer MM. Instead, they were students at Okamura Joshi Kōtō Gakkō (Okamura Girls High School), or "Okajo" for short, complete with their own uniforms and emblems.
And so began the Mechaike Okajo series of specials.
In the spring of 2003, Mechaike ambushed MM again and forced them all to take a real middle school evaluation test to see who was the bakajo (stupid girl) of the class.
In the autumn of 2003, Mechaike ambushed MM again and forced them all to participate in a real sports festival to see who was the kusojo (crap girl) of the class.
And in the spring of 2004, Mechaike and MM worked together to ambush Tsuknu. This time, they pretended to be the Okajo Chorus Club, and they proceeded to mutilate several well known songs including some of Tsunku's own.
After that, MM went into their decline and Okajo just sort of disappeared.
Anyhow, the Mechaike Okajo specials are a huge part of the group's lore. They've all been subtitled by and for foreign fans, and they're still so fondly remembered in Japan that Fuji TV is releasing them on DVD ten years after the fact. That's why this recent appearance was such a big deal for us — we're hoping and praying that if MM continue to regain their popularity, there could be a new, full-length Okajo special.
Or something. Anything, really. Not just this one brief appearance to promote the DVDs…
When H!O is back up, I strongly recommend you search the tracker for "Mechaike Okajo" and download everything you find. In the meantime, here's an excerpt from the sports festival…
(Most of the specials are on DailyMotion, but they're poor quality and not well organized. Get the real things from the H!O tracker.)
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Re: H!P media thread ~TV, radio, youtube shows, movies, magazines~
Tue Dec 03, 2013 12:15 pm
According to Nacchi - Yabe is responsible for the period in モーニング娘。 
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Tue Dec 03, 2013 12:22 pm
^ Not exactly.
viewtopic.php?p=124241#p124241
Yeah, by the way, Okamura and Yabe were also the hosts of ASAYAN, the show on which Morning Musume got their start in the late '90s. So they already had history going into the first Mechaike Okajo special in 2001.
viewtopic.php?p=124241#p124241
Yeah, by the way, Okamura and Yabe were also the hosts of ASAYAN, the show on which Morning Musume got their start in the late '90s. So they already had history going into the first Mechaike Okajo special in 2001.