This probably should've been done already lol. H!P has been crazy this year. Between graduation announcements, crazy shake ups with Country Girls, random KSS being promoted to nothingness. It's actually awesome. I love shake ups. I'm still disappointed that there still hasn't been any new album announcements (no, I don't count Momoko's compilation Country Girls tacked on thing). All of the groups minus Kobushi need a new one. Very happy C-ute got their best collection with B-sides though. That was a plus.
Morning Musume
-"Morning Musume won't have any graduations this year!" People said. People were wrong and I knew they would be. You seriously didn't think that after 6 years in the group 9th/10th wouldn't have at least one girl leave per year til they're gone? That's denial. I was also right about 10th not leaving all as a group. Haruka being the next to go, however, was surprising. I figured she'd be one of the last of the 9th/10th to go. I still think there will be a 14th gen/13.5 gen this year. With the KSS being up in the air and CG members as well, there will definitely be a new member or new added. Please be Musubu. Please be Musubu. I'll take Reina too.
#1: Masaki Sato (-)
#2: Akane Haga (+1)
#3: Miki Nonaka (-1)
#4: Sakura Oda (-)
#5: Reina Yokoyama (+6)
#6: Ayumi Ishida (+1)
#7: Maria Makino (-1)
#8: Haruna Ogata (+1)
#9: Erina Ikuta (-1)
#10: Haruna Iikubo (-1)
#11: Kaede Kaga (+1)
#12: Mizuki Fukumura (-1)
Angerme
Ayaka was made H!P leader! Yes! I'm so so glad that they didn't pass her up just to favor Musume. She really deserves the position. I've also changed my mind about her announcing this year. I do think she will leave next year, but I don't think the announcement will be until next year because of all of the changes in H!P at the moment. I also don't think Maho is coming back. I love her and I wish she would, but she's been gone so long and their newest single really feels like an indication that she's not coming back. She needs to do what's best for her mental health and if that's not coming back, I hope she chooses it instead of hurting herself. Still think a second gen will be leaving this year. I'm going with Rina. I'd like to see Nanami get put here. She doesn't really have the "Angerme look", but I'd think it'd be a challenge for her. Ruru would also be nice in this group.
#1: Ayaka Wada (-)
#2: Mizuki Murota (-)
#3: Maho Aikawa (-)
#4: Rikako Sasaki (-)
#5: Moe Kamikokuryou (-)
#6: Kana Nakanishi (+1)
#7: Rina Katsuta (+1)
#8: Akari Takeuchi (-2)
#9: Momona Kasahara (-)
Juice=Juice
If they add a new girl to Juice, we're definitely seeing a graduation this year and I don't think it'd be either Tomoko or Yuka. I really hope they don't add new members to Juice. They need at least one group to stay static to be like C-ute. The only member out of those up in the air I'd be slightly ok with joining JJ would be Reina. She's close enough in age to the others, but I still wouldn't prefer it. If management adds Ayano because "Haha Karin and Ayano twinsies!" I'm giving up on H!P.
#1: Karin Miyamoto (-)
#2: Sayuki Takagi (-)
#3: Yuka Miyazaki (+1)
#4: Akari Uemura (-1)
#5: Tomoko Kanazawa (-)
Country Girls
I'm slightly disappointed that they're being made a sub group after Momoko leaves. However, I don't think it's because Momoko's leaving. I think that both Risa and Mai started discussing their own graduations with management and that is why they're going part time. Management didn't want to lose two more members (i.e. lose even more money), so they talked them into the part time thing. Once the graduation wave this year slows down, I can see Risa graduating and Mai soon after that. Effectively ending Country Girls. Management also knew that losing three members at once would destroy Country Girls, leaving the other three left no hopes of gaining traction even if they added more, so they decided to just place them in other groups so they wouldn't lose even MORE money. I'd like to see Chisaki in Tsubaki or a new group, Musubu in Musume or Tsubaki, and Nanami in any group but Musume.
#1: Musubu Funaki (-)
#2: Risa Yamaki (-)
#3: Chisaki Morito (-)
#4: Mai Ozeki (+1)
#5: Nanami Yanagawa (-1)
Kobushi Factory
I was wrong about them sticking together for a year or so. I'm not shocked that Rio's leaving, but I'm slightly disappointed they didn't stick it out whole for another year. I think we'll see a second graduation next year and then they'll be static after that like JJ and C-ute. I'd really rather they didn't add anyone new to Kobushi. Can we have more than one static group please? I don't particularly care for Kobushi, but they work well together as a unit and I don't want a new member wrecking that. If they absolutely have to add someone new, Ayano would work well. I'd be so pissed if they added Musubu to Kobushi though. She has an excellent voice but I don't think she fits the group AT ALL. Please don't H!P. Please.
#1: Rei Inoue (-)
#2: Sakurako Wada (+1)
#3: Minami Nomura (-1)
#4: Ayano Hamaura (+1)
#5: Natsumi Taguchi (+1)
#6: Rena Ogawa (+1)
#7: Ayaka Hirose (-3)
Tsubaki Factory
I still think there will be a graduation this year. Either Risa or Ami. I'm glad they did very good with their first single release. I was a little worried for them. I wouldn't mind some of the girls going into Tsubaki. Musubu would be cool, so would Ruru or Reina. I don't think Ayano would fit, Chisaki would be ok but I'd rather see a group built around her, and I just don't really like Nanami so I don't want her here either but wouldn't be upset if she was. Actually, I think it'd be cool to get some other KSS to be a new gen with some of the transfer girls. That'd be exciting.
#1: Kisora Niinuma (-)
#2: Yumeno Kishimoto (+1)
#3: Mao Akiyama (-1)
#4: Mizuho Ono (-)
#5: Risa Ogata (+1)
#6: Saori Onoda (+1)
#7: Kiki Asakura (-2)
#8: Ami Tanimoto (-)
#9: Riko Yamagishi (-)
??????
This section is for the "yeah you're totally going to debut, we just don't know what to do with you yet!" girls. They're not quite KSS, not quite full members. I'm going to include Momohime & Kurumi in this just because who knows what they heck they're about.
#1: Reina Ichioka
#2: Ruru Danbara
#3: Momohime Kiyono
#4: Kurumi Takase
#5: Ayano Kawamura
Kenshuusei
I'm glad that we got a fairly large generation this year so far, but I hope there's more to come. They need to build up good girls in the KSS again since the program has been pretty gutted in recent years. I was wrong about KSS going to UUG and only slightly disappointed that didn't happen. I don't really follow UUG so meh. Also surprised that no one's really dropped out since MM's auditions. I guess the overwhelming about of debuts recently is keeping girls around.
#1: Hikaru Inoue
#2: Kokoro Maeda
#3: Kizuki Horie
#4: Shiori Nishida
#5: Sakiko Kodama
#6: Reina Doi
#7: Rin Hashisako
#8: Mizuki Kanatsu
#9: Yuhane Yamazaki
#10: Natsume Nakayama
#11: Kotomi Ono
#12: Saya Eguchi
#13: Risa Shimakura
#14: Ichigo Yamada
#15: Kurumi Noguchi
#16: Minami Okamura
#17: Kirara Yonemura
#18: Riai Matsunaga
#19: Marina Hibi
Hokkaido Kenshuusei
Still don't really care about them. Hated Real Little Girl. Can H!P add one to a group so I can form a real opinion on the girls?
#1: Ryo Kitagawa
#2: Minori Kawano
#3: Kanami Ishiguri
#4: Mei Yamazaki
#5: Hikari Sato
#6: Haruka Ota
#7: Yume Kudo
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