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Morning Musume announced they will be releasing a special album next year! The album will be released on the 7th of febuary and is a 20th anniversary album.  It will be called: Hatachi no Morning Musume And it will be release by Morning Musume 20th. The album will be released in two versions, one regular with only cds and one limited with a dvd. This dvd will have a part of the  20th anniversary Budokan concert, interviews with OG members and the MV to Ai no Tane (20th anniversary ver.). Not much else has been announced, so we don't know if it will be a cover album or a best-of album. We will just have to wait for more information! Edit: The album is a Mini-album and will contain 8 songs. Ai no Tane (20th anniversary ver.) and Gosenfu no Tasuki will be on the album. The other 6 songs will be new songs preformed by OG members and the current members!

Morning Musume announced a new sub-unit to celebrate their 20th anniversary! The group will be joined by the 1st generation members Nakazawa Yuko, Ishiguro Aya, Iida Kaori, Abe Natsumi and Fukuda Asuka to form Morning Musume 20th! The group will release a digital single on the 3th of november and is a remake of Ai no Tane, Morning Musume's first song. It will be released on the exact 20th anniversary of Ai no Tane! The single will include: 1. Ai no Tane (20th Anniversary ver.) 2. Ai no Tane (20th Anniversary ver.) Instrumental This will be the first time Fukuda Asuka has Morning Musume activities since her graduation 18 years ago!

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...

Konno Asami (Morning Musume's 5th gen member) announced her marriage! Konkon (29) is currently a TV Tokyo announcer and got married to Sugiura Toshihiro (24) who is a baseball player. They got married on the first of Januari. Congratulations to the newly weds! May their marriage be a long and happy one!

6th generation member Michishige Sayumi left Morning Musume almost two years ago. Since then she hasn't been in the public eye. Yet today she started using her blog again with a small post called Everyone The blogpost only had two sentences, which only said something like: It has been a while. Let's see if this works. Fans all over the world are happy to see Sayu at least posting a little bit and we all hope to hear more from her soon!  Welcome back Sayumi!

Morning Musume's 8th generation member Linlin had some pretty big news today! She announced she got married in 2014 and had a child in 2015! Linlin met her husband in August of 2014 and married him in november.  In September of 2015 she gave birth to a "cute child" as she called the baby. A very late congratulations to Linlin! I am really happy for her!  What do you guys think of her "late" announcement?

Morning Musume '15 uploaded the MV for Ima Koko Kara! It's the song for the new Precure movie. This is the first MV since Shabondama in 2003 to not future Michishige Sayumi. It's also the debut of the 12th gen and the '15 behind their name. Some screenshots are below the spoiler!

Ex- Morning Musume 8th generation member JunJun announced her marriage! Her boyfriend proposed to her on the 2nd of October this year and they registered their marriage on the 3rd of November! JunJun and her boyfriend had already been togheter since the 24th of september 2012! Congratulations to Junjun and her husband! I hope they will have an amazing life togheter!

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!

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!

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...

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 ...