Hello! Project Survivor '18 ~Inaba Manaka is the WINNER!~

[rikkikow]

THE LEGACY OF THE HELLO! PROJECT SURVIVOR WINNERS
“The outcome means everything; it’s the journey that sucks.” rikkikow


HELLO! PROJECT SURVIVOR WINNERS
2018 – Inaba Manaka (Reina Yokoyama runner-up)

2017 – Rikako Sasaki (Reina Yokoyama runner-up)

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2016 – Mizuki Murota (Rikako Sasaki runner-up)

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2015 – Karin Miyamoto and Mizuki Murota tie for the win

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2014 – Sayumi Michishige (no runner-ups)
Ayumi Ishida and Sakura Oda placed in Limbo

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2013 – Sayumi Michishige (Haruka Kudo runner-up)

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2012 – Erina Ikuta (no runner-ups)
Ayumi Ishida and Haruka Kudo placed in Limbo

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2011 – Miyabi Natsuyaki (Airi Suzuki runner-up)

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2010 – Reina Tanaka (Ai Takahashi runner-up)

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2009 - Eri Kamei (Ai Takahashi runner-up)

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2008 - Sayumi Michishige (Ai Takahashi runner-up)

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2007 - Risa Niigaki (Sayumi Michishige runner-up)

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2006 - Ai Takahashi (Risa Niigaki runner-up)

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2005 – Maki Goto (Mari Yaguchi runner-up)

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2004 - Tsuji Nozomi and Mari Yaguchi tied for the win

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2003 - Mari Yaguchi (Kaori Iida runner-up)

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2002 – Natsumi Abe (Mari Yaguchi runner-up)

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NEVER FORGET.

[erilaz]

The final score was 7 to 6, a far cry from the numbers that this game used to draw. The final score in 2009, for example, was 65 (Takahashi) to 34 (Kamei).

[rikkikow]

[torchsnow]

The final score was 7 to 6, a far cry from the numbers that this game used to draw. The final score in 2009, for example, was 65 (Takahashi) to 34 (Kamei).

What do you think the reason is? Could it be because people have moved to Discord and/or social networks (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, etc.)? Has Hello! Project (and/or J-pop in general) become less popular lately (at least in the West)?

(I'm genuinely curious, as this is the only J-pop-related website I visit, besides some YouTube channels and a certain torrent tracker .)

[TotallyUncool]

I think that Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms have drawn a lot of people away - there are pretty active H!P and other J-pop groups on FB, and there's a lot of Asian pop music activity on Twitter. I don't think that J-pop or H!P have become less popular - if anything, I think they're more popular - but the community of J-pop fans has become much more spread out and fragmented. When I first joined the original JPM in 2005, it was one of the very few places on the Internet where H!P or general J-pop fans could find people who even knew what they were talking about. Now there are more places to go. And I suspect that to younger (post-Millenial) fans who were raised on contemporary social media, something like a BBS may seem kind of old-fashioned. (Which is probably just another way of saying that things really do change so rapidly online that it leaves everybody in a permanent state of semi-confusion.)

[Celedam]

USENET SHALL RISE AGAIN!

[rikkikow]

^^Can you say bullshit? Penn and Teller can and get away with it. But I couldn't so I won't.

There are at least 30 people viewing JPLOP at any one time!
What killed the fun of H!PS is thin skin, cry babies, and political correctness aka known as PC.

The best H!PS ever for me was when there was the clone polling thread and people not reading the instructions were voting in it. That’s classic! There were some very fine endings in the past. Fitting this year is that esm got the killing vote!

edit:
Some people in the past thought there was cheating going on. Ha Ha those Russians I guess!

[Moh]

Most of those "guests" are really just bots, though.

Yay Manakan!

[Celedam]

What killed the fun of H!PS is thin skin, cry babies, and political correctness aka known as PC.

Do you really feel an urge to be politically incorrect when talking about cute girls doing fun things? What is there to be politically incorrect about?

Or is it more likely that you feel an urge to be politically incorrect when talking to and about other board members? ‘Cuz hey, if you wanna go there, I have a few choice words for several of you.

Be careful, you might cut yourself on all that edge.

Me, I think TU is absolutely correct. That’s how the Internet works and always has.

[rikkikow]

Somebody forgot to vote I guess.