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It took some time, but we finally got some more detail on the H!P kenshuusei album that will be released this september. Let's have a look at them: This is the cover of Hello!Pro Kenshuusei's first album "① Let's say "Hello!" The tracklist: 1. Say! Hello! 2. Onna no Sono (女の園) 3. Crying 4. Seishun Beat wa 16 (青春Beatは16) 5. Table Seki Aitetemo Counter Seki (テーブル席空いててもカウンター席) 6. "Koi Shitai Shintou" (「恋したい新党」) 7. "Idol wa Robot" tte Showa no Hanashi ne (「アイドルはロボット」って昭和の話ね) 8. Oheso no Kuni Kara Konnichiwa (おへその国からこんにちは) 9. Kanojo ni Naritai!!! (彼女になりたいっ！！！) 10. Ten Made Nobore! (天まで登れ！) - Hello Pro Kenshuusei ft.Juice=Juice The participating Kenshuusei are: Hamaura Ayano, Taguchi Natsumi, Ogawa Rena, Murota Mizuki (S/mileage), Yamagishi Riko, Nomura Minami, Ichinoka Reina, Kaga Kaede, Kishimoto Yumeno, Makino Maria (Morning Musume), Wada Sakurako, Sasaki Rikako (S/mileage), Inaba Manaka (Country Girls), Mikame Kana, Ino...

It hasn't even been 24 hours, but the new Morning Musume is already starting. As for today there is a new profile picture for Morning Musume '14: The nine remaining members of Morning Musume '14 are show in Blue/green/white on this profile picture and they look incredibly good. I think they look elegant and ready for the new year. Now if you are wondering why the 12th gen isn't in this profile picture: They won't officially joing Morning Musume until it the new year. So they will join Morning Musume '15 and not Morning Musume '14 which they are now.  The official profile picture change is always the moment a graduation is made real. It is strange seeing a profile picture without Michishige, but they look strong and ready to take Morning Musume further. 

Today Michishige Sayumi graduated from Morning Musume and Hello!Project. She has been a member for 4329 days and is the longest serving member. Michishige, sadly, got injured during the medley preformance and had to sit down for a part of the preformance. She preformed some songs standing and she wore sneakers during the last part before the encore.The encore calls took more time then usual.  The first encore was Mikaeri Bijin with 9th, 10th, 11th an 12th gen preforming. After this the graduation messages from the members started. In between Riho's and Eripon's message Sayumi sunk to the ground. The members gathered around her (as seen in the above pic) and the lights went off. After a few minutes they continued and Eripon and Mizuki gave Sayumi their messages. The second encore was Michishige's speech. She didn't have a letter, she just said what was on her heart and it was great. Her graduation song was Akai Freesia, the first song she had to do....

At today's Morning Musume concert, the new leader and sub-leaders were announced! The new leader for Morning Musume is: 9th generation, Fukumura Mizuki! And the sub-leaders are: 10th gen's Iikubo Haruna and 9th gen's Ikuta Erina! Congratulations Mizuki on becoming the new leader and to Ikuta for getting the shared position of sub- leader!

This years Hello!Project Winter tour must be one of the most anticipated concerts ever. There will be so many girls debuting (Momusu's 12th gen, S/mileage's 3rd gen and Country Girls)! This is also the last H!P tour for Berryz Koubou, S/mileage with a new name and the first one to have a non Morning Musume member as H!P Leader! Such an exiting tour! So it is great news to have them announce the names of the tour: Hello! Project 2015 WINTER　〜DANCE MODE！〜 Hello! Project 2015 WINTER　〜HAPPY EMOTION！〜 The tour will go from the second of january till the 15th of febuary and will have around 22 preformances (13 DANCE MODE! and 9 HAPPY EMOTION! preformances). Let's hope for a great tour with some amazing debuts!

