Sakura Mankai

I made screenshots of Morning Musume's preformance at FNS . They did a short medley of Help me! and Love Machine.

Yajima Maimi revealed the contents for the Hello! Station of today! The MC will be Suzuki Kanon (Morning Musume) And this is the content: - Morning Musume - Wagamama Kinomama Ai no Joke (MV) - Footage of Hello!Project concert on 27th July -- Busu ni naranai tetsu gaku- All -- Romance no Tochuu -Juice=Juice -- Atarashii Watashi ni nare!- S/mileage -- Kanashiki Amefuri- C-ute -- Golden China Town- Berryz Kobou -- Wagamama kinomama Ai no Joke- Morning Musume - Morning Musume- Ai no Gundan (MV) Which means we get to see both MV's for Morning Musume's 54th single AND footage of the Hello!Project concert! I can't wait.

Tsunku keeps suprising the fans with promising tweets. Someone tweeted Tsunku with the question: When will the MV for Morning Musume's new single be officially uploaded? Tsunku answered: First, you must check out Hello Station tomorrow! We don't know what will be shown, but their is a possibility that one of the MV's will be shown! So let's all wait and watch Hello Station tomorrow and we will see what Tsunku means. 

The MV preview for Wagamama ki no Mama Ai no Joke was released on Mezamashi TV. They showed some parts of the MV and of the rehearsal.  Again I made far to many screenshots so they will be in the spoiler.

It was announced quite some while ago: the name for Morning Musume Concert Tour Fall 2013 will be ~CHANCE!~. The tour will future all the current members and we might get the 12th gen announcement everybody is waiting for! During the summer tour the poster for the tour was released:  The girls wear blakc and silver outfits with their belly showing. CHANCE! is in rainbow colors. At the front row we have Sakura, Riho and Mizuki. Behind them are: Haruna, Masaki, Sayumi and Erina. And on the back row we have: Kanon, Ayumi and Haruka. The poster makes me think of Renai Revolution 21.  The girls have a lot of make-up on which makes them look very very mature.  The poster overall is very pretty and all the girls look very good!

A few days ago Tsunku tweeted about the 12th gen auditions for Morning Musume:  Suki beam~~~<3 from Hello!Online was so kind to translate it:  "The Morning Musume 12ki candidates are all quite exeptional/strong. So, I wonder how the balance will be when they're combined with the current members, and perhaps there will be a chemical reaction on the miracle level?" This sounds very promising! The candidates must be really good. I can't wait till we get more footage of the finalists and the results!

Tsunku announed on his twitter that the Music video for Wagamama ki no Mama Ai no Joke will be shown on Mezamashi TV! I can't find the exact date, but I guess it will be around nighttime in Europe. I'm really exited for this MV. Ai no Gundan was really really good and the dance-shot alone looked really amazing. So I have high hopes for the MV for Wagamama ki no Mama Ai no Joke. Some of us already heared the concert rip of the song or saw a little preview of the preformance here We see the white/black outfits I showed you in the previews and we get to hear a little bit of the song. It seems like another cool and funky song. I can't wait to hear more!

Today was the first day of the Hello!Project summer tour! Juice=juice participated as full H!P members and they announced that their debut single "Romance no Tochuu" Will release on the 11th of September! The single will be a triple A-side: Romance no Tochuu/ Watashi ga Iu mae ni Dakishimekya ne (Memorial edit)/Samidare bijou ga Samidareru (Memorial edit). The outfits for Romance no Tochuu. We don't know yet what the memorial edit will be, although they preformed the Samidare edit during the concert. It will probably be a bit diffrent and without Aina. Juice=Juice preforming Romance no Tochuu Furthermore a site was made for Romance no Tochuu, showing us all their previouse singles and docus. There is also a profile for each member and the outfits for Romance no Tochuu. Banner for the site Click  HERE  for the site

C-ute will release their 8th album! It was announced on their twitter that it will be released the 4th of september. The title is:  ⑧ Queen of J-POP The title is the same as their Budokan concert this fall. There is not much information. We know it will probably feature their last 5 singles.

