Morning Musume. '14 12th gen - Golden audition

[Jessi]

WAIT!

If the winners get announced before the concert in NYC... does that mean that the winners will be in NYC? Will I get to meet 12th gen?

[CaptainBerryzGiraffe]

no... it seems that even once they are announced, they don't start activity until the next year, so..

[Chibs]

[Mixi]

I will never understand why some people think Tsunku regrets not choosing girls who made it big in AKB. Not all idols thrive in the same environment.

We're still going to see more people complain about failed 12th gen auditionees who joined AKB in a few years.

[CaptainBerryzGiraffe]

Yeah... and also, what if Tsunku's standards are higher than AKB's standards? (well, Aki's standards, I guess.)
...Just bc Tsunku didn't accept certain people and they got into AKB doesn't mean that "they should have been in H!P".
c:
....But can you imagine if Tsunku would be the 12th gen? LOL

[yukisuki]

He would look great in the cute and sexy idol costumes! He can replace Sayumi for ichiban kawaii.

[Jessi]

no... it seems that even once they are announced, they don't start activity until the next year, so..

I didn't mean as official members. I meant like the other girls did after they were announced where they bring them out to introduce themselves like they probably will do for all of the fall concert.

I just had wishful thinking that they may get to go to NYC as "part of their training"

[Sohee]

Doubt they'll bring on newbies abroad. They'll already have so much to pick up on and study.
Though it'd be cool ofc.

[Jessi]

Yeah... and also, what if Tsunku's standards are higher than AKB's standards? (well, Aki's standards, I guess.)
...Just bc Tsunku didn't accept certain people and they got into AKB doesn't mean that "they should have been in H!P".
c:
....But can you imagine if Tsunku would be the 12th gen? LOL

Also AKB48 and all of the sister groups has like a billion girls in it. Tsunku takes no more than 4 per audition and Morning Musume usually has 9-10 girls in it total. So of course Tsunku has to be more selective! With the exception of 8th gen (I love Aika but he could have taken another girl with her) I love all of his choices. 9-10-11ki are all amazingly talented girls with diverse personalities. I don't even know who is in AKB and I'm sure the general public outside the fandoms probably only know a handful of names.

Also Tsunku is aware of the idol competition and the girls being scooped up by other groups. That's why he keeps calling the girls back to be in Kenshuusei. He probably realized it around the 9ki audition and that's why so many girls "completed their training" right before the audition. In every audition since then a group of girls who failed get drafted into KSS and thus they don't go off and try to join AKB. It's smart.

[Pavlova]

"The general public outside of fandom probably only know a handful of names" is a statement that applies to H!P too, and to any idol group, I think. Hell, to any group at all.