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[Starra]

LOVE Machine is a great song tbh.

[Celedam]

Maimi will be featured in the next issue of Big Comic Spirits with Nishino Nanase (Nogizaka46).

Photo shoot clip.
http://spi-net.jp/movie/index.html

[Sohee]

I'll put this here because... it's said by a TV personality in Japan and said on the web so.

Amped gave me this, and I assume it's from some monthly thing that Matsuko Deluxe releases, like a column or blog or whatever. This one is for July. And since it's awfully interesting I translated it.

"Matsuko Deluxe's: It doesn't sell, but it's as good as it gets." vol.8

After all Momusu is a treasure house of talented people. Compared to the mish-mash of AKB, they're completely different.
The recent Momusu is really interesting you see. Actually I've been following them all the time. The veterans gets changed and so younger girls join and all, but if it's because of "traditional" or "gifted education" I don't know, but they're all strong characters~.
Niigaki Risa, Tanaka Reina and Mitsui Aika have all graduated and now the only one over 20 is Michishige Sayumi. At 18 there is Iikubo Haruna, 16 has Ishida Ayumi and Fukumura Mizuki and everyone else is 15 and under. Most of them are in middle school. But, despite that, they give us glimpses of mature sides, they can come off as being around 30 years old.
That's another difference from AKB.

Recently, Suzuki Kanon has come to resemble Matsuzaka Kimiko (if you wanna know who they are, do your own research) in both face and bodytype. Satou Masaki has that old-school face of some university student that would appear on "All Night Fuji."
Another one is Ikuta Erina who just started high school, she has a peculiar feel to her. These three doesn't really come off as being in the center, but I can't stop being interested in them. In five years I have a feeling they'll be quite some "monsters" you see. With 11th gen member Oda Sakura, Momusu has turned in to be like a safari park. Hello! Pro is amazing, after all.
When you look at the young generation like this, you come to understand that they get to learn about the 15 year long history that the group has. This is impossible for the idols from yesterday and today. If you look at the history, there are members who never got to stand in the spotlight too.

At one point, Takahashi Ai, Niigaki Risa, Mitsui Aika, Michishige Sayumi and Tanaka Reina had to perform with just the five of them. But at this point, with just the five of them, they were at their absolute strongest. Tanaka Reina and Takahashi Ai are good singers. Right before this happened, they had two exchange students from China who supported them a lot as chorus.
Either way, the history of members in Momusu is amazing. Goto Maki was a member, there's always some problem kid and it's always fun and interesting. It's not like creating a uproar cause of shaving one's head. And it's not like AKB's Sashihara Rino's null kind of being a problem kind, she should do something so that we see her true colors a bit more. But she completely shows that she's hiding something.
Well, Itano Tomomi is funny though. Tomochin and Tanaka Reina are similar in the way that they won't be like everyone else. Tanaka Reina is a beautiful yankee who quit high school after just one week. That's why I like her.

Michishige Sayumi too, is really a woman who shouldn't be in an idol group today. If we'd just go by visuals, she's pretty much perfect. There's no one in AKB who has that beauty. In the middle, like with Mitsui Aika and how it seemed like she didn't have any eyebrows, there are lots of things you can point out flaws at. Something like foreign substances gets mixed in with everything and that makes it look a bit mismatched which is what makes it good.
In addition to this, I'm the kind of fan that has none of the "idol otaku" like qualities. So like AKB who have lyrics that "unpopular guys can relate to and pretend they're a part of that" and such, I don't understand that. Momusu's "for some reason carries Japan-feel lyrics" get to me much more.
Lately they have love as the base theme, but they're still singing things like "There's no tomorrow" and such. And for the new girl Oda Sakura they let her sing "Stand proud" you see.
There were lyrics like "Make sure again that you don't let your guard down"" too. How can young girls empathize with that?!
They don't get the meaning of "don't let your guard down." And things like "there's no tomorrow" isn't something that middle schoolers say. You see, the unbalance like this is what makes Momusu wonderful.

TN: It felt so damn good translating this.

[DARC1993]

Really great read!
Thank you Sohee and Amped for finding/translating this.

"Momusu's "for some reason carries Japan-feel lyrics" get to me much more. "
Tsunku's message has been heard.
I'm glad people are also paying attention to lyrics. Not just
How cool, fresh and amazing this new Morning Musume。is talent wise.


Awesome, awesome!!!!


No one in AKB has this beauty .
Win!

Of course they don't!!

[randompasserby]

She's the lady praising MM here too, if anyone's wondering

after an AKB discussion, Morning Musume was being praised by this person

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"Morning Musume's level of dance is different from AKB"
マツコ「今のモーニング娘。はAKBとはダンスのレベルが違う」

right now Morning Musume's dance is amazing
今のモーニング娘。のダンスはスゴい

Haha that's a nice change of pace, Morning Musume being brought up after an AKB discussion instead of the other way around

It starts when the younger lady announcer said she was excited from AKB's cheer-like dance moves since she used to do cheer and the older lady said "Morning Musume is even more amazing than that you now". When asked how exactly she answered "Their dance is on an entirely different level from AKB's. The previous generation members are great too but now it's even more amazing. They're like a pro from the start, there are a lot of girls who's great at singing or dancing."

Gotta love how the lady looks at the male mc like he lost his mind when he suggested they make an election for some sort of dream-48 group made up from various idol agencies. That idea doesn't hold up for long before it fell flat to the ground again

A few weeks ago in Youngtown Sanma asked Sayu about it actually. He heard about Matsuko praising MM on Tv, so words definitely getting around.
Sayu have already watched the video online herself of course

Speaking of... Harunan will be absent from this week's Youngtown because of her stage play so Eripon is filling in for her. Should be fun
Oh and Momochi's there too... Nice, Sayu can just let it rip to her two favorite targets heh

[DSQueenie]

Thank you for translating I totally agree about the writers comment on Sasshi vs Gotomaki. I love both idols but Goto always came across as more honest in her persona - at least to me.

Matsuzaka Kimiko looks like this:

Spoiler: show

So I guess the writer is commenting on Zukki's chest? I wish I could say I hadn't noticed but I think everyone has at this point (though apart from in this comment I guess Zukki's age makes it indelicate to comment on too much) but I don't think Zukki has Kimiko's face.

[Amped]

^ wow ok...i really didn't need to see that

[Sohee]

I personally see the resemblance between Matsuzaka's face and Kanon's. And Matsuzaka had/has a bigger frame too, which Kanon does as well. For her time, I'd say Matsuzaka was very pretty too so, not a bad thing. Kanon has imo a bit more "sophisticated" showa face but otherwise, I definitely would say I see it.

[DSQueenie]

There is no doubt that Kimiko and Zukki are both beautiful! I hope I didn't come across like I was insulting her!

[lynnkung]

I'm glad the girls get recognized for what they are doing, their talent and everything. It stopped bothering me that they don't sell but I had always wondered why no one noticed how great they are. So now I'm quite happy and relieved. I hope more and more people will eventually see how great MoMusu is.

Anyway, I think because there are less girls in each H!P groups, it makes the easier to get "polished". Or it could also be because Tsunku's great. He always give them detailed comments on how to improve unlike AKB where there are so many girls, it could be hard to concentrate on each of them... but then I don't really know how Akimoto work with the girls in AKB. It's just my image of his management that there are his favorites and they get more attention.