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Morning Musume's 13th generation officially joined Morning Musume today. This means they now also have official profile pictures on their site: These two had already been released upon the announcement of the winners. But these two are new: Are you also looking forwards to their first preformance?

So I might have been a bit early with my last update on Tsubaki Factory's  profile picture, because they also uploaded new individual profile pictures! Let's have a look at them! Yamagishi Riko Riko-chan has a full white dress and looks really pretty. I might say she looks a bit uncomforable, but I love her somewhat longer hair. The outfit looks really cute on her. Ogata Risa Ogata Risa is the sass queen of Tsubaki Factory. She looks so beautiful and sassy. I love her posses and the dress looks so good on her! I love the ponytail.  Niinuma Kisora Ah I adore Kisora's new hair style! She looks so beautiful and cute with this hair. The dress also fits her really nicely. She does look a bit awkward, but I guess that's part of her charm (or I see it that way). Tanimoto Ami Ami-chan is so cute! I really like her top and skirt. She looks really elegant, while still looking fresh and young! I do miss her long hair, but this is also really pret...

Tsubaki Factory uploaded a new profile picture! It is possible these are also outfits for their upcoming major debut single. Don't they look like angels?

Morning Musume '16 just became Morning Musume '17! This means Kaga Kaede and Yokoyama Reina officially joined the group as of today! Morning Musume also changed their group profile pictures to the one you see up top and below.

During today's Countdown Live it was announced that Yajima Maimi will give the leadership of Hello!Project to Wada Ayaka (leader of ANGERME).  It was also announced that Fukumura Mizuki (Morning Musume) would become Hello!Project's first sub-leader! Congratulations to both girls!

During today's countdown live the image colors of the 13th gen have been announced! Kaga Kaede and Yokoyama Reina joined less then a month ago and debutted today! Kaga Kaede got Italian Red (like Inaba Manaka) Yokoyama Reina got Gold Yellow (like Takahashi Ai) Let's hope we see their colors on t-shirts soon!

Not to long ago it was announced that Morning Musume's Sato Masaki was suffering from back problems. She was diagnosed with Umbar Herniated Disc and would be resting for the time being. Today we finally got some news concerning Masaki. It seems that she has been suffering from back pains ever since June and has been going to the doctors eversince. In November she got an MRI scan and in December her condition got only worse. Staff had been trying to help out as much as they could (low shoes, helping with her outfits etc.). For now Masaki will keep resting, which means she will miss the countdown live and the first 3 performances of the Hello!Pro winter tour. On the 4th of january there will be a new examination of her back and based on that staff will let us know if Masaki will be preforming from the 7th of January on or not.  Staff also explained they will be taking better care of the members, so no-one has to go through this again.  Let's all wish Masaki the best...