#ask Erii

[eriisaam]

the love in my heart for nintendo as a company is just,,,, nonexistent, lmao. BUT i was so happy for news about gamecube ports!!! like genuinely hype to be able to play kirby 🌟

is there stuff from the announcement that you're excited for?

*sigh* Yeah, definitely felt that. Between Pokemon specifically, or Nintendo as a whole, lately, it definitely became a long-standing trend of 'happy out of compromise'. There's SOME good to look forward to, SOME good aspects and things to stuff released or stuff upcoming, but then there's a boatloads of 'oh by the way...'s where you gotta overlook or forgive or even begrudgingly-grit-you-teeth at to appreciate the good aspects while wading through the shit ones.

Like for instance with the news of Gamecube dropping for the Switch 2 Virtual Console library.

The good? I'm SO looking forward to a lot of Gamecube stuff in general (even back with the Switch, though I guess the possibility sailed officially for that now... womp womp...), alongside the SNES, GBA and Gameboy consoles, all made significant pillars of my childhood, the gamecube in particular holding my hand through a LOT of private-life turbulence when I was middling the preteen and teenage era, so I have not just a massive soft spot for a lot of games at the time, but especially for the games I actually got to play.

Like it's no coincidence how often the Radiant series is pretty frequent a sight here in addition to Sacred Stones and especially Awakening and Fates, and my one regret is how I couldn't find either games in retail back in the day, and now a physical copy is out of the question. Now? There's hope we can all actually play Radiance without spending an entire mortgage doing it, and that's assuming you didn't turn to... OTHER means... *cough cough* (And believe me, I'll get to that. Put a pin on it.)

Not to mention as a lot of long-time followers have noticed a certain "I promise he's not actually my OC, yes I'm sure" penguin/phoenix 'laguz' lurking about on and off in Golden Fates and not exactly improving much cuz I've been swamped in shit that prevents me from bringing him up to the forefront and even less when NOT related to Golden Fates, but his home series, I'm sorry, I'm even more thrilled upon seeing Soul Calibur II not just release, but as a launch title for the virtual console, (AND keeping Link as a playable character, which for those who don't know/remember, Soul Calibur II was a multi-console release, but the gimmick was it had one of the special guest characters vary between consoles, and for the Gamecube version it was Link,) because that gave me hope of a bunch of other games that might be added into the console, but especially Primal Fury, Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, Phantasy Star Online I & II, among a boatload of other games, but especially games on the more obscure end like Zoocube, Cubivore, Billy Hatcher, among other games that came and went, just for the novelty of getting to try them or actually genuinely bringing it back to the forefront otherwise.

But that brings us back to what I said about 'compromises'.

Let's say that all the titles I mentioned DO, for certain, come onto the virtual console. Bloody Roar, Phantasy Star, and Sonic Adventure 2 for instance. For sure, they're in virtual console and for-sure we'll have them, for the sake of a point.

Primal Fury is an entry that people deeper into the Bloody Roar hole have mixed feelings of. The large reason why I didn't have hope until Soul Calibur's "actually... maybe there's a chance? maybe..." inspiring otherwise is that up until Primal Fury, all the other three games that came before it were Playstation exclusive (and arcade cabinets, but otherwise, home-console wise they were Playstation games), and then Bloody Roar 4 afterwards went back on Playstation (for PS2 specifically). Primal Fury is not the worst game in the lineup (but especially after BR4), but it's not everyone's favorite either, and you'll get different answers from different corners on how great or mid it was depending on who you ask. Not to mention in this hypothetical, now that we got it on Virtual Console, the chance of getting a remastered or re-release port of the series as a whole was already slim-to-none (it was, after all, a Playstation series), but not entirely impossible (one could argue Spyro and Crash were even more Playstation icons, and they both got into the Switch prior anyways), and now you can only get Primal Fury, and only on a subscription rental basis, rather than as an owned game you can own for good (to say nothing about the owner key bullshit on its own merits even if it had, and I'd genuinely be surprised if they, instead, DID release Bloody Roar as its own title in the same way we got separate standalone releases of Clock Tower First Fear/Rewind and the classic Aladdin/Lion King/Jungle Book games in turn.) As a virtual console it can remind people Bloody Roar exists, and I can point to it as to where the hell Cronos came from and what his deal is to more out-of-fandom people, but that's only if you set aside your feelings of virtual console's bullshit relationship with your NSO bill as a whole.

