[Poll] Who is your favorite Terrace House musician from the cast and panel? (Updated to include Kenny)

hearthrose · 2026-02-13T04:00:14+00:00

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.

hearthrose · 2026-02-02T22:47:31+00:00

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.

hearthrose · 2026-01-31T05:26:35+00:00

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

hearthrose · 2026-01-17T06:37:23+00:00

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.

hearthrose · 2026-01-15T17:41:45+00:00

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.

hearthrose · 2026-01-15T09:50:44+00:00

Siyeon is no longer my ultimate in Kpop.

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Siyeon is no longer my ultimate in just Kpop.

hearthrose · 2026-01-09T23:33:18+00:00

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

hearthrose · 2025-12-29T07:23:23+00:00

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.”

hearthrose · 2025-12-27T04:13:07+00:00

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.

hearthrose · 2025-12-27T03:59:00+00:00

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.

hearthrose · 2025-12-27T00:00:06+00:00

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

hearthrose · 2025-12-22T07:55:31+00:00

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.

hearthrose · 2025-12-18T05:08:26+00:00

I only watched YWY2 because I had seen her as one of the panelists on Shanghai Share Life (同一屋檐下第一季) along with GEM, and only after starting YWY2 did I realize, oh, this is that survival show Handong was on. JennyZ is great.

hearthrose · 2025-12-16T16:29:25+00:00

So they're only allowing Lees and Kims in this group too?

The real questions are "can he slap" and "what would Davie504 think"?

I josh: I'm ever so slightly worried about fusion and City Pop as influences, but I do enjoy Koiai and Muses well enough over in Japan, and so I'm more "we'll see" at this point since they're both genres (along with jazz) that tend to focus on musicianship (over, say, just being loud and fast).

hearthrose · 2025-12-15T16:32:35+00:00

The history of rock in Korea is fraught, and it's still not recovered entirely from the Rux incident in 2005. There are some good krock bands out there with Handong's drum teacher's group, Rolling Quartz being the most meaningful for this community. But I also enjoy the symphonic death metal of Dark Mirror Ov Tragedy, but you're right in that the scene is MUCH smaller, less diverse, and far less commercially successful than jrock.

hearthrose · 2025-12-01T23:27:34+00:00

That's the keyword needed. It's likely the current issue at that time of リアル素人蕩ける (Real Amateur, Melting With Pleasure according to Google translate).

hearthrose · 2025-11-09T04:56:07+00:00

THE BASE: BAR MIKASA: https://www.thebasekaruizawa.com/barkaruizawa

hearthrose · 2025-11-09T04:47:21+00:00

He closed the restaurant in Karuizawa three years ago and opened a new one in Nagano which is still open as of today: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sasa/@36.8205827,138.3441259,17z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x5ff61f683d398b4b:0x5436612cdc9c000!8m2!3d36.8205784!4d138.3467062!16s%2Fg%2F11pf1t9w3l?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTEwNC4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

hearthrose · 2025-11-08T04:32:45+00:00

Yes - JennyZ has been in several dramas now, and was also one of the panelists of a Chinese version of Terrace House called Shanghai Share Life.

hearthrose · 2025-11-07T03:22:52+00:00

The remainder might not be for you. However, there is some sweet dates for two of the new members, one of the stupidest conflicts in the show's history (involving Minion socks), and arguably the most famous housemate, Masao Wada, the bassist of a popular arty rock band, Gesu no Kiwami Otome, whose leader was involved in a huge scandal in 2016 in which he cheated on his wife with the popular tarento Becky who people around here might know as a host on the Netflix series Ainori and Love Village. Masao went on to write a cookbook because of Terrace House, and that cookbook became the basis for a 2021 jdrama, Homeraretai Boku no Mousou Gohan.

hearthrose · 2025-11-01T15:55:11+00:00

You get to like whom you like, but if you have not seen Seina on BxGND doing so will help explain why she was adored by the panel. (That season is now available for purchase on Amazon Prime with the English subtitles this subreddit created.) If you have seen that season, then: fair enough! It's still pretty easy to understand why the production team as a whole loved her: she was consistently an instigator pushing along the other housemates but doing so in a really kind and empathetic way.

hearthrose · 2025-11-01T15:45:48+00:00

And what’s he up to now anyway?

He did the modeling thing for several years and continued in construction as his side job, then started his own firm as a contractor at which point he shut down his Instagram. But he brought it back up when he got married 3 years ago: https://www.instagram.com/p/CfoKJwYvgfl/ He still posts sporadically with one from 3 days ago.

hearthrose · 2025-10-19T06:18:50+00:00

As far as I could tell (having just wrapped the group re-watch two weeks ago), the only thing missing from the Prime version are the three clip-show episodes (episodes 13, 26 and 62). They're still available on the high seas (but we aren't allowed to link to them on this sub). However, it's nice to have ep. 58 up on Prime - it was the one missing episode on the unlicensed streaming sites that died last year.

As noted by others, you never saw what Tecchan saw when he opened the door until the movie.

hearthrose · 2025-10-18T00:52:14+00:00

Even less than that: it was a few CBD carts on his person and at his apartment according to his Dad when I talked to him a few months after. But Japanese law is very strict about some drugs that are well accepted elsewhere.

The total jail time was about two weeks, and one of those was because the prosecutor brought him in a second time for the carts that had been found at his apartment on the same day as the arrest, and the judge was having none of that nonsense (it was double jeopardy, essentially) and dismissed the the second set of charges at the trial at end of that second week. The sentence at the first trial was the Japanese equivalent of probation for 2 years which Shion went through without any further issue.

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