#mizuki fans how we doing? 😭

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heyyy pjsk/mizuki fans how we feeling...?

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Words That Have The Same Sense Of Familiarity, Choreo Familiarity

Evening

July 28th (Sun) 📍Mizuho PayPay Dome Fukuoka

At "Hawks SUMMER BOOST 2024"

It has been decided that Morning Musume '24 will be performing after the match! Thank you very much!

Nah…Um…

Just the day,

Maria's dream came true, We sang and dance a EsCon Field HOKKAIDO, It was a really wonderful experience🥲🫶🏻

Somehow, next,

we'll be visiting Mizuho PayPay Dome Fukuoka…

!! Amazing…Having such a luxurious connection It makes me really happy

"Hawks SUMMER BOOST"

Lets make the festival exciting🍻🏮🍧🎆 Lets have fun together~~~

Since I didn't write it yesterday, Please let me write 1 thing!!!

Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles First win in the exhibit games🏆

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!

Rakuten Eagles were, Holding the myfavE DAY event, I was interested in this celebration😭👏🏻

Its amazing to win on such a day😭👏🏻

I watched the matches throughout the day and night, Although it was the highlights⚾️ I had to support…⚾️

Rakuten Mobile Park Miyagiii⚾️

Has everyone had some fun lately!

For me, today, Mei and I danced to Da-iCE-san's I wonder, It was fun😆😆

😆😆My face was like this the whole time dancing lol

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Dancing it several times, Here its like this~🕺 Should we do this~🕺 since it was like that,

It felt like that choreo was familiar to me, It was interesting--!

The beginning and end were completely different🐼🐼

Please definitely give it a watch~🕺

(I'm posting this with the meaning that it is Mei and I lololol)

Everyone, Since you watched the dance, You had fun today, right? Right?

.😆💚💙

- ̗̀📣"Hello! Project 2024 Summer ALL OF US!" Notice of FC 2nd Reception

The Hello! Project concerts, are my next opportunity to stand in front of the fans~~ I've ended up getting nervous no matter what recently~~ I'm also nervous about Hellcon no~~oo~😕😕

But I'm looking forward to it, and the rehearsals

Although its Vega and Altair, The regions other than Osaka and Aichi only have 1 variation, Its a shame we can't do Vega..🤔💭

Well! It'll be fun anyway!

Miyagi, Hiroshima, Osaka, Fukuoka, Aichi, We're still having an advance FC reception🎫

Thank you very much for your support

- ̗̀📣Morning Musume '24 74th Single "Nandaka Sentimental na Toki no Uta/saiKITOU" Commemorative Release Announcement

We've also decided on this!

We didn't have this in the first half, right.. Its been a while since there has been an opportunity to speak directly

Since its a precious opportunity, I'd be happy if, I could talk to all kinds of different people~~😌🪽

Its a lot of news all at once- ̗̀📣

Um..Do your best.. Please check it out! lol

📺Hello Pro Dance Gakuen Season 11

June 6th (Thurs) 11:30PM~ Learning Locking from HIYORI-san🕺

Currently on air!

Sendai Broadcast "Ara Ara Kashiko" June 15th (Sat) Ishida Ayumi Goes~!

I appear once a month as part of the AraKashi Family

The previous shows, and makings, are on OX VIDEO STORE!

Thank you for following.. Instagram💙🩵

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May 15th Release Morning Musume '23 Concert Tour Fall "Neverending Shine Show ~Seiki~" Fukumura Mizuki Graduation Special YokoAri's 2nd Day With Fukumura-san's Graduation Performance

May 15th Release Morning Musume '23 Concert Tour Fall "Neverending Shine Show" SPECIAL YokoAri's 1st Day With OG Performances

🪩The MusiQuest 2024 July 21st (Sun) PiaArena MM

We're challenging a new festival stage❤️‍🔥 Absolutely, Definitely, Thank you for your support❤️‍🔥

🪩Hello! Project 2024 Summer ALL OF US "Vega" "Altair" From July 13th~September 1st Traveling To 7 Cities Nationwide All Hello! Project groups are performing🔥 I don't know anything about how it'll be yet so, I'll tell you when I know more!

📻Morning Musume '24 Morning Jogakuin ~Houkago Meeting~

Airs Every Saturday, On Radio Nihon at 12:00AM~

Past Broadcast Episodes Are Available →Program Details

I visited as a guest🪽 "Sayashi Riho and The Time From Now On" presented by Meiji Bulgarian Yogurt

see you ayumin <3

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6 Months and 7 Days！Thank you very much！Yumigeta Ako (23.11.30)

Good afternoon！

I'm Yumigeta Ako 🛑

Yesterday was

Yokohama Arena 2nd Day！

Autumn Tour Finale！

For these 2 days at Yokohama Arena、

Really thank you very much！

Being able to do a concert at Yokohama Arena with all of our fans makes me feel so emotional……😭