Then there's Phantasy Star Online I & II and Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, which shares the same compromise.

Phantasy Star Online I & II were already pretty fantastic MMO games, and Sonic Adventure 2 needs no introduction, especially as the gamecube game became the definitive way to raise chao in the chao gardens, not to mention the rest of the gameplay leading up being one of the better 3d Sonic games in the whole family. And even playing alone (let alone now with an easier time to get friends onboard), both would be amazing additions that can bring back a lot of the things long gone or hard to archive back in their heydays, including a lot of the online only events that are lost when the servers officially shut down (though I believe Blue Burst eventually picked up again), and Sonic Adventure 2 being brought back in light of Sega pulling out their steam versions recently.

But, again... compromise...

If Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2's treatments were any indicators, it's hard to really trust they would think that far in giving any interconnectivity whatsoever about how chaos work or how either games work either with the GBA side of virtual console, or even with each other, beyond just dumping the games as-is into virtual console and not really giving a shit of what's flat out broke cuz they didn't program any substitutes in their place. Pokemon to this day never walked back bringing back the main line games into the GB or GBA libraries, and even if they had, Stadium and Stadium 2 never walked back their transfer pak functionalities that would allow THE ENTIRE GODDAMN POINT OF EITHER TITLES to work as intended: To climb ranks with the pokemon you handraised in their portable pixel forms, now in (that era's) HD.

Steam version didn't even give a shit to not make certain parts of the game unlockable or account for them in lieu of the inability to connect to their GBA siblings, so why should we expect the same of Nintendo? So gone were the small little easter eggs like Phantasy Star allowing you to find and transfer a Tails chao to Battle, and gone were certain things like the Maria skin (which hard-required you to make that transfer, and Steam got around via modding the game). Not to mention if you get too invested in stuff like chao, your characters in PSO, among other things, bear in mind all of this is locked on a subscription basis, and you don't actually own any of this (assuming, like the Bloody Roar example, they're not their own standalone games).

And that's not even getting into Sonic Adventure 2: Battle going from "game you can own forever (until Sega decided we had it too good, too long)" to "game you can own to a finite time limit unless you keep paying up". Fuck that noise especially.

And it was already a glaring awareness of just how little you own permanently in the Switch era (and a large part of why my love of nintendo-stuff-separate-from-Nintendo-the-company's-actions were already eroding after the end of the 3ds era), and it's only gotten that much more glaring in light of what the switch 2 planned with all this owner key crap and even more arbitrary reliance on requiring the internet. As if the Switch didn't already do that as it is.

And it's been a whole constant song and dance of this shit that it's... frustrating and sad to see.

And when we get back to that pin of "and that's why you pirate it, lmao", yeah, I get that. But then at the same time, I just hate it always has to come to that. And that in itself is another compromise, albeit one that's dicier.

But, walking back, I am excited too on a lot of releases, even "I don't go there" ones. I'm thrilled to bits to seeing Kirby and Donkey Kong return, especially looking forward to Tomodachi Living the Dream, being cautiously optimistic of Z-A, and just as cautiously optimistic of the return of the Gamecube library. And I'm also thrilled of a lot of the trend of long awaited titles like Chapter 3 of Deltarune or Silksong or Tomodachi as a whole leading the charge of a lot of return-to-forms on other things (like a new mainline Donkey Kong Country or a new Air Ride for Kirby, or all manner).

And with it being around the time we're all overdue for some good news? Even if I hate it has to come at a compromise (the owner keys and this whole rant), I'm just glad we get some good news amidst a lot of rapidfire bad ones, even if it's something as simple as "game FINALLY comes out" or "Long dormant series FINALLY shows signs of life again".

