H!PS kicks off with a huge first round with 20% of the girls going home. However, three groups wound up untouched! It seems that Morning Musume and Tsubaki Factory had huge targets on their back as they took the lion's share of the damage.
Team standings:
ANGERME (8-0): Kamikokuryou Moe, Sasaki Rikoko, Takeuchi Akari, Wada Ayaka, Murota Mizuki, Nakanichi Kana, Aikawa Maho, Katsuta Rina
Country Girls (7-0): Tsugunaga Momoko, Ozeki Mai, Morito Chisaki, Risa Yamaki, Yanagawa Nanami, Inaba Manaka, Funaki Musubu
Juice ni Juice (5-0): Takagi Sayuki, Kanazawa Tomoko, Miyazaki Yuka, Uemura Akari, Miyamoto Karin
Kobushi Factory (7-1): Nomura Minami, Hamaura Ayano,
Taguchi Natsumi, Inoue Rei, Sakurako Wado, Ogawa Rena, Fuji Rio, Hirose Ayaka
C-ute (4-1): Okai Chisato, Yajima Maimi,
Nakajima Saki, Suzuki Airi, Hagiwara Mai
Morning Musume. '16 (7-4):
Iikubo Haruna, Haga Akane,
Nonaka Miki, Fukumura Mizuki, Ikuta Erina, Makino Maria,
Ogata Haruna, Kudo Haruka, Ishida Ayumi, Oda Sakura,
Sato MasakiTsubaki Factory (2-4):
Ogata Risa, Kishimoto Yumeno,
Tanimoto Ami,
Niinuma Kisora,
Yamagishi Riko, Asakura Kiki
And now for the combi news:
Five combi's were eliminated from the leader board (with one double elimination) and twelve more from the rest:
Leader Board:Hirose Ayaka/Fujii Rio
Yanagawa Nanami/Funaki Musubu
Kudo Haruka/Haga Akane
Okai Chisato/Hagiwara Mai
Ikuta Erina/Nakanishi Kana
Katsuta Rina/Ishida Ayumi
Takeuchi Akari/Miyamoto Karin
Miyazaki Yuka/Uemura Akari
Morito Chisaki/Ozeki Mai
Sasaki Rikoko/Murota Mizuki
Takagi Sayuki/Kanazawa Tomoko
Tsugunaga Momoko/Fukumura Mizuki (MomoPon)
Nomura Minami/Wada Sakurako
Makino Maria/Yumeno Kishimoto
new on the leader board:Yajima Maimi/Suzuki Airi
rest:Ikuta Erina/Fukumura Mizuki (PonPon)
Ikuta Erina/Ishida Ayumi (Suberizu)
Ikuta Erina/Oda Sakura (PonDaa)
Takagi Sayuki/Kudo Haruka
Nakanishi Kana/Oda Sakura (SakuNaka)
Kanazawa Tomoko/Uemura Akari
Kanazawa Tomoko/Miyamoto Karin
Fukumura Mizuki/Takeuchi Akari (OdenPon)
Fukumura Mizuki/Ishida Ayumi (GAM 2/Birthday Crash Sisters)
Fukumura Mizuki/Kudo Haruka
Fukumura Mizuki/Iikobo Haruna
Fukumura Mizuki/Oda Sakura
Kudo Haruka/Ishida Ayumi
Kudo Haruka/Miyamoto Karin
Kudo Haruka/Wada Ayaka (AyaDuu)
Kudo Haruka/Moruta Mizuki (Love Love Mi(zuki) Duu)
Suzuki Airi/Ashida Ayumi
Oda Sakura/Ishida Ayumi (ODaishi)
Hirose Ayaka/Makino Maria
Hirose Ayaka/Inoue Rei
Hirose Ayaka/Wada Sakurako
Hirose Ayaka/Nomura Minami
Makino Maria/Takeuchi Akari
Makino Maria/Kudo Haruka
Makino Maria/Hamaura Ayano
Makino Maria/Sasaki Rikoko
Makino Maria/Ishida Ayumi
Kamikokuryou Moe/Sasaki Rikoko
Kamikokuryou Moe/Murota Mizuki
Kudo Haruka/Sasaki Rikoko
Nomura Minami/Hamaura Ayano
Takeuchi Akari/Sasaki Rikoko (RikOden)
Uemura Akari/Hagiwara Mai
Ogawa Haruna/Oda Sakura
Eliminated:
Round 1 from leader board:Iikubo Haruna/Wada Ayaka (HoneyCho)
Taguchi Natsumi/Inoue Rei
Nakajima Saki/Yajima Maimi
Nonaka Miki/
Ogata Haruna (HaaChel)
Sato Masaki/Oda Sakura (Masakura)
Round 1 from rest:Sato Masaki/Kudo Haruka (MaaDuu)
Sato Masaki/Fukumura Mizuki
Sato Masaki/Haga Akane
Sato Masaki/Ishida Ayumi
Ikuta Erina/
Iikubo Haruna (HoneyPon)
Makino Maria/
Ogata HarunaOgata Haruna/Haga Akane
Ogata Haruna/Oda Sakura
Kamikokuryou Moe/
Ogata HarunaHirose Ayaka/
Taguchi NatsumiTaguchi Natsumi/Hamaura Ayano
Taguchi Natsumi/Suzuki Airi