C1. Favourite current H!P group and why.
S/mileage - The original four girls, were about as perfect a pairing of girls you could have in an idol group.
And frankly, I was not sure that the group would survive the loss of Saki Ogawa and Yuuka Maeda- these original four girls had practically grown up together.
And then the next bump was the immediate withdrawal of one of the new successful replacments, Fuyuka Kosuga, due to health concerns.
The other new members- Kana, Akari, Rina, & Meimi- didn't exactly get off to a fantastic start (they were fine, but the previous tightness of the unit was not there), but as so often happens with new members (even those members with previous Egg/Trainee experience) the magic starts working, and the new members started to carve out their individual roles, and synchronize as a group.
Happy to say, S/mileage music still has that unique sound (to me), and lots of praise to Ayaka and Kanon, for keeping it all together as they went through pretty massive changes.