Honda Hitomi (Hiichan) / Team 8

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Limited edition 'For Dance by To(m)i Series' merch available next weekend at the Spring Concerts:
https://twitter.com/hnd_htm__1006/status/1649716769588903936
https://www.akb48.co.jp/news/detailpage/197799661

 

You're not by any chance still in Japan for this and willing to bring some back for the UK for a friendly stranger on the forum?

 

You have a DM

 

Possibly a mini IZ*One reunion? Lee Chaeyeon has been speculated joining Queendom Puzzle. A staff of WM Ent., where Chaeyeon belongs to, posted he anticipated Queendom Puzzle and attached coffin and heart emoji. Chaeyeon was a vampire in an MV and the chorus of a song of her went "Knock knock knock knocking on your heart".

It was rumored a member of T-ARA was in talk to join the show.

 

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Tomorokoshi no Hige Cha CMs with comment and making:


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Short comment video for Cirque du Soleil's 'Alegria in a New Light':


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So, the latest news is Honda and Yabuki will not be on the show Queendom Puzzle but, Shiroma Miru will.

 

Confirmation from Wow! Korea
https://www.wowkorea.jp/news/enter/2023/0424/10392986.html

 

Pena knew but still didn't invited her?!

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Higecha dance! Normal mix 30 seconds

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What's in this? LSD?
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Making of

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Spoiler: Sources

https://mdpr.jp/news/detail/3715037
https://news.dwango.jp/idol/89755-2304
https://entamerush.jp/463351
https://popnroll.tv/articles/32354
https://www.bubkaweb.com/2023/04/70619

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Why didn't you tell us sooner?
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I was surprised to see the beard for the Hige-cha ads was real! I assumed it was CGI. Very cute

 

As had I said, Hiichan's tight schedule wouldn't allow her to take part on that show.

 

Unexpectedly, I got lucky twice today with Hiichan's Limista signings! Makes up for not winning her signature for HisaLip lol


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I asked her what country in Europe she wants to go to, and she said she wants to go to Paris - specifically, she wants to go to a fashion show!


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^ Time stamped, but it's at 17:20!

I asked her for her opinion on Kobayashi Ran's dancing and that I want to see them dance together. She gave high praise to Ranchan!

 

Hiichan was amongst the least supported during izone, but the amount of rumours about her after disbandment are so ridiculous. I'm not sure there are as much circus for Nako.
https://twitter.com/keitadj3/status/1650402880980140038
Look at another ex member from that group (lee chaeyeon) who'll be in this show. She has decent dancing skills, but her idol career is still going tough.
Why? Because mainly she just doesn't have those 'beauty standards' korea prefers, despite the people keep claiming they care more about talents or whatever over there to get Hiichan out of Team 8/AKB.

 

Beauty can be seen as a talent, it's debatable though.

As for the certain amount of rumors about Hitomi and Nako.
Despite her low popularity in IZ*ONE, Hitomi was recognised for her dancing, and she seemed to be the one in the J-Line who had the most interest in K-pop. Add to the mix her korean driver licence. That was enough for her fans to make up their mind she would be the 1st one to come back in Korea.

Also in AKB she was not the most well known, her main achievement was to be a staple Team 8 senbatsu member and that's pretty much all. She was far from having a senbatsu spot in a main song. And there was a possibility, had all the 48 groups not decided to operate separatly, AKB48 singles could still be filled with sister groups, and the space for Hitomi would still be very tight not even close to the 1st row or non existant.
On the other side Nako was a senbatsu before, had a guaranteed senbatsu place in HKT48 after, or in the hypothesis above, a guaranteed senbatsu in an eventual AKB48 single.

I believe Hitomi's "new fans" feared she would go back in AKB48 to the same area she was before IZ*ONE (nowhere to be seen), hence soon after disbandment, some false rumor claming she didn't like going back, she was badly treated (with an amount of solo works she never had in Korea, I've seen worse as a bad treatment), and other malicious campaigns with the hope to see her go back to Korea as soon as possible.
Those same fans had no worries for Nako, who was a center before IZ*ONE, and even had a nice spot in AKB48.
I guess that irrational fear keeps triggering her "new fans" (who have low interest in what she's doing in Japan), who still wish to see her jumping boat in a finger snap.
Well, reality isn't that simple.

 

I can only wonder what they're thinking now with the announcement of AKB48 joining Weverse.

https://twitter.com/weverseofficial/status/1650681190796656640

 

I only applied for one signing from Hiichan which I won in the first session and she did at 51:40. Incidentally I had a signing a couple of days ago from Ozawa Aimi of ≒JOY, I said I was from England and she then started talking about wanting to go to France.

I hope so much that Hii could appear in a European fashion show, she’d look great on a runway in Paris wearing something from one of the major fashion houses.

 

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@IkemenSteelD if I mentioned every time someone reposts stuff I've posted in the post right before his/hers we would be here all day. There are times I download dozens or hundreds of photos in their full sizes and then convert plenty of them to jpg or png. That takes lot of time (and patience) but no one seems to give a damn fuck at all.

But as you can see, I've only reposted three videos just to have things better organized and posted links to every of those small 8 videos so that you can find them straight away even ten months in the future, which was different from what @sscrla did (not criticizing). Another thing I did differently from @sscrla was posting every image of the official site which is something you can't get by simply clicking on the mouse's right button. And I also posted the images from the news sites. At first I thought using quotes but that was too confusing, so whatever. Did you see me reposting the @David61 ones?
I remember one day I wrote a post (can't remember the thread) which had all the videos of some event. Right after that @sscrla made a post which only had like two of thoses videos I posted before, nothing else. He got four likes, I got none. Am I the one on LSDs here?

I could just stay quiet instead of wasting my time updating these pages, I know there are people who don't like my "spamming". I don't do it for the likes otherwise I would do things differently. Instead of this I could just praise the most popular members and post one or two things in their threads. In fact, you can check by yourself that (and this happens mostly on Hii's and Yuiyui's threads) my posts barely get any ratings while @David61 's or @sscrla 's have 3, 4 or 5. You never saw me complaining or changing the way I do things, have you? As long as the information is here and myself and everyone else can access to it whenever they want my missions is accomplished, that's the only thing I want. Each person has their method and none is wrong and you (plural) are entitled to appreciate one more than the other ones.

Mate, I know you meant no harm and you said that in a lighthearted way. Yet, you see, you (plural) can do whatever the hell you want, you (plural) can give likes to whatever post you want, I'm fine with all of that. But I'm not fine with unfairness when I'm definitely not the only one who have done that at all. Sometimes I do warn when someone reposts something, like when something is already weeks old, but most of the time I just let it go.

End of ranting.

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