Hello! Project's winter tour 2015

Hello everyone!

I was just writing a post about Hello! Project's winter tour for next year and I realised how much things will be happening during that tour. But because my Sakura Mankai blog is kind of an news blog, I decided to talk a bit more about it and what I expect.

Let's have a look at all the things that will happen!

First tour with Yajima Maimi as H!P leader

As we only have a few days left until Sayumi graduates, a new H!P leader will step up. It was announced some time ago that Yajima Maimi would become leader, because Shimizu Saki will be graduating next year. Maimi did say she wanted to lead H!P with Saki until she graduates, but officially she is the leader. It will be exiting to see a leader who did not come from the Mother ship (Momusu ofc.). But I think Maimi will do a good job and will be a fair leader!

Last H!P tour for Berryz Koubou

Berryz fans have been dreading this. Everything is coming to an end around Berryz Koubou and it is quite hard. Berryz have been around so long, it is hard to imagen H!P without them. But this will be their official last H!P tour. I hope they will have a big send of or something. Because this is the end of an era for many fans. 

The first tour for the new and improved S/mileage

S/mileage won't be part of the H!P tour, because they will "debut" under their new name. They will power up with three new member (Murota, Aikawa and Sasaki). I predict they will preform their first single as this new group and show us what the new and improved group will be like. Still it's hard to imagen S/mileage as a new group and this does mean S/mileage will stop. On one hand I can't wait for this "new" group and to see the 3rd gen debut, but it kinda scares me that S/mileage won't be S/mileage anymore (then again S/mileage might be the 4 orginal members forever....). 

Morning Musume '15's debut!

Super exiting is the debut of Morning Musume '15! The group will now be without Michishige, which means the 9th gen will be the senior generation! And ofcourse we will see the 12th gen debut! I am guessing that there will be a preformance of Tiki bun or Mikaeri Bijin and very probably a new single! We will finally see this new line-up in action and the true power of the 12th gen. 

This btw is also the first tour for Morning Musume with their new leader! We don't know who the leader will be (we have two sub- leader so it's probably one of them or both). We will know next week when Michishige will graduated.

This will also be the first time for Morning Musume to add '15 after their name instead of the '14 they have been putting behind the name this year! This is also a little bit exiting and new!

The debut of Country Girls!

And ofcourse, last but not least: the debut of Country Girls! Two Kenshuusei, 3 new girls and Momoko will renew Country Musume and preform for the first time during a H!P concert! These girls are very lucky, because Country Musume already has some amazing songs on their name and I kinda expect them to cover those songs and maybe even debut their own song! We haven't really seen these girls in action (exept for Risa, Manaka and Momoko) so this is really exiting! 

As I said: This Hello! Project winter tour will be really exiting and I can't wait for it to start! We might see some things before the actual tour (maybe rehearsal footage, covers for new singles or profile pictures) and I am equally exited about those! Let's hope we will hear more soon and maybe we hear something at this weekends Satoyama/Satoumi events!!

Bye for now,
Kate