Dear Hello!Project

Dear Hello!Project Costume Designers,


I’m reading Kanna’s mind here, and she’s thinking, “I’ll kill them later, but y’know, I think I can actually work this outfit.”

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J Explains It All


My loathe-hate relationship with the Hello!Project Costume Designers is no secret. They specialize in converting rather pretty girls into walking, dancing, singing, eye-searing fashion disasters. My goal in these little critiques has a long history in Japanese culture: hammer down the nail that sticks out.

Sadly, it doesn’t work. And it can’t, because a while back I figured out their real goal, and there’s nothing I can do to compete with that audience.

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Hello!Project Telepathy Project


Reading Sayumi‘s mind, I hear: Mommy, please let me come home. I don’t like it here any more. I promise I’ll finish school and clean up after my pets and marry a nice salaryman, just pleasepleaseplease get me out of this contract.

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Hello!Project Telepathy Project


Reina says, “You can call yourself an artist all you want, shutterbug; the bikini stays on.”

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Hello!Project Telepathy Project


Koharu says, “I’m only fifteen, so maybe I’m missing something here. Why does the photographer keep leaving the room ‘for some me time’?”

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Dear Aya Matsuura,


This is how you enter your new post-H!P career?

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Hello!Project Telepathy Project


Reina asks, “God, why can’t I get that Duran Duran song out of my head?”

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Hello!Project Telepathy Project


Ai says, “OMGWTFBBQ! ROFLMAO! Can you believe this? They forgot to put feathers on my hat!

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