HelloProject :: Morning Musume & Aya Matsuura News

Morning Musume’s section of the Hello!Project website was updated today with a special Q&A for each member, alongside some new photos. Read on for the full translation!

Takahashi Ai

☆Leader
Date of birth: September 14, 1986
Blood type: A
Hometown: Fukui Prefecture

Q: What are your skills?
Making sweets.

Q: What are your hobbies?
Watching movies, watching plays.

Q: What are your nicknames?
Ai-chan, Ai-kyun.

Q: What’s something nobody can beat you at?
My love for Takarazuka.

Q: What are your favourite foods?
Sauce katsuon, rice omelette.

Q: What’s your motto?
Dream. (I always want to live with a dream)

Q: What are your favourite words?
Yes, we can.

Q: What are you favourite colours?
Red, pink.

Q: What are you proud of from your hometown?
You can eat mizuyokan in the winter.

Niigaki Risa

☆ Sub leader
Date of birth: October 20, 1988
Blood type: B
Hometown: Kanagawa Prefecture

Q: What are your skills?
Hangul, tidying up (if somebody’s already started!), sending emails with my phone without looking at the buttons, self-styled Disney connoisseur.

Q: What are your hobbies?
Going to Disneyland. I go four times a month ♪ If I have time before working in the evening, I’ll go to the Disney store.

Q: What are your nicknames?
Gaki-san, Mame, Sacchun.

Q: What’s something nobody can beat you at?
My love for Disney. Nobody can beat me at that. Also, eyesight ☆

Q: What are your favourite foods?
Ray [i.e. stingray, mantaray] fillet, Mickey waffles, plain grilled conger eel, parfait.

Q: What’s your motto?
If you open it, close it! Where there’s hills, there’s valleys.

Q: What are your favourite words?
Do what you can to be considerate every day. (lol)

Q: What are you favourite colours?
Yellow-green, white.

Q: What are you proud of from your hometown?
There are so many ways to relax in Yokohama!

Kamei Eri

Date of birth: December 23, 1988
Blood type: AB
Hometown: Tokyo

Q: What are your skills?
Arguing. (lol)

Q: What are your hobbies?
Watching other artists’ concert DVDs.

Q: What are your nicknames?
Kame, Kame-chan, Eriri~n.

Q: What’s something nobody can beat you at?
Comparing vinegar drinks by taste.

Q: What are your favourite foods?
Umeboshi and noodles. 1: Pasta, 2: Udon, 3: Ramen, 4: Soba.

Q: What’s something on your mind lately?
Spicy food that would be the right level for me, since I’m not good with spicy foods. If I could find and eat that, I’d be happy ☆

Q: What’s your motto?
You are yourself! Don’t compare yourself!

Q: What are your favourite words?
Good night.

Q: What are you favourite colours?
Black, pink, white.

Q: What are you proud of from your hometown?
With neighbourhood associations, everyone gets along well ☆

Michishige Sayumi

Date of birth: July 13, 1989
Blood type: A
Hometown: Yamaguchi Prefecture

Q: What are your skills?
Braiding (pretty quickly), Y-shaped balance, grade four math.

Q: What are your hobbies?
Collecting things. (Hair ties, stickers, collectable toys, erasers…) Talking, and I love hearing what people say.

Q: What are your nicknames?
Sayumin, Sayu, Shigesan, Oyakata

Q: What’s something nobody can beat you at?
Cuteness ☆☆☆ Always being positive ☆

Q: What are your favourite foods?
My mother’s homemade mentaiko spaghetti, chocolate ☆

Q: What’s your motto?
Never refuse a gift.

Q: What are your favourite words?
Thank you. Left-right symmetry.

Q: What are you favourite colours?
Pink.

Q: What are you proud of from your hometown?
In my home of Yamaguchi, there’s lots of greenery, and the air is really clean. Everybody goes at their own pace, and I love the relaxing, unrushed atmosphere.

Tanaka Reina

Date of birth: November 11, 1989
Blood type: O
Hometown: Fukuoka Prefecture

Q: What are your skills?
I can play without sleep.

