Tsunku: Running Low on his Morning Musume Fuel!

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Lately few more members joined Morning Musume including two Chinese girls after Mitsui who is considered a great addition and greatly appreciated by media and fans. The core values generated when Ogawa Makoto, Risa Niigaki, Takahashi Ai and Eri Kamei joined Morning Musume because they believed in each other and especially Takahashi Ai pushed the whole group forward with her talent. After graduation of Yossie (Yoshizawa Hitomi) there is a Huge Gap as not many members are left from the old Morning Musume. What is the criteria of members graduation and is time a factor in getting rid of the old members?

Which member is considered successful in Morning Musume and deserve to stay longer?

Ans: Anyone who is able to mature on continuous basis and have a lot to offer keeping record companies busy producing more singles and attracting more fans. This is called popularity of each members and UP Front Works gauge monitoring DVDs and CDs sold per member and for the groups. Other methods include leaking any information about any of the members including smoking hot Aibon’s or Tsuji’s bad-side manners. Any news attracting too much attention only signifies fact that fans want to keep that member in Morning Musume. Considering an example for Hitomi when she received a very short-sighted press exposure compared to Aibon or Tsuji when she lost her brother in a very unfortunate incident may only meant her popularity is going way down and it is time for her to go.

Mitsui joined Morning Musume a few months ago and hopefully she will achieve rankings as high as Eri Kamei which is in the bottom of Ai-chan, Makoto and Reina, and in my opinion that is very unlikely. I have posted a video about Mitsui from YouTube subject to its continued availability.

Few questions need to be answered before we go further on Mitsui and later on JunJun and LinLin.

Q. What drew Tsunku to include just Koharu as a single person?

Q. Will Tsunku be able to produce a group of talent such as Takahashi, Reina, Eri and Makoto?

Q. Why Fujimoto will lead Takahashi when she joined Morning Musume after her?

Go back to the Answer I wrote above which is ‘Anyone who is able to mature on continuous basis and have a lot to offer keeping record companies busy producing more singles and attracting more fans. ‘

Does it mean Fujimoto is going to graduate next year?
This is a very important question because according to my analysis it would be a mistake to get rid of her at this early stage when LinLin and JunJun has a lot to learn from her. However, Takahashi will be subordinating Fuji possibly to take her place in case Fuji is decided to graduate next year. The reason might be Fuji is growing too fast and eventually Morning Musume is not her place anymore. (The reason Fuji should stay will be presented in future blog post.)

Does it mean someone who is not maturing or with least popularity will leave?
No. The reason is Tsunku still need someone to fill in some gaps such as Lida Kaori in ‘My Asia’.

Who is that person and how can we find it?
It will become obvious if you stick with this blog!

To clear things up Koharu joined Morning Musume for her beauty. Tsunku couldn’t find someone else to include with Koharu because she had tendency to grow and other competing candidates tried to perform being mature, which is not the criteria for Morning Musume. However the sad part is Koharu Kusumi hasn’t been able to develop a personality and after so many years still lack it for two reasons:

1. She hasn’t been included in any activities such as Bakajo school test when Tsuji was crowned and later for a single day sports festival when Aibon was rewarded her cape. Also she lacked other activities and fun with Ayaka’s English Lessons and missing the whole era of Morning Musume’s popularity.
2. Someone made a HUGE mistake and created a whole bunch of activities without Rika Ishikawa when she graduated. These kind of activities seized growth of Morning Musume and didn’t allow anyone to gain or learn from the senior members. For example Koharu hasn’t been able to mature or learn significantly apart from Just Having Fun, which was NOT the point of those activities. She will NOT be able to develop a personality as high as Gaki-chan simply because there is no Senior member left as her mentor.

Tsunku is losing his resources in developing the members and Needs Fujimoto the most talented girl in the top-hierarchy and to push LinLin & JunJun and Matsui to gather as much exposure from her. Will it work? If he is only *Hoping* for it then obviously NOT!

Fact: Time to clear another things up.. Tsunku won’t be able to compile a talented group comparatively better or competing with Takahashi Ai, Eri Kamei, Ogawa Makoto and Tanaka Reina. For sometime Koharu was pushed with the trio when Makoto left but Koharu refused to learn anything leaving no choice for Tsunku but to let her alone. She will continue to grow at a moderate level and won’t mature tremendously unless something special comes along.

Finally, the Strategy behind JunJun, LinLin and Mitsui

Can anyone answer a question ‘What would have happened if Fujimoto could only speak Chinese and whether she would still be decided as a leader after Hitomi?’ It is almost impossible that she would be a leader but that only declares the fact that poor LinLin and JunJun will always remain as a filler for Morning Musume because of the language barrier. They will probably get half as talented as Koharu in future and Tsunku is thinking right now scratching his head going through photographs deciding for future potential members. As of now he is unable to secure his resources and will soon run out a lot in the next year or two.

If you haven’t noticed but Mitsui looks like half Chinese even though she is Japanese. It is not a coincidence LinLin and JunJun coming after Mitsui and all looking very similar when standing in front of a mirror. Tsunku allowed Mitsui to grow a bit so JunJun and LinLin don’t outgrow the Japanese partner very quickly because both are smarter than Mitsui and Tsunku wanted Mitsui to lead. The dissection doesn’t end here as there are interesting secrets lying behind Morning Musume, continuation of Ayaya and Utada being the number #1 singer in Japan or is she?

Next Blog will include dissection on Tsunku Unable to Think Out of the Box for the future of members graduating from Morning Musume, so stay tuned for that! If you have any comments please do post or write directly to my email for private confirmed attention.