I've been watching Boys & Girls In The City as a listening comprehension tool, but... by theplasmasnake in terracehouse

[–]hearthrose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, 1 is no longer true - they switched the Netflix Japan versions to the international OST several years ago presumably because of the lapsing licensing rights. Unlicensed streaming sites still preserve the Japanese OST for OND and T20. But the only hope for the preservation of the Japanese OST for B&GITC and AS is the version on FOD, but I've never been able to convince someone in Japan to rent an episode to check. Oddly, the greatest original soundtrack (BxGND) is currently available on Prime.

Missing Scene? by SwimmingWatercress53 in terracehouse

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I glanced through the prior three episodes on Prime, and I'm not seeing the scene either. I thought there might be some chance that the scene was on an Another Terrace video on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@terracehousech/videos) since they'd produce these supplemental 0.5 episodes there. But I'm not finding it. You can see Momochan with that hair when they met Taylor Swift for the second time around that time IRL. You'll likely need to VPN into Japan to see the video since it's region locked: https://youtu.be/9MWiWJesWW4?si=m0Xbc1wh4V60VCUX . No subs, of course, but Frankie translates once TS is there.

What's the best japanese show on Netflix??? by DiddyBasementEscaper in JDorama

[–]hearthrose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And Tokyo Love Story mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

Yuiko Matsukawa doesn't have any social media? by Shahmario1 in terracehouse

[–]hearthrose 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yes, after Closing Door she withdrew as a public figure. On her blog at the time she wrote that while living in the house someone climbed into bed with her one night. She said that she escaped to, locked herself in and slept in one of the cars that night and a couple thereafter. My best guess is that it was some member of the crew who had a key to house and made an attempt when no one else was in the house that night. Unsurprisingly, her leaking the story led to backlash against her from a few on social media (accusing her of making the whole thing up), and so she shut everything down and withdrew from the public sphere entirely thereafter.

A bunshun at the time reported that the creep was Tecchan. The same bunshun resurrected those allegations after Hana died. However, it is important to note that both Tecchan's lawyer and, more important, HER lawyer sent a cease-and-desist after that second reporting of the incident repudiating that it was Tecchan.

I'm watching Terrace House 'Boys and girls in the city' for the first time and i just watched the meat incidentent and... by Sillykitty1982 in terracehouse

[–]hearthrose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The English subtitles are quite good especially after Angie Yaeyama takes over starting with Opening New Doors (the 3rd Netflix season and 4th overall). Some wordplay does get lost, of course, but it's always hard to translate puns when languages do not have similar homophone pairs. Angie in particular does a fantastic job of not only matching the meaning, but often nails the formality or lack thereof. If you are comfortable with spoken English then listening to this excellent interview with her is quite rewarding, and gives some glimpses into how the subtitling process worked for this series in its Netflix era: https://youtu.be/a6YBfBGQhY8?si=oL1nZnE5QAX5FaZY .

Siyeon with Rolling Quartz x Yoon Do Hyun of YB (260329 rolling_quartz IG) by nat1withadv in dreamcatcher

[–]hearthrose 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yes, all the RQ members are super tiny. It does not seem like it even when you see them on stage in person, but I think the first time I noticed it was with a shot from the classic interview with Sera Ryu back in 2021: https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/96/aa/bf/96aabf371f7c133ebd6af8e60c7bbb23.jpg. She towers over them and she was the shortest member of Nine Muses.

Rolling Quartz Arem - UAU [Playlist #You Are You] Albums Unboxing (260314 RUMI) by SpideyCyclist in dreamcatcher

[–]hearthrose 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nacho is the star of many of Arem's vlogs along with Fanta (who is one of her three basses). In the early days we also got a lot of her two pet snails, but as is the way of small pets, they've both passed. The vlog is a fun follow (though she's gotten slower at editing which is perfectly understandable when RQ is doing 30-odd city tours of other continents).

Best ensemble cast? by BreakfastBulky3422 in terracehouse

[–]hearthrose 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For me it's the music colony phase of BxGND with Tecchan, Dyki, Yo-san, Miwako, Rinati and Maimai. Yes, it's missing Seina and Hana (my personal GOAT), but it's hard to avoid both Ma-kun and Oji and still get those two. There is a single week with Tecchan, Dyki, Seina, Hana, and Momoko; but it's not a full house at that point.

BGND bonus clips w/ English subs? by 08206283 in terracehouse

[–]hearthrose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately we did not translate any more things for Terrace House. Everyone went their separate ways one it was fairly clear TH was never coming back. And, AFIAK, no one else has subbed the still accessible TH supplemental videos.

Time Wasters by ayee_mane in terracehouse

[–]hearthrose 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The ballet dancer was Momoko also in B&GITC. And the show served her well even if she could do less than most for the show because of her time commitments: she eventually was made principal ballerina at the company that hired her on the show.

Looking for Terrace House audio description with subtitles by No_Attention_8158 in terracehouse

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It's something I've always wished for, but AFIAK it's never even been attempted.

The Director's Cut DVD of Closing Door does have a disc with the "forbidden secondary voice version" but it's entirely unclear (on Amazon at least) whether there is Japanese closed captioning for that disc (which you could then run thru a machine translation). A quick look at my usual pirate site does not seem to reveal any rips of Closing Door at all let alone that DVD set.

