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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
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From my Hello! Project archives – S/mileage in 2014

In 2014 just before 3rd generation girls Mizuki Murota, Maho Aikawa and Rikako Sasaki joined the group S/mileage performed their stage play "S/mileage's JUKEBOX-MUSICAL ~SMILE FANTASY!~". Here are pages from that stage play program. Note that in the cast there are a couple of girls…

Posted on May 11, 2019
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Idol Hanami 2019

Hanami season is almost over in Tokyo but in the northern parts of Japan, for example in Hokkaido, the season really starts in the beginning of May. Check out Sakura forecast site (in Japanese) with latest news & maps > Here at KAKKO-II blog I…

Posted on April 9, 2019
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From my Hello! Project archives – H!P Kenshuusei girls in 2014

Hello! Pro Kenshuusei girls Nanami Tanabe, Ayano Hamaura, Rena Ogawa, Maria Makino and Rikako Sasaki in 2014. These magazine page scans are from UpToBoy vol. 220 (June 2014). Nanami is today in OnePixcel. Ayano is today in Kobushi Factory. Rena graduated from Kobushi Factory on…

Posted on April 7, 2019
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My Top Ten H!P Girls – Year End 2018 ranking

This year is almost finished and one major Hello! Project graduation happens at Nippon Budokan on upcoming weekend (Deccember 15. & 16.). She's of course Haruna Iikubo the sub-leader of Morning Musume. '18. As this happens soon I had to bring her back to my Top Ten.…

Posted on December 13, 2018
in ANGERME, BEYOOOOONDS, Hello! Project, Kobushi Factory, Morning Musume, Top Ten, Tsubaki Factory, Zush's playground
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