[heareriispurr]

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[r0zzk1ll]

Do you think riker asked him to do that or did he just do that

that isnt even the og image tooHEHEEELEPEMEM

[eriiahnie]

Hiii!!!

hai babie ^^ how are u

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[gildead]

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The Great Produce 48 Rewatch: Ep 4, Boombayah Challenge, Part 2

Welcome, or Welcome Back, to The Great Produce48 Rewatch Recap Project Thingy Dingy! Today we're going to a dark world... a world of fire and brimstone. It's Boombayah, Group 2, aka Hellbayah. The story was too big and required too many screenshots for just one post! When we left off, we were talking about the Boombayah team 2 -- Let's finish the story!

So, we were at Vocal rehearsal with Cheetah and Soyou, and the girls were doing a terrible job.

Hyewon interviews, “Everything seemed so bleak. I only volunteered because no one else did. I felt like we were messing up more because of me. I think it’s harder because I lack confidence.” And her Very Pretty eyes fill up with Very Pretty tears. Aww, Hyewon. I make fun of her but I really do appreciate the fact that she at least volunteered to be main rapper, even if she seems unable to follow instructions. 

Soyou tries again. She says, “Hyewon-ah, here’s some advice. We’re not judges up here. We’re here to help you.” The Love Theme from P48 plays on plinky pianos as she goes on about how the National Producers are the real judges, so…. “Please, at least raise your voices!!”  Cheetah encourages them to think to themselves, “This is exciting! I’m excited!” Soyou and Cheetah raise their arms like they’re cheering, saying “this is exciting! Yay!” and even Minami and Erii crack a smile.

Soyou is like, “omg, you’re smiling, yes, let’s practice fucking smiling now, since that’s where we’re at,” and they practice SMILING, my friends. 

Chowon interviews that she’s grateful to the trainers for helping and that all she wants to do is perform. She begins to cry, then says, irritated, “I promised myself not to cry!!” 

We get a montage then of Chowon trying to help Hyewon with the rapping. We see Hyewon recording herself and then listening to it back and being pleased with it, which is actually really cute. 

They have a meeting and Chowon tells them that the song is out of their control, so why not just do their best and try to surprise everyone with a good performance? Erii decides to try going forward. Well, I guess better late than pregnant never. Erii asks Chowon for help with the pronunciation and dance, and starts to actually learn and have fun. 

She looks so different when she smiles. 

Then they do a little product placement for some sort of diet beverage called “Calorbye.” It’s gross to have actual children promote your diet culture but whatever. We spend almost as much time on this product placement as we did for all of team 1. 

Things have gotten better, and they’re hopeful now. Will they succeed? 

(In the Spanish version, there’s some commercials here, including a commercial for Ford cars. Imagine living so close to Japan and deliberately buying an American car? Wild.)

Here’s PD48 editing’s blessed edit. 

My thoughts:

That was great!

Ha ha, jk.

No, obviously that was pretty terrible. 

Nanami tried her hardest, bless her, but she couldn’t quite relax her shoulders and get a groove on and really dance. She did do a good death stare toward the beginning and she varied her expressions. Also, she did a really decent job with the singing, I will really give her that -- much better than I would have guessed. In fact, I kind of wonder if she was autotuned, because some people who were there live said that the vocals were all really bad. 

A girl is a WHAT?!? Damn you, Stylist Unnie. 

Yuuka looked terrified most of the time, but smiled and moved her arms like she’s supposed to. She wasn’t embarrassing to wath or listen to.  

Hyewon did much better than anyone would have guessed she would. She managed to get that confused look off her face for at least some of the time, for starters. Yes, she looked down at the floor sometimes, and you could almost see her counting the steps sometimes. But still, when she had to actually rap, she basically did, bless her. Her dancing was also much better than most of the other girls’ -- she put more emphasis into it, straightened her arms, that kind of thing -- and when you consider her audition, this was a complete breakthrough. Good for you, Hyewon. 

Minami was sort of unsteady and nervous. She looked down at the floor a lot and seemed sometimes to be on the verge of breaking into giggles and other times to just releasing her soul from her body. She did some choreography but I don’t think it could be called dancing per se. 

