Furusato

Time for another release right before Easter!
We finally were able to pull of our 399th release and I'm very pleased with the outcome. The performance from Kusumi Koharu-chan's Graduation is also the very song that she sang when she auditioned for Morning Musume. Fans and Friend were pretty sure that this song was going to be her last one and they proved right.
It's a soothing song about a mother and was actually one of the first singles of Morning Musume ever released back in 1999.

Kusumi Koharu - Furusato (MM Concert Tour '09 Aki ~Nine Smile~)

Have fun!

A Treat For Myself

I wanted to treat myself to something yummy today so I went shopping and found these delicious looking strawberries which I topped of with a really yummi vanilla flavoured yogurt.

Oishiii!!! And I so adore both strawberry and vanilla flavour.

Gibbs

Hello again!

Time for a new "old" release.
I don't know when I actually finished this song - probably in January or so -  but it finally was released. This song is quite old. It was first released as a single ten years ago, in 2000. Amazingly this song is still one of my favourites together with the song "Apple Song" (Ringo no Uta). I'm talking about this amazing song: Shiina Ringo - GIBBS (gibusu).

Links can be found at the HaroRanger Blog Page. Have fun and see you later!

Movies

I'm going to the movies, I'm going to the movies *singsong*

yaaaaay! It's been a while since I last went to see a movie with friends so I'm really excited to do just that in a few hours.
That's the movie it's going to be. I'll tell you more about how I thought this movie was as soon as I saw it.

mou yamete! もうヤメテ！

Lately, I've seen an increasing number of groups starting to fansub - which is fine - if not for them doing the projects I've already started on.

It's really frustrating to see other groups releasing the projects I've been painstakingly working on for days if not weeks, even though they know that H!F is still working on a lot of PVs and that we normally do most of them, even if we take a little longer to wrap them up.

I mean H!F is also looking out for other groups and try not to start or do projects that have already been done. It's so frustrating, demoralizing and I lose the interest in working on said projects.

I don't mind other groups working on the same projects in general. We already had a few of those, but at least those groups knew we were not going to release the close-up or dance versions and they used those for their own release and we still could work on the normal version.

I don't know if I even want to work on more stuff right now. We've (SC and me) been trying to pull off a few releases still even though we are considering closing H!F for good. The lack of staff and the popping up of new groups working on the same projects we work on makes that decision even more plausible.

We'll see. Maybe I'm going to do a few more vids before we close up. I don't know yet. *sigh*

addendum:
It's not like I (we) want to monopolize the H!P fansub scene, but everyone knows that fansubbing is a lot of work and that you need to put a lot of time and thought into a finished piece of work. It just stinks to have all that effort be a waste of your time if someone else puts out the same video just before yours is going online.
It's not like people don't know that we (H!F) work on most H!P releases - we definitly do all the Morning Musume, Buono! and Guardians 4 stuff and we've been telling that in a lot of posts and release notes lately - and that we've been planning on doing most Berryz stuff, too.

Oh well. I can't tell people what they should do or not do. I just want to mention that it's frustrating for everyone else and especially for me.

Sorry for the rant-post. I just had to get this off my mind.

Only You

wah. Late again. Nvm.

Here's another release we pushed out last week.
It's definitly one of my fav song of this concert.
This one is Zoku v-u-den (the new Biyuuden group with Risako, JunJun and Sayumi). This song is just awesome as as Risako rocks the deep voice and JunJun looks freaking great while rocking out with her air guitar. You just have to check this masterpiece out.
The song ONLY YOU is a Cover by the really awesome rock group BOØWY, one of my favourite bands, which makes this even better. Enjoy!

Addendum: Triple Release Spree

following those releases here are the youtube links.

Thanks to shyangel133 for uploading them!

Triple Release Spree

I'm happy to announce that we finally pulled off the 3-day Release spree we planned on short notice.

SC described it as:
Takahashi + Tanaka = ReinAi (Duet)
or
Slow + Slow = Fast
which fits perfectly!!!

We started off with the release of the H!P '09 Summer Kakumei Gannen ~Hello! Champloo~ solo performance of Takahashi Ai's Cosmos, a very nice and slow ballad followed by Tanaka Reina's Heya to Y Shirt to Watashi, also a very nice ballad about how you should not cheat on your girlfriend or else you'll regret it.

The last song to be released was todays duet by both Tanaka and Takahashi. The song's called Kioku no Meiro and is actually a song by High-King, where both girls were the lead singers in. The performance was from the MM Concert Tour '09 Aki ~Nine Smile~, a very awesome concert!I hope everyone enjoyed this - and we'll see you again soon I hope. Leave a comment when you liked the releases!

Youtube links will follow as soon as they are up.

PS: Thanks to everyone who helped on these releases!

dinner for 2

Yummy. I was thinking along getting some "salad" for dinner so I had myself mozzarella salad with sliced tomatoes, a few slices of italian prosciutto and garlic bread, together with some black oil (as we call it). It's pumpkin seed oil.
Wow, that was awesomely good.

scary structure

this house is kinda scary! when I was visiting my aunt at the hospital
I walked by and thought that this thing has to collapse soon. funny
thing though, that house has been around for as long as I can remember
and it still looks exactly the same. guess it's just stubborn enough
to remain

snow again

seems like the weather can't decide if it wants to be warm or cold. 2
days ago at the same place we had sun and blue sky. Jesus

Concert Releases!

It's been a while since we (H!F) released new Concert performances.

Don't be mad at us for being late with all these releases, but what can we do. We're pretty much working alone and I'm the only karaoker, again. Haaaaaa, work's just piling up and I don't know what and when to do them. It's prett y bad right now.
But we'll get through it.

