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While I was writing this feature "Five H!P Videogames We DON’T Want to See" on takamaruyo.net, I came over this fascinating idea of Hello!Project girls + Pokemon and it got my mind wondering around for a good while.
Not to be taken in any serious sense, obviously, but it is simply to mix:
a name of a Pokemon + the name of a Hello!Project girl = a hybrid of sort for some interesting combinations.

So here, I've got a few obvious ones:

Pikachayu
Maimaichop
Charmanoderina......
Mogikarp
Zukkibat <--- Click here for picture
Staryuuka <--- Click here again for the same picture as above


But I wanna see what else other crazy results you guys will come up with. Pics are welcomed and highly encouraged.
Imagine away!

Sanrio here, and welcome to my thread.

I've written a couple of one-shots before, but this will be my 3rd fanfic and the first long-running one. I've always wanted to start a fanfic series, but there wasnt any good ideas in my mind until recently, an idea of a story appeared in my head and i wanna see it written out, so here it is! "wouldn't it be interesting to write a baseball fanfic with the H!P girls?" "how would they play and how would each of their characters reflect through the game?" "which position would each girl play?"

First off, i dont know much a whole lot about baseball, so dont worry even if you dont much about baseball cuz i wont be too hard on the technical terms. ive been reading a lot of H2 (an awesome classic baseball manga, recommend for the hardcore manga fans out there), and H!P sports fanfic seems to be a rare genre, so i thought i'd give it a try. There won't be no super powers nor future technology in it, the baseball game is just a legit game of sports, but with our favourite girls as the players on the field, it should be fun!

Baseball and H!P, crazy i know. The plot isn't nearly completed yet, i just got random ideas and scenes floating in my head right now. But i know i would forget it if i dont ever start, i will keep building thoughts as the fanfic goes on. The formats aren't confirmed yet, heck i might even change the thread title someday lol. For example, i wasn't going to put names in front of each dialog to indicate the speaker of the line originally, but i want to make this a dialog-based style fanfic, and i realized it'd be way too confusing given the amount of girls in the story, not to mention it'd be extremely awkward if they keep addressing each other's names in the dialog, so there it is.

I wasnt not sure how the idea of a baseball fanfic will be received here, but i guess it would at least be a change of pace for most of you reading and hopefully you guys would find it fun.


Please post and provide me with any ideas, thoughts, feedbacks, questions, anything that you've got after reading each update. I'll value every comment there is and they will help me improve and plan for the future of the fanfic. So finally, please do enjoy!






Fly High - a Baseball Fanfic
Written: Sanrio

Part 1



It's still early in the morning but the birds are already up. Flying across the wide blue sky up high, casting shadows onto the field below. Sunlight shining through the several pieces of clean clouds. The breeze brings a scent of freshness. It's the perfect weather, for the perfect baseball game about to happen today.



*In changing room A of Hanshin Koshien baseball stadium*


Aichan: “This is harsh…”

Reina: “I know right? We’re just going to dominate the whole game, I feel bad for the Kids.”

Eri: “Haha, stop being so cocky, Reina. I Don’t think that’s what Aichan meant.”

Aichan: “Eri’s right, what I mean is, why are we playing baseball against the Kids to fight for which group gets a medley remix in the next winter concert? The reason seems invalid and this whole thing feels like raging a civil war within our big family…”

Eri: “Well another way to look at it, when was the last time we ever played against the kids as opposite teams? This will be totally fun!”

Reina: “But obviously another reason is the money. UFA is capitalizing this opportunity by releasing a DVD, special photo sets, jerseys, towels, gloves, balls, bats, maybe a DS game…”

Eri: “Heh, Reina said balls.”

Reina: “Shut up.”

Aichan: “They do that everytime for everything anyways, it’s reality being idols. But we’ve got another reason to be here… I heard the whole Hanshin Koshien Stadium is filled by fans to see the match. We cannot let them down and we must fight a good fight!”

Eri: "How did they manage to book the Koshien Stadium in the first place..... this place can fit over 55000 people!"

Risa: “Our leader is right, we are here for a baseball game and we will put up a good one. Alright, let's cut short this conversation because that’s not why we are in the changing room for. Let’s get changed into our baseball uniforms quickly and get to the strategy meeting with the coach...… say, where are our backups?”

Sayu: “Oh the S/mileage girls, they are playing water fight in the shower.”

Risa: “With their baseball uniforms on!?”

Sayu: “No… completely naked…”

Linlin: “Naked huh…… ah crap, someone hand me tissue please… my nose is bleeding.”

Junjun: “Haha here you go, Linlin. Hey, your bleeding better stop by the time of the game or else we’ll have to replace you before the game even starts.”

