Morning Musume。'19 LOVE Audition - Three 15th Generation Members Revealed!

[Nayoko-Kihara]

Morning Musume。'19 LOVE Auditon (モーニング娘。'19 LOVEオーディション)

Official Audition Website

Info
• They are looking for girls that feel:
-- I love Morning Musume, Hello! Project (モーニング娘、ハロー！プロジェクトが大好き)
-- I love singing and dancing, I am confident in my singing and dancing (歌やダンスが大好き、歌やダンスに自信がある)
-- I want to make use of my strengths and special skills (自分の長所や特技を生かしたい)
-- I want to find a "new self" (「新しい自分」を見つけたい)

Progress
• 2019/01/02 (The Morning Musume '19 LOVE Audition is first announced at the first "Hello! Project 20th Anniversary!! Hello! Project 2019 WINTER ~YOU & I~" concert. The official audition site opened and the audition is announced on the Hello! Project website.)
• 2019/02/15 (Application submissions officially closed at 12:00 p.m.)
• 2019/03/06 (First round complete. Notice sent to applicants passing to the second round.)
• 2019/04/10 (Second round complete. Notice sent to applicants passing to the third round.)
• 2019/05/17 (Third round complete. Notice sent to applicants about the next screening or failing.)
• 2019/06/11 (Announced at a 67th single release event; the winners of the audition to be revealed during a special live YouTube broadcast on June 22, 2019.)
• 2019/06/22 (Three 15th generation Morning Musume members revealed. Audition winners Kitagawa Rio (15) and Okamura Homare (14), and Hello Pro Kenshuusei Hokkaido selection Yamazaki Mei (13).)

Audition Requirements:
• Applications will be accepted between January 2nd and February 15th at 12 p.m.
• Must be a female living in Japan between 5th grade Elementary (approx. 10) and 2nd year High School (approx. 17) as of January 2, 2019.
• Must not be contracted to or affiliated with any organizations conducting entertainment activities.
• If someone shows promise but does not pass the final examination, we may recommend you join Hello Pro Kenshuusei. The Hello Pro Kenshuusei are eligible for debut in the future.
• The current Hello Pro Kenshuusei will attend a separate audition in parallel with the main audition.
• Only those able to attend lessons in Tokyo will be eligible to pass the audition.

Audition Results

Spoiler: show

• On June 22, 2019 two audition winners and one selected member from Hello Pro Kenshuusei Hokkaido were revealed as 15th generation Morning Musume members, through a special live broadcast on the Morning Musume YouTube channel.

L-R:
Yamazaki Mei (山﨑愛生; 13) (Hello Pro Kenshuusei Hokkaido)
Okamura Homare (岡村ほまれ; 14)
Kitagawa Rio (北川莉央; 15)

Audition Promotion
• Audition CM
• Audition Promo Video
• Morning Musume '19 LOVE Audition Promotional Truck
• LINE App Member Message Promotion (Text "オーディション" + member surname to recieve a message)
• Morning Musume Member Audition Stories
-- Yokoyama Reina (13th Gen) [Original | Translation]
-- Oda Sakura (11th Gen) [Original | Translation 1 & Translation 2]
-- Nonaka Miki (12th Gen) [Original | Translation]
-- Ikuta Erina (9th Gen) [Original | Translation]
-- Haga Akane (12th Gen) [Original | Translation]
-- Ishida Ayumi (10th Gen) [Original | Translation]
-- Morito Chisaki (14th Gen) [Original | Translation]
-- Kaga Kaede (13th Gen) [Original | Translation]
-- Makino Maria (12th Gen) [Original | Translation]
-- Sato Masaki (10th Gen) [Original | Translation]
-- Fukumura Mizuki (9th Gen) [Original | Translation]

Misc.
• TBA

Last edited by Nayoko-Kihara on Mon Jun 24, 2019 11:07 pm, edited 25 times in total.

[Amped]

confirmed :
starts 1/2 ends 2/15
5th grade elementary to High School 2nd year, Girls living in Japan
- "Love" Morning Musume, Hello! Project
- "Love" Singing and Dancing, Confident in Singing and Dancing
- I want my skills and strengths to be useful
- I want to change myself

http://www.helloproject.com/news/9707/

official site

http://www.musume-audition.com/

official TV CM and Audition Promo video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Nzjs_r5xk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTwCvsk9oDY

Last edited by Amped on Wed Jan 02, 2019 10:37 pm, edited 3 times in total.

[pchoi1980]

[teth]

I hope they do another show to document this whole process

I wonder why they only did the fan voting once (6th gen)
Granted it was only one factor at the time but it would be interesting to see

And pleeeeeeeeease let Tsunku be involved

[aerosuffly]

Wow. Have we ever had a CM and promotional video for an audition?

I really wish that they do a documentary style video interview of each current member and upload one or two every week until the application deadline.

[Amped]

official site

http://www.musume-audition.com/

full size banner of Morning Musume. '19

https://twitter.com/MorningMusumeMg/sta ... 8032386048

[Moh]

Wow, after me and N-K said something in the "Year in Review" thread about having a new audition.

I'm excited about this! And that banner is really pretty.

[Rysaria]

I'm sooo excited for this since I need someone new to obsess over. I pray for at least one fresh face and one that can sing well enough to join FukuMaaSaku on the "front lines".

[Amped]

Looking at the age requirement for the audition (5th grade to 2nd year high school), Yabai T-Shirts Yasan band vocalist Aribobo Shibata jokingly tweets "Can a 24 year old join a high school to enter?" She plugs the link to the audition to her 130k followers
https://twitter.com/shibata_aribobo/sta ... 8773479424

Then PassCode member Ogami Hinako responds "I was thinking if I can be a high schooler too"
https://twitter.com/passcode_hina/statu ... 9238988801

[Nayoko-Kihara]

That's so cute. Apparently people are encouraging girls to audition in YT comments and stuff too, and Reira gave some advice to girls that are thinking about trying:

tweet