"Break up caused by meat! Break up caused by meat!" - The official TERRACE HOUSE thread

I am streaming the new episodes now (since I finished the new season on netflix already). Again, the change of music is so jarring.

Embrace the Swiftness!

When it's all said and done, I think the biggest takeaway from TH for me will be watching someone make a soft scramble and being astounded that they squirted a couple of globs of Kewpie into the eggs. I do it all the time now and let me just tell you: it has made all the difference.

I can't watch the next part until imago is back. The suspense is too much! I really hope they put the original series up at some point too. I've looked around for one with subtitles but I don't think it exists.

The original series does exist but you need a VPN to access Netflix Japan and then use a lil hacking to replace the JP closed captioning file with a .dxfp overlay in EN from these guys: https://www.patreon.com/CostcoSubs

I need to start writing "Coward" in all the food I make for other people.

xp Haha aaw, that is way too complicated for me. The VPN bit is fine, but the rest of that is too tricksy. It's okay, I'll wait it out...

I've definitely threatened to make coward rice before! Will post here if I ever go through with it. Maybe someone needs to make me a coward rice for not making one.

We were watching old episodes on Terrible House (with subtitles). But it seems to have disappeared.

FujiTV (the original producers of TH, the Boys & Girls Next Door season) have very good lawyers, sadly.

Netflix only is hosting Boys & Girls for a limited time... actually I think already some of the earlier seasons of that show have expired... :-(

just got to the episode where the two guys have drinks with Tsubasa's dad a few days before the hockey final.... oh god so sad.

So, is Yui the best house member yet?

She's def. the third best of the current female members (Aya & Maya).

I just had to look her up because totally forgot. I am watching these starting Monday. Yui seemed really american in her overt innocent sado-masochism.

Maya? You're speaking from the future. Maya isn't on Netflix yet. Aaaagh

Although nice to know they're rid of Seina and that psychopath she's started dating

I want each episode to go on forever.

I realized that Yui annoys me because she reminds me a lot of myself when I was younger, right down to the hair and mannerisms.

Also I keep calling Shohei the same name as an old Japanese housemate we had for 2 years. And then I realized Shohei is a Kyushu guy too (like our housemate)!

Shion's dad played the long game by posting for 6 months on r/terracehouse before letting on who he is. He posted this today:

https://www.reddit.com/r/terracehouse/comments/a64gt8/just_look_who_my_son_brought_to_dinner/

omg. That is the sweetest thing ever. I am amazed about how much of a doubter I was about their relationship because they seriously the best.

and I obviously can't type. I am going back and re-reading the dad posts now.

The whole Ainsworth clan, from Sean's older brother's IG who is also a model:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTRNovdFkPW/

omg at this

Lauren doing a vlog for Vogue Japan:

https://www.vogue.co.jp/celebrity/interview/VJ1027-My5Favorites-2018-12-ORIG_LaurenTsai/videos

Fun fact, an ilxor who used to live in Honolulu took me to that same hot pot restaurant and it was fantastic.

What beach was that in the video. Somewhere near Ko Olina? I didn't recognize it.

The new cast on TH...that app guy seems pretty scary.

I like how You got some attention for her Juul necklace. I was thinking about cutting a hole in the neck of my Taiwan t shirt like she does.

I thought it was somewhere near Hawai'i Kai... I'll ask around.

Watched all of the latest part in a couple of days, but now I'm not sure if it's coming back? They mentioned as much, but it ended so inconclusively...not that I was massively keen on the new housemates. I found myself longing for someone like Arman by the end.

I am glad the app guy drives everyone else crazy too. Such a creepster.

I was a little surprised how long the lag time is from when they are seeing episodes of themselves. In earlier seasons it felt like 2-3 weeks? Now it's about 2 months?

I like Tsubasa and Shion a lot, but the show got better and more interesting to me after they left.
I guess like You I got used to the app guy and no longer mind him.
The panel gave Tokui a hard time for being too excited and enthusiastic about Yui’s virginity, which is understandable, but I was kind of grossed out by their general reaction to her supposed innocence and cuteness. Then they held it against her when she didn’t live up to their imagined version of her.
The panel seemed pretty quick to label people and moments “scary” this year.

Didn't they think Natsumi, Cheri and Hayato were scary? In the first 5 minutes that the app guy was on screen I said "he's so going to stab someone in their sleep." I had to look up what a Junon boy was (lol).

Thank goodness Taka finally left. He was the most attractive, boring person ever on that show. His lady friend seems perfect for him.

not really challop: app guy and Yui are the only interesting housemates at the end of the recent Netflix run

they've brought in some right dross

also tt and I are watching the first season from the start. it's great! all it needs is a studio panel, although You mumbling semi-comatose from a taxi to nowhere has its charms too

Yeah, I only made it to when Torichan joins You in a studio finally. I need to pick it back up. I really love the panel. I like Yui a lot.

omg spoiler lol

i mean of course she was the next to join

Ha, Albert Broccoli spoiled me about that too because I was not feeling season 1 with You being in a car commercial for most of it.

I needed something to look forward to.

I assume too they are ending the current season because it seemed like a nightmare to have people commuting in to Tokyo all the time.

idk about Season One being bad - it's sort of amazing! i really don't think TH has been gifted a scenario as rich as failed firefighter and actual popstar's forbidden romance while avuncular older pair are the two actually getting down to it on the sly. even the two fifth wheels are good fun

Oh, I don't think it's bad. The music was a bit disconcerting and I kept waiting for the panel breaks so it was harder to get into a rhythm. I am somewhere in the mid teens in the episodes.

At least they got a better design of bedrooms down so they can film everyone at once now.

oh god the music lol

it is very weird having the entire show scored seemingly by a British indie kid

I really need to make an effort to get back into season 1 episodes this weekend.

Natsumi and Cheri seemed more aggressive to me, whereas the "scary" moments the current season seem more the result of social awkwardness and the apparent lack of social skills of a number of the members.
I was rooting for Taka though he made me cringe on a number of occasions.
I really like Yui.
I am not into watching these people skating, surfing, singing, so I might prefer the people who do "nothing" or whose jobs are not considered interesting/cool.
I would like to watch the first season but think I will miss the panel a lot.

there may be a panel at some point. The first season goes on for 2 years or something.

I posted it upthread but yes, Boys & Girls Next Door is by far the best season (followed closely by BGitC). It spans two years, two houses & two dozen housemates... and yes, there's a panel for the majority of it.

And then... once the series ends, it dovetails straight into a 2 hour film sequel (Closing Doors).

But back to Opening New Doors, I'm not sure if it's in the current international release or the next one, but during the opening recap Yamasato gets really OTT faux-angry at app-bro and it's probably my favorite moment of the entire series thus far.

It's not *that* crazy of a commute by bullet train... esp compared to the season 1 commute which was perhaps a little longer?

when do they ditch the british indie haha

xpost, didn't app guy ( I guess I should say Sota) say he commutes a little over 2 hours one way to work every day?

I have to say I was thrilled that the panel was begging for an eyeglass date because that is exactly how I felt.