Hi All! This is a thread for new Morning Musume/Hello!Project fans or good ol' Morning Musume/Hello!Project fans that we may have on the forum! Feel free to post your heart out about the members, the music, everything Momusu and H!P! Have Fun!!!!!



Morning Musume Generation 7


Morning Musume is: (back row L-R) Hitomi Yoshizawa, Makoto Ogawa, Koharu Kusume, Eri Kamei, Risa Niigaki, Konno Asami
(front row L-R) Ai Takahashi, Sayumi Michishige, Reina Tanaka, Miki Fujimoto


ALL ABOUT MORNING MUSUME




Who were the other Generations of Morning Musume?

FIRST GENERATION:

1st gen (L to R) - Kaori Iida, Asuka Fukuda, Natsumi Abe, Yuko Nakazawa, Aya Ishiguro

All graduated (left the group): Yuko Nakazawa (graduated April 2001) to pursue solo career.

Aya Ishiguro (graduated January 2000) she later married a rock guitarist and published a book on child rearing as a star.
Asuka Fukuda (graduated April 1999) to pursue schooling.
Kaori Iida: (graduated January 2005) to pursue solo career.
Natsumi Abe: (graduated January 2004) to pursue solo career.

pics of them now: : Yuko Nakazawa : Abe Natsumi : Kaori Iida





2nd gen (L to R) - Kei Yasuda, Sayaka Iichi, Mari Yaguchi

ALL graduated (except for Mari, who resigned):
Mari Yaguchi: (resigned April 2005) to pursue solo career. undecided
Sayaka Ichii (graduated May 2000) to pursue group (Cubic Cross) career.*now disbanded* married to guitarist of Cubic Cross.
Kei Yasuda: (graduated 2003) to pursue H!P career.

pics of them now:
: Mari Yaguchi : Kei Yasuda






3rd gen - Maki Goto

Maki Goto: (graduated 2003) to pursue solo career.

pic of her now:






4th gen (L to R) - Rika Ishikawa, Ai Kago, Nozomi Tsuji, Hitomi Yoshizawa

Rika Ishikawa: (graduated May 2005) to pursue group (Viyuuden) career.
Ai Kago: (graduated August 2004) to pursue group (W) career. (has been suspended due to being caught smoking underage)
Nozomi Tsuji: (graduated August 2004) to pursue group (W) career.

Hitomi Yoshizawa: still in Morning Musume- is the group's current leader

pics of them now: : Rika Ishikawa, : Nozomi Tsuji, : Kago Ai






5th gen (L to R) - Asami Konno, Ai Takahashi, Makoto Ogawa, Risa Niigaki

all still in Morning Musume

Asami Konno and Makoto Ogawa graduating Summer 2006






6th gen (L to R) - Sayumi Michishige, Eri Kamei, Miki Fujimoto, Reina Tanaka

all still in Morning Musume







7th gen - Koharu Kusumi

still in Morning Musume

(individual profiles continued below)

i have to say that i've come to really like all the current members right now but too bad makoto and asami are leaving soon. also i do like koharu now. i've seen some vids on her on youtube and she seems nice and dorky. i think i like the dorky part of her so, yea, i don't dislike her anymore.

my faves right now are miki, koharu, and risa.

MORNING MUSUME AS OF MAY 2006Generation 7

Hitomi Yoshizawa (leader)





Miki Fujimoto (sub-leader)




Ai Takahashi




Asami Konno graduating in July 2006





Makoto Ogawa graduating in August 2006





Risa Niigaki







Eri Kamei







Sayumi Michishige







Reina Tanaka







Koharu Kusumi

Current Morning Musume Member PICS

*the pics with the Chinese outfits are from thier trip last year to Hong Kong
*the pics with the Victorian My Fair Lady type outfits are from their 7th album
ANYWAY: I did try to get them as recent as possible as all of these pictures are from UFA 2006 SOME AS fresh as brand new from yesterday




HITOMI YOSHIZAWA






MIKI FUJIMOTO






AI TAKAHASHI






ASAMI KONNO





MAKOTO OGAWA





RISA NIIGAKI







ERI KAMEI






SAYUMI MICHISHIGE





REINA TANAKA

woahh so many generations and members! haha i don't know all their names and don't have a fav but I love their music ^^;;

KOHARU KUSUMI

CUTE!!!!

i love Ai, Miki and Eri lol

My favorite members are Sayu, Eri, and Risa. xD They're so cute. I love momusu.

my japanese friends really like them so i decided to learn about this group and it's kind of confusing to know everyone isnt it? with so many rotating members. And whoah! their soooo short are you sure that's their correct heights, because if it is they're soo tiny.

^lol. and they are a pretty interesting group of girls o get into because there's no group in the WORLD that has their sound, music, and image at all. trust me... just youtube them and you'll find thousands of pages of info. Beig Japan's top girl group of all time they do come across strongly.


now i see what you mean about the heights. i think they may have been from when they frist enteredt the group, like when they were twelve or thirteen.

Right now I only like Risa, Makoto, Hitomi and Miki out of all current the MM members. The rest of them I never really liked them.

But I dropped MM after Maki left.

Ai Takahashi and Goto Maki is so prettyy
i really like their song called "love machine"...but the lyrics is is not that great still a good song though

i'm not japanese..so is mini moni related to morning musume?

wasn't there a really popular girl she was leader of mini moni and she was in morning musume? but she left because she was getting old

yes. Mini Moni is a Morning Musume subgroup... meaning that they consisted of mainly Morning Musume members... except for the one Hawaiian girl, Mika Todd.

the leader was is morning Musume. her name is Mari Yaguchi. she was graduated in 2002 and she resigned from Morning Musume in 2005 due to a boyfriend incident.