The Satoyama movement twitter announced that on today's UF LICKS HI-FINS and Mellow Quad's MV's will be released! So let's look forwards to it! もぞもぞ。 明日アップされるUF LICKS#24でメロウクアッド『エイヤサ！ブラザー』、HI-FIN『海岸清掃男子のMVが初公開されるぞ！ Source:  https://twitter.com/SATOYAMAmovemen/status/360318787825831936

Last week the MV for Dia Lady's Lady Mermaid was released on UF Licks. Yesterday it was uploaded on  Satoyama channel on youtube.   Let's have a look at the whole thing! The song sounds amazing. It's really cool, sexy and jazzy (I think I will call it Jazzy). Airi and Risako are wearing two outfits, the first is black and classy and the second one is 50's like. 

Yesterday the dance-shot for Morning Musume's Ai no Gundan was released. Ai no Gundan is one of the two A-sides for the 54th Morning Musume single. Let's talk about this song and the dance-shot. First of all: I really really love the song. I think the vocals are amazing and the song is really catchy. It's a cool, happy and upbeat tune.

 It was announced that the Satoyama movement will be joined by a new Satoyama unit called: Jurin. The unit has two members: Sato Masaki (Morning Musume, Green Fields) and Miyamoto Karin (Hello!Project Kenshuusei, Juice=Juice).  The name Jurin was made up of Kanji used from Masaki's and Karin's name. They will release a DVD with their original song: Hotaru Matsuri no Hi , which means The day of the firefly festival.  The dvd will release on the 4th of september, but will be on sale at the Hello!Project summer concerts from the 17th of August.  The dvd will have the following contents: 1. Hotaru Matsuri no Hi (MV) 2. Hotaru Matsuri no Hi (Konoshita ver.) 3. Hotaru Matsuri no Hi (Karaoke ver.) 4. Hotaru Matsuri no Hi (Making of) The cover for this dvd was also released. We see Karin and Masaki holding a firefly. The cover is very simple, the girls wear simple white clothes and the background is grey. I really like this cover, because the girls stand out and it

S/mileage's 2nd generation member Nakanishi Kana revealed that she will be releasing her first solo DVD. There is no information what so ever, only her blogpost about it: http://ameblo.jp/smileage-submember/entry-11579338213.html I'm really happy to see Kanana having her first solo DVD. Since Yatteru-chan, Kana got a little push and I'm really glad. She is my current favorite S/mileage member and deserves attention (just like Rina). I hope there will be a release date soon and a cover. Some fans speculate that this might be combined with a photobook, but we have no information on that.

News on the 54th single of Morning Musume! A promotion banner for Morning Musume's new single was released. The banner was released by  forTUNE music, who will be hosting Morning Musume's handshake events for this single. On the banner is a picture of Morning Musume wearing black and white outfits. The outfits are very simple and maybe a bit unflattering, but the girls look really great anyway. They all have their hair down and are positioned in a new order. Front row: Oda Sakura, Sayashi Riho and Fukumura Mizuki Middle row: Iikubo Haruna, Sato Masaki and Ikuta Erina Back row: Suzuki Kanon, Ishida Ayumi, Kudo Haruk and Michishige Sayumi A bigger picture.  The tracklist for the 54th single of Morning Musume was released! There will be 7 versions (Regular A and B/ Limited A, B, C, D & E) Limited Edition A Cd 1. Wagamama Ki no mama Ai no Joke 2. Ai no Gundan 3. Makeru ki shinai Konya no Shobu 4. Wagamama Ki no mama Ai no Joke (instrumental)

Morning Musume (finally) announced their 54th single today on Hello!Station.  The single is a dubble a-side: Wagamama Ki no Mama Ai no Joke Ai no Gundan The single will release the 28th of August. For now there is not much information, but Ishida did ask for dance covers by the fans again, so I assume a dance-shot or something will soon be online. Can't wait. 

The covers for S/mileage's event V's are released! Both covers are very simple, but I really really love how Kana and Rina are in front. Left we have Atarashii watashi ni Nare and right we have Yatteruchan. I love the left one more, because the background colors, they look amazing. I really really love Rina and Kana upfront XD. So let this be the beginning of a bigger position for them in S/mileage.