Erii was vague and lifeless most of the time, but she mostly did the moves and vaguely made noises when it was her turn to rap.

Chowon was obviously the one person holding this team together. She was great and I have no criticism. Amazing that she’s just 15 -- she was such a queen throughout this process. I've seen people saying that even her performance wasn't that great, but given that (1) she was 15 (2) she had to be both leader and center (3) she had to teach the rap to the main rapper and teach everyone else pretty much everything else (4) she didn't actually evaporate, I think no one is allowed to criticize her.

Here’s a brief clip (like 8 seconds) from about 2022 of Chowon reacting to the performance. She’s saying, “I’m so sorry, Blackpink-sunbae-nim.”

The MNET edit seems to really try to make them look good. They could have zoomed in on some of the wobbliest dance moves, or instant-replayed some of the worst rapping, but instead they showed the judges noting that they were in sync, and the girls backstage smiling and applauding. 

Thankfully, a lot of praise is being heaped on Chowon, who Cheetah calls a dark horse. 

(If you don’t know the idiom “dark horse,” it means someone who you didn’t notice before, but is actually really great and a contender.) They also note that Hyewon has a pretty face. 

Jeremy says that he has a feeling group 2 will win, and Mary J Lee, who doesn’t have dark visions of the future, thinks group 1 will win. Group 1 should win, as they put on a watchable performance, but sometimes people just like things that are terrible. Viz: I am doing this project. The judges try to bribe the staff into telling them the result because they can’t wait. 

Here’s a link to the results scene, if you want to watch it.

The girls teleport to the Results Bathroom. Group 1 is fully expecting to win, based on all the praise they’ve gotten from teammates and judges. Even Chowon expects Group 1 to win. 

At first it looks like Group 1 will take it, although Erii’s 102 votes are absolutely infuriating to me. It bothers me when people vote for terrible performances. 

But then poor Chanjoo, center of group 1, gets only 22 votes to Minami’s 86 goddamn votes. Who voted for this child? Why? Tears begin streaming down Soyeon’s face when she gets only 22 votes as well, despite her excellent singing.

Everything about the voting, except for Yujin’s appropriate 198 votes, is pretty infuriating. Here’s the full results. 

Team 1 (loss): Kim Sohee 30 Ko Yujin 198 Lee Chaejeong 54 Park Chanju 22 Won Seo Yeon 22 Average: 65.2

Team 2 (win): Asai Nanami 144 Asai Yuka 30 Chiba Erii 102 Han Chowon 42 Kang Hyewon 44 Sato Minami 86 Average: 74.7

I really hate popularity games. 

Group 2 begins shrieking and sobbing in delight. 

Group 1 is just stunned, slowly wiping away tears. 

Chaejeong says that the National Producers just didn’t like their performance, trying to take it in stride like the mature soul she is, but no, not really. They just weren’t fans of anyone in your group. Plus the other group had some children in it, and apparently these people are fans of small dancing children. Sigh. 

Also, apparently there were some netizens who were mad at Group 1 for “picking on the weaklings” in Group 2, and may have voted them down on purpose to punish them. Great. Thanks. This is why we can’t have nice things.

And there ends Boombayah/Hellbayah. 

Thanks as always for reading along and enjoying the journey! You're a delightful human.

In the next we'll be covering the Like Ooh Ah teams, and after that the Very Very Very team, which is the last one of this mission. See you soon!

[ninjasmart]

Thank you for your extensive answer. It took me some time to understand it. I read the Secret last year as an introduction to LOA & I'm currently reading The Neville Goddard Book Collection. I find it really interesting & it makes one think in a different way. When I read the formula of the Law of assumption it sounded like magic. I've watched E Hicks on youtube, would you say one should stay away from her considering what you wrote? Casey & Cannon are new to me which books would you recommend?

Casey & Cannon - all of it, anything you can get your hands on.

Wayne Dyer as well. I sometimes rewatch his lectures just to hear them in a new light.

