ほら～カメラがいるよ～

Sometimes still pictures say alot more than motion pictures.
They looked like they were protesting about being secretly filmed, and Yossi trying to placate Rika later...

But when you've seen the real thing, you know it's so different.

If I have to choose one favourite scene from 'the making of', it has to be the part where Yossi tells Rika "Hora, camera ga iru yo~" (Look! there's a camera here) after both of them have finished their close-up shots that are filmed simultaneously (@8:12 of the clip).

I wonder why Yossi said that?
An admonition or merely because she knows Rika loves being in front of the camera?

hora~
hora~
hora~~

Do You Know?

Do you know that if you turned up the volume when you're watching GatasFanClubTourInHawaii2, you'd hear Rika telling somebody "okaeri" when the latter went backstage after her performance of "Rainbow Pink"?

Watch this space

Some guys in Japan have already seen 'the making of' of that pv. This is what they say...

-Although they didn't kiss, that didn't stop someone from looking red later.
-Others began making 'hyuu~ hyuu~' sounds - the same noise ishiyoshi wotas make whenever they hear/see their perfect couple interacting at gatas event and dinner shows.
-So it means that they (and those in the recording studio) know the existence of a certain group of wotas. ^^

what a LULL

Nothing's been heard of them recently.
Frankly speaking, besides the promo for the new single, Yossi and Rika are practically free of work. But being too free isn't a good thing as people will go fat and scandals will break loose, and fans will get restless. For people who aren't familiar with the wota scene in Japan, there's a flaming war going on right now. Yossi wotas are such an unpopular group. See, being too free isn't good.


side note: Oh yah, this ain't supposed to be here but I'm kinda intrigued by it so I'm mentioning it now. It seems that a certain Berryz lost her cell phone and pictures from it are starting to appear in the internet. If it is true, then there are more horrible things involved. Because the person who found the phone now has access to a lot of things - phone numbers of h!p members, explicit photos and videos (if there are any), many emails exchanges and private details. And in Japan, if you know the ID of a person, you could easily check his/her mobile number regardless the number of times s/he change it. As public figures, I hope the girls have common sense to use nicknames rather than full names of their family/friends in their phone directory, at least it won't make things easier for the person who suddenly have access to their phone.

2008-09-09 @fmyokohama-tre-san

my thoughts...

Sometimes I think the coupling says alot about the shippers they have.
Through the years I have been managing this blog, I realized 1444 shippers are - just one word - subtle.

Everywhere I go, 1444 fans are lurkers. They are everywhere but never/seldom heard or seen. And like them, the couple they like have pretty much shared the same characteristics and are never quite 'in-your-face', except well, for that one scene in a PV in which they kissed, but hey, even that was done subtly, that it was supposed to be a 'behind-the-scenes' kind of thinggie, you know, stuffs you aren't supposed to know but somehow did because they got 'caught'.

So what I'm trying to say here is that, in pertinence to our 'lurking' nature, we are 'rewarded' with a scene that is so subtle and questionable that even when we have seen it a thousand times, we all are still left thinking whether or not they did it? SUCH is the subtleness reserved for us.

And now, for fans who like 'in-your-face' stuff? What are your rewards? Well, I would say FRIDAY had done a pretty good job. Being loud, you just need something louder to shut you up.
See? That's why I think a coupling says alot about the shippers it has.

Da Di Du De Do Da Di

Many of you may have seen this thing going around depicting Yossi singing 'Da Di Du De Do Da Di'. Someone said it's a parody. Quite but more interesting. First you need to understand what she was singing to know why she did certain poses later. Here we go...

①　After singing あの子はつまらな～い which means 'That girl is uninteresting~'
②　Yossi did the 'HAPPI' pose (that made the audience laugh out so loud.)

③　then she quickly put a finger to her mouth telling the audience to keep it to themselves.

④　メールを送れって～も返りが～～
'Even when I sent an email there's ~~~'
⑤ ない！　'NO REPLY'
and Yossi did a usa-chan pose.

Because it's true that someone has been ignoring her 'prince-charming' (source: radio show)

As for 'That girl is uninteresting~'

Yah right... ^^

Unrivaled timing

本当に息ピッタリの二人　　(^_^)//

(This was right after Rika corrected Yossi that it was "Chaaaamy" and not "Charmee")

Rika @ANN 2008-09-05 / Yossi @STB 2008-09-06

Rika @Oriental Radio no ANN

A listener asked Rika about the kissing scene in the PV and she said they didn't kiss at all. They were only having fun posing backstage and somehow that ended up in the PV.

