[News] Morning Musume. ’19 LOVE Audition

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Morning Musume ’19 kick off the new year with new member auditions

Morning Musume. ’19 LOVE Audition was announced at the first day of the 2019 Hello! Project Winter concerts.

Morning Musume ’19 are looking for new members who love to sing and dance, love Morning Musume and Hello! Project, want to show off their strengths and find their ‘new self’.

Girls who audition must be between 10 and 17 years old. The application deadline is February 15 at 24:00 (JST). Candidates must not already be signed to another agency.

There is a possibility for those who don’t pass to join the H!P Trainees. Candidates must be able to follow lessons in Tokyo. The current H!P Trainees can apply in a separate audition parallel to this one.

https://hellonewsservice.wordpress.com/2019/01/02/morning-musume-19-kick-off-the-new-year-with-new-member-auditions/

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The 15th generation Morning Musume members will be revealed via Youtube on June 22

https://twitter.com/hipnewsservice/status/1138371467291320320?s=20

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AramaJapan.com - Morning Musume will reveal their 15th generation on June 22nd
- https://aramajapan.com/news/music/morning-musume-will-reveal-their-15th-generation-on-june-22nd/99086/
- https://www.agara.co.jp/article/10485

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Member announcement livestream link

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And we have our winners! From left to right:

Mei Yamazaki (13) from KSS Hokkaido
Homare Okamura (14) from Tokyo
Rio Kitagawa (15) from Tokyo

Profiles also up, gotta do some database work...

http://www.helloproject.com/news/10573/


Rio Kitagawa (北川莉央)
Date of birth: March 16, 2004 (15 years old, high school first grader)
Hometown: Tokyo
Blood type: O
Height: 155 cm
Hobby: Cuisine

Homare Okamura (岡村ほまれ)
Date of birth: May 9, 2005 (14 years old, junior high school second grader)
Hometown: Tokyo
Blood type: A
Height: 158 cm
Hobby: Collecting stationery

Mei Yamazaki (山﨑愛生)
DOB: June 28, 2005 (13 years old, junior high school)
Hometown: Hokkaido
Blood type: B
Height: 158 cm
Hobby: Panda's goods collection (?)
※ H!P Trainee Hokkaido since July 2016.






The new Morning Musume!




A bunch of cuties. IIRC Homare did ballet, Rio claimed to have some singing ability, so we have a dancer and a singer in the new girls. Mei won "best character" award in KSS recitals, and seems to speak English as well.

Good crop, it looks like, nice to get all-new girls once in a while, too.

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Rio stood out the most for me. When her name was announced, I thought it was Ryou Kitagawa who was formerly a Hokkaido Kenshuusei.

She’s one to keep an eye on - After stating her golf level, Eripon said “Oh thank goodness, it’s below mine”
And she replied with “But the uniform looks better on me”

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Moicho TV segment with the new members.

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Footage of Fukumura going to meet the audition winners, reactions, first self-intros, all-around a good time.

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Turn on CC for english subs

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15th gen now have their own ameba blog!

https://ameblo.jp/morningmusume15ki/






Here's some 15th gen pics from the blog and around the internets.

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@3:13 Audition training camp clips

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turn on cc for english subs

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More lessons! Starting at 14:08, solo singing parts at 17:18.