Taiwan’s Weather Girls form girl group in Japan
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TOKYO —
Taiwan’s adorable dancing meteorologist girl group Weather Girls have been a lot of things: Japanese school girls, ninjas, super sentai heroes…wait, notice anything similar?
Since it launched in summer 2010, their video series has taken off in Japan more than any other country, likely because most of the monthly video themes are taken from Japanese culture. Many of the themes even have the girls speaking endearingly broken Japanese, which just scores them more kawaii points.
Now, as if to capitalize on that popularity, the Weather Girls have sent seven of their best to Japan to form a brand new idol group called…Weather Girls!
According to their Facebook page, the girls arrived in Japan last month and will be releasing their first single, “Koi no Tenkiyoho” (Weather Forecast of Love) on Oct 17.
While the regular Weather Girls program rotates most of its cast each monthーwe counted a total 34 girls over the past 2 yearsーthe idol group will keep the same 7 members: Yumi, Dara, Hijon, Esse, Mia, Mini and Nue.
So can the Weather Girls stay afloat in a country already flooded with cute young girls dancing around in skirts? Some fans seemed concerned that their still-imperfect Japanese will hold them back, but like we said before, that’s one of their most charming points!
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lostrune2
Fair weather girls and their fair weather fans?
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Wakarimasen
Cripes!!!! One more set of young pervert meat for the locals to spunk their cash on.
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paulinusa
Does this mean that Japan's weather girls have a little competition? Maybe it's not enough now to just look cute and recite temperatures and forecasts.
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Ewan Huzarmy
Er, hang on .....there was already a singing act called 'The Weather Girls' wasn't there ?
I could have sworn they sang "It's Raining Men".
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Wakarimasen
Yes, the REAL Weather Girls did sing It's Raining Men (an all time classic with great associated dance moves). But they wouldn't cut it in Japan as they were all big, black mommas.
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Al Stewart
They probably speak excellent japanese. The broken japanese may be just a gimmick.
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Ben Jack
The weather from Taiwan looks fine!
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CrazyJoe
Weather Girls, yes! But not the Weathermen radicals of the 70's.
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ReformedBasher
@Wakarimasen
Of course, we all know this for a fact. No doubt Diet members wearing pink leotards on unicycles would fail to arouse significant interest also.
Excellent legs these friendly young ladies have.
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Ninjazilla
Great to see other Asian groups catching on here, and beating AKB at their own game! Bravo!
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Ronald F Stark
Another insignificant tropical depression moving northward.
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Mirai Hayashi
As if we didn't have enough girl groups
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It"S ME
Now will those Taiwanese Weather Girls perform "It's raining Men"?
Was quiet a hit with the ladies back in the day.
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anahorn
Very nice girls! I like Taiwan! :)
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avenger
Legs longer and thinner than akb48
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Lowly
I looked at the site and one minute vid clip. Foul.
Foul weather is in store for us if they get popular.
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NeverSubmit
Let's not kid ourselves here.
The girls didn't form a group, they were formed into a group by the music producers.
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ReformedBasher
@NeverSubmit
I, for one, welcome our feminine new overlords. In fact, I hope they never go away :-)
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Fadamor
Yep! Just like every OTHER all-boy or all-girl group that has existed for the past two decades or so. I'm unaware that anyone thought differently, did you?
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wtfjapan
typhoon is brewing off the coast of Taiwan, expected to pick up pace and hit the Japan coast in the near future, forecast to loose power as it makes landfall and not pose much of a threat to the local population. this is AKB48 TV reporting.
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