There is something (26)

The clip of them massaging each other's hands was shown on national tv on 2003-06-29- 27hr charity show, and quickly caused an uproar among Japanese fans. Since the show was shown 'live' making editing impossible, fans were treated to this delectable sight. There is another longer version that zooms in showing Yossi and Rika looking rather awkward and Yossi was seen wiping her palm against her thighs.

In the same year when they were on another show - 24hr tv, a wota made this report:

1. They drank from the same bottle.

2. Yossi sat on the last seat on the left while Rika stood beside her. Yossi then tapped on her thigh to have Rika sit on it. They looked happy. Later, Rika carried a chair to sit beside Yossi. I couldn't see clearly from where I was but I think Yossi had her hand around Rika from behind the chair.

3. They are often around each other, chatting and smiling.

4. Even when Yossi was at the rightmost corner of the first row and Rika at the leftmost corner of the second row, they were still conversing.

5. Yossi kept looking at Rika during their last song.

And finally, the wota's thoughts:

最後に私の感想。テレビではあまり見られない、いしよしがこの番組では、びっくりするぐらいたくさん見られた。いしよしは、幸せそうだった。

There is something (25) ~family~

ちょっと父ちゃん語ってもいい？　　　Can dad say something?　

ちょっとね父ちゃん、言いたいことがあるの。　　　Dad has something to say.　

あのね、昨日ね、うちのおばあちゃんが見に来てたの。　　Yesterday, my house's obachan came to watch　　

でね、今朝、ファックスが来て読んだら、　　And she sent a fax this morning　　

「ひとみちゃん、昨日は感動したよ」　　　　"Hitomichan, I felt touched by yesterday's

最近ほら、季節の変わり目でしょ。　　　　the weather has changed recently

だからね、ちょっとね、こう足腰きてるみたいで、ちょっと調子悪かったんだって。　　　　 and my legs and back are hurting again

でも、このモーニング娘。のステージと、みんなのこの会場を見てすごい元気が出て、　　　but after I watched Morning Musume perform on stage, I felt revitalized.

「明日からまたダイエット頑張るわ！」　　　　And tomorrow I'll work hard on my diet again."

それを朝見て、よっしゃ、今日も行ってきますって来たわけ。　　　　After I had read this, I was like 'Yossha~ Let's go for it today too!'

で、最後こうやって本当にみんなと最高のステージができて、　　We managed to put on our best for this last stage, didn't we?　

最高の卒業式をやってあげられることができて、本当、大満足してるよ。 I'm happy and satisfied to be part of the best graduation ceremony.

Touching, though there is another gist.

"うちのおばあちゃんが見に来てたの"

I guess Rika must be someone special....

TIS (24) ~Nobody knows better 3~

Kemeko: Didn't I say recently that your fashion sense had become better?

Rika: Yah, it's better...

Yossi (cutting in abruptly) : You know the reason behind it?

Kemeko: I don't know.

Yossi: Because she would just buy what the mannequin wore.

Rika (becoming shy) : Well...

Yossi (mimicking Rika) : Excuse me~ Can I have this? Because she thinks if it was on display, it had to be good. right?.

How does Yossi come to know that? Rika had told her? Or she had gone (shopping) with Rika?

Case closed. ^^

TIS (23) Rikachan here, Rikachan there

Gatas Handshake Event on 2007-09-16.


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Rika was absent, but that didn't mean Yossi wouldn't talk about her.

Around 5 mins into the clip, when it was Erina's turn to give her thoughts, Yossi cut in and said something quite impertinent. She told Erina 'It's ok since Ishikawa-san is not here today. Just say whatever is on your mind, and not worry about mother-like Ishikawa-san with her 'noisy' and 'no, no!' '

How does Rika come into the picture? I don't know. It's like she mentioned Rika just for the sake of mentioning.

So if Rika was the mother, who was the father?

(hear the audio here.)

Gatten Gatas 2007-11-19

1444 moment in this week's Gatten Gatas.

What??
You're sure you heard nothing, right?
Me too, until I see Japanese wotas 'talking' about it.

4min50s into the show, Rika said she had sent her support (pic email) for the Gatas team although she couldn't be there for Gatas vs Cerbies match in Hokkaido. boke Maichin then replied 'I know, Yossi had told me.'

Well, Mai's reply just meant Rika's email was sent to Yossi. yeah~

TIS (22) ~Hello! Project 2007 Winter ~Wonderful Hearts Otome Gocoro~ 3rd & 4th Jan 07

An anthology of ishiyoshi wotas' reports. They wrote in Japanese, I translated them.

