Tagged: Hello! Project

H!P’s Wild Rides of March

Whew! That was a crazy March, huh? A new single, an unexpected tear-jerking remake and multiple graduation and new release announcements is a lot to pack into a single month — and we still have 11 days to go. It’s a lot to cover in one post, so I’ll try to be brief, but holy shit this is a lot...

H!P Tweet Beat 8/15/2021

I still have tabs open from July, so might as well well get back on the beat so I can close them already. Seeing lots of tweets like this in H!P Twitter recently, and it’s not surprising. The last proper release was Angerme’s “Hakkiri Shiyou ze / Oyogenai Mermaid / Aisare Route A or B?” single back in June. Sure,...

H!P Tweet Beat – 6/27/2021

Let’s wrap up the week in H!P Twitter, or at least my H!P Twitter feed. Lots of talk about future graduation. Impending Morning Musume graduations isn’t something that any MM/H!P fan hasn’t thought about for a while now. In fact, it gets brought up every time a different group graduates a member, but Anna floats a unique possibility: a change...

H!P Revolution 2021

State of the Hello! Project Address With 2020 finally in our rearview mirror, we can look forward to a fresh start for all of the Hello! Project groups and idols going forward. 2020 was a strange and turbulent year that saw H!P wave goodbye to a slew of talented idols, many of whom seemed to leave well before their time....

Harowota: The Movie

Musician and manga writer Mikito Tsurugi has adapted his 2014 autobiographical essay Ano Koro: Danshi Kashimashi Monogatari for the big screen, with a screenplay by Tominaga Masanori and starring Tori Matsuzaka (The Blood of Wolves) in the lead role. The movie In Those Days will follow Tsurugi’s challenging and life-changing events after failing his grad school entrance exam. Poor and...

Did “One•Two•Three” Save H!P?

I saw this pop up in my Twitter feed a few days ago: This is an interesting theory. There’s no question that “One•Two•Three” (OTT) returned Morning Musume to relevance in the J-idol world, but it’s effect on the Hello! Project itself is something I’d never considered. I did some research using data from the Hello! Project Wiki, and here’s my...

The return of Kago Ai to H!P

Fucking FINALLY! Kago will take part in the Hello! Project 2018 SUMMER ~ALL FOR ONE~/~ONE FOR ALL~ concert tour, specifically, the Nakano shows on August 25 and 26th. On the 25th, she’ll appear with Airi Suzuki in the early show, and with Kanon Fukuda in the late show. On the 26th Kago will appear with Kei Yasuda and Hitomi Yoshizawa...

The Country Girls/H!P Shake-up

We now know the results of the Country Girls/KSS Divestment Draft of 2017: ANGERME gets CG member Musubu Funaki and KSS member Ayano Kawamura; Morning Musume gets CG member Chisaki Morito; Juice=Juice gets CG member Nanami Yanagawa and KSS member Danbara Ruru. KSS member Reina Ichioka will lead a new group with members to be determined at a future date....