Sakura Mankai

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...

Today, Hello!Project uploaded a teaser on the Hello!Pro Station channel for a big announcement tomorrow on the new system. It features small video's of Danbara Ruru, Ichinoka Reina, Kawamura Ayano, Morito Chisaki, Yanagawa Nanami and Funaki Musubu. The announcement will be uploaded tomorrow at 9pm JST, which is 2pm CEST. What will be announced hasn't been specified, yet the clips suggest we will get to see what group each girl will join! Let's look forwards to the news tomorrow!

During today's Hello!Pro Kenshuusei Recital, it was announced that a new section has been created. This section of Kenshuusei will mostly focus on acting in musical through Engeki Joshibu. It was also announced that Takase Kurumi and Kiyono Momohime will be part of this new section. More details have yet to be announced.

During today's Hello!Pro Kenshuusei Recital, it was announced that 19th generation member Inoue Hikaru will be the new leader of the Kenshuusei! Congratulations to Hikaru! She is the first offical leader since Noto Arisa, as Kaneko Rie proclaimed herself leader.

Today was the day Hello!Pro Kenshuusei had their annual public ability test! This year "Hello! Project Kenshuusei Happyoukai 2017 ~Haru no Koukai Jitsuryoku Shindan Test~" was for the 5th time and had Yajima Maimi, Nakajima Saki and Kumai Yurina as guest judges! Let's skip to the winners! Public Vote: Danbara Ruru (548 votes) Runner up: Kawamura Ayano Singing Award: Inou Hikaru & Yamazaki Yuhane Dance Award: Horie Kizuki & Maeda Kokoro Character Award: Successor of Hagiwara Mai Hashisako Rin Congratulations to all the girls!

Nakano Rion (Ex- Hello!Pro Kenshuusei) joined the idolgroup Ichigo Milk Iro ni Someritai! She will debut in the group on the 2nd of April! Let's all cheer her on in this new step! https://twitter.com/rion_ichigomilk

It was announced that eight new girls will be joining Hello!Pro Kenshuusei.  The girls will be introduced during the next tour on march 11th. The names are for now only in Japanese and mine is not good enough to translate them perfectly. So we will just have to wait for official romanji! Let's welcome these new girls with a big smile!

Hello!Pro Kenshuusei Yoshida Marie announced she finished her Kenshuusei training. This means she left the program and will not return to preform. Another kenshuusei leaving the program. It has been speculated a while that Yoshida left, but sadly today it was announced this is true.

Morning Musume '17 will be in a new stage play! The stage play is called Pharaoh no Haka  and will be from the 2nd of June until the 11th of June in Ikebukuro Sunshine Theater. There will be a double cast (like last time) and the story is based on a manga from the 1970's by Keiko Takeyami. There will also be Kenshuusei in the play! Let's hope for another great play with amazing songs!

Hello!Pro Kenshuusei Hokkaido will be releasing their first indies single this weekend and they finally announced more information about the single! The single will actually have two a-sides: 1. Real☆Little☆Girl  2. Kanojo ni Naritai!!! (Hello Pro Kenshuusei Hokkaido Ver.) 3. Real☆Little☆Girl (instrumental) 4. Kanojo ni Naritail!!! (Instrumental) The cover for the single was also released: A simple cover with the profile pictures of the girls, but the light colors are really cute and nice. Let's hope for a great start for these wonderful girls!

Hello!Project announced their Winter Concert Tour! The tour will start on the 2nd of january and will end on the 25th of febuary.  The tour will have two patterns: ~Crystal Clear~ & ~Kaleidoscoop~. This will be the first Hello!Pro concert to not feature C-ute since their debut and the first tour to feature Tsubaki Factory as a full group (they will have their major debut during this tour).  For more information: http://www.helloproject.com/event/detail/edc3fab19f1af4cf49d66ae3f593a562181ae1b8

Several members of Tsubaki Factory (and H!P kenshuusei) will be in a play this november. The play is called Nega Poji Poji and has three teams of actors. It was announced that Tsubaki Factory will release a single with this play. The cover is the picture at the top and this will be the tracklist: 1. Nega Poji Poji 2. Ima made ikite kite doukou 3. Tempura Tabetai 4. Ima wa Dame (Thanks to Juriken '14 for the Romaji) It is unclear if all Tsubaki member will preform the song, as only Riko, Risa, Kiki and Mizuho will be in the play. The Single is however announced as a Tsubaki Factory release.  The release date is the 7th of December.

Nakano Rion signed with a new agency! Rion left H!P Kenshuusei about a month ago, but opened up a twitter. She is now signed under A-Light Agency. Congratulations to Rion and let's hope this will mean good things for her!

It was only a matter of time, since so many Kenshuusei are debutting in groups, but Hello!Pro Kenshuusei announced their 26th generation! Six new girls will be added and they will debut in the September recital.  The names of the girls are: Kawamura Ayano Yokoyama Reina  Yoshida Marie  Nishida Shiori Yamazaki Yuhane  Hashisako Rin Only Kawamura seems to be known by the public already. She was in quite a few plays and was part of an idol group named Hachikin Girls. She is a fan of Kudo Haruka.  I can not wait to get more information about these girls and see them preform for the first time! This means we now have 19 kenshuusei girls and 9 members of Tsubaki Factory, which means 28 girls in total (as TF is officially still indies, so kenshuuse).  Source:http://www.helloproject.com/news/5550/

Today the members of Hello!Pro Kenshuusei Hokkaido were announced and preformed! A while ago it was announced seven girls made it to the training program and today they were actually introduced to the public! They also preformed Oheso no Kuni Kara Konichiwa. From left to right: Kitagawa Ryo (12) Kawano Minori (12) Ishiguri Kanami (12) Kudo Yume (11)  Sato Hikari (12) Yamazaki Mei (11) Ota Haruka (12) Congratulations too all 7 new members and may they work hard for their debut!

Sad day for anyone who follows Hello!Pro Kenshuusei.  Four girls "completed" their training, which means they left the program. Yokogawa Yumei (20th gen), Nakano Rion (24th gen), Shimano Momoko (22nd gen) and Hashimoto Nagisa (22nd gen) all left the program on the same day. Many believe Nagisa (19) and Momoko (17) had gotten to old to debut and therefore left the program.  I am incredibly sad these 4 wonderful girls left the program. I had been looking forwards to their debut (as I am with any kenshuusei), especially those of Rion and Yumei. I hope these girls will debut in any other way and otherwise have a beautiful and happy life.

H!P announced a new department for their Kenshuusei program! Do you guys remember the Hokkaido auditions from about a year ago? Well it was finally announced what they are going to do with it. There are seven girls who won the audition and they will join Hello!Pro Kenshuusei Hokkaido. They will aim for their major debut.  On the 30th of July these girls will be introduced to the public and they will open the H!P concert of that day. 

Hello!Pro Kenshuusei had their first preformance of Hello! Project Kenshuusei Happyoukai 2016 6gatsu ~EXCITING!~ During this concert they preformed a new song: Hello! Massara no Jibun There is not much information about this song, other then the titel.

  Like every year H!P Kenshuusei hold their recitals! In this show all the kenshuusei preform a solo and the audience chooses who did the best, while a jury also gives out prices! This year we had quite a suprise in winners: Public vote winners: Kasahara Momona (24th gen) and Kiyono Momohime (25th gen) both won with 228 votes. Judge's awards: Singing award Takase Kurumi (23th gen) Also runner-up for the public award! Dance Award Akiyama Mao (24th gen) Special award Inoue Hikaru (19th gen) Congratulations to these 5 girls for winning!