* Besides appearing briefly in the opening segment/song and during her v-u-den performance Rika didn't appear again (from both shows on 3rd Jan). She had fallen sick and despite being excused, she had insisted on performing. What a pro~

* When Rika was on stage performing (as v-u-den) one fan noticed Y's silhouette peeping from behind the curtains, perhaps worried for the former's health. Since she was watching from a spot hidden from cameras, and with MM's performance right after v-u-den's, Y was in fact taking a risk as it would take her longer to get into position when MM took centrestage.

* Y's eyes never left Rika, and was singing along during 'kousui'. It is believed that 'kousui' is one of Y's favourite songs.

* Yossi, Rika and Nono were having lots of fun during Berryz/C-ute's performances. On more than one occasion, Rika would crack up after Y had said something and that was despite they had Nono sitting in-between them. At one time, Y stood up to do a monomane, with Nono as her side-kick, and it got Rika laughing out loud. I think that was captured on DVD (see below).

My favourite has to be when Yossi and Rika tsukkomi Mari after the latter had made a mistake while introducing Berryz. Great timing from both of them.

悲しみＴＷＩＬＩＧＨＴ～ね～

.but later...

... from a distance ♪ (insert song)

Picture (with no captions) from: h tp://www.cerbies.net/

Coincidence !

Before, they had looked like this, then...

they both had a new hair-cut.

Coincidence or rapport?

Maybe they were at the hair salon together

1444 maths

The 1444 formula

Rika's birthday 1/19
Yossi's birthday 4/12

1 X 19 = 19
4 ÷ 1 ÷ 2 = 2

19 X 2 = 38

38 X 38 = 1444


Isn't it amazing? !

TIS (21) 'your ideal woman'

Another radio source . Yossi and Kame on Bay FM (2006-12-14).

The question: Your ideal kind of woman.

Yossi's answer: bla bla... ...bla ... okasan mitai ni... bla... Marilyn Monroe...


-End-

That's all? you asked.
Well...
That's all, except that during that time,
someone was looking like this
(↓)

I mean it has to be coincidental, right?

TIS (20) ~Sometimes, she does listen~

Yossi looking good with long hair on 2006.07.09 hello morning

but her long hair was gone in the next episode (2006.07.16)

Why did she cut her hair? we wondered...

...

...

until we heard what the culprit had said in her radio show that was aired on 2006.07.13

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"よっちゃんも髪切ったんですよ

もうずっと切るってゆってて

私はでもよっちゃんのショート好きなんですよね

髪長いよりも、なんかデビュー当初の頃の

ちょっとボーイッシュ系のよっすぃーが私は好きだから

よっちゃん早く短くしなよって言ってたんですけど

結構ばっさり切ってね"

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"Yotchan, too, had cut her hair.

I prefer Yotchan with short hair,

like the boyish style she had had when she debuted,

so I kept bugging her to cut it short

and in the end, she did it."

There is something (19) ~Bunkasai 2006~

It seems there are newer fans who don't know about ishiyoshi until recently though I always take for granted that many of us should already know certain facts about them. So, I have decided that with whatever spare time I have, I will dig up whatever 1444 stuffs that's in my harddrive and share them here. And since I had started on the Bunkasai event held on 2006-09-16/17 , I shall bring forth another ishiyoshi 'neta'* that had happened during that event.

Due to the poor audio recording of the clip (fan's cam recording), it's hard to understand what's being said, but I chanced upon a fan's report back then, and luckily, the draft's still in my hd. It is what the fan reports...

As Ultraman made his entrance from the side by rolling onto stage Yoshizawa-san, who was standing nearest the side decided to mimic him. Since the superhero's vision was strictly restricted-he can only see straight-he had no idea Yossi had ended up right beside him and was mimicking his actions. It was after Rika had told Yossi " ここはそういうコーナーじゃないでしょう！" (Here is not a place for such stuffs) that Ultraman then noticed Yossi. At this moment, Yossi offered Ultraman a handshake then challenged him to a duel. The superhero declined so Yossi shook his hand and challenged him yet again. Seeing the repeated taunting, an agitated Rika then commanded Yossi to go back to her place (" よっすぃ～！　ちゃんと席に戻りなさい！") which Yossi did, obediently.

Later, when they were asked 「ハヤタ隊員が所属していた『○○特捜隊』の『○○』」は何？」 and after Rika had drawn a picture of Ultraman on her answer board, Yossi, perhaps still unhappy with the previous chide from Rika, made a dig at the picture and said it didn't look like Ultraman at all but more like "Mr.Chemistry-san." Rika asked how could her Ultraman, whom she had drawn in a flying position, be Mr.Chemistry? And Yaguchi Mari had to explain who Mr.Chemistry was as it seemed not everybody present knew what Yossi and Rika were talking about. But the other male host and Ultraman still looked stumped even after the explanation.