Linlin: “Thanks, Jun. Don’t worry, it’ll stop very soon, no way would I miss this game, this one is special… for us…...”

Junjun: “Yeah.… it is going to be very special. By the way, anyone seen Aika and Koharu? I can see that their uniforms are still in their lockers.”

Sayu: “I think I saw them went in naked to join the S/mileage girls.”

Junjun: “..….”

Linlin: “Ah crap, tissue please!”




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*At the same time, in changing room B of the stadium*



Risako: “I can’t believe we are actually playing against our senpais in a few hours! Ohhh I’m so excited!”

Miyabi: “You seem confident enough. Why don’t you pass me some of your confidence too, I’m nervous as hell right now!”

Shimizu: “No worrys, Miya. Just play your best when you are on the field. We don’t necessarily have to win, all we want is to play a good game……”

Miyabi: “…… and show them what we are made out of, yes, I know you said that already. But as the Captain of this alliance team, wouldn’t you be the most pressured for victory?”

Shimizu: “Yes…… well….. no…. not really. Talking to most of you, it sounds like victory isn’t our main goal today, isn’t that right, sub-captain?”

Maimi: “Exactly, through this game, we will prove to our senpais that we are no longer the Kids, and we are able to take part of the responsibility in holding up the H!P name too! Though… we still want to win, and to
be honest, we do have a fair chance of victory. Our senpais better not underestimate.”

Shimizu: “That’s true, by strength and skill, we aren’t any weaker than our senpais.

Maimi: “And our practises have improved us even further, so we are ready for this game, isn’t that right, Chisa..… where did Chisato go, she was just here changing out of her clothes a moment ago.”

Airi: “After she took her clothes off, she ran straight into the shower naked and started a water fight with the others…”

Maimi: “And that’s why we are still Kids… I’m sure the senpais are too mature to be doing something like this… Uh-oh, we need tissue, Chinami’s nosebleeding!”

Miyabi: “Sigh… Saki-chan, do you think we’ll be alright?”

Shimizu: “It won’t be easy facing our senpais as opposite teams on the field, but looking at the spirits we have, this will be a good game, I assure you. We're going to fight a good fight, as Aichan would probably say. Okay, let’s pick up our pace and get changed into uniforms for the tactics meeting with the coach.”

Miyabi: “Heh, roger that, Captain!”







That will be the opening for now, next part to come will be the strategy meetings with their coaches. (Tiny spoiler: tsunku isnt the coach)
Tell me what you think of it, and please look forward to part 2!

The latest and most surprising entry to the 48 family, creation of the one Akimoto Yasushi, 16 former-police/former-detectives has gathered to bring forth the most inspiring, innovative and revolutionary Idol group ever.

OJS48, which stands for O-Ji-San (elderly men), will debut their first single 深呼吸 Shinkokyu (deep breathing) on Oct 13th in Japan followed by a free live performance in a mall in Osaka on Oct 16th. Within the group, Nakatani Mitsuo(63) the man standing in the middle of the photo, an former Police Detective in Osaka has already an enka single of his own released last year with Akimoto as the producer. He leads the group in the first single while the 15 friends of his sing support for him. The former work positions of these gentlemen aren't jokes either, ranging from a few Superintendents and Station Chiefs to Tactics Squad against Violent Gangs and Police Kendo Coach. Don't take them lightly, they are serious business.



The average age of the group is 61 as of 2010. Currently there are 16 members, but we can expect the group to expand if they do well in the market. What can we expect from this group? Perhaps being in the 48 family will mean their appearances on AKB concerts and TV shows? Song sharing so we'll see OJS48 performing songs such as Aitakatta and Bingo? (Please don't)

Here is the PV of Shinkokyu


Also, I can't wait to wotagei to their songs. Name chant is a must.

After enjoying the episodes, you can post any thoughts, comments, ideas, praises, complaints, feedbacks, encouragements, spams, hatemails and whatever else you can think of here!

Ep 34 of STD Podcast - Smileage Round 2! (Jul 25, 11) is now available!

Catch all the episodes here! stdpodcast.mypodcast.com

http://www.helloproj...html/index.html
there is now an Official Chinese website of Hello!Project
and it's Taiwan based (not China)

as info on the website says, they will released "Taiwan Edition" of most of the new releases for CDs and DVDs

there are also short videos that could be viewed online, for some videos u can view with a free membership, but for some and other official wallpapers, a paid membership is required.
I believe there are 3 levels of memberships: Free Membership , Paid Fanclub membership and Paid Upgraded Fanclub membership.

personally, i'm having a very difficult time getting used to the Chinese names of the groups

nevertheless, this website is a pretty good source for H!P goods

EDIT:
HP Chinese FC Website guides (By auroragb, Thanks!):
How to get free membership to start shopping
How to join Paid FC membership
How to shop