It's cute, I like the vibe. In the first half I was a bit worried since it was a better danceshot close up vid, but the rest made up for it.

Hopefully it works out better than the last one.

I'm almost certain that the KSS Unit was only created to prevent the members from leaving H!P, especially Yulia at her 4 1/2 years under the KSS and Honoka who is already 16.
The only one who *really* needed to debut was Sakura, because she would've been to old for the next auditions.

I rewatched the short video and I do believe that Rio's "bad" singing was mostly nerves. She has a decent voice and seems to be determined to work hard and make herself an important member of the group. It's just... I could only see two kinds of people needed in MM right now. Either a grea...

^ https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/991689605382422548/991694473694285935/unknown.png Solo gen MM: Sakurai Rio (16) Duo gen Juice: Endou Akari (14) and Ishiyama Sakura (18) Eh. Rio does look interesting, but on paper this is kinda disappointing. She's already a bit older and her singing is... n...

I'm certain they're gonna add new KSS. And yeah, they're in desperate need for new girls. Maybe that's the actual reason why they lowered the audition age to 10, to fill up the KSS.

The rumor has been around for some time, but it's never been confirmed. So far the biggest hints are: - at some point the channel owner forgot to speed up her voice and it sounded exactly like Zukki - the birthmarks on the channel owners hand and cheek (sometimes visible when she bends over) align w...

Results will be announced on Wednesday (6/29) in a special youtube video.

Oh certainly. I had Ruru as a KSS in mind though. I remember not liking her singing much, since she used to yell a lot, but once she debuted in Juice she was absolutely decent. Kishimon fits, yeah. Sakura definitely had to learn passion when she joined, but I feel that's the case with Morning in gen...

Yeah, all of Tsubaki's newest gen is incredibly talented musically. As you say, Marine is missing control at this point - but many great H!P singers had the same problem. The best H!P singers (of modern H!P anyways) started out with a whole lot of passion, like Ruru. Not saying she'll be the next Ru...

Yeah, it's pretty sad... her voice is still great, but the songs...

I decided to do a quick rundown of who was out with corona so far: Morning Musume: - Fukumura Mizuki (January 25th 2022) - Ishida Ayumi (May 16th 2022) - Makino Maria (May 23rd 2022) - Kaga Kaede (May 31st 2022) - Yokoyama Reina (January 27th 2022) - (Morito Chisaki (May 13th 2022)) - Yamazaki Mei (...

That's really nice to hear. Especially since a lot of the older members are married and might fall under the whole "a married woman doesn't need to work" idea - that's not the case, they get a salary, but even more important: the pension.

Iconic. Maria just made another legacy her own.

By the way, Abe Natsumi also has an instagram account.

What a good combo

I absolutely have no worries for the next generation of Morning Musume taking over (as in, once 9th-11th gen are out).
It took 12th gen a long time to grow into what the girls are now, but they're good.

I want to share my favourite scene of the concert, Maria quoting Dragon Ball.

Sweet. Of course these do have a different feeling than Aibon with her mini-band, but this is still pretty awesome.

The H!P discord streamed Anju's Budokan yesterday, and damn, the group is still good. Of course, girls like Murotan, Funakki and Kassa can't be replaced. And the newest 4 girls are, well, still new. But all of the newbies can definitely hold themselves up: - Yuki is the rawest of course, as this was...

It's a fun and colorful MV.
I'm still not sold on the song. Even if it was Biyo performing it I probably wouldn't think It's more than an okay album song.

Sweet.

Made me laugh, not gonna lie.
(Btw they're not breaking up, they're going on hiatus. And from the tone of it it's probably not a Berryz-like hiatus.)

Yeah, it feels... weirdly out of place. Not that the girls don't have the character for it, but it's so different from what they usually do.

Absolutely. I feel that ever since Ruru debuted we didn't have a great performance in those tests anymore, so seeing the KSS girls not being bad is always a surprise.

Glad you enjoyed them. Premier Seat really was a great idea and they did execute them well. ^^ You know, that's what I thought during the New Years concerts, and during her first Anju single, and basically every time we see her. I never thought of her while in the KSS and I don't think she stuck out...

"Diamond" will be released as Sayuki's first single on June 16!

I mean, yeah, good point. https://twitter.com/helloproloops/status/1536352886715817986 A performance of OCHA's Go Your Way. I do like them more than Tsubaki at their debut, but I'm still not sure where they want to go with this group. Juice was Karin, Country Girls was cute, Kobushi was power, and T...

I guess it makes sense to have this seperately since it's not an H!P release, but it's still a bit weird

There's going to be a special episode with thatone AKB girl... Kawashima? Sorry, don't know them. But otherwise I haven't heard anything.

Eripon has a heavy case of RBF.