Hello! Database: news

This time it was wilx24601, who sent a batch of images to the releases. The ones included are the 2003 shuffle groups, as well as Gomattou's Shall we Love and 2 Morning Musume PVs.

A while ago I spotted and eliminated a bug that caused some of the pictures of the PVs to be missing either in the listing, or entirely. This was caused by the fact that the system is more of a hack rather than well designed, and therefore the caching system couldn't take changes with the pictures into account. All should be well now.

LincsPoacher has kept, been sending me lots of pictures, and in addition to him, Wilson has sent some as well. Thanks to both of them for the work they've done.

During the summer the amount of feedback has risen considerably with both opinons about the site, as well as some corrections to erroneus data. To most of those who left email addresses I've answered personally, and for those who didn't leave an address: Thanks for the feedback!

As for myself, there are lots of minor and some larger updates that need to be made, but doing major updates is practically impossible for me until August, so it'll have to wait. Hopefully I get it done during the first couple of days of the month.

With a lot of work by myself and others, the page of Hello! Project Allstars now has pictures of all of the participating members, grouped by the primary groups of the members.

Unfortunately the system only works with Javascript enabled, and due to bandwidth limits I don't plan on making it work without it.

With Firefox the box with the picture doesn't move properly as the mouse does. This is unfortunate, and the effect can be minimized by only viewing one group at a time. I'll fix it as soon as I figure out the cause of the problem.

There are now relatively many releases with pictures of the members of the releasing group from the time of the release. The releases with such pictures are now marked with * in all listings.

The entry for °C-ute has been created, and some other H!P kids related have been updated to reflect the creation of the new group.

Not much info yet, though.

Finally, I finished the new look for the site, and if you ask me, it is a clear improvement.

If you spot any pages that are shown incorrectly after the update (I've checked most, but not every page), please let me know.

Thanks to LincsPoacher, some releases now have pictures of the members in question from the PVs.

This is at the time only used in some releases. I'd like some comments on the system used for viewing the pictures, as well as on the feature in general.

Some examples:

• Joshi Kashimashi Monogatari (Morning Musume)
  
• Senpai ~Love Again~ (Country Musume ni Konno to Fujimoto)
  
• Otome Pasta ni Kando (Tanpopo)
  
• Crazy About You (Mini Moni)
  
  

I've added an image for Koharu Kusumi. Not an especially good one -- I'll update it when I get a better one.

I'll make a relatively large update with upcoming H!P releases and some I may have missed from the past within a couple of weeks, but right now I lack the free time and the willpower to get it done.

I just got 'round to adding the new shuffle groups for this summer: Sexy Otona Jan, Elegies and Puripuri Pink.

Without having heard their songs there is not much to be said, except for that this time only 3 members of Morning Musume are present in the groups, and that there are only total of 11 people in the groups combined.

Unrelated to that, I fixed a bug that caused some pages to be displayed doubled. I had fixed that a couple of weeks ago, actually, but uploaded the old version of the file accidentally. Thanks to anonymous reader for pointing out the problem (even if indirectly).

As many of you probably know, Rika Ishikawa is scheduled to graduate from Morning Musume on May 7th.

Unlike with other recent graduations, instead of reacting to it afterwards I made some changes to the contents on this site in preparation of the event. Nothing major, mainly some sentences changed so that they apply better in the future as well.