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

I am only 30 episodes into the first season ( think it goes on for like 80 epis and the movie) and Seina is totally fine and nice on the show. I think she is just very motivating I think Albert may know more.

Yuudai drove me crazy. I am so glad he's gone although I liked to be bewildered by his laziness and excuses (his conversations with his ex and friends were so cringeworthy.)

As RuPaul would say, Ami rests on being pretty and isn't willing to put in effort.

Yes, Ami seems to expect a lot from others while doing nothing herself.

Maybe Seina was right about the three days, because she has really grown on me. I found her appearances on the prior two seasons kind of off-putting, because she seemed like a busybody, grating, and kind of full of herself. Also, on her first episode here she was like a Real Housewife compared to these other people, but she has really toned it down.
Anyway, I am actually finding her defense of Ami convincing.

I admire how she told Tsubasa that women shouldn't think/talk about themselves that way, after Tsubasa was implying she wasn't worthy of Shion. I don't get Shion at all. I wonder what the gap is between what is filmed and what they watch on this season. They haven't shown them watching episodes of themselves yet?

Seina has a reputation for drinking lots of wine, being 「トレンドー」 (literally "trendy" but meaning playfully dramatic), drinking lots of wine, playing cupid (or "kewpie"), drinking lots of wine, passing along relationship intel, & drinking lots of wine. She's awesome, she's essentially the heart and soul of the TH franchise (can't say too much for fear of spoilers).

S3 of Opening New Doors gets really good, that's all I'm gonna say.

So when I was last in Tokyo I asked one of my colleagues if he watches TH and he said "Nah, that's for college girls."

Imagine my surprise when I check his IG this morning and saw he hosted a party last night where one of the guests was Shion Okamoto from TH Opening New Doors.

This new season of Terrace House is SO AWKWARD. What is going on??? ( I am halfway done with the episodes).

I just had to spoil myself. I don't think I could've dealt with a bad ending this year.

I need to catch up on ONH. I haven't even gotten to the second batch yet.

The cuteness almost killed me!

I am googling Terrace House drinking game because I know this has to exist.

On IG stories, someone asked Avian from Aloha State if she's watching THOND and she replied "yes, but just wait, i heard it's gonna get crazy!"

she is friends with one of the current cast-members of OND S4 so I'm sure she's getting some BTS intel.

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.