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My Top Ten H!P Girls – Year End 2019 ranking

It's been now exactly one year since I last time made My Top Ten H!P Girls list. And things have been getting hectic in 2019 because of the arrival of BEYOOOOONDS. No doubt about that. If you have been following my Twitter tweets this can't…

Posted on December 19, 2019
in Ame no Mori Kawa Umi, ANGERME, BEYOOOOONDS, Hello! Project, Juice=Juice, Kobushi Factory, Morning Musume, Top Ten, Tsubaki Factory, Zush's playground
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From my Hello! Project archives – Rei Inoue & Rikako Sasaki in 2015

UP to BOY is one of the most stylish Japanese idol magazines with quality photo stories. These pages featuring Rei Inoue (Kobushi Factory) and Rikako Sasaki (ANGERME) were published in UP to BOY+ magazine in 2015. They both were 14 years old back then. …

Posted on November 8, 2019
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Hello! Pro Kenshuusei in 2014

This Hello! Pro Kenshuusei special was published in Idol Frontline magazine in the beginning of 2014. But what happened after that? Later in the same year Maria Makino and Akane Haga joined Morning Musume. '14 on September 30. Mizuki Murota, Rikako Sasaki and Maho Aikawa…

Posted on October 25, 2019
in Country Girls, Hello! Pro Kenshuusei, Hello! Project 20th Anniversary, Kobushi Factory, magazine, Morning Musume, S/mileage
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From my Hello! Project archives – Four H!P girls in 2016

Ayano Hamaura (Kobushi Factory), Maria Makino (Morning Musume. '16), Karin Miyamoto (Juice=Juice) & Chisaki Morito (Country Girls) were the cover girls on Shonen Sunday magazine in August 2016. I’m posting quite regularly pictures from my large Hello! Project image archive on Twitter. With…

Posted on August 3, 2019
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From my Hello! Project archives – Hello! Pro Kenshuusei in 2014

Here are quite interesting magazine pages from the beginning of summer 2014. It's a reportage from Hello! Pro Kenshuusei Public Ability Diagnosis Tests held in Tokyo on May 4. 2014. So many familiar looking young girls who have become household names later when they have…

Posted on July 13, 2019
in Hello! Pro Kenshuusei, Hello! Project 20th Anniversary
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