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Graduating them from H!P and Sending them off into the real world ?

Interesting -- but in the entertainment industry, there is a tendency to overhype upcoming announcements, so it could be an anticlimax.

It it is something bigger than just a good product tie-in/advertising deal, however, I wonder what it could be.

I'll play the devil's advocate :

^That would be awesome.

I would like it (particularly if Takamina was heavily involved), and I think a lot of other people would, but for some H!P fans and some AKB fans, it would be the apocalypse.

It'd be fine as long as Tsunku did the song....we need a :tsunkuhead: emoticon.

Tsunku does like to play with fire.

The timing of it is very curious. How potentially negative to fans could it be so close to the release of a major single with two (one major) tie-ins.

I don't know why people bringing up this voting thing. Terrible idea. And I don't see how any of the ideas people have come up with here would bring them back to becoming the big stars again?

Making a direct internal rival group out of KKS, or god forbid adding a lot of KKS into MM'14 wouldn't do shit for that goal.

Announcing international ambitions would be interesting, though why people would think they'd "focus" on international stuff
is beyond me. Especially now that they're moving up domestically. Why would they just drop that just to head to completely uncharted waters that no Japanese artists has ever conquered, as far as I know.

Have no Idea what he'll announce, but the au connection is very curious.

Or maybe au really means "moving to Australia."

That was honestly my first thought.

today's morning newspaper

For some reason I don't think it's going to be graduation/audition related.

Tsunku is the ultimate tease, though.