Recorded February 10, 2019

Running Time: 01:47:00 (192k MP3, 176 MB)

Episode Breakdown

00:00 – Opening

00:20 – Introductions

03:30 – Japan Debut

10:06 – Japan Showcase Crowd demographic observations

15:27 – IZ*ONE breaks first day sales

16:22 – 48 Sister Group Latest Singles

18:25 – Our thoughts on Japanese Fans

27:42 – Suki to Iwasetai Single Impressions

31:23 – Suki to Iwasetai PV Impressions

35:41 – Suki to Iwasetai b-side impressions

44:16 – Japan Showcase impressions

59:11 – Random weird IZ*ONE related news

01:18 – Allen’s IZ*ONE Rankings

01:36 – Closing Thoughts

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Greg

Hannah

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Full Show Notes

Japan Debut

Suki to Iwasetai released on Feb 6th

CD breakdowns

Content: 3 MVs, high touch

If you reserved regular CD, lottery held for 4000 lucky fans to attend Japan debut SHOWCASE

Launching with Kiss My Ft and Love Live singles

Japan debut sales 190k – https://www.soompi.com/article/1301881wpp/izone-breaks-1st-day-sales-record-for-k-pop-girl-groups-in-japan-as-they-top-oricon-daily-single-chart-with-debut-single

Beating 48G sister groups latest singles first day – https://jshowbiz.com/english/news/akb48/item/4797-iz-one-japanese-debut-single-oricon.html

Suki to Iwasetai Impressions

Initial thoughts

Are we the “trash?” 😂

Breakdown B-sides

rank them 4 to 1 based on song and PV

Japan Showcase

Did you watch?

Compare to Korean Showcon debut

Japanese camera shots vs Korean camera shots

Random Weird News

International fans have adopted animals in Minjoo’s name:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Produce48/comments/al62e9/minjoos_international_fans_have_adopted_a/

Creator of kkt emoticon oktoon tries to give Wonyoung an iPhone:

Sakura met Irene from Red Velvet at ISAC and had #Sakuras1stWin trending for a day:

Allen’s IZ*ONE rankings as of Feb 7th (15 – 30 min of hot takes) 😁