Based on her statement I kind of get the impression she’s not going to focus on one thing enough for any of it to be serious. If Karin wanted to be a soloist she’d basically have to jump into it right now to take advantage of the next couple of years. I don’t think she’d transition well out of idol-...

Called it. Knew they had graduations coming up.

It’s about as close to promotional activities as they could realistically hope for.

The average Japanese diet also isn’t one that really promotes high bone density. These girls aren’t that strong.

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Saya" data-cid="219812" data-time="1580889335">
I’ve been seeing Moe in a lot of ads for brands around Tokyo, she’s getting a lot of work.</blockquote>


She’s got a good face for it.

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Sayu" data-cid="219778" data-time="1579969546"><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Anderei" data-cid="219740" data-time="1579739315"> There’s been rumors circulat...

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Zoe" data-cid="219742" data-time="1579740249"><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Anderei" data-cid="219737" data-time="1579731284">Yeah but can we talk about tha...

There’s been rumors circulating for a couple weeks that an ex-idol in her 30s is gonna be arrested for drugs soon. Kago has posted on Twitter that despite speculation, she will not be the one being arrested lol. https://mobile.twitter.com/lovbus/status/1218294382975242247 They say it’s someone from ...

Yeah but can we talk about that debuting JE group that sold over 700k first day? What kind of deal with the devil did they strike to make that happen?

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Myst" data-cid="219729" data-time="1579718472"><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Anderei" data-cid="219724" data-time="1579710819"> Really strange that Musubu’s...

Really strange that Musubu’s grad is being post-poned. Makes it seem like there’s some wrong with Mizuki.


It really feels like there’s almost no reason to follow them anymore and I Ioved them so much for years. :/

Her entire first year of releases were also all digital, which might work now, but definitely didn’t work in 2009. I think it was a combination of things but I definitely think she would have faded away even if she stayed with Up Front.

I feel like it’s hard to say when it hasn’t been that long and it’s likely she’ll be in a very different place in a few years. If you determine success by sales, then you can already say now that she isn’t.

Nah, there won’t be. They got crazy lucky with her. And I know she had health problems, but it’s wild how young she still was when her career began its downward trajectory.

I’m pretty sure Rena’s pregnancy got mentioned here. I think she married the guy.

They’re cleaned up in the studio version. She probably couldn’t consistently hit the notes in a live setting. She never hit the 123 high notes either.

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="JPope" data-cid="219641" data-time="1578775153">Depends on how much they charge. What's the going rate for an idol photo book?</blockquote> Every single one I looked at on CD Japan is about 25 USD. Average photobo...

I feel that photo books probably aren’t a huge money maker anyway. It’s been a long time since one in H!P really sold that many copies. Like I’m sure they’re not a net loss but I doubt it’s big profit.

I think Buono means they have a hard time believing girls get to decide that they’re gonna release a photobook. Obviously they can always say no to putting certain things on.

Apparently there’s been some agency she’s been talking about wanting to join and the head retweeted her announcement. She might end up there.

Isn’t TV still fairly popular in Japan? For idols, nothing is really in vogue because as a whole the industry is back out of vogue with a few exceptions lol. I’m guessing probably streaming and stuff like that. If it weren’t for concerts though I think most of the H!P girls wouldn’t really have anyt...

Yeah, S/mileage made it to 8 in less than two years. I think the importance of physical singles is starting to fizzle out even for idols. Tsubaki were announced around the same time and only have 6. Juice=Juice have only released 4 singles the last 3 years. The lackluster release schedule is probabl...

Probably gonna go somewhere else where she can do more writing.

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="JPope" data-cid="219597" data-time="1578552275"><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Anderei" data-cid="219595" data-time="1578541174"> You can’t plan all this in ...

Even if Hirose did care, what is she even supposed to do about it?


I still don’t think those photos have anything to do with it. You can’t plan all this in the span of one day. Hamaura’s been caught before anyway.

Juice Juice is very obviously gearing up for graduations so I can see her ending up there just because of that. I highly doubt she’d end up in MM or Angerme.


They do have that Kenshuusei unit. Maybe they’ll debut her with those girls.

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="WonderBuono" data-cid="219565" data-time="1578493212">They debuted in ‘15 right, so five years? Not bad for an idol group but still pretty sad. I don’t think any of us expected Tsubaki to actually do better than t...

Hamaura is the alleged girlfriend.


The story UPF are saying is that the discussion started early last year when Hirose brought up possibly graduating and apparently when management discussed it with the others they decided they didn’t want to continue without her.

<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://helloproject.com/news/11547/' class="bbc_url" title="External link">http://helloproject.com/news/11547/</a> Final show 3/30. Wada is retiring. Inoue staying with H!P. Other three aren’t retiring but no word on where they’ll end up. Individu...

Didn’t Koharu graduate in 09?