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Morning Musume '15 officially debuted at today's countdown live! There were several songs preformed including two songs with the 12th gen! 12th gen is now also officially on their website. Congratulations 12th gen on your debut! Edit: Morning Musume '15's first preformance on CDTV! (Kanon and Masaki had to sit this one out due to injuries). Be prepared for a lot of Kudo Haruka!!

Some pretty bad news from Hello!Project. Suzuki Kanon has wrenched her left ankle and won't be able to preform for 6 weeks. This mean she will be missing the Countdown live as the whole winter tour.  Sato Masaki has a possible sprain in her right knee and will only be singing during the countdown live. She will be dancing and singing during the winter tour, but under guidance of a docter. I hope both girls will be alright and heal soon. Please take all the rest you need!

It's that time of the year that we just had a periode without much new on H!P and now we are going to go into a time with a lot of things happening: the new years concert and the H!P winter tour! So today we got the logo's for this years winter tour, which are important to see what the themes will be about! Both tours are very colorfull and look like a lot of fun! Dance Mode! looks very lose and free, while Happy Emotion looks Disco like? I like both logo's and I can't wait to see what the setlists and goods will be!

The newest members of Morning Musume got their own blog! 12th gen started blogging on it today after their first fanclub event.  The blog can be find here: http://ameblo.jp/mm-12ki The 12th gen also got some new pictures: Ogata Haruna is wearing a very elegant white dress, with a black band in the midle. She looks super cute and she already knows how to work the camera!  Nonaka Miki has a slightly cooler outfit. With a crop top and her belly showing. Her skirt is white with black. She looks cute, but also cool! Makino Maria has a very elegant outfit, with more details than Ogata. She looks very model like and cool, while her dress is more cute and elegant.  I can never believe Maria is only 13.... Haga Akane is obviously the baby of them all. Her dress is very cute and fits her age. The white stipes are make the dress less boring.  Please support the 12th gen by visiting their blog!

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....

Suzuki Kanon announced on her blog that she will have her own radio show on CBC! She will replace Sayumi's show. She said on her blog she will start in december. Please look forwards to it! Congratulations KANON <3 I am so happy she gets this oppertunity! 

Within 39 days Michishige Sayumi will graduate from Morning Musume.  The longest serving member and the 8th leader of Morning Musume. It's only natural she is getting such a big send off and still everything for her is in such big proportions! The start of it all is ofcourse their latest single in which she got an A-side and a song dedicated to her.  Shabadabadoo tells her story and is very Sayumi.  Mikaeri bijin is her farwell song. All the members sing about her and how she is leaving.  I love the full version because of the letters and her last letter to the fans. The perfect send off, but also a preview of what Morning Musume without her will be like.  And we have this little gem. We get to see so much footage of all the concerts Sayumi has been part of. All of her friends, happy moments and sad moments.  I honestly can say that I will miss Sayumi a lot. But as I watched the New year preformance of Onna to Otoko no Lullaby gam...

Today Morning Musume released the covers of their long awaited 14th album: 14 shou ~the message~ They were released on their own special website for their 57th single, 14th album and Michishige's graduation: Click So let's have a look at the covers: Regular edition The regular edition really seems kinda regular. The outfits make me think of Platinum 9 meets their last coupling album. It's not really creative and I don't think everyone looks their best. The colors on the background kinda make i t look cheap, which is a pity. I do like the way they did the title. Limited A That's a long cover! But I quite like this one. Ayumi looks like such a boss. The only weird thing about this cover is Sayumi. She kinda looks as if she was pasted in. All the other girls look good and very cool. I kinda like the background cause it fits the theme. Limited B This cover is not bad. It's kinda classy and well not that special. I think everyone looks ...

On today's Hello!Station Morning Musume '14 will release the last two MV's for their news single! We will get to see Shabadabadoo~ and Mikaeri Bijin! Please look forwards to them!

And here it is, the first pictures of the new Momusu members: First of all let me introduce you to Ogata Haruna (left) and Nonaka Miki (right). Aren't they adorable? Haruna is a figure skater: Miki can speak english! And ofcourse our Kenshuusei girls! Or better: Former kenshuusei girls Makino And Akane More group pictures: Sources: http://t.co/zMF8OWnhRj Hello!online http://natalie.mu/music/news/127407

During today's concert the 12th generation of Morning Musume members was announced! The 12th generation consists of the following members: Ogata Haruna  Age: 15 From: Osaka Nonaka Miki Age: 14 From: Shizuoka Makino Maria H!P Kenshuusei Age: 13 From: Aichi  Haga Akane H!P Kenshuusei Age: 12 From: Nagano Congratulations on becoming members of Morning Musume! These 4 girls won't debut withing Morning Musume until 2015, but they will train until then and participate in some events. I'll keep you updated on the two unknown girls Haruna and Miki!

Because I was on a vacation I kinda missed this, but: Morning Musume '14 released a preview for Mikaeri Bijin I really like the outfits, eventhough I don't think the colors match. And the setting and Sayumi! It's perfect. I really love how diffrent the sound is! I can't wait for more! Pre-ordering this single for sure!

Just an hour before I'm suppose to leave for Disneyland and Morning Musume releases it's covers!!! Let's have a small blog post about it! Above is a picture from the official Tiki Bun site. It features Michishige-san with all the generations. It's the new background for the count down to her graduation and it's so cute! Let's have a look at the covers! (I'm so exited for this) Limited A Oh I like this one! Everyone looks really pretty and I kinda like all those colors! Super colorful. It kinda makes me think of Minecraft with all the diffrent blocks and the lettertype. I really like this one, eventhough it might not be perfect. Limited B Ohh a solo cover! And what a cute one! I love how there are soapbubbles on this one (Shabondama was her first single after all!). I love Sayumi's outfit and her expression. The pink background is just perfect. It's very simple but it shows of sayumin so well! Limited C Hold on a sec. OMG ...