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[Parhelion69]

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! >_<

[Sohee]

Momoko is so damn amazing. .__. Will forever respect her for being able to go through with that character all the time. @.@

[BerryzCelebration]

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.

[stam4o]

^ 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?

[Denki]

^(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.

And related old posts

Spoiler: show

today, Fuji TV and Mechaike finally decided to release 2 DVDs of the Morning Musume Field Trip, Bakajo, and Sports Festivals, release is this Winter. even though they are trying to erase the existence of everything Morning Musume did and replace them with AKB48.


http://www.fujitv.co.jp/MECHA/dvd/index.html

At CD Japan…

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/d.html?KEY=YRBJ-30019
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/d.html?KEY=YRBJ-30021

Second, teases about Mechaike…

p.s.
Sayasshii is Funasshii’s
Unofficial rival (^^)

http://ameblo.jp/morningmusume-9ki/entry-11712180166.html
http://blog-project.net/sayashi-riho/170569

Today, we had a recording for Mecha² Iketeru!-san!!

The long sought after "Funasshi…

I mean, we managed to appear with "Takasshii"!!! lol

Look forward to the broadcast ♪

http://ameblo.jp/morningmusume-9ki/entry-11712830270.html
http://blog-project.net/sayashi-riho/170671


Sayasshi is Sayashi. Funasshi is a popular mascot character. (Think Kumamon, but a yellow pear.) And Takasshi is…?



Of course Takasshi is Takashi Okamura. The question is what kind of character did he create for MM's appearance and how will everything come together.

Sayasshi is Sayashi. Funasshi is a popular mascot character. (Think Kumamon, but a yellow pear.) And Takasshi is…?

Here is Funasshi with Mayuyu.


Its like having Masaki in a potato suit

[zam_ho]

^Here is a photo of those DVDs.

[Obsidian]

My copies are in the post.

[Celedam]

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.)

[Obsidian]

According to Nacchi - Yabe is responsible for the period in モーニング娘。

[Celedam]

^ 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.