[quote="Shoujo Q"] You know they haven't had a B-side since 2013's Wagamama Ki no Mama Ai no Joke, right? None of the H!P groups have had b-sides this year.  [/quote]   That's just 3 singles ago lol   I don't follow much of the rest, so I didn't know. I still think the multiple b-sides hel...

I was expecting an album too. Mainly to wrap the whole '14 thing up. But who knows, maybe they will release it in December and be done with it lol   Also... no b-sides? I suppose Shabadaba and Mikaeri kinda count as that since TIKI BUM will be the song promoted on tv, but still.   Anyway, unrealisti...

[quote="Anderei"] SSA is still too big. Yokohama is just a bit larger than Budokan. [/quote]   Exactly because of that lol   Dunno, if they had marketed it well, I think they could fill SSA. They have more than 25 concerts in the tour, that's more than 30k people going to see them.   If th...

Final date seems to be 11/26 at Yokohama Arena.
 
I WANTED SSA, TSUNKU! :(

I don't know why, but I'd like it to end at Saitama Super Arena, simply cause it was the last venue for the 2004 Spring concert (it was my first lol).   But yeah, it's weird that Budokan is in the middle. Either at the beginning or at the end, but there... looks weird. They couldn't get another date...

But she is the last member who had any contact with said golden era. I mean, when she came into the group there were still many members from said era: Kaorin, Nacchi, Mari, and the whole 4th gen.   Sayumi is the last string connecting Morning Musume '14 to that Morning Musume.   To be honest, I kind...

Last night I dreamt Tsunku chose 7 new girls so they'd be 16 when Sayumi leaves and people would confuse them for AKB. D:

Wow, I really didn't expect this so "soon".   As others have said, I thought they'd make her stay until the 12th gen is settled and make her go out with a bang in an H!P concert in summer or something... damn, I was wrong.   She will be truly missed and I bet I'll cry more than with Kaorin...

It isn't bad-bad, but I guess we were all expecting them to sell more with each release.   120k is still a good result. The 40k difference might be due to the lack of "big" promotion in MS? I've heard bumps in sales after performances there by other artists, so maybe that's one reason.  I ...

They need a bit less than 13k to get to 100k... let's hope it gets there within the week.
 
Are they performing it anywhere else? MS? That shoud give them a bump.

80,853 copies sold on the first day.
 
Errrrrrmmmmm... weren't the other singles sales a bit higher? I don't want to believe their new peak is over. :_(
 
100k should be secured, but I doubt they'll get to 150k.

I wonder how the sales for this will go.
 
Tsunku made such a fuss around the whole Morimusu campaign that I'm hoping for a 200k week lol

No Budokan/other big venue? C'MON!!!!! >_<

The whole thing is out. I had listened to the radio-rip so much I had forgotten how the bridge sounded. I'M IN LOVE WITH THIS SONG!!!!! *_____*
 

Good lord, Sakura is just stunning... and she's just 15!!!! (L)
 
I'm loving the PV. 

I guess it helps I was watching the new COSMOS show before and I'm emotional about starts and stuff, so yeah lol
 
I got some Iroppoi Jirettai feeling from the "girls-posing" secuence minus the fire.

Aren't 16 songs just... too little? :/
 
I just checked generasia and they usually perform between 25 and 30 songs... so WTF?
Seems they just couldn't miss the schedule and they just went with the songs they already know by heart.

Ooh, so nothing related to the voices lol
OK, thanks! I got my 93480349th reason to go back to my Japanese books :'D

So much jumping! lol I think they're trying to do some kind of... form? during the chorus, but it comes out weird. Or maybe they're not. We'll see with the PV.   Sakura is getting awesomer by the day. (L)   And what does Toki wo Koe, Sora wo Koe means? I understand sky and voice, but not what the &q...

Well, this is an improvement!!!   After the disaster that was EgaoNoKimi, I'm loving this. (L) And they managed to put in some of the dance formation thing that has made them famous again lol   I don't think we should worry about this not getting 1st or anything.  Management has learnt their lesson ...

I see some of the girls who participated in the previous 12th gen audition promoted to MM. - Oura Hirona is GOOOOOOOOOOOOORGEOUS! - Funaki Musubu is cute as a button!!! <3 - Yokogawa Yumei and Niinuma Kisora have an elegant and mature beauty.   So I'd be content with any of those going in. But I'd r...

About time!   I would also like a 3-nin generation. We've never had one of those! It's all 1 girl or 4. :/ And yes, by the time Sayu leaves they'll be 12 which is the perfect number to SPLIT THEM UP AND BRING BACK THE GUMIS! <3   I really don't want Sayu to leave before the end of 2015 though. She's...

And not a single (official) b-side? :/
I suppose Tsunku is taking it slow, given his condition... :(

The name change didn't confuse the people in the end... but I find it pretty stupid that this is MM's 55th single and yet there's nowhere to be found under the name of MM. 

[quote="Anderei"] I'm surprised anyone thought they were going to see a decrease in sales considering all the box sets and handshakes they did. [/quote]   That's why I said it isn't about the music anymore. Maybe without the hanshake they'd get to 100k in a week or something. An improvemen...

That's almost 25k more than Wagamama's first day! And to think there was a time were they'd sell a bit more than 30k... IN A WEEK.   I still think the single is bad. But they've learnt that the game isn't about the music anymore. Anyway, congrats to the girls!   Now, PLEEEEEEEEEEEASE, go back to doi...

Goddamnit, Tsunku, get your shit together.  :facepalm:   I mean, it's good for the girls I guess. But how is this going to help them become... a big star group or whatever? It's just a CM lol   Reading Shoujo Q I guess it does help them. And I know being it in an AU thing it would be something relat...

Thank god, that move is tacky as hell.
 
Anyway, if they do use the center thing, then let them lol
In the 10 years I've been a fan Ive never heard nor read anything about "center" applied to MM... front girls, yeah, but center? Never. :/

The center thing is for AKB, not MM.
Here we just have a couple of members who sing more than the rest. In this song, Riho and Sakura. And that's that.

About the AKB thing, the draft didn't let the fans vote, but the girls decided who came in and so on. God knows if they'll go on with it this year... nothing's been said about the draftees and that was 2 months ago. The fans only decide the line-up for one single per year and that's it. If MM has co...