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This post is a part of the Ohatsuu feature that has moved to a new site:
Wota in Translation
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Hi and welcome to the first Ohatsuu summary of 2013.

What is Ohatsuu?

First of all: for those of you who do not know, 2ch is a huge, anonymous Japanese discussion board that also has its own section for Hello! Project. Following the H!P board of 2ch can be a tedious task: it’s massive, and it’s notorious for its “anything goes” atmosphere that comes along with the anonymity. It can be a tiring read.

However, because of that anonymity, you can sometimes get really interesting, candid sneak peeks at how the Japanese fans think about things in this fandom we share with them. I think it’d be quite a shame to miss out on that, and luckily there’s a site that can help. Ohayou! Project Tsuushinkyoku (or just Ohatsuu) is a blog that compiles some of the highlights of the 2ch H!P board.

So what I’m doing with this feature is translating select threads presented on Ohatsuu. Only partially, though — don’t expect me to kill myself by translating several hundred comments per each post. Basically, it’ll be just the threads I care about and just the comments I care about (or have enough motivation to translate).

Featured topics

1. Iikubo-san spots a UFO and gets treated like a child by Kudo after telling her about it!!
2. Maa-chan’s declaration: “I’m going to overtake Sayashi-san this year!!“
3. We’re barely into the New Year and there’s already a scandalous picture of Mano-chan
4. High-King revival!!! ﾍ√ﾚｖｖ～(ﾟ∀ﾟ)─ﾍ√ﾚｖｖ～─!!
5. Daaishi Ishida’s birthday cake is…
6. Obvious♪ Obvious♪ Hello! Project♪
7. Someone brings Kudo’s photobook to school — Kudo wants to die
8. Ishida super excited — full of wild ideas during a sleepover with Kudo!!!
9. The 10th and 11th generation members have dinner together!!! Sato Maa-chan reproduces their conversation!
10. The results of the favorite member ranking by the foreign wota of Hello!Online are here!
11. ☆　★☆ Morning Musume major debut 15th anniversary festival ☆★　☆
12. A super first-class manga artist draws Momusu illustrations to celebrate their Oricon no. 1!

Enjoy!

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This post is a part of the Ohatsuu feature that has moved to a new site:
Wota in Translation
Please head on over there to comment on this post and to read more posts like this!

Here are some personal translated Ohatsuu favorites from December 2012. See here if you forgot what Ohatsuu was all about. If you enjoyed these and want me to keep doing them in the future, tell me and I gladly will. Let me know if you have any suggestions as to the format and whatnot.

Sayashi’s never used a lighter (lol) She’s too cute (lol) (J)

1：名無し募集中。。。：2012/12/01(土) 14:06:08.94 ID:0
Starts at around 19m 40s.

2：名無し募集中。。。：2012/12/01(土) 14:06:42.73 ID:0
That’s way too cute.

9：名無し募集中。。。：2012/12/01(土) 14:10:36.22 ID:0
That’s funny.

10：名無し募集中。。。：2012/12/01(土) 14:10:52.68 ID:0
Sayashi’s a lot more of an airhead than I thought.

20：名無し募集中。。。：2012/12/01(土) 14:14:59.78 ID:0
I like how the fan is teaching her like she was a chimpanzee. (laughs)

53：名無し募集中。。。：2012/12/01(土) 14:26:48.97 ID:T
Don’t let her play with fire!!

92：名無し募集中。。。：2012/12/01(土) 14:36:14.80 ID:T

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In the past few weeks, I’ve successfully lured a friend of mine into H!P fanhood. It’s a first for me!

It all started on a drunken weekend a couple of weeks ago when I made him watch Gee by Girls’ Generation (please don’t tell me there’s still anyone out there who hasn’t heard it.) From there on I (curiously) decided to show him some Berryz Koubou. The interesting thing is, he liked all the tracks I would’ve never thought to use when introducing the group to someone. I was showing him some of their coolest tracks and he was going “meh…“, but then he somehow managed to catch a glimpse of Yuke Yuke Monkey Dance and basically said “holy shit, this is awesome.” I gave him my copy of Waracchaou yo BOYFRIEND just to get him more into Berryz and, well, I think it worked out pretty well considering he’s seeing ‘tallica in a few weeks’ time (he’s been a fan for years), and just now he said to me “Henkka, you’ve no idea how I’d love to see Berryz Koubou or °C-ute live instead.”

In any case, while his top Momusu girl seems to be Takitty, he’s started to take a liking to Reina now as well. I told him they like to call her a wonky-eyes and he couldn’t understand why. I showed him several pictures, including this one (from 2ch I presume?) where they’ve “fixed” her face:

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