I'll remember it forever！

Really Really Really thank you very much！

Also❗️

Fukumura-san congratulations on your graduation‼️‼️

Yesterday I wrote that I wasn't sure how I'd feel during the concert… and I was exactly right。

Before it started I was like Yaーy Yaーy We're at Yokohama Arenaー！But when we started our circle huddle it suddenly hit me that this is the last time we're doing this with Fukumura-san、and that made me sad but then I was like I can't wait to see Fukumura-san looking so cool and soft during the performance！… I just kept going back and forth。

The concert started

The medley ended

The encore ended！！！

Fukumura-san had a letter！

Something that made me super happy、is that Fukumura-san always calls me Gettaa、but sometimes when we talk in person she calls me Ako-chan！

But I prefer to be called Gettaa in front of large groups of people‼️

But in today's letter

She called me Ako-chan ！

It's not that I'm happy that she called me Ako-chan、it's more that it really made her letter feel like she was talking to me personally、she really is such a warm person、it made me tear up。

After that we walked around the walkway together and we didn't do this in rehearsals、but I was holding Fukumura-san's veil and she just looked back and grinned straight at me…

Fukumura-san's smile really is so beautiful

There are so many things I respect about Fukumura-san！！！！

She always gave me performance advice、but something that made me super happy recently

Is in the non-no-san Special Issue

【Morning Musume。'23】 Fukumura Mizuki Graduation Interview Part Two Words for my Beloved Morning Musume。Members、Thoughts about Graduation

So this was released recently、and Fukumura-san said each of the members 「Have their own charms that they bring to the current Morning Musume。、and I'm looking forward to watching them from here on」！

And、Fukumura-san talked about me at the end

She said 「She's aiming for coolness、but I think I might describe her as “strong”、so I hope she becomes more confident to just be herself。」。

I've always wanted to be my true self while I'm in Morning Musume。、and sometimes I've thought 「Is it okay that I'm the youngest but I'm not that cute and I'm always so serious」。

But while I'm experiencing lots of new things I've also faced a lot of hardships so having Fukumura-san say this to me、

Makes me think I shouldn't worry so much！I've decided I'm going to stay true to myself！

I like my cool self❤️‍🔥

My beloved Morning Musume。is a 「Strong」 Morning Musume。、so I'll keep this in mind and keep working hard💪🔥

I first met Fukumura-san about 6 months so when she told me I was joining……

And I joined on 5/28！

Which was 6 months and 7 days ago！

I can't say our 14 member lineup lasted for long、but I received 1 billion years worth of love from Fukumura-san‼️‼️‼️‼️

So I want to pay this back as a member of Morning Musume。myself、and make Fukumura-san really really happy！！！

I really really really really really really really love her‼️‼️‼️‼️

Fukumura-san congratulations on your graduation‼️‼️‼️

💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

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I said this before in my response to firey, but again, this is a misreading of how Sega markets Puyo. Puyo isn't being marketed to children, it's being marketed to millenials who remember Puyo/Madou from their childhoods. Lemme self quote here:

This is really a bit of a misunderstanding of how Puyo is marketed. It's really not a kids game (in fact, Quest has a disclaimer that you should only play it under the age of 14 under the supervision of an adult, because, it's, well, a gacha game, and gacha games are not made for kids at all), but a "nostalgia bait" game, aimed at millenials primarily. Kids are actually just a SUB-SECTION of Puyo's market, which, yes, Sega is happy to get into the fold to, but are not the primary focus. The primary focus are millenials who grew up with Madou/Puyo in the 90s, which is heavily reflected in the merchandising and the character polls. There's a reason why Arle, Schezo, Witch and Draco dominate the polls and merch the way they do.

The reason we don't get Madou 95 type stuff anymore is, again, as I said above, there was a HUGE backlash against Madou 95 back in the 90s. This is NOT what the Japanese fans want. They want cute slice of life shit with these characters, and they want jokes. I actually had a discussion about that with a Japanese fan a week or so ago, where said fan outright said they don't WANT Puyo to go harder on the lore, because it would ruin so many fandom-wide headcanons, it would be more of a hindrance than a help.

Puyo/Madou was never perceived as a plot-heavy franchise by Japanese fans, and plot-heavy installments always tended to be far less popular than plot-light, which makes it a miracle modern Puyo goes as plot heavy as it does and is a testimony to how much the writers care about writing plots with these characters. Back in the compile days, the most plot heavy entries in the series, such as Saturn Madou, tended to be sales failures that contributed to Compile's bankruptcy. The primary reason why Madou Saturn is such a rare game these days is because it sold very poorly.

Okay, now as for what you said...

Okay, so Sonic? Sonic has had SO many irredeemable and dark villains despite being the cool funny hedgehog game that it would make modern Puyo Puyo quake in its boots. 😭 Barring Eggman and Metal Sonic, lemme go over a few.

That's because Sonic, by Sega, has always been perceived as an international franchise, rather an a "Japanese franchise" and is, in fact, barely marketed in Japan. I am serious, I could barely even find Sonic merch on all of my trips to Japan, there's way more for Puyo, and according to Mizuki Hosoyamada, Puyo is FAR more popular within Japan than Sonic (But Sega considers itself an international company first, a Japanese company second, so they push Sonic far heavier).

