Morning Musume. '17 13th Generation : Kaga Kaede & Yokoyama Reina

[Denki]

So is pretty much Ai-chan yellow, which is what I expected. Hagiwara Mai and Sasaki Rikako have that tone of yellow.

Honey (faint yellow) was always more like Sayumi's yellow, but they were lazy to use light yellow fabric until now.

[321BreakinOut]

Yeah no distinction whatsoever #GoGreen

[AyuHikaru]

Back in the day when Takahashi and Sayumi had yellow as colors I could have SWORN Taka's was a much darker, goldy yellow in her shirt colors. Once, Sayumi was "gifted" pink by Rika, it seemed like her color shifted to a more neutral yellow. I really wish I could find a picture of her t-shirt back then, because I'm pretty sure they need to go that route for Haruna and Reina (Shift Haruna to lighter, and Reina's to darker) but finding any tour goods from 2005 is just... impossible.

EDIT: It wasn't Rika it was Konkon, I'm a bad fan

[Denki]

Not T-shirts, but member colored outfits back then:

[321BreakinOut]

The blasphemy of Koharu ever having White as a member color

EDIT: it was actually Grey. Nothing to see here guys

[resop2]

^
I do not understand.

[erin]

Reina has such a cute smile. She looks so incredibly happy.

[Obsidian]

There's talk of Uta levels of hype over Yokoyama and Kaga is fully grabbing her chance with both hands. The other members better lock up their Wota!

There's also something really emotional about seeing Kaede performing Mikan at the end of a H!P concert as an MM member.

[AyuHikaru]

Mabushii asa ni WOW WOW CHANCE
OH YEAH YOU'LL GET A CHANCE

[Starra]

So it's been almost a month and I still can't fully process the fact that Kaede's in MM。now. Like, she's an actual member and she actually debuted. She's participating in H!P concerts as more than a backup dancer or doing one performance as a KSS. It's weird seeing her in proper H!P concert shuffles and having goods of her released at things other than KSS events.

God damn. I'm so happy for her it's unbelievable. I still get emotional thinking about the H!S footage where she meets MM。as a member for the first time and they all loose their shit (I mean, I pretty much had the same reaction).

I really hope 13th gen are treated properly. They both have great potential. I think 12th gen were just at a bad time what with Tsunku's cancer and UF working out management shit, plus Riho leaving seemed to be a bit sudden too. But things seem to have settled a bit now (apart from Masaki's back, but that's nobody's fault)... I'm excited for '17 at any rate. And not just because of Kaede, but also mostly because of Kaede.