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Hello!Project's and ANGERME's leader Wada Ayaka announced her graduation. She will be graduating at the end of ANGERME's Spring tour of 2019. Wada Ayaka is one of the longest serving Hello!Project members as the only 1st generation member of S/mileage/ANGERME and Hello!pro Egg's first generation still part of Hello!Project. Ayaka says she has been thinking about it for about a year. She will do her best for her last year as a member. Eventhough Ayaka has been a member of Hello!Project for so long, this announcement is so suprising. Especially since she won't be graduating for over a year.  One way or the other, I hope Ayaka gets to do what ever she wants with her life, as she has been giving is so much from hers.

It has sadly been announced that Aikawa Maho decided to graduate from ANGERME and Hello!Project. Maho has been in a haitus for 11 monthes due to anxiety disorder. She hoped to recover and rejoin ANGERME. Eventhough she has been doing better and returning to her university, Maho didn't recover enough to come back to ANGERME.  She says she is very scared her anxiety will return once she starts preforming again and doesn't want her fans to wait for nothing.  Goodbye Aikawa Maho, good luck with university! http://www.helloproject.com/news/7975/

ANGERME released new profile pictures for their upcoming single! The single will release on the 13th of december. Let's have a look at the outfits! Wada Ayaka & Nakanishi Kana Both Dawa and Kana have the same color pattern in their outfits. Mustard colored bottoms and purple tops with blueish accents. I really love how Ayaka is making this outfits work. I am not a fan of her sleeves, but she looks like a model or someone in a piece of art. I actually quite like Kana's short. The stitching makes it look really nice on her and her hairstyle is beautiful! Takeuchi Akari & Katsuta Rina Take's outfit is terrible. I do not like the top at all and the bottems look like they were left over materials. Her hair however is the bomb!!! Rina looks like she came straight out of a Perfum MV. I love her hair like this and the dress is so flattering!  Murota Mizuki & Sasaki Rikako That smile on Muro! I love her top, it's really pretty and looks s...

It has been really quiet around Hello!Project lately, yet we finally have some good news! ANGERME will be releasing their 24th single on the 13th of december! The single will be a triple a-side called: Kisoku Tadashiku Utsukushiku / Manner Mode / Kimi dake janai sa...friends It will be the first single to feature new members Funaki Musubu and Kawamura Ayano. Sadly, 3rd generation member Aikawa Maho will not be participating in this single, which means this will be the second single not to feature her. It seems that the single will be released in two version, a blu-ray and a dvd version. The blu-ray version will have exclusive versions of the Music Videos and a download code for a 360 version of Manner Mode. The dvd version will have a booklet.

Aikawa Maho gave an update on her status. She has been doing better and is currently at university studing Photography. From January until March, Aiai couldn't leave the house, but she is currently doing well with daily life. She is in contact with the ANGERME members and wants to stay in ANGERME. Maho, however, doesn't feel like she could handle the stress of being an idol yet, so she asks us to be patient. She won't be returning for the Angerme fall tour. After this managment, Maho, her family and doctors will speak about her returning or not.

A few days ago Hello!Project announced their new system! This actually means the following: 3 country girls members are transferring to different groups 3 Kenshuusei are debutting. We all had our predictions, but here are the actual results: Danbara Ruru (Kenshuusei) & Yanagawa Nanami (Country Girls) are both added to Juice=Juice, making Juice=Juice a 7 member group. This is the first addition to Juice=Juice and the first line-up change since their major debut and the leaving of Otsuka Aina.  Morito Chisaki (Country Girls) will join Morning Musume as their sole 14th generation members. She will be the first member to join Morning Musume after auditioning for the group and joining another group.  Kawamura Ayano (Kenshuusei) and Funaki Musubu (Country Girls) will be joining ANGERME. They will be the first 2 member generation and will form their 5th generation. Ichioka Reina will be leading her own group. The other members will be announced at a lat...

ANGERME will be releasing their 23th single on the 21st of June. The single has three a-sides and is called: Ai Sae Areba Nanni mo Iranai / Namida Iro no Ketsui / Majokko Megu-chan This single will be without Aikawa Maho as she is on Haitus. There will be 6 versions of this single: 3 regular, 2 limited and 1 special edition. Regular A I love the effect on this cover! The outfits are for Ai Sae and gosh do the girls look beautiful. I am still no big fan of Kamiko's hairstyle, but urgh I adore this cover. The red cloth looks like a flower and makes the cover super elegant.  Regular B Oh this is cute! I love the flowers and that they are holding their image colours! And look at the green in the middle! We all know that Namida Iro is a song for Aiai, so this makes it a little bit more bittersweet. The girls look wonderful and I love how simple this cover is! Regular C All the yes! Majokko's cover looks amazing! I love the soft pastel colors and th...