And...

Rika always sleep bra-less. @_@


Yossi @STB

Very irrelevantly, Yossi mentioned that she just received an email from Rika saying that she's with Konkon and Ogawa now, with the latter spotting a very weird hairdo.


Yossi is Rika-chan this and Rika-chan that again.. ^^

2008-08-31 @Sapporo

A tongue-in-cheek performance?

Was that what she's trying to tell us?

Novice Fiesta 2008-08-31

Yossi and Rika did separate commentaries. Fans noticed Yossi drawing on some sheets (player's info?) and when Rika took over, she was heard saying "Is this me? It sure doesn't look like (me)."

美女カラＴＡＬＫ

Karaoke Talk

[Gaki no ue no PONYO] and TM NETWORK's [GET WILD] are songs she'll definitely sing. And if she was singing to a guy she likes, it would be EXILE's [LOVERS AGAIN] or KOME KOME CLUB's [Aishiteru].

Keyword: [GET WILD] , [LOVERS AGAIN] , [Aishiteru]

Repercussion

Looks like there's a big screen showing the PV at yesterday's Gatas event.
No wonder there are reports that Yossi was looking shy and fidgeting.
BTW, GJ to the person, who captured this, when we know how fast this scene just fleet past.

吉澤ひとみ！！ 危ないよ！！

危ない
危ない！
危ない！！
よっすぃ

ＹＯＵ’ＲＥ　ＧＥＴＴＩＮＧ ＦＡＴ ＡＧＡＩＮ！！

Crazy schedule Odaiba 2008-08-29

Yuko said she had dinner with Kei, Yaguchi, Rika and Nono on the 27th of this month. Ever wonder why someone is missing? Because that someone had an event that night (Wa-on live on stage), and next day (28th) in Osaka for Wa-on concert, and today (29th) in Odaiba. A hectic schedule. It is no wonder that Yossi's name wasn't in the list of players scheduled to appear in today's GATAS event, but Yossi did turn up for the match, which began at 10:30am and ended just minutes ago at 13:30, and managed to score quite a few goals; Rika scored one too. However, it is not sure if she'll remain for the fan activity event that starts at 15:00.


Edit :
(Picture taken at today's event.)


Rika talked about the new PV and said it was up to them to do whatever they liked for the off-shot scenes. So, did someone just decide to smooch someone?

On the 31st, Rika Yossi and Mai will have another futsal related event in Sapporo.

my thoughts...

Talk about the kiss is so rife now but I'm more interested in the rationale behind putting that scene in the pv. For me, it just kills the fandom, though I foresee a lot more jumping into the bandwagon. The ratio's like 10:1. Guess who's the winner in the end?

I like 1444 because I like subtle things and because I love linking the dots. Having an analytical mind, I always go beyond what's superficial when I look at things. An instinct which comes naturally. And that's why I like 1444, they are never (like Sei had said) 'in-your-face'.

But now... (sighz)

Nobody I know have been in this fandom longer than I do. I'm not being boastful here. How many of you here actually downloaded the first episode of hello morning from a japanese website instead of from winmx or nowaday, a tracker? Yes, back in those days, mpgs are uploaded to website that changes url as fast as you can click on the refresh page icon. And you need to use complicating japanese softwares to join up the split files. That's how long I've been in this fandom. And it wasn't really 1444 in the beginning...

Yoshigama was the more popular belief - because both girls were in pucchimoni and because both girls were often paired together in mo-tai, muSix and h!m, though 1444 did show some initial signs in aisaga's making of 'I Wish' and in 'Hesos' and slowly catching on during mr.moonlight days. Then a tabloid came out and killed everything and it had been yoshigoma until Ma_ki's graduation from MM.

Even after that 1444 are never close again, much to my disappointment. There were even times I wondered if they had each gone their separate ways. My worries were uncalled for for there came their bickering period where they were always at loggerheads and pissing each other off. The scene where Yossi came from behind to hug a crying Rika when she thought filming had stopped left a big impact in me. And I realize they were still 'friends' which made me love them more, than when they were back then, being publicly lovey-dovey. But...

when that and a sneak massage footage were released later... they clammed up again. Totally cooled off and nobody ever mentioned 1444 again for a long long time. During this lull period (end 2003-2005), another pairing was born, that till this day still garners a large following. And I believed it was also during this period that Yossi had gotten close to Mai-chin and Ayaka. However when Rika graduates, we see them interacting again during the concerts and people were reminded once again why they were the classic couple back in MM golden days.

