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Here’s a Part 2 of the Hello!Morning #258 2005-05-08 ‘Ishikawa Rika Special’ review.
Same warnings as for the previous part: lots of pictures. May take a while to load on a slower connection.

After the flashbacks from older Park St. skits it’s time for a new one. But in this one there will be some interesting changes.. After all it is Ishikawa’s show.

In this part Ganko Ittetsu is played by Rika.. And Hitomi is Tomeko.. The Ganko house gets a visit from Natsumi and Shirayusa family.. It’s nice to see Rika being a boss for a bit.. And Hitomi’s ‘flashbacks’ to her Ittetsu persona are totally hilarious.. Lot’s of slapping around..

Even Iida and Michishige police officers get slapped a bit:





Btw. there is a much bigger version of Sayumi with the handcuffs in the Public Gallery..

But in the end Hitomi is back as Ittetsu:

AND NOW.. It’s the best part Ishikawa is known for!!!

Yes! Charmy Ishikawa!! Bunch of flashbacks:

And now back to the show:
First is the usual monologue:

Yuko is not there but.. Who’s there behind the backdrop?!?!

It’s Pi-Mako!!!!

Rika announces her graduation:

And who’s that?!?!?!

Ohisashiburitonii~

Let’s just say Rika wasn’t too happy with all the interruptions:

But.. That’s not the end.. Lovely Takahashi makes an appearance too..

And who’s that?!?!?! DEMON?!?!?!

We get to see Rika do one of her dances but.. She gets Nakazawa to move around a little bit too!

And that’s the end of this segment:

This is it for part 2 of the review.. Part 3 tomorrow.. (getting sleepy now)

The entire episode is dedicated to a graduating member: Ishikawa Rika. It’ll be everything Rika alwaya wanted to do on Hello!Morning.. Warning.. There’s gonna be lots of pictures.. I’ve ended up taking about 950 captures from this episode.. After 1st check I got down to 700.. After another run I got down to abou 460 pictures.. I’m not too sure how many of them I’ll use.. Who knows.. Maybe every single one..

The episode started with Rika’s monologue:

Followed by the MM girls taking Rika’s pictures:

I loved how after all the girls left Rika alone she looked sooooo lonely and going WTF?

Then the episode has really started:

Today’s cast:
Announcers: Yasuda Kei & Goto Maki! Special guests: graduated members: Iida Kaori, Abe Natsumi, Tsuji Nozomi and Kago Ai! And the Morning Musume girls.

And let’s not forget this special person:

Next up: Rika’s life before MM!

And then some flashbacks to early days of Rika in MM:

Next Goto announced a special VTR!

A ‘mysterious’ was talking about Rika for a bit:

And let’s just say Rika wasn’t too thrilled about the details:

This ‘mysterious’ guest was no one other than MKB’s Shibata Ayumi!

Both Miki and Reina had something to say too..

.. and Rika wasn’t too happy about that either!

Next on the menu: one of Rika’s favorite games: monomane! Flashbacks to previous Rika’s acts:

Her new act didn’t get any reaction in the begining but by the end the girls were laughing:

Everyone seems to be liking it.. Except.. Sayumi!!

She gave Rika only one gong (which in bunch of shows means ‘failed’)

But it seems like Sayu liked Tsuji’s impersonation:

Next: Flashbacks to Rika’s characters in the Park St. skits:

Ok, that’s enough for now.. I’ll get the rest of this online in an hour or two.. Or tommrow..

It’s been a while since I’ve watched an entire H!M episode without fast forwarding to the better bits (like Eri parts). But the last episode was pretty interesting and I must say I’ve watched.. I’d say 80% of it. (kind of FF through TsunkuP parts)

Anyways.. The reason why me and probably anyone else who’s been into H!P lately wanted to watch that episode was: the final ‘ACE’ announcement!

To see which of those 5 girls will join as the 7th generation!

And here’s the answer:

12 years old Kusumi Koharu

Here’s some more of the ‘Miracle’ member:

And here are some reactions from older Morning Musume members:






Notice the excitement on Ogawa’s face..

And here’s some other random screen captures from the episode:

Morning Musume with the audition winner at her school:


Gotta love Rika’s ‘girl, you’re sooooo fucked’ and Hitomi’s ‘mmm.. new girlfriend..’ expressions..

More of Rika:

Random Eri cuteness: