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8th gen audition drop out for Avex, Masuda Ayami - Revise the World
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[Reina]

^

she seems like to have aged for 10 years

[AyuHikaru]

Ha back then she sang with a pained look on her face and she still does . SINGING HURTS

[Echidna]

not sure whether appropriate to post this...

Murakami Megumi? (ex c-ute) in action

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aww, Megumegu

[boinsie]

We've known she's a choreographer for a while now, but it's cool to see her actually do her thing! ^^

[321BreakinOut]

Wonder how would C-ute be Now with her? Makes me think that would be her up there instead of Chisato in kanashiki heaven

[Jessi]

Plus I don't think they wanted her to leave H!P or even Morning Musume for that matter. Her graduation was really REALLY sudden so they still probably have lots of plans for her.

But...
It's not like they did anything with her when she was in the group. Lol.

And yeah, part of being a unit. Whut.
Also, I feel like Aika is only half an OG since she's still under the H!P banner. Lol. It's cool that she's getting work though. Aika always got unfairly shafted (well, not as much as JunLin) and she deserves to get some work. I guess she could have always gone to college though, wasn't she supposed to be a smart one?

C'mon! Aika was in at least 2 subunits. The one for that children's anime with Risa Chisato and Nakky and in guardians 4. It's quite off to say that she never got anything while in H!P. I don't think H!P disliked her as much as all the Kikka lovers would like to believe lol I wouldnt say she was shafted... she wasn't treated worse than anyone else imo. As you mentioned the pandas got absolutely nothing, neither did Kamei Eri that I can remember off the top of my head (although at least she was a 2nd tier singer in MoMusu and had a solo song or two on the albums)

Not that your doing it, but people sometimes exaggerate when it comes to Aika and Koharu. With Koharu I remember someone venting saying that In the audition you can see the sting of regret on Tsunku's face as he listened to her sing... That's not true at all. Obviously they liked her if she got to be Kirari, have a solo career and always had the 3rd most lines after Ai-Reina. In a way it's the same with Aika. H!P did like her. They most likely still do.

[Celedam]

As you mentioned the pandas got absolutely nothing

Ex-Ceed!

Also, the Chinese cookbook and language guide, featured roles in the China mini-tour, and a Chinese version of "Ame no Furanai Hoshi de wa Aisenai Darou?".

It wasn't much, but it wasn't nothing.

neither did Kamei Eri that I can remember off the top of my head

Wait… what?

Popular, long-running radio show, including several live recordings; consistently best-selling photobooks and DVDs; starring role in Jewelpet; starring roles in Ojigi 30 do and Ojigi de Shape Up!; major supporting role in Cinderella; featured role on HaroMoni@ (memorization battles, KameShige aho combi, GakiKame Theater); leading "sales" character on HaroMoni for almost three years (Elizabeth Kyamei -> Eric Kamezou -> Scream CM -> Sweat CM -> HPC), longer than everyone else except Yuuko and Rika…

[resop2]

^
absent in that list is any smaller group project (maybe you could count Tanpopo #?)

[Nayoko-Kihara]

^ They released songs and performed at official lives, so I would count it. The only thing they didn't do was release PVs.

In that sense at least I would say Aika did pretty well. Both of the other groups she was in performed at lives, released multiple singles with PVs, and all of them got plenty of cross promotion with different popular TV shows.