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Ikuta Erina will release her second solo E-hello somewhere is October! The E-hello will be called: It's a Lovely day The dvd is listed here: Click The preview for this dvd: I'm really happy for Erina. She has been fighting so hard, I think this will be great. Ofcourse, as an Eripon fan, I hope this will lead to a Photobook, although I don't think it will. Anyway this is a great way for Eripon fans to enjoy their idol more!

HKT48 will release their 4th single on the 24th of September! It will be called: Hikaeme I love you! Please look forwards to it!

Kudo Haruka's 2nd photobook is taking form! Today the release date, name and discription were announced! The release date is the 27th of September, which is soon. The title of Haruka's new photobook is: Ashita Tenki ni Nare! It means Fine Weather Tomorrow and this is the content: Kudo spent her last summer vacation as a Junior high school student in Okinawa. She went swimming in the sea, mountain climbing, visited the aquarium and played in a garden at a private house. a photobook focused on her vacation. (Thanks to JPLOP) I can't wait for this release. Haruka has been growing so fast and she became so beautiful and cute. I can't wait to see her "vacation".

Tsunku announced that Morning Musume's Golden Auditions has reached it's final stage! This is absolutly Amazing news! It has been some time since we heared anything about these auditions! I don't really know if the final stage means Training camp (this is mostly 4th round, but Tsunku could mean this) or it means Tsunku is picking right now! Anyhow this give me great hopes for the 12th gen to be introduced on the first day of the new Momusu tour, but who knows. I do hope we have winners this time!

Morning Musume '14 got new profile pictures! We already had a preview when they announced their new single, but getting the profile pictures is very exiting! Let's have a look at them! Michishige Sayumi Sayumi is wearing a black dress with a red piece. A white blazer with a red flowy thing and Damn does she look good. I really love her pictures, they are beautiful and sexy. I adore how they made the flowy thingy is blowing in the wind! It looks really good. Fukumura Mizuki Has the same outfit as Sayumi, but her dress is red and the flowy thing is black. Her close-up is pretty boring, but still the girl looks incredibly pretty. Her full body picture is beautiful. She looks very classy and pretty. Ikuta Erina I love Erina with this longer hair, she looks so beautiful. I do think her close-up is pretty dang boring. Girl you have so much more in you! Look at the full body pic, that's a great one! I do think she looks good, I just want something more to

It seems like Kudo Haruka will release her second photobook in the near future! This information is based on the amazone listing for the next UTB. This is great news! Kudo has been climing up my ranking for quite some time now and I can't wait for another release from her. 

Yesterday Juice=Juice announced their 5th single Senobi/ Date Janai yo Uchi  no Jinsei wa, which will be released on the first of october. Today they announced some more information! This single will be released in 6 diffrent versions with:  2 regular editions (Regular a has a Senobi cover and Regular b has a Date Janai yo Uchi no Jinsei wa cover). And 4 Limited editions! (they will all contain a dvd).

Hello Hello everyone! I really wanted to do a blogpost sooner about this, but it took some time. My dearest readers Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my blog! I can't believe I have over the 50.000 blogviews! From the bottom of my heart thank you so much! Because of this I decided to open a personal blog. Don't worry I'll keep updating this blog with the latest H!P news and sometimes AKB news.  Please give my new blog a look: http://oswinkanazawa.blogspot.nl/ Again thank you all so much! I love you. Yours, Kate

Juice=Juice announced their new single on their radio show!  It will be their fifth single and it will release on the first of October.  The title is: Senobi/ Date ja nai yo Uchi no Jinsei wa Date ja nai yo Uchi no Jinsei wa was preformed during their tour several times. I'm really happy that Juice=Juice will release their 5th single already! It's so soon!! It feels like black butterfly/Kaze ni fukarete was just released. But I'm really happy they will release something soon. I like Date ja Nai yo uchi no Jinsei wa a lot. I hear a lot of Tomoko which is always good. I can't wait for more information and previews!

Next to Morning Musume '14's new single announcement, there was another amazing announcement: Michishige Sayumi will graduated from Morning Musume on the 26th of November in Yokohama Arena! This is such great news for Sayumi and Morning Musume! They haven´t been in Yokohama Arena since Kamei Eri, Junjun and Linlin graduated from Morning Musume!

Morning Musume '14 announced their 57th single (again).  Some time ago Haruna already announced the single on her blog and it's release date. But today the single was announced again and it's a TRIPLE a-side!! Also the release date was moved to the 15th of October.  They also announced the title of their upcoming single: TIKI BUN/ Shabadabadoo~/Mikaeri Bijin. The single will be released in 6 versions: Regular a and b, Limited edition a, b, c & d.  TIKI BUN will be the last single done by Morning Musume '14 as a 10-nin group. Shabadabadoo~ will be a solo song by Sayumi (an a-side graduation song!!) and Mikaeri Bijin will be a song by 9th, 10th and 11th gen. How exiting is all this news?! I'm incredebly glad Morning Musume '14 will be releasing another triple a-side single with Sayumi. I'm suprised but very happy about the other two songs. Sayumi getting a solo song was a given, but the song being an a-side!! I'm also happy the gir