As for Abraham Hicks - she talks about really good stuff. However, there is a big caveat. Her whole reaching is about You-You-You-the-all-powerful-You but that is separating you from Source and the energy you might get will not be from the light. Do you catch my drift?

We are truly powerful creators. But we are surrounded by angels. And we have a higher power than us. And we should never ever forget that. Ever!

Otherwise we will not return Home after we cross over. See, we are part of the universe. Just like each molecule is part of oir body. We belong to that big organism called God, yet we are separate. We have individuation.

What happens to molecules in the body who Decide that they will do what they want to do? That they are the highest power there is? That they are powerful creators, not the whole body?

What happens? They establish their own rules, cause they are bit, they multiply, they Become cancer and they end up kil**ng their host and dying with it. Do these cells rule the worl Do they manifest? No. They do not. They die.

So, if you listen to Esther Hicks - keep in mind that her teaching is self-centered and aims at disconnecting you from God, from prayer, from honoring all that is practices. If you keep that on mind when listening to her and if you take any and all of her advice with a very, very critical ear, then go ahead and listen to her. Just make sure that you ask for your angels to show you the good in her teachings and protect you from the bad.

I saw a portrait of ERII today. It was random. See, she spent her life praying for UK, praying for her people. She was a pios woman. Many will say - ooh, she's just from a different era. But no. Her devotion to pray for her people has earned her a special status behind the veil. Part of her can still stay, still protect. Her portraits are special. I don't know about what exactly. Yet. I think someone will find out soon. There will be a miracle of some sort. Her image, a spesific one, from when she was young queen, will make a difference. I don't know for what but people will want to have it in their home. Maybe long life, protection, long marriage, education, children. I don't know. I really don't. But this image is special and people will start recognising it.

[i-am-beckyu]

Its the best you can do, your so brave 🥺

We miss you a lot tho we wish you the wbolute best!

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Thanks Squishy❤️

And yes that made sense. Your lil brother is adorable ❤️

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[eriisaam]

can u write 100 words about an OC?

(if it sounds fun & not like torture surprise!)

The easy part is the 100+ words, but the hard part is if you mean "100 maximum". I can and will absolutely talk 100 words worth, but whether or not it stays "100 at most" is the torture part. 😆I yap. A lot.

I can also absolutely talk 100+ words about one OC or multiples, but if there's any particular OC and/or subject specifically you wanna hear, I'm game. (And if it's "any/all of them" ("all of them" at the moment being summoner OCs, OCs adjacent to the summoner OCs (but aren't summoners themselves) or project OCs like Enoli at the moment,) whoo boy, that'll be a lot of words. Very 'ask and ye shall receive'.)

[heareriispurr]

why is your art style so delicious

like it's the cute looking anime with big eyes sort but not overly done so it's just ✨ perfect ✨

KEEP IT UP I WILL CONSUME - er, enjoy it all!

(I loved the KamiJirou one best though)

THANK YOU AAAAAA

ive always loved anime art styles in gen that i manifested it in my own, im really glad you like it!!! 💗💗💗💗

the kamijirou one is def a fave jirou looked stunning i fell in love w her all over again,, thank you for this ask it was such a delight to see 💗🥰

[catsrus-7]

I have a neighbor and good friend who watches the morning shows and whatnot. We were sharing a bottle (or two) of wine and I asked her what she knew about the current BRF (she knows my absolute love of history [far older than modern], and she studied this shit).

No where was M or H mentioned. She loved ERII, adores Camilla, thinks Charles is a good king and a good man, adores the Wales family. Her only quibble was that the Edinboroughs were too long in the making and we need more Anne (don't we all).

I know anecdotes aren't data, but at least they involve wine:)

*Pained gulp and eyes trying their hardest to well with tears* “I haven’t really scraped the surface on my experience” these are more threats lazily disguised by a vague reference to what? That particular night she had to go to that performance? Her treatment during first pregnancy? Her entire experience as a “royal”? . This entire interview is about trying to get a response from the BRF and once again clapping back at negative press. She is sooo desperate and pathetic. Also, I don’t know if my twitter algorithm has completely changed recently but I saw almost NO mention of this latest cry for attention. I don’t think anyone cares anymore. She doesn’t seem to understand that dangling some alleged wrongdoing over a five year period is tiresome and is completely desensitizing everyone to anything that could possibly have happened to her. Enjoy your beige spiral into irrelevance MM

The algorithms haven’t changed - the interview didn’t get any traction at all, whatsoever.

