One...Two...Three... Part Seven (Final)
21 May 2008
Since I've stopped the tally earlier than I thought I would, I probably don't have a large enough sample size to make any definite conclusions but I think I have enough data to work with (I said 'I' five times in one sentence! Seven if you count these too). In total I've tallied seventeen episodes of Haromoni@ starting with the episode dated 6 January 2008 and ending on the episode dated 27 April 2008.
Final Placings
Takahashi Ai : 4-5-3-3-2-1-4-5-2-3-2-1-4-2-5-4-4
Niigaki Risa : 1-1-2-1-1-3-1-4-3-1-6-2-2-3-1-4-1
Kamei Eri : 5-1-4-1-3-2-3-2-1-1-3-4-1-4-4-1-2
Tanaka Reina : 2-3-1-5-4-7-7-1-4-5-1-3-3-1-1-8-5
Michishige Sayumi : 3-4-5-4-4-8-8-6-5-6-4-5-5-6-6-2-7
Kusumi Koharu : 7-8-6-6-8-3-5-7-6-8-8-9-6-5-9-9-3
Mitsui Aika : 9-9-8-9-7-6-2-3-7-8-8-7-7-7-8-3-5
Jun Jun : 6-6-8-8-9-3-9-8-7-7-5-6-9-8-1-6-9
Lin Lin : 8-7-7-7-6-9-6-8-9-4-7-8-8-9-6-7-8
First Place Finishes
Niigaki Risa : 8
Kamei Eri : 6
Tanaka Reina : 5
Takahashi Ai : 2
Jun Jun : 1
Michishige Sayumi : 0
Kusumi Koharu : 0
Mitsui Aika : 0
Lin Lin : 0
Niigaki Risa was easily the most popular member with 8 first place finishes. That's over 50% of the episodes I tallied where Risa was top of the rankings. Kamei Eri the next most popular member with 6. Surprisingly, Tanaka Reina managed to get 5; only 1 behind Eri. I didn't think she'd gotten that many until I totalled them up. Takahashi Ai, who I thought had a more consistent run that Reina, only got 2. I'm extremely happy that Jun Jun managed to finish in first place on one occasion (even if it was shared with two other people). The rest of the members didn't get any first place finishes.
Top Three Finishes
Niigaki Risa : 14
Kamei Eri : 12
Tanaka Reina : 9
Takahashi Ai : 9
Mitsui Aika : 3
Jun Jun : 2
Michishige Sayumi : 2
Kusumi Koharu : 2
Lin Lin : 0
Once again we can see that Risa dominates the table with 14. Had it not been for three episodes where she placed 4th/4th/6th then she'd have a perfect top three record. As with the first place rankings, Eri wasn't too far behind Risa with 12. Reina and Ai both got 9 which shows that they're more even than the First Place Finishes results indicate. All the other members performed about the same, with Mitsui Aika slightly ahead on 3. Well, all except poor Lin Lin who never got a top three finish.
Bottom Three Finishes
Lin Lin : 13
Mitsui Aika : 12
Jun Jun : 10
Kusumi Koharu : 9
Michishige Sayumi : 3
Tanaka Reina : 3
Takahashi Ai : 0
Niigaki Risa : 0
Kamei Eri : 0
No surprises here, Lin Lin was almost always in the bottom three. Kusumi Koharu and Aika still managed to get less than Lin Lin even though they were absent from a few episodes. Big gap to Michishige Sayumi and Reina who managed to get away with only 3 bottom three finishes. A perfect record for Ai, Risa and Eri who never dropped into the bottom three at all.
Highest Number of Appearances in One Episode
Tanaka Reina : 136
Kamei Eri : 128
Niigaki Risa : 124
Takahashi Ai : 121
Michishige Sayumi : 105
Jun Jun : 101
Kusumi Koharu : 94
Lin Lin : 91
Mitsui Aika : 85
Reina holds the record for the most attention in a single episode with 136. That was on the Viking Buffet episode though so it might not have been completely fair. Eri manages to beat Risa's record at last with 128. Ai isn't far behind Risa with 121. Jun Jun's first place finish helps her to get close to Sayumi's total. Sadly, Aika's highest total only amounted to 85 which put her in last place.
Conclusions
So what did we learn from this pointless exercise? Firstly, that Risa is the most popular member in terms of airtime on Haromoni@. The camera always focuses on her no matter where she's seated. She's clearly a director's favourite, perhaps because of her reactions to things. I also think her leadership qualities are evident in a lot of the shows. She seems more of a leader than Ai at the moment.
Secondly, perhaps unsurprisingly, the seventh and eighth generations get a raw deal when it comes to exposure. Maybe it's because the director doesn't feel they're as popular as the fifth and sixth generations, or maybe it's because they don't show enough reactions to the clips but they're just not appearing as much as the older members.
And lastly, I learnt that pausing footage every three seconds and trying to keep track of multiple images at once is very tiring. I didn't have any idea of how tough it would be. I'll think twice about the logistics of such an undertaking in the future...
Posted byHocchan at 3:48 pm
