Morning Musume. '14 12th gen - Golden audition

[Jessi]

Oh god. Audition footage makes such a difference. I was even starting to like Miki and Haruna more than Akane and Maria... But then like they showed all four and like ugh I'm starting to love all of them. It's been only 3 weeks and they've already won me over. I was so underwhelmed when they were announced, but now that's completely changed!

[aerosuffly]

Haruna and Miki are already this close since day one.

[aerosuffly]

12ki fan club member event on 12/12 with Fukumura Mizuki as a support member.
http://www.up-fc.jp/helloproject/news_Info.php?id=6517

Does this mean?

[otaku_blue]

probably gon be like the one 9th gen had when they joined and just fun games and stuff

[CaptainBerryzGiraffe]

OMG.
That totally isn't hinting anything like
"Hello I'm your new leader" or anything... xD

[sukibeam]

Meh I don't think it particularly hints at her being next leader. She's MC'd other things in the past like in DVD magazines, and the only other person I could see doing MC in current MM is perhaps Kudou.

[DSQueenie]

@Celedam @Otaku_blue

I dunno I feel like there has been a slight bump up in coverage since Sakura. Even if it's slight. However I could be imaging it, it's just an unfounded feeling I have.

[Daisuki Daiiyo]

^ This is probably the most coverage recently, since MM is more popular now than they were when 9th/10th joined. And Sakura's happened so quick. But I'd say the most publicized audition of all time goes to Love Audition 21 for 5th gen, it was (I wanna say) a 2 hour special, complete with a live studio show for results and everything lol. And then a plethora of articles afterward about how Aichan had an accent, and how Konkon was supposedly a failure in Tsoonks eyes and etcetc.

[Celedam]

But I'd say the most publicized audition of all time goes to Love Audition 21 for 5th gen, it was (I wanna say) a 2 hour special, complete with a live studio show for results and everything lol.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL81B80911B845182F

Ignore the Chinese subtitles. Unless you read Chinese, of course.

Anyhow, that was in the middle of the Golden Era, with MM riding high on the success of "The☆Peace!", so… yeah.

[stam4o]

Haruna and Miki are already this close since day one.

I noticed that too, but um, don't they know each other from the auditions? I was having that as a given.