HelloProject :: Morning Musume & Aya Matsuura News

I believe I haven’t yet heard any news on who is going to graduate this year and there are some rumors that it might be Risa. But lets not focus on that unless we have any confirmed news. This time of year I am sure nobody wants to see good people leaving and I am definitely sure Eri, Risa, Reina and Ai will stick until at least next year. That means there are some new measures Tsunku should take in improving the members this year.

At the moment we have the two exchange student and Mitsui who are having a real difficult time adapting the MorningMusume culture and it will certainly take them some time before they successfully fit in. There used to a lot of talent if you look back in years 2000 and 2001. I happened to found a clip on Youtube where some Generation 1 & 2 members were having arm-wrestling. You can easily see from this clip all first generation members had some level of personality BECAUSE they were slightly older (age wise) when they came and had developed some level of potential that was easily accepted by Tsunku.

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If you look closely every single person is enjoying, having fun and is focused on their own personality.

But all new members in 2008 looks half scared to death and don’t look spirited.

Then came the time of Takahashi, Eri, Reina and Risa who could easily fit in because they had learned from the ‘Originals’ and wasn’t long before they explored what they are good at. The age factor played a major part, because they were younger then their seniors but still slightly matured. However, the exchange students and Mitsui are too young for their role and had no previous initiative in developing themselves. I am sure it was slightly easier for them to join then the other members which shouldn’t be the case & ITS THE SAME problem that Koharu Kuusme had or still having when joined Morning Musume and even now she is not at the same level of what Reina and Risa used to be when they joined the group.

LESSON Learned

Do not recruit young members unless we have a pool of adult members who can train them. Which is not the case at the moment and all current young members will continue to have problems.

So how about that, all problems started when the Agency and Tsunku initiated recruiting people who were too young for the group. If any one of you remember that 2nd Generation contestants liked to join Morning Musume because they thought that Love Machine at the time was well.. a lot of fun! Was it? It had nothing to do with the members? What if we replace the image of all 1st Gen. members singing Love Machine with the current members and would it still be successful? Oh well.. if it was that easy for the agency to understand then we won’t be having any problems with the group as of now.

Lets divide Morning Musume in two groups to make them understand better. The ones who are adult and the ones who are young and we all know who they are. In 2008, the talented adult members are almost the same number of the young recruited members and it wasn’t the case when Rika and Yossie got recruited. Also the adult members at that time had different level of builtin persona that later affected all new members. That is exactly the thing lacking in Reina, Risa and Ai (the most talented ones). These three girls should be retained for at least a year under Any circumstances that would somehow help in keeping the morale of H!P fans & members. It would be a stupid mistake to graduate one of them this year.

How can we increase level of talent?

Thats the real question because we need talented members and we need them fast. Today some of the members are not talented in the group and we cannot allow good members to graduate because time is running out and Tsunku is almost killing the whole Hello!Project on the basis of Morning Musume. It shouldn’t be like this and they need to take some drastic measure to increase the talent. I am thinking he needs to recruit at least 4 members this year preferably not that young. Spend a lot of time this year in maturing them and hopefully everything will turn out just fine. Not an easy task, yes I know because the recruitment process will certainly be tiring.

The way it should work out is simple. The exchange students if not learning properly or taking time must be nurtured from top members and Bottom up new talented members. That can only be done recruiting fresh matured talent and I must say that it would be a miracle if Tsunku is able to come up like members from Generation 1st to 7th; because until now I Strongly believe he was only struck by Luck, which he has just run out of.

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