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

[JonCC]

Looks like this is the application form.

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Social networking profiles have to be disclosed.
Call it the 'Kobushi clause'

[Amped]

The official online application form says "SNS Account" and it is not required to fill in (it doesn't have a red star next it). It is optional.

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

Who still lives in a cave and fills out the form by paper these days? I guess elementary kids because they don't how to use the internet?

[Sohee]

Elementary kids know how to use smartphones.
However, writing by paper shows ypour handwriting and that is something that is very appreciated in Japan so some people will probably try to appeal to them like that. Apparently Iikubo sent hers by normal mail, too.

[Nayoko-Kihara]

I would probably fill in a paper form if I were to audition, just because I really enjoy the act of writing - and would probably remember more about it vs an online form.

[koregaboku]

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".

I would argue that given the hefty number of (juicy) lines Morito has been getting in concerts she's being primed for the "front lines" (it's something I've been musing about but too lazy to post about).

Aside from that just a couple notes-

1) Ai-chan reposted the audition announcement on Instagram and reminisce how 5ki auditions were similar "MM. Love Audition" (sidenote, super interesting how Ai-chan got picked from a Love Audition)
2) Re:handwriting applications; it appears to be a thing in Japan. I was chatting with my friend who was job searching post college and she was complaining how her hand hurt from all of the rirekisho/resumes/CV she had to fill out and when I asked her why she doesn't just type/print them out she said the standard way was to handfill them out to show your sincerity/seriousness of in applying for the job.

[Amped]

Promotion

Morning Musume. '19 promoting the audition to LINE Live app users to sign up for the audition on their phones and adding Hello! Project as a friend on LINE
https://line.me/R/ti/p/%40hello_project
http://www.musume-audition.com/
https://twitter.com/dcfactory_inc/statu ... 4152745984

[DSQueenie]

I wonder if Hello Project get demographics on who is their friend on LINE? I’d be interested in seeing the average age.

Anywho I love a good audition! Any Kenshuusei you guys think will pass?

Looks like this is the application form.

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Social networking profiles have to be disclosed.
Call it the 'Kobushi clause'

What happened here? I wasn’t around.

[JonCC]

Pictures of Taguchi Natsumi & Ogawa Rena with their boyfriends were found on social media prior to their graduations/firings.
While never really acknowledged as the official reason for them being let go (those being 'lack of self-consciousness and responsibility' and 'anxiety neurosis') everybody assumes that's the real reason.
Especially with what they posted online after leaving UF (for example Ogawa Rena now being married and pregnant).

[Nayoko-Kihara]

While speculation isn't entirley helpful, there was some evidence of Rena needing to deal with her mental health post-graduation (suicide posts on Twitter being one). More details regarding Taguchi:

Nakajima pretty much said what we know. There was the leak photos. There was Ogawa Rena's Line Live. But it was the Line Live that caused more damage on Taguchu's relationship with the management because they did that on their own. (Nakajima was implying that UF is pretty lenient with boyfriend scandal especially if the photos were leaked or taken by paparazzi.) But the management did not just kick her out. She felt guilty\, confessed to them and asked to be withdrawn. Nakajima also said that she told him to come to the Kobushi Shinjuku Reny stage else he might regret, but she wasn't being goofy around him like usual.

Anywho I love a good audition! Any Kenshuusei you guys think will pass?

I don't know who seems more likely to pass, but these are my hopefuls:

Definitely:
Matsunaga Riai
Ishiguri Kanami
Kusunoki Mei

Wouldn't Mind:
Kubota Nanami
Sato Hikari
Yamada Ichigo

[DSQueenie]

Thanks everyone for the update. I’ll have to get on the wiki to put faces to names.