I told y’all no one watches the Sunday morning shows, and here’s the proof.

It’ll be interesting if anyone recaps it on the Monday shows. I’m guessing no, because it was a big weekend for the Olympics with several historic wins and records being set.

[just-another-colin-kinnie]

*click, click click*

The clock hands on Tonys face clicked as time slowly passed. It was the only thing heard as Tony calmly and silently read a book.

Well, that was until there was the loud metal thump of a computer hopping. Colin slowly slid over to tony as he read.

“Oh. What is it Colin?” Tony asked

STOP STOP STOP STOP STO

[shierak-inavva]

…uh

i got sent a meme like 4 days ago and i haven’t been able to stop laughing so i had to do this

i swear they never all three meet up in their canon timeline but this was too funny to pass up on

(don’t feel too bad for cobb they fix things up later 😂)

[boysplanetrecaps]

The Great Produce 48 Rewatch: Ep 2, Signal Song [Part 2]

Hey there, National Producer! (That's you, you cutey-pie!)

When we left off with this ridiculous(ly important) project, we were watching the trainees rehearse for the "signal song," Nekko-ya. In this post, we'll finish off talking about their rehearsal period. It's a comparatively shorter post. Woot woot!

We pick up with the girls in F class, who have noticed that the letter F, in the mirror, looks like a Korean double K (ㅋ) . Used alone, ㅋ can mean “LOL” or “ha ha”, so they jump up and down and laugh seeing the equivalent of “LOLOLOLOL” on their backs. 

They’re in the middle of joking around when Dance Bae comes in. Immediately, they quiet down. They’re all scared of her, but here’s the thing about Dance Bae -- she’s not a total psychopath. She just has no patience for untalented girls using the show as a springboard for their acting career. If you try hard, and listen to her, she’ll treat you with basic kindness. 

She notes that most of the girls are Japanese and tells them they’ll have to work hard. They try the chorus, working on their synchronized dance, and she says that they’re doing better than the C class, which makes them feel great. She congratulates them on how hard they’re working, saying “I thought you’d be a mess since you’re F-class. But you’re doing a lot better than expected, so, fighting!!”

I love how Ahn Ye Won, the YG KPlus model, looks like an actual giant in this photo. She’s only 5’7! 

A lot of this segment focuses on Chiba Erii, aka Sailor Mercury, second from the left in the photo above, shown in what is apparently some kind of glitch mode. She does not know how to sing, and she doesn’t seem to enjoy learning to dance. A lot of these girls find this process difficult but still seem… I don’t know, interested? But Erii is barely there. I’m not accusing her of laziness. I’m saying that she’s so miserable that she’s checking out. It’s kind of uncomfortable to watch. One really wonders why she came on the show. 

She doesn’t normally have such a full upper lip, so maybe she was having some sort of allergic reaction or something here. That might explain why she was so out-of-it. 

They dance in a group, and Dance Bae notices how disconnected Erii is. She asks Erii to dance alone, and Erii, fully enmeshed in this nightmare from which awakening isn’t possible, complies. It gives off vibes like someone should have edited in really loud sneaker noises. It only takes a few moments for Dance Bae to stop her, saying that Erii is just as bad as Sohye (from Produce101 -- a girl who obviously just went on the show to launch her acting career and accidentally won). Dance Bae tells her to work harder if she ever wants to get out of F class, and Erii begins to cry, hiding her face in her shirt. 

The other girls don’t seem to have much sympathy for Erii. 

Left to right: Yabuki Nako; Bibian; and Tanaka Miku. We haven’t really met Nako or Miku before, because they sang the Banana song together that was just too hot for MNET!

Here’s another shot of them from earlier in the scene so you can see what they look like from another angle. Left to right, this is Bibian, Nako, Natsume, and Miku.