So when Rika left MM in 2005, I thought... 'That's it isn't it? That's the end since they'll be seeing less of each other now that they are not working together?'. I was quite sure that would be the end of them when Rika popped up and took over the hosting job for h!m. I was elated. And I wondered if the management knew that fans just wanted to see them being around each other. So, for every episode, I found myself watching closely to see if there's any interaction between them. And I realized they seemed to loosen up and miggle more than before. What a blessing in disguise Rika's graduation turns out to be. And randomly, I'll see Yossi saying things like "that girl is like that..." or Rika shouting "Yossi" when the latter's up to her silly antics or Yossi always looking in Rika's direction during those sekai world games. You could almost see that they are more connected to each other than they are to the rest in the studio. I guess being together in Gatas, with its many practises and public events does help in a way or another. That was around 2006 when Yossi was still closer to Mai-chin and Ayaka.

Year 2007, we saw 1444 really blossomed again. So many netas to show they've gotten closer, beginning with wonderheart concerts in the beginning of the year where Rika had fallen sick but still insisted on performing and fans caught someone watching from behind the curtains. For that same concert, we see footages of them frolicking backstage while Rika, in a bunny suit, was waiting for her turn next to perform and you wonder what was Yossi doing there with Rika when she was supposed to be with the rest of the MM members. Months later, during Sexy 8 Beat concert tour, Yossi mentioned she received an email from Rika that morning wishing her success for the first show and she did the 'ice-cream & pudding' poking pose when asked during an MC to do a sexy pose. See all the Yossi-Rika link? Because Rika also mentioned about Yossi during a MC for her v-u-den concert. And when Yossi took over Nono's role in a musical, I wondered why both of them just seemed so fated to be together in whatever they do. There were fans' sightings of them turning up to watch each other's performance. To keep up the hype and push it to greater heights, their fun-filled and rabu-rabu performance (Cherry) on utadoki brought smiles and endless nights of sweet dreams to every 1444 lovers. Kemeko's announcement on Midtown that she spent a rabu-rabu christmas party at home with Yossi and Rika brought this good year to an end.

Year 2008 arrived furiously with more gatherings and parties and staying over, and this time at Rika's place. And very very unexpectedly, to the joy of 1444 worshippers, Yossi just blurted out 'ISHIYOSHI COMBI' on Midtown which is such a winner because we wonder why she knows a term only used by wotas? Has she been checking out wotas forums too? It shows she knows fans like to link her and Rika together and judging from their frequent private get together, she doesn't mind the rumors at all. Then there's Gatas fanclub tour to Hawaii with sightings of them shopping together. Interaction at Gatas public practises and matches (Rika's infamous own goal). Dinner shows. Having similar hobbies... liking pink, futsal, aromatic candles, overseas dramas... So many instances of them being more involved in each other's life more than work requires.

That makes me wonders if there was something...
something beyond the threshold of friendship...
subliminally...

but the fake kiss footage... THAT FAKE KISS...

It just kills everything.

UFA, thanks for everything ya~

Odaiba 2008-08-06 (doh-up)

Their seating positions during first break



Their seating positions during second break


Notice how they are always together, at a cosy corner, away from activities.

I wanna Kiss~

This scene should be in Do It! Now PV, where Rika sings "BUT 'KISSがしたい' が人間の本能"

100円玉に愛を込めて 2008-08-27

After watching the show where Rika had gone to Nepal, I have only one thought: whoever has Rika as girlfriend or wife must be really fortunate.

I mean she is such a kind and caring person. She ain't faking it when she shows no qualms in carrying a child from a village where almost all kids are suffering from scabies - a contagious skin disease - or when she is drinking muddy water that had gone through only a simple filtration process. Not everyone can do that. I definitely can't, not without getting freaked out.





And when the village girl said she is happy when Rika asked her if she thought her life was hard, Rika was clearly shocked and moved nearly to tears. The girl's simple take on life - where happiness can be as simple as just having your family with you, has gotten Rika so ashamed that she said the girl had taught her something instead.

For people who never like Rika, I hope they will change their opinion of her after watching the show.