IM@S 10th Lottery Round 1 Info and Details

[This post will be updated as we find out more about the application when the page goes live next week.]

As posted last weekend, we now have the first information on how to obtain tickets for IM@S 10th. The first round of CD lottery allows people to submit codes obtained from the next 3 releases of the Master Artist 3 series, Live Theater Harmony volumes 9 and 10, and CG Animation Project 7. Each of these CDs, when purchased during the lottery period, should come with a code that you can  use to enter the lottery.

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Navigating Tokyo – Public Transit

Getting around Tokyo can be one of the biggest challenges if you’re not accustomed to it. When I first arrived in Japan it took me a month or so to actually get the hang of trains and then another year to actually learn the quirks about my stations. Maps are helpful, but for people not used to using trains, the sight of the Tokyo Metro, JR, and Keio maps can be daunting. And how do those companies relate anyway? In this post, I hope to answer some of these questions and speed up that first month of trial and error.

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IM@S Radio scratch pad – Cinderella Party! #21

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Air Date: Wednesday, Mar. 4th 2015, 22:00 JST (Weekly)
Hosts: Hara Sayuri, Aoki Ruriko
Guests: Igarashi Hiromi

Synopsis: To match Anzu’s pace, the cast set up futons in the dark recording studio and are reading the script using penlights. Meshiya, Ruuri, and Yukinco hold a slumber party and talk about Star release event and LINE gossip.


Program

  1. Riina no Twilight Channel: Chocolat Tiara – Mimura Kanako
  2.  Introduction
    • Party Theme: Sleepy Fairies Futon Party
      • Ruri: Yaaaawn
      • Meshiya: Ruri, you’re treating this like an actual sleeping party. Not being cute at all!
      • Teasing each other in bed.
  3. Shukuji
    • Star!! release greeting event:
      • Yukinco finds it hard to have a good talk with fans.
      • Ruuri give advice to fans: Even if you can’t think of anything to say, just smiling is OK. She got some stonefaced Ps. (Maybe they were just imitating TakeP!)
      • Yukinco complains that even though she’s one of the most veteran members, she rarely gets called to events: “Last year, I didn’t get invited to Anisama or Lisani!”
      • Meshiya/Ruuri joke about inviting her every week.
      • Yukinco: I’m always saying like Anzu that live events are a bother! But then I see photos of events I didn’t go to and think: that must be nice~
        Meshiya: You’re being such a tsundere!
        Ruuri: Oh yeah, you do always say that!
        Yukinco: I’m looking at your group photos on twitter, and suddenly get this extremely lonely feeling. Like I’m just a house-sitter.
    • LINE Stamps
      • Yukinco’s most used stamp is Mikunyan.
      • Ruuri: When those stamps got released, our Cinderella Girls LINE group exploded.
        Yukinco: “I don’t wanna work” stamp got instantly posted.
        Meshiya: As soon as it came out, my manager told me she bought them!
        Yukinco: Same. First stamp my manager sent me was “I don’t wanna work” and I was like “WHAT?”
      • They want stamps of their senpai idols like Kawashima-san and Koume. And Producer.
  4. Utahime Side C
    • 休日の歌 (Viva La Vida) – Futaba Anzu, Tada Riina, Honda Mio. Original artist: DELiGHTED MINT
    • OMG cute rap and Sayurin’s post-song DJ imitations are love <3
    • Don’t use penlights for this.
  5. Original Ending Aisatsu
    • Ichaicha time:derepa021_03Yukinco: Ruuri you smell good
      Ruuri: What, no way? Even though you’re in my armpit?
      Yukinco: Your shoulder, not your armpit!
    • Kioku Tadashiku Haradise Hara Sayuri
    • Party Ruuri Aoki Ruriko
    • 346 no Rapper Igarashi Hiromi deshita-YO (echo)
  6. Mio no Mitsuboshi Idol Profile: Narumiya Yume (Idol #119)
    • Mio and Anzu fight over who has to do the idol profile intro.

Announcements

Next week’s guest is Kurosawa Tomoyo

Week after next’s guest is Yoshimura Haruka


Omake

  • Listener quotes Yukinco on another radio where she wants to invite Meshiya to her house.
  • Yukinco: Well it’ll be pretty awkward if she rejects now.
  • Meshiya forced to pick between Zuttomo or Yukinco
  • Yukinco says she’s jealous of zuttomo since she doesn’t have any really good friends
  • Zuttomo’s true etymology revealed. It doesn’t mean Zutto Tomodachi! Subscribe to the channel for the reveal.

Other

CINDERELLINE – Nickname for Cinderella Girls’ private LINE group.

 

Better Know a Producer #05: Shinikenshi

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Every successful group of organized criminals has a tough and respected boss and Shinikenshi fills that role for us. Some say he once fought a tiger with nothing but a glowstick and a mahjong tile as weapons and won. Ok nobody says that, but in any case Shinikenshi is a very valuable member of HPT who is always helping the other members out, especially with buying goods from Japan. He even once sacrificed his own luggage just so he could bring back goods to the others back in the west (;_;). Being an old man, we really shouldn’t rely on him so often, but I guess it can’t really  be helped. Sorry boss!

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THE IDOLM@STER STATION!!!~Zenzen Aitakatta~

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Last week, on March 1st, through two miraculous strokes of lottery luck, I and fellow HPT’er Omo were lucky enough to attend THE IDOLM@STER STATION!! ~Zenzen aitakatta~ public recording at Kawasaki Club CITTA.

This event marked the first time the Aisute radio series (including past incarnations) has held a public recording event, and the 2nd time for an Aisute live event (see the amazing HEART AND SOUL event in 2012).

Since I neglected to write-up C3HK in any formal way, I figured I should at least do one here. Everything described below is pretty much dumped from my memory, so apologies in advance if there are any mistakes.

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Better Know a Producer #04: Seraph

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I promise this is the last Canadian P for now. #04 in our Better Know a Producer series, Seraph another Producer from the frigid north! It’s quite odd but you could say I’ve known Seraph the longest out of anyone in HPT. We both were on the Tales series online forums back in 2007 but we didn’t talk to each other much (remember I said Tales actually introduced me to im@s). 7 years later he would become discovered by the Canadian Ps and became more converted to im@s and that’s when I got to know him better. Life’s funny.

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