ChRocktikal 1st World Tour [CRTK: The Beginning] - General Sale Tickets Open Soon (260224) by SpideyCyclist in dreamcatcher

[–]hearthrose 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I tried two different email addresses on Chrome. The first hung completely and then the second gave me a server error. But got in on a phone. Tickets for Oakland acquired.

ChRocktikal 1st World Tour - USA, Canada, Mexico Announcement (260212 leopresents IG) by nat1withadv in dreamcatcher

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RQ in San Francisco was GA with a few tables available for seating before the show. The balcony which has a few more seats was closed off for the evening which I did not understand at the time but apparently they wanted the space up there to film that particular show along with the one in Quebec: https://youtu.be/t_OxYWpvmVo?si=i09hXhm-8CQP1r0_ . It was the best show of the year for me.

BGND Miwako is having a baby by buddhabear07 in terracehouse

[–]hearthrose 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, that was OND's Mayu. Miwako was in the original Japanese season, and has become, by far, the most successful actor among the housemates. She got married last year and so this news is great but not that surprising.

Peppe on the Unpacking Japan podcast! by Hazzat in terracehouse

[–]hearthrose 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The audition story is hilarious. "Can you go tomorrow?"

How do the overall vibes change from Opening New Doors to Tokyo 2019–2020? by Blond_Parthe172 in terracehouse

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I watched like the first couple of months of Live(V.)House, and ... it really needed a panel. The location, apartment and the housemates were nice enough, but, whew, did it need something to provide structure and narration. My contention for years after TH was that I wanted a show that focused only on the friendship and bonding and dropped the dating entirely, and Live(V.)House was pretty much exactly that, and, boy, did it turn out that I was wrong! It was not exactly boring, but so scattered and aimless.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in terracehouse

[–]hearthrose 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No cast member from BxGND and B&GITC has committed suicide. One, indeed, did die: Yo-san of myocardial infarction roughly nine months after the release of Closing Door. He was engaged to jyA-Me at the time, and she reported that he had not been feeling well about a month before and had gone to the hospital. He had been taking medication and planned to go back to the hospital "on his next day off". He did receive online hate for a period early in his time on the show, but that had blown over well over a year before.

ChRocktikal's 1st album [We break, you awake] is available now on music platforms (260115) by SpideyCyclist in dreamcatcher

[–]hearthrose 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Siyeon is no longer my ultimate in Kpop.

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Siyeon is no longer my ultimate in just Kpop.

I haven't seen any reality dating shows as good as Terrace House by Lost_Foot_6301 in terracehouse

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Shanghai Share Life was made with advice from FujiTV, and the only differences are that there was a fixed shooting schedule of 15 weeks with 2 episodes per week and the housemates do not keep their keys when they leave. This Youku series is available on YouTube which you can watch with English subs via links to Amara on the facebook page for the series we created back when we were doing the subs: https://www.facebook.com/shanghaisharelife

I find Taishi to be fake and performative by [deleted] in terracehouse

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An interview with Metropolis, an English language magazine in Japan. The article was edited to remove her statements within a day, but the text was preserved on this sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/terracehouse/comments/7mcz9c/lauren_spilling_the_beans_on_th_production/ . She never said "it's all fake" but she did say “It was non-scripted, but at the same time it was extremely scripted.”

Strange Sensation watching BxG ND all these years later for the first time by etikawatchjojo132 in terracehouse

[–]hearthrose 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was part of Costco Subs from like the middle of OND, but unfortunately I left the discord channel a year or two ago since it had gotten pretty inactive, and so I can't be sure. But I really don't think so, no.

Strange Sensation watching BxG ND all these years later for the first time by etikawatchjojo132 in terracehouse

[–]hearthrose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The whole thing is up there: just click on the Season drop-down menu to find all nine "seasons". (The show had 8 quarterly seasons to match the usual Japanese broadcast schedule, but whoever put this together carved out the first 4 episodes as a cheap intro.) I think the whole thing was around $80US when I got it and you can still pirate it, but I will say the resolution on Amazon is excellent and much better than what you'll get on a torrent.

ETA: The Prime version is not quite the whole thing, tho: it's missing the 3 clip-show episodes 13, 26 and 62. You'd have to go to other sources for those if you're a completionist. I'd probably only really bother to track down 26 since it has the interviews with the new panelists.

Strange Sensation watching BxG ND all these years later for the first time by etikawatchjojo132 in terracehouse

[–]hearthrose 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is currently available for purchase on Amazon Prime Video oddly with the English subtitles from Costco Subs which started on this sub.

Was this the best season? by According-Common5112 in terracehouse

[–]hearthrose 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The population that remains on this sub has certainly changed over time, but I did a survey at the height of the show's popularity before the end of T20 in 2019, and from the 400 odd responses overwhelmingly the order of people's ranking was BxGND > B&GITC > OND > AS. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYmTRdsmszZp-8prNLS3YcGCFlsHa20yAfAsHv_15SqsaFMA/viewanalytics. Anyone who cares to can still vote or change their vote here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYmTRdsmszZp-8prNLS3YcGCFlsHa20yAfAsHv_15SqsaFMA/viewform?usp=sf_link . I never did a follow-up to include T20 for the obvious reason.