Niigaki Risa graduated at Nippon Budokan [5/18]

[boinsie]

She's dainty.

[Amped]

Gaki-san will be answering questions from fans on her blog. she says she wants to answer as much questions until her graduation.

http://blog.oricon.co.jp/niigakirisa/archive/2186/0

here is first set of answers to some questions asked :
http://blog.oricon.co.jp/niigakirisa/archive/2188/0

[esm]

So pretty <3

For some reason I get an Eri vibe from that photo.

[Rm88]

Does anyone get the "graduation liking boost" besides me? I didn't become a big fan, but when I realized Eri and Ai were going to graduate I started to appreciate them more I think it's happening with Risa now.

[321BreakinOut]

^ That only happened with me and JunJun. I always loved AI and Linlin and Eri was just cool ( i didn't hate her but i wasn't that torn over her departure...though i'd really rather her as a leader than sayu right about now....)

[boinsie]

Late to the party as always, they've just now posted official English translations of Tsunku and Gaki's comments to the MM MySpace page.
http://www.myspace.com/morningmusumeoff ... /545140328

[boinsie]

Tsunku tweeted a pic of a recording mic with the text "In the middle of tenative songs~"
People must have tweeted back wondering whose songs (his own???), so he quickly amended it to, "In the middle of tenative Morning Musume songs"

There hasn't been any announcement of a 49th single or 13th album, has there?

[Sohee]

...just posted this in the blog thread.

But yeah, that's the single. He posted about it on his blog a few days ago, that he was done with MM's new song and the b-side (And S/mileage's new song, too).

No announcement yet though. Probably in the beginning of February... or late January.

[Sohee]

Tsunku about MM's new song.

"MM's new song is too cool. Will they be able to sing it? It'll be a fight with/for their skills."
"I wonder if 9th and 10th gen will be able to keep up with the dance for MM's new song."



And tbh I think that's all the information we need to know to confirm it won't be a "ridiculous" or "childish" or whatever song. So people could stop saying "MM's cool days are over." or whatever now.

[Starra]

Well, really, since when have MM。ever had a consistant style? They've done the super cool → cute → cute → super cool thing before.

Remember Onna ga Medatte Naze Ikenai → Seishun Collection → Onna to Otoko no Lullaby Game? Onna ni Sachi Are → Mikan → Resonant Blue? Roman〜MY DEAR BOY〜 → Joshi Kashimashi Monogatari → Namida ga Tomaranai Houkago → THE Manpower!!!? Shabondama → Go Girl〜Koi no Victory〜?