SC seemed to have ants in his pants as he was frantically timing new performances as soon as he saw that I had some more free time or will to work on new stuff! Anyway.
There are a lot of new performances coming out soon and we hope you'll all enjoy them. The first ones to go around are these two:

1.) Petitmoni V - Pira!Otome no Negai (H!P '09 Summer Kakumei Gannen ~Hello! Champloo~)
This song is just sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo awesome. When I first saw it on YouTube I just knew I had to do it. Unfortunately SC didn't want to time it as those parapiraparappo where too much for him. Luckily I had my timer Lailu jumping in - thanks again for your help, Lailu - and thanks to him we were able to release it only 3 days after considering working on it. The colors are just great and I worked on one of my custom fonts again to make those dots in a half circle.
I'm still watching that song twice a day because I so adore it. I hope you guys will too!?
Let us know how you liked it!2.) Matsuura Aya - Watashi no Sugoi Houhou (FC Event '08)
The second song to be released was from a Fan Club Event back from 2008. Asagi, one of H!Fs timers had this project timed and lying around but he couldn't work on the effects for some time and in the end asked H!F if we were interested in doing it. Since I am a huge Matsuura Fan we agreed and released it a few weeks later. Thanks again Asagi for letting me work on it. I really enjoyed it!

Other Concert releases coming soon, so check back here in a few days!

Bye and good night for tonight!

The Only Winter Love

A while ago there have been a two new Mognet releases.
I'm very happy about those as Mognet was basically the group which inspired me to work on karaoke in the first place some 5 years ago. Later I then joined the team and we became fast friends. They also provided me with a platform to work on PVs with German subtitled videos, which I greatly appreciated. Today Mognet is unfortunately pretty much inactive as members left and the initial group members grew up and started a working life.

Oh well. In January we released two winter-themed PVs.

The first one was Yoshii Kazuya's bakka. The title of the song itself is quite funny as Ba(k)ka can actually be read as "Idiot", but in this song it's considered meaning "only". The song is simple in its sound but the meanings of the lyrics are very deep, so please make sure to read them thoroughly. We decided to keep the karaoke effects very simple and we played around with the blinking lights of the night to go with the flow of the city. This PV also featured artists of the very famous band KREVA!

Kumama loves this song and so I was very pleased to hear that she enjoyed this! I hope you will too.

The other we released was a song I insisted on doing because I really loved it. We had it lying around for over 2 years until I finally had the time to work on it. We're talking about BoA's Winter Love, a quite ballad where BoA is encased in ice cubicles singing about leaving the love of her life if it's better for it.
Still quite lovely!Please enjoy those two releases and I hope we're soon going to release the other songs we already finished!

Lots of new releases!

There've been lots of new videos out from my karaoke studio, but I was too lazy to update my blog and then I forgot (yes, that's my line of the day) and now there are a lot of them and I don't remember the timeline.

I'm just going to do it with the flow and update in the couple of next entries what was released. Sorry if it's not in the right order!

First thing out I remember was a release for Hello!Fansubs. I'm not really a fan of this particular song but SC and I are trying to get all of them out so I had to do it. What I'm talking about is °C-ute's latest single "Shock", which we correctly labeled "Suzuki Airi feat C-ute - Shock", as that song was purely Airi with some "Uh, Ah, Chu" sounds from the other C-ute members plus 4 or 5 lines of chorus, repeated twice. The song itself was boring but I had fun working the lightning into the Shock word. SC enjoyed the effect, which was what I was aiming at! YAY!Following this release I finally was able to work on Buono! - Take it Easy! I'm sorry guys, that it took us sooooooo long to finish it but I really had other stuff on mind and sometimes a good work just need some time to stew. After taking my break I finally regain some of my creative ideas and I was able to finish this off in only 2 days of work!
We played with the background colors of these gorgeous shots as well as parts of their "costumes". I loved the outcome and I especially love the colors!
Colorful Karaoke Are the Best!! (o^_^)b

That's it from this front. Following up are Mognet and H!F Concert Releases! Stay tuned!!!!!

Updating Mediafire Anime Account!

Just so you guys know I'm currently updating my mediafire Anime Clip Account.
There were a few new vids done in the last couple of weeks.

The last time I remembered updating my account mediafire has been off and I forgot again.

So this time I'm doing it!!

HA!

my yummy package arrived!!!!!

Finally, it arrived! I've been waiting for it! I ordered some goods from a japanese supermarket via my friend Kumama. A month ago I asked her if it's possible for her to send me a package with a few things. I still had 4 manga I wanted to get but I was unable to optain in Europe and I also wanted some Hi-Chew! She promised me she'd send those goodies over whenever I was ready for it and a little over a week ago she said she's sending it over! Today first thing in the morning it arrived and as you can probably see I already had a Hi-Chew gum in Dragon Fruit flavour!!!!!!!!

THANKS AGAIN, KUMAMA!
So yummy!

I also had some instant curry for the "hard" times when I'm broke or too lazy to get money from my bank account and starve myself for half a week. ;-)

YAY~ *chews on a cherry flavour Hi-Chew* yumm, though I still like the blood orange ones best!

good morning everyone

time for breakfast!!! Yeah, I know weird breakfast!
I've been up since around 2am, but have been lying around in the dark in bed till around 6am listening to some audio books. Then I took a bath and made myself presentable again.
Since my stomach was really making aweful noises I decided to make breakfast. I decided on some salted rice and I still had fish with cheese crust left over which I also made for breakfast.
It was really great!