Yorosen!

Yorosen! (よろセン!) was a late-night daily Japanese edutainment TV program featuring Hello! Project members as teacher and students. It aired on TV Tokyo from October 6, 2008, until March 27, 2009, on weekdays, with a running time of about 7 minutes. This show was a replacement for the show "Berikyū".

Yorosen!
GenreEdutainment
Presented byTV Tokyo
Starring
Country of originJapan
Original languageJapanese
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes115
Production
Production locationsTokyo, Japan
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time7 minutes
Release
Picture formatNTSC (1080i)
Original releaseOctober 6, 2008 (2008-10-06) –
March 27, 2009 (2009-03-27)
Chronology
Preceded byBerikyū
Followed byBijo Hōdan
Related showsHaromoni@ Hello! Morning, Futarigoto, Musume Dokyu!

Yorosen showcased the 3 main groups of Hello! Project: Morning Musume, Berryz Kobo, and Cute. Each episode ended with a segment by Erina Mano.

Concept

The show's name was a shortening of "Yoroshiku, Sensei!" (よろしくセンセイ!, roughly meaning "Pick Me, Teacher!"). Each week, one Hello! Project member would become the teacher to the other members of her group, often dressing in outfits related to the subject matter they were teaching. The subject matter ranged from world leaders to cute animals and everything in between. In Hello! Project TV tradition, shows relating to food often had the teacher or special student eating the food in question as the fellow members were forced to watch.

Segments
Week Teacher Students Subject
1Reina TanakaMorning MusumePrime Ministers
2Koharu KusumiMorning MusumeSumo
3Ai TakahashiMorning MusumeEdo period
4Eri KameiMorning MusumeTuna
5Risako SugayaBerryz KoboFantasy
6Saki ShimizuBerryz KobouYakiniku
7Momoko TsugunagaBerryz KoboAppliances
8Airi SuzukiCute'Golf
9Saki NakajimaCute"The greatest men in the world"
10Yurina KumaiBerryz KobouFashion
11Maimi YajimaCuteSide dishes
12Erika UmedaCuteChristmas cooking
13Risa NiigakiMorning MusumeComing of age
14Aika MitsuiMorning MusumePets
15LinlinMorning MusumeChina
16Kanna AriharaCute (with Sayumi Michishige)Arts
17Chisato OkaiCute (with Sayumi Michishige)Life lessons
18Sayumi MichishigeMorning MusumeRailroads
19JunjunMorning MusumeNational gourmet station-lunches
20Miyabi NatsuyakiBerryz KobouGames
21Chinami TokunagaBerryz KobouEcology
22Maasa SudoBerryz KobouTable tennis
23Mai HagiwaraCute6-month highlights

There was also a segment where Mai Hagiwara teaches English, but it was probably never aired. The segment appears in the Yorosen! DVD Vol. 07.

Controversy

On December 4, 2008, an episode featuring Cute aired that caused controversy. The show featured a discussion of Adolf Hitler in a segment called "The world's great people!" in which Hitler was casually called "Uncle Hitler" by Cute's members, who were also seen to do imitations of him and draw pictures of him.[1] This forced both TV Tokyo and production company SSM to issue apologies. TV Tokyo issued a statement saying the show contained "Improper contents based on an insufficient knowledge of history." SSM issued a statement stating "The check system inside our company was lacking" and a "promise to be more careful in preventing a similar incident from happening again in the future". Soon after, it was announced that Yorosen! was to end, and that SSM would be ending their relationship with Hello! Project, believed to be over the "Hitler incident".[2]

References
  1. "C-ute's "Yorosen" controversy". Hello! Online. Retrieved 2010-03-27.
  2. "H!P's TV show "Yorosen!" to end this Spring" (in Japanese). Hello! Online. Retrieved 2010-03-27.
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