New Country Musume auditions (Country・Girls)

[Mirai]

Yay! This is exciting, after having to wait for news for a bit. Glad to see some KSS in the group and also Satoda and Momo's involvement.

[Nayoko-Kihara]

Some trivia, courtesy of Sohee.

In L-R order of appearance in the picture.
Inaba Manaka
Hobby: Listening to music
Specialty: Memorizing dances

Morito Chisaki
Hobby: Watching idol lives

Shimamura Uta
Hobby: Classical ballet
Specialty: Becoming liked by animals

Ozeki Mai
Hobby: Singing
Specialty: Dancing, violin

Yamaki Risa
Hobby: Horseback riding
Specialty: Piano, drawing

Tsugunaga Momoko
Specialty: Momo Attack, Koyu-beam

[forgetmenots]

Momochi is doing what I had hoped Sayu would do in the future lol. Or at least close to. I wonder if she'll get extra power with producers and business managers and what not. Momochi in a mentor role, however, is one of my favourite ways to see her so I'm glad she'll be going this route.

And in general NEW HP GROUP AHHH. It seems they had to make a lot of decisions and figure out things before they were able to do the group. I'm guessing they ran into some issues during the auditions and thought they'd have to scrap the idea, I'm guessing Momochi's "management" may have been one of the things to help save the idea, Tsunku not producing them as well..

[Starra]

Fun fact: Momoko has now been part of the only two not-intended-to-be-temporary* H!P units not (initially at least) produced by Tsunku (Buono! and Country Girls).

*Temporary units being things like the other Shugo Chara! units and SATOYAMA/SATOUMI stuff. Da Xiao Jie don't count, since their stuff was never released under H!P.

[otaku_blue]

Ahhhh I just saw the thing about Chisaki being an idol. I really like this group now.

Ahhh please don't be another ZYX thing.

HO dug up some old photos of Mai (I'm pretty sure it is. Their predebut photos look so different to that group photo):



this doesnt feel like a normal HP group Im so excited!

[Shabranikuduu]

I had no idea Momoko was so tall. They have her height listed as 1m58, I honestly thought she was 10cm shorter. Or is it a mistake?

Anyway, still excited for this group. I am so glad Manaka and Risa are debuting, I can't wait to see them in action. And as for the new girls, I'm really excited too.

[forgetmenots]

Mai is obnoxiously cute. I know nothing about her, but she's already my favourite because sometimes I am a shallow creature

[Starra]

Ahhh please don't be another ZYX thing.

I think the articles were saying that they plan on continuing for at least 2-3 years!

[otaku_blue]

Chisaki appears at 1:28


//she looks so different here to the group photo//

[Shabranikuduu]

I had no idea Momoko was so tall. They have her height listed as 1m58, I honestly thought she was 10cm shorter. Or is it a mistake?

Haha so I should have read the whole thing. Momo's height includes her high heels. ;