HelloProject :: Morning Musume & Aya Matsuura News

The official Hello! Project website has been completely revamped to reflect the massive changes in Hello! Project membership and I must say the new site is an improvemement on the last. The Wonderful Hearts / Elder Club division is obvisouly gone now and all the previous Wonderful Hearts members plus Buono! are now grouped together. Kusumi Koharu, MilkyWay and Shugo-Chara Egg are grouped seperately – presumably still an “anime groups” division.

Also now SI*NA is finally listed under Hello! Pro Kansai and Ice Creamusume and Frances & Aiko are still listed under Hello! Pro Taiwan.

Check it out! – http://www.helloproject.com

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We’ve known this day would come for some time but the day has finally arrived – the Elder Club members are no longer members of Hello! Project and the new leader from today onwards is Morning Musume’s Takahashi Ai. I’m hoping the Hello! Project website is updated to reflect these changes soon!

I became interested in Japanese music and subsequently Hello! Project around the end of 2005 and if these short four years there have been a LOT of changes! Some of the things that stick in my mind are; the disbandment and subsequent countless scandals of Kago Ai, Tsuji Nozomi falling pregnant and getting married, Murakami Megumi leaving Hello! Project and Ayaka getting married, amongst other things.

I actually first heard of Hello! Project in around 2003 through the video game Silent Hill 3 – there is a Morning Musume / Yaguchi Mari reference somewhere.

Enough reminiscing and sharing – bye Elder Club~! We’ll still see them do things through Up-Front hopefully!

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The End of the Elder Club

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Yaguchi Mari’s debut single after four years of not recording anything has managed to chart at No.6 in the Oricon Weekly Charts with sales of 19,928. The single is likely to sell decently in the coming weeks as Hexagon singles usually have a longer shelf life than that of Hello! Project releases. Well done Mari! Let’s hope she has more releases!

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First Week Sales for Yaguchi

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The title for Morning Musume’s upcoming single has been revelead as しょうがない 夢追い人 (Shouganai Yume Oibito) - People who can’t help but chase dreams. The single will be released on 2009-05-13.

Quite a pretty title I think.

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Morning Musume can’t help but chase dreams

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Hello! Project will release their 2009 Winter concerts on DVD on March 25, 2009. Released in two discs, one features Wonderful Hearts’ 2009 Winter concert (”Hello! Project 2009 Winter Wonderful Hearts Kouen ~Kakumei Gannen~”) and the other features Elder Club’s 2009 Winter concert (”Hello! Project 2009 Winter Elder Club Kouen ~Thank you for your LOVE!~”).

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[Hello! Project] Elder Club 2009 Winter Concert Preview

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Really excited to add that the domain Tsunku.com is now part of Tsunku.org and can be used as a mirror to this blog. I have decided to keep the site permanent whether I am available or not; sooner or later it will be updated.

All those people who are getting updates through RSS feeds will have to wait as I am still in the process of fixing it. The software is recently upgraded to latest Wordpress and I am still working on it.

I have also noticed that the blog doesn’t appear properly in older IE versions, thats because of big tag fonts. I will see what I can do about it, meanwhile you can use Firefox 3.0 (woot!) to browse the blog.

I wanted to write a long post but also still waiting on the next graduation decision, lets see what happens.

This is really crazy because a lot of things I have mentioned before are coming true!

God Bless Nihon!

Fujimoto Miki 5th photobook \’COEUR\’ Making DVD 1 of 2

Fujimoto Miki 5th photobook \’COEUR\’ Making DVD 2 of 2

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Chage & Aya Matsuura – Futari no ai Rando ‘ 08

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Hello there! My online name is “Ace McCloud” and I have known to Tsunku’s relics for just about a year now. I am a business analyst in UK living in a secret remote place not known to anyone for the past few years and will discuss the strategies played by Tsunku and UFA. It has been eight months since I have been listening to Hello Project and Morning Musume and now I completely managed to understand the nature of Japanese culture through their media within this time. One thing I learned from the events that have been taking place since the start of Morning Musume and Hello Project that it is structured to get as much money as possible by strategizing and bringing the best concepts. That includes producing music, have the best mix-up of artists for presentation and of course good choreography. What I like about Morning Musume that it is the first time in Japan where someone is forced to mature through self-development nurturing confidence and sharing experience with other members. However, in USA all artists mature learning through others and also sharing experiences. That gave members of Morning Musume a chance to develop their own personality which is virtually non-existent in almost all US artists and help them go through a fun loving process. The idea can only be produced by an eastern country who is willing to take risk in doing it, whereas the US music production companies take necessary steps to make sure that it is going to work.

There is a lot of give and take in the music industry. As much as artists enjoy the process of working and the fans enjoy the music, the record companies decide the future stake of the artists on their strategical needs of making money. This is a very ugly fact which is not much discussed by anyone in public. Please post your recommendations, comments on the blog posts and let me know which direction would you want me to go. I will go as far as past reactions of graduations, performances to what else is happening in the Japanese music industry and sometimes some relevance of what else is happening in the rest of the world. If you would like to email me anytime you can do that at Author@tsunku.org

If you don’t know what is Hello Project and who is present in Morning Musume then following are some links that will get you started.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Musume

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunku

http://www.tsunku.net                   http://www.HelloProject.com

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