[NEWS] Team 8 announced

[Pavlova]

47 girls, one from each prefecture.

Aki-p is a bigger troll than Tsunku.

Members chosen through an audition.






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They should have just taken the extra girls from each team to bring them down to 16 each and they would've had a nice Team 8 right there, why the hell did he have to go and do that for? 47 more girls? god. that sucks.

[Denki]

That means they will now have over 100 members without counting the kenkyuusei members.

[stam4o]

Does it mean almost 300 members suming uo all the 48 sister groups?

[Pavlova]

Yeah.

Well. Not for a few more months I imagine but yeah.

This. is. terrifying.

[Pavlova]

Clarification: 47 members was apparently a mistranslation. They'll audition and pick a girl from each prefefecture, and then they will pick the members from those 47 girls. Apparently.

[Denki]

Team 8 has been announced.

From H!O

Hokkaido-Tohoku Region
Sakaguchi Nagisa (2000/12/23) - Hokkaido
*Yokoyama Yui (2001/02/22) - Aomori
Tanikawa Hijiri (2000/12/26) - Akita
Sato Nanami (2000/01/19) - Iwate
Hayasaki Tsumugi (2001/05/12) - Yamagata
Sato Akari (1996/11/09) - Miyagi
Mogi Kasumi (1997/04/28) - Fukushima

Kanto Region
Okabe Rin (1996/11/07) - Ibaraki
Honda Hitomi (2001/10/06) - Tochigi
Shimizu Aria (1997/09/29) - Gunma
Takahashi Ayane (1997/12/30) - Saitama
Yoshikawa Nanase (1998/07/21) - Chiba
Oguri Yui (2001/12/26) - Tokyo
Oda Erina (1997/04/25) - Kanagawa
Sato Shiori (1998/02/23) - Niigata
Hidaritomo Ayaka (1998/07/29) - Yamanashi

Chubu (Central) Region
Fujimura Natsuki (1997/05/25) - Aichi
Yokomichi Yuri (2000/10/23) - Shizuoka
Okubora Chinatsu (1998/09/10) - Gifu
Yamamoto Ai (1995/08/31) - Mie
Hashimoto Haruna (2000/05/25) - Toyama
Kita Reina (1996/04/07) - Ishikawa
Chouku Rena (2000/05/11) - Fukui
Kondo Moeri (1997/04/25) - Nagano

Kansai Region
Nagano Serika (2001/03/27) - Osaka
Oota Nao (1994/12/05) - Kyoto - Oldest in Team 8
Yamada Nanami (1999/02/09) - Hyogo
Yamamoto Ruka (2000/10/10) - Wakayama
Onishi Momoka (1997/09/20) - Nara
Hamasa Yuna (2001/08/20) - Shiga

Chugoku-Shikoku Region
Nakano Ikumi (2000/08/20) - Tottori
Abe Mei (2001/02/09) - Shimane
Hitomi Kotone (2001/01/19) - Okayama
Tani Yuuri (1999/07/19) - Hiroshima
Shitao Miu (2001/04/03) - Yamaguchi
**Hamamatsu Riona (1995/07/28) - Fukushima Tokushima
Gyouten Yurina (1999/03/14) - Kagawa
Takaoka Kaori (2000/11/29) - Ehime
Hirose Natsuki (1997/06/09) - Kochi

Kyushu Region
Moriwaki Yui (1998/02/28) - Fukuoka
Fukuchi Rena (1996/05/02) - Saga
Iwasaki Moeka (2000/04/24) - Nagasaki
Kurano Narumi (2000/11/08) - Kumamoto
Yoshino Miyu (2000/02/16) - Oita
Yaguchi Moka (2001/05/28) - Miyazaki
Shimoaoki Karin (2000/10/28) - Kagoshima
Miyazato Rira (2002/03/30) - Okinawa - the youngest in Team 8 AND 48G

*note that she has the same name as yuihan. The only difference is in the way their name is spelled in kanji. For team 8’s Yokoyama Yui it’s 横山結衣 while Yuihan’s is 横山由依

**This was probably a typo from modelpress since “Fukushima” was listed twice, but on different regions. Fukushima is located in the Tohoku region. I researched it, and I think they probably meant to put Tokushima

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