Berryz Koubou's last single ranked second in the weekly Oricon Chart! Romance wo Katatte/ Towa no Uta is their best selling single with over 77,000 singles sold in the first week! But this is also the highest selling H!P kids single ever (first day and total). This is super awsome news for Berryz Koubou! Their fans let them out with a bang.  I am incredibly happy their last single sold this well. It's bitter sweet to see them leave after such an amazing ranking, but they deserve to end this high!

Good news for Hello!Pro Kenshuusei fans: Two new girls have been added and will be introduced at the 29th of this month during the Nama Tamago concert! For now we only have their names, although one of the girls has been in other groups before: 浅倉樹々 (Asakura ?) 小野田紗栞 (Onoda Saori) Onoda was a member of the idol group Princess♪Ribbon and part of We Can★47. She is 12 and will turn 13 on the 17th of december. When the girls are officially introduced we will get more info and pictures! So let's look forwards to it.

Berryz Koubou announced their final release. It will be an Album called: Kanajuku Berryz Koubou The Final Completion Box It will very probably be an best of like album. There will be three versions: Limited A- ￥9,000 Limited B- ￥7,000 Regular- ￥6,000 The tracklist and covers have to be released yet, but we do have a release date: 21st of January.  It is really sad to see their final release being announced. A busy day for Berryz fans, but above all a very sad one.  Link: http://www.helloproject.com/release/detail/PKCP-5278/ Edit: There will be 3 cd's in all editions with all singles on it plus a new song (their final song) called Love Together! The Limited A is a blu-ray and the Limited B is a dvd. They will contain all MV's and audio commentary from the girls

Berryz Koubou ranked second in the Oricon charts with 61,676 copies sold! This is their best selling single, eventhough it's just their first day! I am really happy for Berryz! Their last single to sell this well, is just amazing! It does make me a bit sad that this is their last single and it is selling so well! Let's hope they rank in the week chart!

It seems like Berryz Koubou will graduted from Hello!Project on the 5th of March. They announced this during their Sunshine event. The concert will be held in Nippon Budokan on their 11th birthday. These last few months will be a very sad time for all Berryz fans.

C-ute had their Budokan concert yesterday and they had a very happy announcement to make! C-ute will celebrate their 10th anniversary in Yokohama Arena! That is the Arena Sayumi will graduate in and were Kamei Eri, Junjun and Linlin graduated in! This is really amazing news for C-ute. They are doing very well, so I am happy they will be getting this chance! The concert will take place on the 11th of June (their birthday). 

Do you all remember the Country Musume auditions that were held this year?  The auditions with no winners? Well today is the favorite day of any H!P fan, because: They announced that the group will be revived, but under a new name: Country Girls The members in the picture are (from left to right) Satoda Mai (General Manager) Inaba Manaka (Kenshuusei) 16  Morito Chisaki 14 Shimamura Uta 14 Ozeki Mai 12 Yamaki Risa (Kenshuusei) 17 Satoda Mai won't be a member but their general manager!  But there is more!! We all know how Berryz Koubou will graduate at the end of their spring tour. But one girl decided she still wants to be an Idol, so she will be the Playing Manager for Country Girls. This means she will be their manager (also) and be a member too. This girl is: Tsugunaga Momoko (Berryz Koubou) 22 Momoko will only be a sub- member until she officially graduates from Berryz Koubou. Tsunku will not produce this group (that will be the task for ...

Sad news today for H!P Kenshuusei fans. Tanabe Nanami and Yoshihashi Kurumi officially finished their training and are no longer part of Hello!Project. This was announced on the event site for the upcoming Kenshuusei concerts.  http://www.helloproject.com/event/detail/cf143788e1b32aeeaa3c696136260f7be3b6d701/ This is incredibly sad news. Kurumi had been absent for quite a while, so I wasn't to suprised. But Nanami was such a big suprise and such a sad one, that I really feel devistated. I really hope both girls are alright and that we will be hearing from them soon.  Edit: Their profile were removed of the official Kenshuusei site. http://www.helloproject.com/helloprokenshusei/profile/