[4/15] Morning Musume。'15 58th single "Seishun Kozou ga Naiteiru / Yuugure wa Ameagari / Ima Koko Kara"

[Shoujo Q]

Just imagine Karin going to the office the next day after this aired and seeing all of MM'15. That would be one heck of an awkward meeting. I feel bad for her. She was only doing what she was told and then whoever was in charge went and made this monster. I think this will go down in history as the biggest flub/fail in Musume history.

I wonder how the Japanese fan reaction is? I think we need one of those Wota in Translation 2Ch posts. Cause it's obvious that the foreign side seems to be up in arms about it.

Maybe the editor mistook her for Duu? They kinda almost look alike in this video. Haha.

[Starra]

^I checked the 2ch thread, several of them seem to be laughing at it.

It seems to be: "Holy shit this is hilarious", "Put Karin in for real!" and "What the hell is this, UF?"

The thing is, though, Zukki is kinda... really not popular on 2ch at all, so they're not going to be as angry about it as we are.

People on Twitter seem a bit more annoyed, however.

[fujii hina]

Karin ver. PV

If they're seriously making that the official PV, it shows absolutely no respect to the girls as it seems to express that the public would think they all look the same anyway and no one will notice the difference.

on another note, Mizuki's high note during the verse was lovely.

[Celedam]

For those of us who rooted for her through various MM auditions, I'm not sure if this is a consolation prize, a cruel joke, or both.

[aerosuffly]

I am going to think, "Wow. Karin is replacing Kanon, and there is a lot of her, so they are pushing Kanon!"

[Jessi]

When Karin is being featured more than the 4 new members....

Spoiler: show

This is not what I meant when I said that Juice=Juice needs more publicity in order to compete with the other groups

[AyuHikaru]

An Alternate Reality PV where Karin is a front girl of MM.

(My guess is since this has nothing to do with the final edit, they gave Karin more face time so show the fans)

[boinsie]

I'm just going to say it: Karin's inclusion didn't seem overkill to me. They definitely didn't need to put in close-ups of her, but it's not nearly as egregious as many of you are making it out to be.

[fujii hina]

I think the scandal to us here is that Karin's not even part of the group and she has more solo shots than any of the senior members of the group, even Riho, in that 1:25 long clip

Karin - 6
Riho - 2

[Jessi]

No it's overkill. She has an unusually large amount of screen time and it's very unfair to the other girls. The only question is whether or not this is the real PV or just a special Karin version.