H!P/related Concerts and Stage Plays

[JonCC]

Hello! Project 20th Anniversary!! Hello! Project Hina Fest 2019 @ Makuhari Messe Exhibition Hall

Cast : Morning Musume. '19, Angerme, Juice=Juice, Country Girls, Kobushi Factory, Tsubaki Factory, BEYOOOOONDS, Kenshuusei

Hello! Project 20th Anniversary!! Premium OG guests : Tsuji Nozomi, Kago Ai, Niigaki Risa, Michishige Sayumi, and Sayashi Riho

3/30 12pm - Hello! Project 20th Anniversary!! Premium
3/30 6pm - Juice=Juice Premium
3/31 11am - Angerme Premium
3/31 4:30pm - Morning Musume. '19 Premium

http://www.helloproject.com/event/detai ... 3a2d592392

Also there: Kago Ai, Tsuji Nozomi

"Also there"?

Yeah 'also there', I'll leave others to enjoy a W reunion, that all started and and ended before I got into H!P.
We would have had that anyway at the last H!P concerts if Tsujii wasn't pregnant again.
Riho's return is the main draw here for me.

Plus how crazy is it that she just ended her UF contract and suddenly she's performing at a H!P concert again?

[Amped]

Today at Juice=Juice's Ikebukuro Sunshine city event, It is announced that Juice=Juice will have a concert hall tour (after Yanagawa Nanami's graduation). starting from Kanagawa pref. Includes a performance in Ishikawa pref. (Miyazaki Yuka's homecoming)

[Celedam]

Yeah 'also there', I'll leave others to enjoy a W reunion, that all started and and ended before I got into H!P.
We would have had that anyway at the last H!P concerts if Tsujii wasn't pregnant again.
Riho's return is the main draw here for me.

Of course, what you do or don't enjoy is your own business, but a W reunion is more newsworthy.

[JonCC]

but a W reunion is more newsworthy.

Yeah and last I checked I was a fan on a fan forum not a journalist for Oricon News.

[Amped]

confirmed :

Juice=Juice CONCERT TOUR 2019 Spring untitled

4/27~4/28 - Harmony Hall Zama (Kanagawa)
5/3 - Fukuoka Kokusai Hall
5/4 - JMS Aster Plaza Hall (Hiroshima)
5/6 - Nakano Sun Plaza
5/19 - Kawaguchi Culture Center Lilia Main Hall (Saitama)
5/25 - Nippon Tokushu Tougyou Shimin Kaikan Hall (Aichi)
6/1 - NHK Osaka Hall
6/4 - Kanazawa City Cultural Hall (Ishikawa)

http://www.helloproject.com/event/detai ... a7caf624db

[Shoujo Q]

W reunion!!!!! Yas. I’m here. I just rolled out of my grave and I am living!!!! Best news to hit since the summer concerts last year. I’m just happy to see Kago again. I just wish I could be there in person.

Nice to see Riho pop her head in too.

Now if Kamei Eri could show her face that would be nice.

[Nayoko-Kihara]

It's going to be great to have the W reunion happen this quickly. I expected to have to wait way longer. I'll enjoy it no matter what, but I hope they don't even touch "Robo Kiss". Literally any other W song(s), please.

[Moh]

W reunion and Riho? Color me shocked. Seriously!

[Yattaruchan]

Now why couldn't Hina Fes be like a week later, and the J=J tour start a few days earlier. Total bummer.

Sayashi & W would be awesome to see.

[koregaboku]

Yeah 'also there', I'll leave others to enjoy a W reunion, that all started and and ended before I got into H!P.
We would have had that anyway at the last H!P concerts if Tsujii wasn't pregnant again.
Riho's return is the main draw here for me.

Of course, what you do or don't enjoy is your own business, but a W reunion is more newsworthy.

I kind of agree with JonCC, TBH.

We saw based on Summer HelloCon that UF* and Kago have reestablished friendly ties- had that happened at the same time as a Riho, I would agree that the Kago appearance would be bigger news than a Riho return (especially since for all intents and purposes Kago's participation seemed to have been for a W reunion had Tsuji not gotten pregnant). However, now that Kago's back on goodterms with UF* she might just end up as another not really UF* but basically UF* OG ala Taiyou to Ciscomoon, Ichii, Ishiguro, Goto, etc. who participate often enough at UF*/H!P events that their participation isn't all that exciting/noteworthy.

As others have mentioned, Riho is an entirely different case. She hasn't maintained a public face since her graduation, she recently parted with UF*, and there was no indication that she had signed to any other agency.

Few, if any of us, expected a Riho return and because of that I would say Riho's participation is more newsworthy.

(And on a tangent, I fully expected a 5nin C-ute reunion before a Riho return since Mai is still maintaining a public presence.

On a separate, somewhat shady but honest note, if it had been Aika, the W news would take presence. But Riho was THE ace (and arguably hasn't been fully replaced) and therefore her return matters, a lot.)