Hello! Project Survivor 2023 ~DISCUSSION~ Kudo Yume is crowned winner!

[boinsie]

It's summertime at Jplop forums, which can only mean one thing...
HELLO! PROJECT SURVIVOR 2023!

Can someone help me math this out? H!PS can't be on its 22nd year, can it??
(In fairness, my 20th high school reunion is coming up in 2 weeks, so I guess anything's possible. )

For those that don't know or have forgotten , Hello! Project Survivor is our annual tournament to determine the favorite (or arguably just least-hated?) Hello! Project member! It's loosely based off of the hit 2000 CBS reality gameshow where competitors are put on an island and made to fight and be voted out until one reigns supreme. H!PS is almost exactly the same game--except that it's played on a forum, the girls are voted out via polls, and most of the fighting is done between forum members.
Specific voting rules are likely to change from round to round, so keep a vigilant eye!

Without (much) further ado, here are this year's players!
(The newbies announced last week won't be participating yet--they would just be chum anyway!)





01 Fukumura Mizuki (Morning Musume.'23)
02 Ikuta Erina (Morning Musume.'23)
03 Ishida Ayumi (Morning Musume.'23)
04 Oda Sakura (Morning Musume.'23)
05 Nonaka Miki (Morning Musume.'23)
06 Makino Maria (Morning Musume.'23)
07 Haga Akane (Morning Musume.'23)
08 Yokoyama Reina (Morning Musume.'23)
09 Kitagawa Rio (Morning Musume.'23)
10 Okamura Homare (Morning Musume.'23)
11 Yamazaki Mei (Morning Musume.'23)
12 Sakurai Rio (Morning Musume.'23)





13 Takeuchi Akari (ANGERME)
14 Kawamura Ayano (ANGERME)
15 Sasaki Rikako (ANGERME)
16 Kamikokuryo Moe (ANGERME)
17 Ise Layla (ANGERME)
18 Hashisako Rin (ANGERME)
19 Kawana Rin (ANGERME)
20 Tamenaga Shion (ANGERME)
21 Matsumoto Wakana (ANGERME)
22 Hirayama Yuki (ANGERME)





23 Uemura Akari (Juice=Juice)
24 Dambara Ruru (Juice=Juice)
25 Inoue Rei (Juice=Juice)
26 Kudo Yume (Juice=Juice)
27 Matsunaga Riai (Juice=Juice)
28 Arisawa Ichika (Juice=Juice)
29 Irie Risa (Juice=Juice)
30 Ebata Kisaki (Juice=Juice)
31 Ishiyama Sakura (Juice=Juice)
32 Endo Akari (Juice=Juice)





33 Yamagishi Riko (Tsubaki Factory)
34 Niinuma Kisora (Tsubaki Factory)
35 Tanimoto Ami (Tsubaki Factory)
36 Kishimoto Yumeno (Tsubaki Factory)
37 Ono Mizuho (Tsubaki Factory)
38 Onoda Saori (Tsubaki Factory)
39 Akiyama Mao (Tsubaki Factory)
40 Kasai Yuumi (Tsubaki Factory)
41 Yagi Shiori (Tsubaki Factory)
42 Fukuda Marine (Tsubaki Factory)
43 Yofu Runo (Tsubaki Factory)





44 Ichioka Reina (BEYOOOOONDS / CHICA#TETSU)
45 Shimakura Rika (BEYOOOOONDS / CHICA#TETSU)
46 Nishida Shiori (BEYOOOOONDS / CHICA#TETSU)
47 Eguchi Saya (BEYOOOOONDS / CHICA#TETSU)
48 Takase Kurumi (BEYOOOOONDS / Ame no Mori Kawa Umi)
49 Maeda Kokoro (BEYOOOOONDS / Ame no Mori Kawa Umi)
50 Yamazaki Yuhane (BEYOOOOONDS / Ame no Mori Kawa Umi)
51 Okamura Minami (BEYOOOOONDS / Ame no Mori Kawa Umi)
52 Kiyono Momohime (BEYOOOOONDS / Ame no Mori Kawa Umi)
53 Hirai Miyo (BEYOOOOONDS / SeasoningS)
54 Kobayashi Honoka (BEYOOOOONDS / SeasoningS)
55 Satoyoshi Utano (BEYOOOOONDS / SeasoningS)





56 Saito Madoka (OCHA NORMA)
57 Hiromoto Ruli (OCHA NORMA)
58 Ishiguri Kanami (OCHA NORMA)
59 Yonemura Kirara (OCHA NORMA)
60 Kubota Nanami (OCHA NORMA)
61 Tashiro Sumire (OCHA NORMA)
62 Nakayama Natsume (OCHA NORMA)
63 Nishizaki Miku (OCHA NORMA)
64 Kitahara Momo (OCHA NORMA)
65 Tsutsui Roko (OCHA NORMA)


As always, a huge thank you to Moh for the lovely graphics~! <3

With 65 participants this year, there will be... am absolute ton of randomized groups lol. Check them out and vote in the first polls on Friday June 16th!

[boinsie]

As always, I'm voting out people I don't even know who are first, which means all of OCHA NORMA is on the chopping block.

[Amped]

Dambara Ruru

[rikkikow]

Wow! Already? Time sure flew by. This snuck up on me. I am totally unprepared mentally. I must go with the girls I know too.
Nice cards Moh.

Why not Ruru? I could go for Ruru this year. Reina is all grown up now.

Spoiler: show

I could use Ruru to scare crows away.

[Zunu]

Riai finna shank anybody who gets in her way so

[Shoujo Q]

I’m getting my bingo cards ready. (Actually made bingo cards.) because of course I did.

[rikkikow]

Well, we got at least four people willing to play, I think. We should have a registration table set up, or I could just pick this years winner and end the suspense.

[boinsie]

As always I'll try to drag some older forum members out of the woodworks.

[erilaz]

As always, I'm voting out people I don't even know who are first, which means all of OCHA NORMA is on the chopping block.

For me, as the years go by, there's just more and more of this in the game.

It's been quite some time since I've really bothered to learn the names of new H!P members. When I started playing this game, I knew everybody. Now, I probably couldn't identify more than a third of the members, even if my life depended on it.

[rikkikow]

^ 65 girls is a lot of girls! H!PS is a good way to find out who they are but their fans need to post in support of them. When Ruru won, I had no idea who she was until someone posted a video of her singing, then whoa; a wait a minute moment occurred for me.