Anyway, to go back to what I was saying about the girls not seeming to have much sympathy for Erii as she’s crying. The look on especially Bibian’s face is very much… not… sympathetic. I am not saying anything bad about any of these girls. I have no idea if Bibian and Erii hate each other. I have no idea if Bibian even had this expression on her face at that moment, in reaction to Erii crying. What I do know is that if there is animosity among AKB48 girls -- and there definitely, objectively, factually is -- it is caused by the AKB48 system itself, which is (or at least was) designed in such a way that animosity runs through the whole project like fudge ripples through a fudge ripple. They’re always competing in the General Elections (or at least, they were doing so at the time this aired), and always competing for who will sing on the A side or even a B side of a single. I’ll talk more about this later on with regards to gravely-voiced Noe and some rumors about her, but there are lots of stories about AKB girls physically attacking each other, or hiring other people to do so, and/or starting malicious rumors, really nasty stuff like that. I just have to be glad that the worst of that seems to be in the past, and that for whatever reason, you don’t tend to hear about stuff like that in Kpop these days. I also think it’s sweet that when put in an environment where people tend to help each other and cooperate, the AKB girls very quickly adjust and begin to adapt that perspective. It shows that at heart, most people really want to be friends. At least, I’d like to believe that that’s true. 

Ok, back to it. Erii crying kicks off a montage of other F-class girls crying. They know that if they don’t move up from F-class, they won’t even be allowed to stand on stage during the big performance of Naekkoya. Honestly, they get to me, because most of them, I know, are working hard and it has to be so stressful to be so young, so far from home, working so hard on so little sleep. Bibian’s comments might be the saddest: “I can’t even be in Class F. I’m so much worse than that.” As if she’s heard what they said in their interviews, Dance Bae tells them, with unexpected softness, “Let’s all go up to the higher classes. I really want to see you all perform on stage…. Let’s pull the A graders down! Let’s go. Fighting!” See, I told you from the start that she’s not the psychopath around here. 

Then there’s a really cute montage of the F-class girls working together and trying to encourage each other. A Japanese girl offers Hyewon a sweatshirt, pantomiming “being cold”, and Hyewon understands and accepts it.  Matsuoka Natsumi interviews that the Korean trainees came over to talk to her when she was crying. 

I'm pretty sure that that's Ahn Ye Won, the YGK+ model, comforting her.

As the Love Theme from Produce 48 plays, they all say that they’re working the hardest because they know they have the furthest to go. Even Erii is working hard! I’m here sitting on my cat paw cushion shouting at the computer screen. FIGHTING, girls!! FIGHTING!!! Also please get some sleep!!!

Heading Into the Final Eval - 1:36:53

It’s the night before they will record their individual performances of Naekkoya for their final evaluation. Some of the girls are lying in bed, practicing the lyrics and hand movements. Others, like Takeuchi Miyu’s Korean roommates, are still practicing, leading her to wonder out loud, in slow Korean, “Don’t the Korean trainees sleep?” Sakura notes the same thing, that they seem to just keep practicing instead of sleeping, so she’s doing the same. She’s embarrassed that seven years after her own debut, she’s not nearly as good as the other girls. But it’s obvious that part of the problem is that she’s completely exhausted. Girls! Listen to your unnie! You need to sleep or you’re going to have a complete brain collapse tomorrow! 

Choi Yeonsoo, one of the YGK+ models, tries to help Minami, aka Sailor Mars/Lemon-chan’s mom, who looks like she’s about to drop. She’s only 14, for heaven’s sake.

Yeonsoo uses little drawings to try to communicate.

Side note: to any of my lovies who are studying for something, remember that your brain is part of your body and if you don’t take care of your body with enough sleep and stuff, your brain also won’t work well and it’ll be hard to learn. Please try to get some sleep! Your health is important.

They are all working together and trying to help each other. Most of them want to make it to A class (or stay in A class) so that they could be in the center. As if it isn’t obviously going to be Sakura. 

Ok, that’s it for this post! In the next one, we’ll begin talking about the grade reassignments. See you then!