The Results for the Country Musume auditions are out. There are no winners for the auditions.  The announcement (thanks to Solarbladepsy from Hello!Online for the translation) Country Musume New Member Audition Notification Thank you very much for participating in the Country Musume New Member Auditions. As a result of the judges strict examination, no one passed. In this audition, people attended with too much enthusiasm, it wasn't what the judges were looking for. Continue to cheer for Hello! Project Country Musune New Member Audition Secretary Link: http://www.up-front-works.jp/newslist/1408071800_country.html I'm kinda pissed. I really wanted to have this group and see some new faces in H!P. Now that Berryz are leaving we kinda need more girls. I really hoped we would get winners soon. I do have the feeling this is because Berryz are leaving. I think (and hope) that Tsunku wants to put as much effort in Berryz before they leave. I mean t

Maeda Irori announced second indies single! It is called Twinkle Star Light Here is a video of her announcing the single:

Here is a blogpost with all the video's I can find on Berryz Koubou's Announcement. They might be deleted in time, but for now you can watch them here: Mezamashi Hayachan Morning Cross Zip! Mezamashi (Longer ver.)

It seems that Yoshihashi Kurumi has finished her Kenshuusei training and left Hello!Project. Fans say this was announced during today's H!P concert.  There is no official conformation yet and her profile is still up on the H!P Kenshuusei site. If this is true, which it most probably is, this is one of the saddest days in H!P History. Kurumi has a whole lot of potential and I always loved her round face and smile. Kurumin if this is true, take care girl!

Through all the sadness of Berryz Koubou's news, let's have a look at this little ray of sun. Bitter & Sweet released one of the MV's for their new single! It's the MV for Darenimo Naisho.  And what a great song this is! The MV is very fresh and I love the setting. The song is very summery and their vocals blend like melted butter. Amazing. And do they look amazing. While they looked quite awkward in the MV for BitterSweet, they look so natural and cute here.  Like I said this is a little ray of sun on such a sad and rainy day. Thank you Bitter Sweet!

Translated by:  910 percent A sports paper reported Berryz Kobo stops their activities next spring Berryz kobo announced they stop their activities for an indefinite period from next spring on Hello!Concert 2nd August. It means practical disband The beginning of the MC, the seven members gathered on the stage. Leader Shimizu Saki announced this 　「Well, we have an announcement for you. We Berryz Kobo stops the activities for indefinite period from next spring.」 ２２００ fans shouted 「Eeeee～!?」 Shimizu told in the noise. “We have been discussed about this around one year ago. again and again. All of us has grown up into woman and became 20. Now, we respect each other and considered about our each future We reached the conclusion.” Natsuyaki Miyabi “We get powers from fans’ encouragements Thanks to you, we have continued the activities by now.” Sugaya Risako: “First, I wanna show Berryz’s growth in this Summer Hello!Concert…. ” she cried.  She he

Here are some pictures of the announcement made by Berryz Koubou.

Tsunku did a blogpost about the recent announcement of Berryz Koubou's indefinite Haitus.  He talked about how he was sad, but not really surpised about this decision from the members. He says it makes him sad to see these girls go, because he saw them growing up and giving their all to the group.  He is sure he will watch them fly of to their new dreams. Source: http://ameblo.jp/tsunku-blog/entry-11903715028.html

News concerning Berryz Kobo Thank you for your continued support about Berryz Kobo. Today, Berryz Kobo members have announced the indefinite suspension of their activities during the Hello! Project Concert at Nakano Sun Plaza. Concerning the future of the members, they have talked with the staff and decided to suspend their activities after the Spring’s tour on 2015. Concerning the exact date, it will be announced later once decided. Berryz Kobo have grown like this with all the support they received until now. And to be able to reach this level of accomplishment in their activity, all the members have the feeling this is thanks to everyone and feel gratitude. From now, there will be the live at Nippon Budokan on September, the Autumn’s tour and new songs released. Members as well as the staff feel gratitude to everyone and ask everyone for their support. Thank you for everything from now concerning Berryz Kobo. UP-FRONT PROMOTION Representative director Oh

I have to honestly say to you: I never thought this day would come. There were times when I thought it would, but it never happend, so in the end I thought it would never happen. But it did. Today at the 2nd of august Hello!Pro concert, Berryz Koubou announced the following: Berryz Koubou will go on a indefinite Haitus Spring 2015. This must be the biggest news in H!P history since the mass graduation of the Elderly Club or the triple graduation of Kamei Eri, JunJun and LinLin.  I'm so incredebly sad about this news. Somewhere I was expecting them to stop one day, I mean they are all over 20, so they must be thinking of their future and possible families. But my heart broke with this news.  Eventhought it is a indefinite Haitus, which isn't the same as being disband, it probably still means they are working on the end of Berryz Koubou. Berryz Koubou has been so important for me. They were the group who sucked me into H!P and they kept me busy for years. Their