Sonic is that way, because this is what Sega thinks international (especially American) audiences want! So they write these one-off pure evil villains because they think it brings the "cool" factor that brings sales in the US market.

Puyo, on the other hand, is their safe nostalgia-pillar for Japanese Millenials, so they want marketable characters for that that stick around for more than one game and can be used in fun slice-of-life stuff. Hence why the treatment is different.

If they were that evil, Satan, Ecolo, or Arle (or someone else) would be forced to destroy them (the ultimate fate of Yoggus and Dark Matter), or put them on the bus so they can't come back despite fan demand (Doppel Arle and Strange Klug).

DING DING DING! You're 100% spot-on!

Again, Puyo is the safe nostalgia-pillar! Making character just to murder them doesn't sell safe nostalgia! So they don't wanna invest in it! That shows SUPER well with the Drama CDs and novels, which actually DO have purely evil on-off villains that are disposed off at the end of the story (Ouroboros, the Soul-Sucking Doll, the Mist of Dreams. etc.) But those aren't an investment for Sega, they don't need to pay artists to design them and VAs to voice them, so they allow the writers to write them!

Quest is ACTUALLY averting this now with Thousand/Issen, a villain who is purely evil, goats about being purely evil, and is hated by everyone for being purely evil. The reason they can invest in them tho is because

A) they can make topical commentary on capitalism with them, which is something millenials DIG

B) The way Quest's story mode is structured gives Thousand PLENTY of space to escape into another dimension when things get rough, meaning they can survive even upon being defeated, especially since they are portrayed as a coward. This gives more wriggle room with them and allows them to STILL be a marketable gacha unit.

So yeah, the writers finding "outs" from Sega's "safe nostalgia" marketing strategy. It just requires some work-arounds.

More evidence that it's this- in Puyo 7, Ecolo was full on evil causing problems for fun, but in 20th he lost ALL his memories because there had to be an overarching plot. So he was reverted to just a nuisance like Satan that's safe for the rest of the game's continuity.

I think THAT specifically has a different reason, actually.

Ecolo was redeemed to fill out Ringo's roster of friends.

Suzuran is an INSANELY underpopulated setting (to the point the devs themselves have talked about it) and if they let Ecolo die, it would just be Ringo, Ris and Maguro there, and again, unless it's for Gacha, Sega is very averse to investing into designing new characters that might not get used much (hence why Meena from Puzzle Pop is the easiest, cheapest design to draw, model and animate you could possibly make). So bringing back Ecolo and renvisioning him as an honorary member of the Physics Club was more economical.

Not that I am complaining, because I absolutely love the dynamics between Ecolo and Ringo post-7, I think it adds the existentialism edge to the series that it was lacking up until that, personally. Ahahaha.

I am getting sick of the redeemable/not really evil villains. Yes I do like them but there's just so many now! It was far more varied in Compile!

[Post this and I will reblog with my rant about this subject]

shit, sorry I didn't post earlier. Yap away. Or... yap eway...?

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I'll See You Tomorrow--

Evening Its Ishida Ayumi

Tomorrow, Fukumura Mizuki-san and Makino Maria-chan will be appearing on Hiru Nan Desu!, lets watch it everyone-- 🌷

Well,

Eh! How many people preordered the CD! lol

Finally, tomorrow,

Is the day of the new songs release 😳❤️

Its been about a year...

As Morning Musume '21,

Its our first and last single I'm really glad we got it out

Tomorrow, I hope you'll definitely have it in your hands 🍀

Towards are first solo performance in 2 years, We're in the middle of rehearsals, I'm really worn out every day, we've been thoroughly defeated 🤣

standing on stage at Nippon Budokan, lots of fans will see us, Imagining it as the 14 of us singing,

The joy of that super surpasses being worn out, 🥺😭😭😭

I think, we're reallyyyy doing our best!

For the single as well, I'm happy its being sent out to everyone,

I want a lot of people to listen to it,

Eh, everyone will be at Budokan, right 🥺💥

There are also a lot of live viewings 2 years worth of feelings in various directions,

its kindaaaa

like I feel like I'm really pouring it all into this,

Its not because of that, that I'm not worried, we'll do it like Morning, and like ourselves 😆❤️

Tomorrows realease,

"Gekkan The Television"-san,

Sato Masaki and Ishida Ayumi, will be published in it 🍋

Please definitely check it out 🍋

With the release of the new song,

Shibuya Tower Records-san, and in Shinjuku, Hokkaido, and Miyagi!!!

They're really stirring up the excitement at the store 😌🍀

wa-i wa-i

Also, there is already with the new songs, a lot of information, Why don't you look at the homepage for it! Share this information with your friends!

H!P

Byebyeee

see you ayumin <3 https://ameblo.jp/morningmusume-10ki/entry-12714470336.html