MMmonth: 13th generation

Not even a year ago, a new generation was introduced to us!

Morning Musume '16 had been searching for their 13th generation since January 2016.

Let's get back into the history of one of our newest generations!

After the graduation of Sayashi Riho, Morning Musume opened up new auditions and searched for new members. Yet in May it was announced that there were no winners and that the auditions would be opened again. 

However, on the 23th of november it was announced that again no winners were found through the auditions and winners would be picked from the Hello!pro kenshuusei. This led to a lot of speculation about who would be winning and how many girls would be joining Morning Musume. 

On the 12th of december we got the results:

Name: Kaga Kaede

Nickname: Kaedii

Birthday: November 30, 1999

From: Tokyo

Age: 17

Color: Italian Red

Was a Hello!Pro Kenshuusei since 2012

Name: Yokoyama Reina 

Nickname: Yokoyan

Birthday:Febuary 10, 2001

From: Saitama

Age: 16 (then:15)

Color: Golden Yellow

Participated in the first 13th gen auditions, failed and became a Kenshuusei not long after.

Both girls were really suprising choices, as Yokoyama had just joined Hello!Pro Kenshuusei, because she actually failed the first 13th gen auditions and Kaga had been rejected for Morning Musume and other groups quite a few times.

The 13th generation started their activities not long after and joined Morning Musume officially at the beginning of 2017. Their first single was BRAND NEW MORNING/ Jealousy Jealousy, in which both had a center part in BRAND NEW MORNING with solo lines. 

The girls also had their own fanclub event, with their mentor Kudo Haruka.

As they are the newest generation to Morning Musume togheter with 14th generation member Morito Chisaki, they yet have a lot of time to do more events and show us why 13th generation is so amazing! Let's all look forwards to this!