HelloProject has been a star group of Japan representing caliber of several groups of girls. These groups are moderated by one of the Japan’s top artist Tsunku who has been writing and producing music for them. The purpose of the Blog is to dissect the events around HelloProject and analyze the strategies of UFA.
The preview of new Morning Musume single is out in the open and posted many times on youtube. you can also listen to it in the following clip. All very quiet from Tsunku after giving some positive promotional clips about the group. Don’t you agree it wasn’t necessary unless their popularity was really going down? Something to ponder on while we get graduation details possibly on the next concert.
Yes I am and I hope they make the biggest one graduating one of the important ones from Morning Musume. I am still waiting for them firing the potential key member and further screw the rest member’s careers. Very recently a new single title was announced named ‘Resonant Blue’. It will probably be the last single for graduating member that also means it can relate to that member.
Now who is that member in Morning Musume that can relate to ‘Resonant Blue’?? Possibly not Sayumi because it won’t suit her. hmm…
Lida Kaori gave birth to a child, Omedettou guzaimasu Lida for that, I am sure one day she will be a proud mother of a successful kiddo. Fujimoto Mikitty is supposed to release a new single but fans need to believe that half of her old career is over and Accept it!! She will never achieve the same significance once she had in Morning Musume and she should be blamed for it. Her career is also completely diverted from working with Aya Matsuura because Ayaya has a new professional path ahead her becoming someone very respected such as Seiko Matsuda/Moritaka Chisato and that will require a few sacrifices. I will let you deduce what could that mean but she will never kiss another woman again on TV.
A lot of people are expecting a great come back of Morning Musume according to Hello-online poll. But that would require some smart changes in Morning Musume and recruiting some quality people. Read my previous posts by what I meant by that. Watch the episode of Haromoni with Camus Sensei and can you believe that Tsunku will be able to produce something similar with future members in the next 5 years??? I don’t think so! He cannot be lucky twice & good luck with that!!
There you go a whole new year and a whole lot of people to fix up. I would like to see Yaguchi Mari hooking with someone in marriage; Goto Maki, it is almost over for her unless she gets back in H!P, Fujimoto continuously trying having No Clue of what lies ahead more like a blond, pregnancy news from Nakazawa Yuko she should try harder it is getting late or did I miss something, Sayumi gone for good and giving members more time to ponder on, Hitomi ATLEAST dating someone & Fujimoto returning for good *Even I am keeping my fingers crossed* but 99.99% sure it won’t happen.
I wish everyone good luck including the fans and waiting for another BIG MISTAKE.
I was excited when downloading some of the latest updates from Morning Musume and HelloProject’s biggest website Hello-Online. I am sure the people running it are capable and spent some real time updating it. I had quite a list of files downloaded included latest HelloProject DVD Magazine, Yaguchi Mari’s latest TV appearance and Hello Project 2007 Summer 10th Anniversary Daikanshasai.
This post revolves around the Anniversary Daikanhsai concert with the new Morning Musume Members and their performance. Delighted I started watching the video with the Intro and within a few minutes lost all excitement. Obviously something was missing and I was disappointed and shocked on the whole presentation of the concert and how poorly it was planned overall. I couldn’t stand the missing pieces and had to delete the whole concert package from my drive after 5 whole minutes! That was something out of the ordinary and I still can’t believe what happened at that moment.
Call me no-fan, critic, or anything else but I am serious when I am writing this. This is the first time I treated any concert file to the bin and I never did it before. Morning Musume no concert-wa totemo daisuki desu. Even I keep other Anniversary performances and Aya Matsuura concerts on my iPod for my 3hrs daily travel and thats what I watch all the time. I won’t deny that I love them and care about them and thats the reason I try to make my point across.
The intro of the concert, the songs selection for members and the performances were a mess. Members didn’t seem to be enjoying like before and the whole time it seemed like a brutal drag of the show then a careful planned event. As I have observed many times, usually all concerts start with a specific rhythm and good numbers added as show progresses. But this concert seemed an ugly ducked version of the usual and I would be surprised to find Any quality measures ensuring a successful concert. Tanaka and Ai at some point sang Shining also sung by Goto and Aya before, but it was nowhere near the right standard. We are used to a bit more powerful performances, and I have always been content with old concerts. There is definitely something different in concerts these days or more precisely something wrong with the planning done behind the scenes.
What is wrong then?
There are a few explanations for that:
1. The management might be losing interest in planning further for the girls.
2. Synergy used to be present when senior members were around which is not there.
3. More talented members are needed or this decade might become the best, also the worst for Tsunku.
We had a Miracle!
There is absolutely no doubt Tsunku pulled off a miracle when coming up with ‘One for All and All for One‘ with the fabulous cast. I strongly believe the time we had with all the girls around is the best time in decades to come and we won’t be having that much fun again. It is saddening and still worrying for a lot of fans. I strongly believe in Morning Musume, in their come back with more talented girls because the fans still believe in them. But there are a few problems in the management that needs to be sorted hopefully soon.
We will continue to love Morning Musume and we expect them all having fun more than ever. I will strongly 100% support them and will always welcome them even 30 years from now.
