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Hello!Pro Kenshuusei's 21st gen member Takemura Miu ended her Kenshuusei training. This was announced today on the Hello!Pro Kenshuusei website. Fans had been speculating about her leaving, since she wouldn't be participating in the upcoming Kenshuusei concert without a good reason.  It always makes me so sad to see kenshuusei leave. I hope Miu will have a great life and who knows, we might see her in the future somewhere else!

C-ute not only revealed their profile pictures, but also the covers for their upcoming single: Naze Hito wa Arasoun Darou? / Summer Wind / Jinsei wa STEP! The single will be released in 6 versions: 3 limited and 3 regular editions. Regular A First up is the regular cover for Naze Hito wa Arasoun Darou? The cover features the girls on the set of the MV. The are on a podium and it all looks like a picture out of the 50's. I like the color use and the girls look really elegant. But what is Nakki doing? She looks like she is about to fall backwards. It's quite a nice cover, but the girls should have been bigger in the picture for my liking.  Regular B First look at the Summer Wind outfits! They remind me of the outfits for Kanshiki Heaven single ver. I love the cover. The girls are quite small, but the blue/sky background and the way they put Summer Wind on the cover. I really love this. Such a beautiful and clean cover. Regular C Mm, this is the co

C-ute will release a new single on the 20th of April and they finally released new profile pictures! Let's have a look at these new profile pictures!  The Group picture at the top is the profile picture of Jinsei wa STEP.  The outfits look quite boring in this picture, while they look really beautiful in the closeups.  The other group picture is for Naze Hito wa Arasoun Darou? The girls look very 50's and have long silver glitter dresses. I am not really into these kind of dresses, but the girls look really good in these dresses.  And now the solo pictures: Yajima Maimi Maimi looks amazing in both pictures. I do adore her Jinsei wa STEP picture more. She looks so beautiful with her hair lose and do you guys see how amazing her dress is here? Maimi always looks amazing in a classic/vintage dress.  Nakajima Saki I do not like Nakki's hair styles. Her Jinsei dress looks very cute and elegant,I love the of shoulder. Her dress for Naze Hito does look

I can not believe it.  Terrorisme has struck again.  People died again for nothing, for a fight they aren't even part of.  Today, just an hour or two again and even at this moment, Brussels is being attacked by terrorists.  The airport in Brussels Zaventem and in a metro station have been attacked in the last two hours and a lot of innocent lives lost their lives.  There is not much information about the terrorists attackes yet, because it is still so fresh.  I can not believe that this keeps happening.  Why is this happening? What are they trying to do?! Watching the news is scary.  People are scared, mad, devistated, hurt and broken.  This week a big terrorist was finally caught in Brussels and everyone was so happy that horrible man was finally of the streets. But now.  The news keeps coming in right now.  I am so mad and yes I am really scared.  We can only pray for Brussels right now, hope there won't be more attacks and that those

Tsubaki Factory will release their first indies album, Tsubaki Factory SOUND+VISION Vol.1 , this weekend and today they announced the details for it! The cover is a very simple group shot of the girls in their red dresses on stairs with a red carpet.  The cd will have: 1. Seishun Manmannaka! 2.Kedakaku Sakihokore! 3. 17sai (Moritaka Chisato cover). 4. Cabbage Hakusho~Haru Hen~ (Peaberry cover).  And ever song will have a MV on the dvd that is included with the mini album.  How great is this new!? Tsubaki Factory will finally have some Music Video's!! I am really happy to see 17sai on their because I adore their version and I wonder if Seishun Manmannaka will be diffrent than their first take version!

ANGERME announced their 21st single some time ago and the release date (27th of April) as well, but we did not have a lot of other infomation, until today! The preview of one of the three songs was previewed on a radio show and the titles of the songs too! Tsugitsugi Zokuzoku / Itoshima Distance / Koinara tokku ni Hajimatteru (order undecided) Tsugitsugi Zokuzoku was previewed and is a upbeat and very cool song.  As with Momusu's upcoming single, the order of the songs is still undecided, but the titles sound amazing! 

I might be a bit late to the party with Nacchi, but both Abe Natsumi and Yoshizawa Hitomi are pregnant with their first child! Natsumi announced her pregnancy in febuary, while Yossy announced it yesterday. Yossy announced her marriage in November and is expecting her little one late this summer! Congratulations to both Momusu OG's !!

Morning Musume '16 just announced their 61st single and we already got the titles of all the songs! The order they are in can still change and the last song can still change of title.  Tokyo to Iu Katasumi / The Vision / Utakata Saturday Night (Kari) The information is from their own website, but like I said the order can still change, just like the title of the last song (due to the Kari).  http://www.helloproject.com/release/detail/EPCE-7217/

Morning Musume '16 announced their 61st single! The single will be released on the 11th of May and will be the last to feature Suzuki Kanon.  It was announced during the first concert of their spring tour ~Emotion in Motion~. The single will be a triple a-side with one of them being a song called: Tokyo to Iu Katasumi.

Country Girls' new members Yanagawa Nanami and Funaki Musubu finally revealed their official member colors! Fans had been speculating about their colors for quite a bit and after the reveal of their 3rd single we were almost certain, but now it's official:  Yanagawa Nanami got Purple and Funaki Musubu Yellow .

It has been a while since we heared anything about H!P most senior group C-ute. But we finally go an announcement about their 29th single! The single will be called: Naze Hito wa Arasoun darou? / Jinsei wa STEP! / Summer Wind The single will be released on the 20th of April in 6 editions (3 regular and 3 limited editions). Finally some news about C-ute. I am really exited about this single, because their last two were awsome. I really like the name Summer Wind and hope the song will be fresh and cute. 

Tsubaki Factory is still in their indies, but they have amazing news for their fans: they will be releasing their first indies Mini-Album on the 19th of March. The album is called: Tsubaki Factory SOUND+VISION Vol. 1 The mini-album will be sold during the satoyama and satoumi movement 2016 event.  There is currently no further information, but the release date is soon!

NEXT YOU released a suprise Digital Single yesterday! Otona no Jijou had been used as an insert song for Budokan, but has now officially been released. The song is only available on Japanese Itunes and cost 250 yen.  The cover.

Juice=Juice's last single Next is you! / Karada Dake ga Otona ni Nattan ja nai sold over a 46,000 copies which makes it their best selling single!!  Juice=Juice's previous best selling single was Ijiwaru Shinaide Dakishimete yo/Hajimete no Keiken-chuu. Congratulations to Juice=Juice!!