Right, so now the whole of the first episode has got subbed, I thought I'd watch it - bear in mind I haven't watched any idol variety in over a month, bar a little Eizo Centre a few weeks back...
It was great having halfassedsubs back, they are always funny, and made the Suki!Suki!Skip! song great. However, after 5 minutes, I wanted to turn off. The problem with the show was the celebrity comedians - I simply don't want to see them. I want to see an idol show not a random Japanese comedian show. Anyone who follows me on twitter knows I don't think anything of Japanese comedy - maybe it's far too different to British comedy? Anyway, after the comedians did their stuff and the HKT girls started to do their thing, I really enjoyed the show. As for Episode 1 of Nogibingo, it seems to want to introduce the key members of Nogizaka, which makes sense, but after the first set of creaming, it got boring fast - it was just different girls getting creamed. And then the 2nd half of the show just introduced Nogibingo, which we all knew was coming, and recapped all the creaming episodes... dull. I'm not sure if it's worth watching a 2nd episode of all this, but once halfassed does episode 2 I'd be tempted, and then can also see what Nogibingo is like as an actual episode.