Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
Originally posted by: dc
hm, busy day, i'll try to upload some of the mentioned videos/songs by tomorrow night.
why bother, nobody cares about it
well, if i upload stuff and try to get people to watch/enjoy and no one cares, then atleast i tried and did what i feel is my fanboy duty.
truthfully i don't expect anyone to really jump up and instantly become a fan, i didn't either. :Q
my first exposure to morning musume / hello project was during my second year in college(2000). i was browsing around the network looking for anime and i saw some files that i had no clue what they were, so i downloaded. the first things i watched were a performance of "say yeah! motto miracle night" and the "i wish" pv. my first reaction to the performance, "WTF SO MANY GIRLS IN A GROUP. WTH. LOL. AAAAHHH MY BRAIN." and i was instantly attracted to kaori in that performance in her light green jumpsuit.
my reaction to i wish was "wow, this is totally weird, scary stuff." it was a fairy tale type video with even a shining castle ala wizard of oz in the background, and that was it for the time. as i look back now i regret i didn't research and find out more about the group and their works.
almost a year later. i downloaded 2 pvs i discovered on sharereactor,
3nin matsuuri's chu natsu party(right click, save as) and 7nin matsuuri's reggae rainbow. when i watched 3nin, i was totally shocked... and not necessarily in a positve way. i was completely and utterly confused and disturbed. it was sickeningly cute and weird. 3 girls in pink wigs making kissing sounds and singing about BBQ's. lol, OMGWTF. with 7nin i was a bit perturbed how they used a reggae like tune in japanese music, i thought that it was a totally messed up idea. girls riding down a rainbow slide and jumproping? crap, crazy crazy stuff that didn't warm me to hello project. heh.
at this time, i still didn't have enough interest to look around for myself. in fact i hadn't even realized that many of the people in the sharereactor vids were the same people from the performance and pv i watched a year earlier.
but the fact of the matter is that thru exposure from those two sources, college network and sharereactor, the initial seeds of fanboyism had been planted.
half a year later. i was on cdjapan searching for some anime dvds and i happen to see morning musume's souda we're alive single on the front page under the jpop section. it caught my eye and i read the tidbit of info about it. something about it's first single of the year and how it was a revitalizing song and image with newer members. it looked like a interesting single, but i didn't go out of my way to give it a listen. i was still a bit of a anime elitist and thumbed my nose at jpop in general.
half a year later. around this time i watched the music show heyheyhey regularly every week when it was showed on channel 18 (ksci) here in socal. in august i saw a episode where it had morning musume on for a bunch of summer festival type games, eating shaved ice until they had headaches, scooping up fishes with paper things, etc. the highlight of the show was the last game where a few members had to compete the hosts and stick their feet into a mystery box and feel around and guess what the item inside was. this was a total riot, it was hilarious. at first it was a few normal mundane items, then it escalated to stuff like hamsters and squid. lol, it was great watching a bunch of girls act like dorks, panic, and then scream like fools.
the musical performance of the night was "Do it! Now", it was catchy and i liked it, but after the show i had forgot about it. little did i know at the time that this was the last single with Goto Maki.
so it had been almost 2 years after my initial exposure to morning musume and i still was not a fan, they were just a few funny, crazy, weird memories that i didn't really give second though. i was hooked by other stuff at the time, and i never gave it enough of a real chance...
a few months later. now it was october of 2002. for the past year or so i had been totally into anime musicals. i regularly visited a few musical yahoo groups and downloaded stuff off ftps. that fateful day, a member put up a few morning musume / hello project videos that they thought were interesting/funny. a few english lessons, a hawaiin medley with a
large japanese man, and a totally scary
mini moni pv with bakatono. i guess this finally did me in, especially the english lesson with makochan saying "i have no clue". that day i made my way to the morning musume channel on irc, and you can say the rest was history.
it took me around 2 years from first seeing a morning musume video till i became a fan. and all because of people who went out of their way to share their videos with others. it's thanks to those people that i am the crazy fanboy monster i am today.
hopefully i can help do the same for others and spread the happiness.
whew, think there was more i wanted to write, but oh well, not like anyone's gonna read what i have up here right now anyways. lol.
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