User:KanashiYasashiSayashi/Hello! Project and me

''This page is dedicated to Hello! Project and tells you how I found out about it.''

2009 - 2010

It was around this time when I didn't care for school whatsoever, started procrastinating and was sure I anyway had to do this year all over again. So I gave up and started spending more time with all the things I really was interested in. Being caught in puberty and hating school, I started to get back to everything I originally liked. In my nostalgia, I remembered eventually that I used to be a big fan of the anime "Ojamajo Doremi" that I couldn't watch to the end, because only the first two seasons were translated in German. So I found my love for Japan and anime again at this point. I wanted to be able to draw manga and I wanted to know how things were going and so I ended up watching everything with English subtitles. Since the music in this case also hooked me up, I got bored after listening to the same few songs after a while in different languages and I didn't find much more in my recommendations which was similar, I didn't know many other anime then those I watched as a child at this point either.

Guess what I did? Right, I googled and was searching for "cool Japanese songs" and "pretty/cute Japanese songs" and found out about people like Ayumi Hamasaki and Morning Musume. I was also looking for all the popular artists according to social media and Wikipedia but wasn't that interested at all in anyone in particular, one of Ayumi's songs was quite listenable, but not that great to my ears. To be honest, the first time I listened to "Aruiteru" and (I think) "HEY! Mirai" which was one of the first songs that popped up, I died of boredom. Not my cup of tea. Eventually I found Koharu's "Chance!" in my recommendations and liked it, I ended up to find other artists too. I think this was also the point where I discovered "Munasawagi Scarlet" and "Bye Bye Bye!".

2010 - 2011

After I was getting into ''Osu! Rhythm is just a click away ''I found Buono! with Our Songs and reaaally got into them. I mistook Airi for the leader, came here to the wiki and to wikipedia and was surprised to find out how tiny these 3 girls are (cuz, you know people told me I am a midget, my height is like children-sized over here in Germany and when I showed friends pictures of Berryz, in fact the majority was rather shocked about Momoko's height than Yurina's, I didn't know anyone who was over 12 who was still less than 150cm).

At the end wikipedia gave me the info that this unit was made with members of C-ute and Berryz Koubou which was mindblowing to me, I never had realized that all along and as often as I listened to Munasawagi, I should've. It was just the "all Asians/Black people/White people look the same" syndrome, I guess.

I went nuts and was all like "Omg, really, that's Miyabi!!! Man, she changed sooo much, woah!"

" Hello! Project? All these girls work for the same company? Woah, so cool!"

In the end I was looking for Morning Musume all over again after I got into MMD at a similar time and heard Kimagure Princess, which I really liked and was like "I don't know, what is a high number of singles? 12? 20?" then I was joking and came up with 34 and to my surprise, there was a 34th single and Kimagure Princess was the 41st. Huh? How? I was just scrolling through the pages and found out about the graduation system. "Oh, that's the reason!". Then I was intentionally looking for the newest single "Maji Desu ka Ska!" and Only You was on it's way and shortly afterwards released. Back in the day new members weren't my cup of tea, so Reina and Sayumi really caught my attention, I found them so cool back then and I liked Risa too because of her awesome smile she got a nice atmosphere around here. I was really glad to find out, that Reina and Sayumi (especially Reina) would stay a while longer. I thought I was really lucky at this point.

I wasn't that much into them but was more and more getting into their music.

Some months later, I found a CM / trailer for "Busu ni Naranai Tetsugaku" and was completely head over heels. "HELLO! PROJECT, MORNING MUSUME IS ALSO A PART OF IT - HOW COOL IS THAT?" and that's basically how I found out about Hello! Project. I was watching everything I could get and also many past singles, I was digging really deep and found out as much as I could (Oh, if I only would've been that excited about school).

2011 / 2012

Since Hello! Project was really in decline when I found my love for it, it was really a bummer and made me sad. "Oh well, hopefully it's still 40k" is what everybody at Hello! Online said "1 or 2 more years and that's it with Hello! Project!" is what I read on YouTube and yes, I thought Pyoko Pyoko Ultra was really upsetting, first it was postponed and then it was... what it was. So I expected it to be the lowest selling single in the future and was right. I noticed the decline in sales when I scrolled through the wikis and wondered always what happened and why they even were this popular to begin with in the past but it all cleared up after my inquiries. Was I too late for all the fun? "But why would they add new members if they gave up"? We were also joking about Iikubo who looked funny in the promotional picture like she was saying "This is not what I joined for!" (she mentioned that she wanted to wear cute clothes). In the end I was really relieved when Ren'ai Hunter got mostly positive feedback and One・Two・Three was becoming a hit and many fans returned.

'''And that's how I ended up with Hello! Project.''' (content)