I don't really like MM anymore although I still like a few members and other groups from H!P. Country Musume and Melon Kinenbi I still like also Ayaka my favoriteeee.

Awwww.... they are so young but talented. I was wondering if anyone know the reason why, they people that own MM didn't set a date for Mari Yaguchi on graduating since she was one of the longest member in the group? Even Goto Maki graduated before her...I'm just curious, she was my favorite. But thanks for sharing the picture and info.

Exactly what's going on with Aibon? Is W still on hold because of the cigarette scandal?

Wow~ They're so many.. I'm confused..lol XD I have some of Morning Musume's songs though..

Awwww....this is a very cute and unique group! I like them! My favourites were Ai Kago and Makoto Ogawa...they are so cute!

so.. are they singers? and how come there are so many different "generations" ??

I don't know much about them but I have listened to some of their songs. Those girls are really cute but what most called my attention was their soccer team "Gatas Brilhantes". The name is in Portuguese... specifically Brazilian Portuguese because of the slang. I was happy to see that cause someone told me it was because of Brazil's soccer (and I'm from Brazil). But actually I should say that this name doesn't sound really good :x But okay... maybe for a foreigner country it sounds better. It would be kinda a stupid name here though.

Brilliant Cats?

lolz. i like the soccer team too. actually, they got to practice with David Beckham and the Manchester team in 2005.

edit. yes. Morning Musume is composed of singers. the larger company, Hello!Project is made up of all female singers, artists, and groups. they also do things like act, MC, play soccer, campaign, advertise, and produce.

they've had so many generations because they've added so many members and graduated so many members.

Morning Musume is the flagship group: (from thier latest single 7/21 Ambitious! Yahsinteki de IIjyan!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR426VpDihE...ume%20ambitious

Hello!Project is the larger company. here's a single all the members released together in 2004: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRBoelw8MCw...21Project%20all

I used to be a HUGE MoMusu fan back in middle school. Kago Ai, Yaguchi Mari, and Tsuji Nozomi were my immediate favorites. For some reason I never liked Goto Maki and I don't know why.

Songs: Morning Coffee, Renai Revolution 21, and Daite~HOLD ON ME!

I don't have a favorite generation. My favorite shuffle group was Mini Moni.

heh? lol xD okay...rumour...i didnt know that...xD

she's cute though.

i've been a fan since 4th gen. still love them~ xD

fav gen...5th and 6th gen.

fav song is shabondama. <3

Yoshizawa is pretty good at soccer from the clips I've seen lol
she can shoot well from a good distance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDlVNDGGvaQ...musume%20soccer


I used to be a bit of a MM fan...still like them

I haven't kept up with H!P for a long time and now I hear about a new girl joining.
*take from ikimasshoi.com:
From South Korea to Japan. Simmim (シンミン) left her hometown to become part of the Hello!Project. According to the H!P announcement, she was the winner of a Korean tv show looking for new talents. She debuted to the Korean audience in some dramas and MC-ed various things. She’s an exchange student in Hello Project who loves sports, and that’s why she has been attending Gatas Brillhantes trainings (H!P Futsal Team). She has been and she is currently learning Japanese, voice and dance lessons, and keeps up her own blog. It is not known when will she debut. Her profile comes with the announcement: She was born in April 28th, 1983, South Korea. Blood type A. Height: 168cm. Hobbies: Watch movies and room decorations. Special skills: Dance.

yeah! i've heard about her. i wonder what she'll do in H!P though

MM girls are really cute. Their music is pretty infectious too.


... but where is the Aya Matsuura love? She's in Hello! Project too! Rediculously cute to boot.

I've never heard any of their songs but Maki is utterly hot, then comes Miki

I like MM but not as much as I used to. Takahashi is definately my favorite out of the recent members. But Nono,Mari,Rika and Maki are probally my favroites out of all the generations.

try youtube.com to see some of their videos for you guys who haven't seen them yet. they're pretty interesting.


These are Morning Musume's singles so far.
1998-01-28 Morning Coffee
1998-05-27 Summer Night Town
1998-09-09 Daite Hold On Me!
1999-02-10 Memory Seishun no Hikari
1999-05-12 Manatsu no Kousen
1999-07-14 Furusato
1999-09-09 Love Machine
2000-01-26 Koi no Dance Site
2000-05-17 Happy Summer Wedding
2000-09-06 I Wish
2000-12-13 Renai Revolution 21
2001-07-25 The Peace!
2001-10-31 Mr. Moonlight ~Ai no Big Band~
2002-02-20 Souda! We're Alive
2002-07-24 Do it! Now
2002-10-30 Koko ni Iruzee!
2003-02-19 Morning Musume no Hyokkori Hyoutanjima
2003-04-23 As For One Day
2003-07-30 Shabondama
2003-11-06 Go Girl ~Koi no Victory~
2004-01-21 Ai Araba It's All Right
2004-05-12 Roman ~My Dear Boy~
2004-07-22 Joshi Kashimashi Monogatari
2004-11-03 Namida ga Tomaranai Houkago
2005-01-19 The Manpower!!!
2005-04-27 Osaka Koi no Uta
2005-07-27 Iroppoi Jirettai
2005-11-09 Chokkan 2 ~Nogashita Sakana wa ooki zo!~
2006-03-18 Sexy Boy ~Soyokaze ni Yorisoutte~
2006-06-21 AMBITOUS! Yashinteki de ii jan!