ANGERME will be releasing their new single on the 23th of June! The single is a triple a-side single called: Ai Sae Areba Nanni mo Iranai/ Namida Iro no Ketsui/ Majokko Megu-chan Sadly Aikawa Maho will still be on Haitus during the release of this single, so she won't be part of it. Let's have a look at these new outfits! The outfits are not yet confirmed for Ai Sae or Namida Iro, but I think it's for Ai Sae. THe outfits are red and have two different versions, the two piece and the one piece.  Wada Ayaka and Nakanishi Kana Dawa is wearing a two piece and gosh she look beautiful. I love her long hair in combination witht eh red. I think this outfit really suits her and I love the color of her lips.  Kanana has the one piece and looks absolutely beautiful in it. I love her hairstyle like this and gosh is it just me or does she look super thin? Takeuchi Akari and Katsuta Rina Both Akari and Rina are wearing the two piece version of the outfit,...

ANGERME announced more details for their upcoming single! The songs are: Ai Sae Areba Nanni mo Iranai/ Namida Irono Ketsui/ Majokko Megu-chan ANGERME will be covering Majokko Megu-chan for Aidorusai 2017 ~Idol Matsuri~, which is the same event as they covered Mahou Tsukai Sally for! The single will be released in 7 versions: 3 regular editions, 3 limited editions and 1 special edition. It was sadly also announced that Aikawa Maho will not be participating in this single, as she is still on leave due to her medical condition.

It has been a while since ANGERME released their last single, but today they finally announced their 23th one! The single will be a triple a-side single and one of the songs is called Ai Sae Areba Nanni mo Iranai , while the other two song names haven't been revealed yet. The single will be released on the 21st of June. It has not been stated if Aikawa Maho will also be on the single, as she is on Haitus right now.

ANGERME's Aikawa Maho has been on Haitus since January 11th due to panic attacks. Maho has been absent for the rest of the Hello!Pro winter concert and all other events. Today, the 3th of March, there was an update on her status. Sadly Maho will stay on Haitus for the coming periode, at least until mid-May. She will miss ANGERME's Hall tour, Concert Tour and Budokan concert, as well as Hinafest. She will continue to rest and get treatment. It's is so sad to hear that Maho will be absent for a longer period. Let's all hope the best for her! And ofcourse keep supporting ANGERME!

ANGERME will start their new tours in March and now announced they will end them with a Budokan concert!  On the 15th of May they wll hold a concert at Nippon Budokan! For now the concert is still unnamed. Congratulations to ANGERME! This will also be Kasahara Momona's first time preforming there!

ANGERME announced more details on their upcoming tours. They will hold a Hall tour and Live House tour from the 5th of march until the 7th of may. For now they announced 6 live house concerts and 5 hall concerts. The Live House tour is called: ANGERME Live Tour Spring 2017 ~Rin~ The Hall tour is:  ANGERME Spring Concert Tour 2017 ~Kawarumono Kawaranaimono~ Let's hope for two amazing tours and ofcourse that Aikawa Maho will be back healthy and happy!

This year Hello!Project will again have a Hinafest! This years Hinafest will be on the 25th and 26th of March and as every year sub-units have been announced! The girls did a lotery and the winners will preform solo or in smaller shuffle units! Let's have a look at the outcome of this year: First show 25th of March Solo Kanazawa Tomoko (Juice=Juice) Shuffle (2nin) Ikuta Erina (MM'17) & Yanagawa Nanami (Country Girls) Second show 25th of March Solo Akiyama Mao (Tsubaki Factory) Shuffle (3nin) Nakanishi Kana (ANGERME), Nomura Minami , Tachugi Natsumi (Both Kobushi Factory) First Show 26th of March Solo Kamikokuryou Moe (ANGERME) Shuffle (4nin) Ogawa Rena (Kobushi Factory), Asakura Kiki & Ono Mizuho (Both Tsubaki Factory), Sasaki Rikako (ANGERME) Second Show 26th of March  Solo Yokoyama Reina (MM'17) Shuffle (5nin) Wada Ayaka (ANGERME), Haga Akane & Kaga Kaede (MM'1...