The fan who gave the report thinks that Mari must be a ishiyoshi watcher.


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Ultraman's first meeting with his future father-in-law

We now know why back then Daddy Yos had decided to give Ultraman a hard time.

Team Kemeko House

How elite Team "Kemeko House" is formed...

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There is something (18) Gatten Gatas 2007-11-05

A listener was curious how the senior and junior players in Gatas interact and Yossi, with so many examples available, just mentioned Rika. It is funny how she'll bring up Rika in whatever topic they're on. So, having known that now, what do you think she'll say when a direct R-san question is thrown at her?
She'll babble non-stop, right?
Wrong!

During 'Let's Study, I MAI ME' when Yossi and Mai were asked to guess the meaning of the word I-S-H-I-K-A-W-A-R-I-K-A, the studio just went quiet. Can you imagine that? A radio show succumbing to five seconds of silence? Quite unacceptable, isn't it? But it happened. Perhaps Maichin, thinking that it might be a question that would interest Yossi, was waiting for Yossi to response. But Yossi, I don't know what's in her mind, just remained quiet. She finally gave a short 'oh' after what seemed like forever.

So we now back to the question I asked earlier: "What happens if a direct R-san question was thrown right into her face?"

Well, she'd just go quiet. ^^

There is something (17) ~a trip to Kemeko's house~

Pertaining to this (Kuchi Community) ,I'm adding 3 audio sources for further corroboration.

0923talkshow >> (Yasuda Kei with Yossi). Yossi calls Yasuda's house the 'Kemeko House', something Yasuda finds amusing, like the 'White House' in America. Yossi is surprised that Yasuda doesn't cook. Yasuda and Rika only know to complain about hunger and have insisted Yossi to cook for them.

0924talkshow >> (Yasuda Kei with Nakazawa Yuuko and Ishikawa Rika). Yasuda says Rika often cajoles her to hang out together. One day, she and Yossi came to her house. (The audience go 'Woo') Yasuda tells the audience not to be deceived by Rika's seemingly 'a-good-housewife' image, because it turns out that Yossi is the one who can cook instead. Yuuko cuts in, citing it is ok since everyone else will be worried with if it were Rika cooking.

10thtalkshow >> (Date unknown. Yasuda Kei with Abe Natsumi). The truth is revealed. Ever wondered why Rika and Yossi had gone to visit Kemeko? According to Yasuda, she had received a phone call, out of the blue, from Yossi and Rika and they had asked if it was alright for them to go visit her.


Now, we wonder why those two girls are together in the first place (when they are making this phone call)?

Isn't it odd? When Yossi had stressed that she and Rika never hung out in private.

There is something (16) ~adana~

How does Rika call Yossi?

Yossi?
Yotchan?
Hitomi-chan?

Often wonder why she doesn't seem to have a fixed name for Y-san?

Well...
Because she actually calls her this ____ when they thought the camera's not on them...
And it started way back since 2003 (summer)

Check out the first two secs. You may argue this was way back in 2003, what about three years later?

3 seconds into this clip... Rika calls Yossi 'Hi-chan' to give her speech.

Here, Rika goes "Hi-chan" at the last part.

FYI, that's how Yossi's mother calls her too.

Hi~chan.

There is something (15) ~Nobody knows better-2~

Another example of why nobody knows better than Yossi...

From Hello Morning~ 2006-08-08


Rika's decoy is working...
and Risa falls for it, though someone didn't.

and joy when she gets it right

but others are protesting already
and Rika still feigns innocence
Then Yossi chides Risa.

sure enough, nobody knows Rika better than Yossi. ^^

and we see Rika being so happy~

そして梨華自慢の顔が出た！！

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(Yossi actual words)　長年で、こう一緒にいますけどそういう女です。

There is something (14) ~Nobody knows better.

Just an example of why nobody knows Rika better than Yossi.

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They are playing a ranking game whereby the other girls have to guess what the question is after Okada Yui has ranked the girls accordingly.

Screen caps from H!P DVD magazine volume 7

And the reaction from Yossi was almost immediate.

think Yossi was wrong?

.S See! Yossi knows! ^_^

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Next, a little 'boke' moment...

Yossi does pay more attention when Rika is talking.

And the room roared with laughter. Rika was ranked last and if that were the question that Rika thought it were, it just proved that Rika deserved to be the most stupid (since even she thinks she is stupid)

Finally the question was revealed.

'Who you would want most as your mother'