HelloProject :: Morning Musume & Aya Matsuura News

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.

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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.

Bring It On! Tsunku-sempai!

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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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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!

Happy Graduation Everyone!

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According to Kakko-ii results has been posted about who will graduate next from Morning Musume. Graduations, hmm… we will never run out of them And same thing goes for scandals. Get graduated or get scandalised, thats the question. I wanted to write something for so long but so far it has been so boring around here. I mean I can’t get my hands on anything *cool* that I would say is happening with Hello!Project.

They say its the survival of the fittest but is it only survival & nothing more than that? well that seems to be the exact case with Morning Musume right now. According to the poll Takahashi is most likely to be graduated and Reina/Risa was on second at 8% only.

Lets see now, it will be a complete no-brainer to graduate Takahashi Ai. There is no way, literally no way that she can be graduated at this time. What are you expecting next to have four major girls Risa, Reina, Sayumi and Eri in the Group? Considering Risa the group leader and with her charming personality she will be able to lead the group of all immature girls and have a successful 2008! Well that sounds like a good plan and I really love it! As long as I am dreaming, its the perfect plan and should be followed as it is!

Grow up people! Morning Musume is not the same as in year 2004, we don’t have any mature girls who are leading the group from 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation. There was an energy flow in the group a few years back that originated from 1st Generation and that is not there! The second generation came and they led the energy flow to a certain extent and it was fun while it lasted. And then came the third & fourth generation who easily found a way to go with the flow. But the new girls doesn’t have what it takes to be in Morning Musume and will be constantly pushed and dragged everywhere by the management!

Don’t get me wrong, I Love Morning Musume and its the first group ever that I really cared about. But the current situation of Morning Musume compared to the past year performances is really pathetic and can only be termed as survival of the losers. I mean come on! How clearly you want me to say it? We need to keep the old talent for as long as we can and we need to promote it and delay the further graduations of mature members! Girls cannot handle themselves right now and we need both Risa and Ai to stay! I repeat, Risa Niigaki and Takahashi Ai CANNOT LEAVE THE GROUP! ARE YOU LISTENING!!?? IS ANYONE FROM UpFront Works is listening AT ALL!!?? The people responsible are Not making good decisions in the favor of the Group of the future of th rest of the Girls, they are Not Helping!!

What are they trying to do? Get rid of Ai and Hope for the Best so No More Scandals will occur in 2008 !? Are they THAT STUPID !? COME ON NOW, even my Small Sister makes better decisions then people deciding for the Girls! The more I am writing right now, the More I am pissed off! May be that was the reason I didn’t want to write for soo long. And why not all the time its Fujimoto, Maki and some other girl on the news. Leave the girls alone! Whoever is after them, their partners, boy-friends, brothers, sisters, even the people who clean their houses, please.. Please.. PLEASE… do not commit Any crime whatsoever! We need the girls and we need to retain the rest of the energy left in the group!

Gosh, who the hell can I blame? If I knew the person responsible for the stupid mistakes, I will bash that person down for goood. I mean we are talking about Morning Musume, MORNING MUSUME !! and they are no good anymore! WHY!? because of some Baka in the Agency who has NEVER enjoyed their concerts before! I am sick of all the people who are behind Morning Musume and cannot make any better decision then picking up a bad career job. Leave it alone, if you cannot handle it and let us have a little bit of fun enjoying their concerts and be happy in our lives!

I want the Agency to make a public apology of whatever they have done with the girls and make sure none of that happens again. Bring back all the suspended members and start making some good numbers! It is not about a boy-friend or a girl-friend, they can be warned for next time, but NOO!!! Lets get rid of every single bit of Diamond from a diamond watch, every single pearl from a pearl necklace and every damn Jewel from a Jewelery shop! Thats how their brain works people if any of it is left! You should be able to decide for yourself, it is not to accept whatever they decide for the girls! I will continue to object unless they ALLOW the girls to self-progress and self-improve on their weaknesses. Do NOT push them around and bring back some old girls, even if we need a re-union for Old Time’s SAKE then YES we NEED IT !! even for 3 months or 6 months, that will help girls to grow and we can have some more fun going to the concerts!

Edit: Okay 5 days have passed and I am continuing the post after blowing off all the fuses in my brain after fuming over. Sales for Mikan are reported very low but that was expected and only 5 popular girls can’t carry against the group of 13-14 girls that used to exist. Take a look at my website banner and look at the girls group for ten minutes, and after ten minutes replace that image with the 5 girls group of Ai, Risa, Sayumi, Reina & Eri with Ai graduating in 2008; Nice! I love for what is happening with Morning Musume.

Recently a blog post by Hello Non-Pro Hour concluding that Morning Musume is now expanding in Taiwan and Korea. Huh? why is it happening now and is it really necessary to go to Taiwan and Korea for promotions? I don’t think so! The girls are being very immature and following every single thing the management is asking them to do. Sadly, these are very few options that girls can follow. The decision is right for the expansion and should have been done earlier, but coming at this time only means management now has concerns over the future of Morning Musume and not able to produce good talent from Japan lately, so may also be looking for something completely new. There is another statement about Tsunku in the reported blog stating ‘He was very clear in his words and expectations for each member, Morning Musume is not ending anytime soon.‘.

WAIT A MINUTE !!!

Who is talking about Ending Morning Musume?! Why he has to actually declare that the group is not ending??!! What is going on!? I really hate the fact that all scandals are really ruining the very career of the girls, the whole group, the whole project and there is nothing much to learn for young girls when mature girls are not there in the group, or is there?

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