Q: What are your hobbies?
People-watching. I record a lot of TV shows from Monday to Friday, so I watch them in the mornings.

Q: What are your nicknames?
Reina, Reina-chan.

Q: What’s something nobody can beat you at?
My emotions get heated and then I cool down quickly. My large collection of tracksuits.

Q: What are your favourite foods?
Cartilage. Brocolli & enoki mushrooms, chocolate

Q: What’s your motto?
If you’re allowed to be yourself, you won’t do bad things to people!

Q: What are your favourite words?
Otsukareina.

Q: What are you favourite colours?
Pink.

Q: What are you proud of from your hometown?
There are lots of cool guys and girls there! The food is good.

Kusumi Koharu

Date of birth: July 15, 1992
Blood type: A
Hometown: Niigata Prefecture

Q: What are your skills?
Impressions, abacus.

Q: What are your hobbies?
People-watching.

Q: What are your nicknames?
Koharunrun ♪

Q: What’s something nobody can beat you at?
Number of moles on the palm. I have four!

Q: What are your favourite foods?
Thick white chocolate! Plums.

Q: What’s your motto?
Kusumi Koharu (lol)

Q: What are your favourite words?
Miracle.

Q: What are you favourite colours?
Pink.

Q: What are you proud of from your hometown?
The water tastes good!

Mitsui Aika

Date of birth: January 12, 1993
Blood type: O
Hometown: Shiga Prefecture

Q: What are your skills?
Massage (second only to Michishige Sayumi-chan…), keeping my room tidy!

Q: What are your hobbies?
Shopping ☆ Looking through brochures while dreaming of living in a detached house. Talking to myself (in vain…)

Q: What are your nicknames?
Mitsii, Aika

Q: What’s something nobody can beat you at?
I know a lot about dogs! I have lots of lion, tiger, and white tiger goods.

Q: What are your favourite foods?
Plums, strawberries, roast beef, kombu [seaweed], cuttlefish.

Q: What’s your motto?
Hakuna matata! (No worries ☆)

Q: What are your favourite words?
Unbeatable in heaven and earth ☆

Q: What are you favourite colours?
Black, purple (my colour), gold.

Q: What are you proud of from your hometown?
Apart from the trains in rush hour, it’s not crowded at all. Everybody feels like family (they’ll connect with you ☆)

Junjun

Date of birth: February 11, 1988
Blood type: O
Hometown: Hunan, China

Q: What are your skills?
Piano, making people laugh.

Q: What are your hobbies?
Music, dance, shopping.

Q: What are your nicknames?
JunJun.

Q: What’s something nobody can beat you at?
Eating spicy food. I think i’m pretty good at enduring things too…

Q: What are your favourite foods?
Fruit, yakiniku.

Q: What’s your motto?
Even if it’s hard, don’t give up on your chosen path. Keep on walking, and with great effort, you’ll surely create a miracle.

Q: What are your favourite words?
Smile

Q: What are you favourite colours?
White, pink, black, red.

Q: What are you proud of from your hometown?
It’s really famous for spicy food. The seafood is the best! There’s a famous pretty lake called Dongting.

Linlin

Date of birth: March 11, 1991
Blood type: B
Hometown: Hangzhou, China

Q: What are your skills?
Impressions. Touching my nose with my tongue. Piercing my ears with my finger (It’s magic)

Q: What are your hobbies?
Singing, dancing, leading, acting, guitar, piano, swimming.

Q: What are your nicknames?
LinLin, Lin-chan, Linko.

Q: What’s something nobody can beat you at?
Self-confidence.

Q: What are your favourite foods?
Fruit, seafood, crepes.

Q: What’s something on your mind lately?
I’ve been drinking milk every day to try and grow taller, and this is the result.

Q: What’s your motto?
If your heart wishes it, you can do anything.

Q: What are your favourite words?
YEAH

Q: What are you favourite colours?
White, red, black.

Q: What are you proud of from your hometown?
Silk, tea, West Lake, Hangzhou cuisine.

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