Lets not all give up hope and expect for the best. I believe in their come-back and one day they will have fans in every single country around the world.
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.
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.
Matsuura Aya’s performance of “Double Rainbow” from her upcoming concert DVD “Matsuura Aya Concert Tour 2007 Aki ~Double Rainbow~” was uploaded on Dohhh UP. The DVD will be released on January 23rd.
Its *that* period of the year again and its now time for the MorningMusume Management to get a hint. Last year was the most successful and fabulous year for the whole HelloProject with the coolest members left in the group. Its a pity that the members are doing their best to cope with the situation and kudos, props, kampai for their innocence in not realising the critical situation. I hardly believe the senior members who already graduated will be any happy about what is happening with all the existing members. Poor girls from China are in a big whirlpool having absolutely no idea on where they are heading.
I personally used to be a nerd watching Morning Musume day-in and day-out. But for some reason I am not getting any appeal to the rest of the members. The really good and best number I got anywhere from the group is from Tanjou Junnen Kinentai - Itoshilo Tomo by Morning Musume with one of the most kako-ii members of the HelloProject and I felt proud because only HelloProject can come up with these singles. Most of the time these days I am only listening to their old numbers, watching any rehearsal performances or field-trips to Hawaii. As I said previously the first seven Morning Musume generations are the top-notch talent producers and is a never unbeatable golden era in Japanese talent.
It All Started with the Curse of –> [NOKOTO]
Yes, thats right something happened in the mid of 2006 and someone in The Agency made the worst decision of graduating two members at the same time when the popularity of Morning Musume was at its extreme. It happened when Ogawa Makoto was destined to graduate with Konno Asami. That destroyed the time line of members graduation and I am sure the group of people who made the decision will be delighted to know how wrong they were. There was another bad position before when Rika and Yaguchi left Morning Musume in the same period but that wasn’t tough enough to break the Morning Musume’s constant growing potential. But no, that wasn’t enough and Makoto had to leave with Asami in the mid of 2006. But why would someone think that the group is at its extreme and would allow more than one people lowering the popularity all of a sudden?
Why was it necessary and what would have happened if she stayed? We all know Fujimoto had no sense of responsibility when she was the leader and gave one of the worst upsets in Morning Musume and probably wont join back if any of the title mentioned members graduate. I had repeatedly stated again and again about the weaknesses of the group but some people just don’t listen.
Keeping Makoto would have delayed graduation of Yoshizawa Hitomi by a year and at this time we would have had the 8th Generation members under Yossie and Fujimoto and she would have thought twice before lurking around with baka boyfriend.
Yes folks, there you go I said it. This is the Noroi of Makoto which will continue to haunt every single one of us for the rest of our lives. Have fun living with the devils in The Agency and make sure to go for trick-n-treak every Halloween keeping them happy.
Okay, who might be leaving?
It can’t be Takahashi Ai, she has the most talent in the group and there is no way she should leave.
Reina is simply too cute and is the most mature girl who can teach a lot to the other girls, thats the reason you will also find the newbies hanging around her a lot more in any latest TV appearances.
Eri Kamei is the only girl who is learning the most in the group and slightly moving forward to more maturity and it would be a mistake to fire someone who is still learning and improving.
Risa Niigaki is now a grown woman and has the potential to change people around but she needs a couple more years at least before she should leave. The most horrible and saddening graduation will be hers and I am sure most of the fans will miss her as I haven’t seen too many people contesting her talent.
Koharu Kusume is the future bomb who might give another kick-start to HelloProject but it is very early to say anything and everything might shutdown before that happens.
There you go, there is one person left. The one who has stopped growth at all levels and is not able to support any of the Morning Musume activities. The one who is the most shy and was probably hoping that it will happen to her very soon.
She is one of the Sixth Generation members and is More Likely to Graduate!
Here is an old performance of Aya from a TV Dorama. She performs another version of the song and original singer’s performance is there at the end of the clip. The reason I posted is I had this version in my archive but I got delighted to hear it again after someone posted on YT.
Lyrics
minna to mo saigo no yoru
nagakute mijikakatta you na
ie ni kaetta ato
iron na koto o omoidashiteta
mata, sukoshi jinwari kite
kimi no kao mabuta ni ukande
mata namida afurete kita
honto wa ne
kimi ni tsutaetai koto ga atta kedo
kotoba ni dekinakute…
sayonara
meguri yuku toki no naka
atarashii seikatsu ni mo narete
sonna koro michibata de
guuzen kimi ni deatta
watashi yori saki ni waratta kimi
kawaranai sono egao ga
byou ni setsunakute ureshikatta
honto wa ne
zutto suki datta yo
dakedo tada tooku kara mite iru dake de
sayonara
sukoshi se ga nobita kana
zutto atte’nakatta kara
sukoshi otonabite mieta
watashi mo sou mieteru no kana
sore kara ne watashi kara
“jaa ne” tte arukidasu
honto wa ne
zutto suki datta yo
kedo mou kimi wa hoka no dareka wo…
I wanted to tell you
Something at the
Graduation ceremony
but I was overcome
with the emotion
So I did not have a chance
