Morning Musume. '23 Okamura Homare's 18th Birthday event at Tower Hall Funabori (Tokyo) 5.9.23
H!P's first event to have cheering, standing, and no masks.
1st event
1. Lalala no Pipipi (Michishige Sayumi)
Opening Talk
~ She introduced herself by saying "I am Okamura Homare , I turned 18 years old today." Then she mentioned everyone's loud cheering during the first song.
- MC Sawayaka Goro aka Turtle Goro appears and he got loud boos from everyone. (Homa-pyon is a rabbit and Goro is the turtle).
~ Goro : "If this is how loud it will be, imagine how loud it will be the rest of the year."
Okamura : "Morning Musume's concert will be held on Saturday and Sunday, so I'm looking forward to seeing what will happen."
~ Okamura said he was so relieved to hear the fans' voices that she tried to get them to sing the lyrics when she hopped over to them, and she was really happy.
~ Okamura : "I personally had a lot of fun during my 17 years of age, and I was able to enjoy my activities and concerts in a positive way, so I want to make my 18th year, a year of praise.
~ About the June 21st Budokan concert : Okamura said that since Fukumura is scheduled to graduate in the Fall, this will be the last time she will be able to perform Budokan with this lineup and that a Budokan without a graduation would be very rare, so Okamura wants to show her full efforts so that Fukumura can graduate in peace, and that she will be able to enjoy the show with everyone with everyone cheering.
*This confirms Fukumura Mizuki's graduation concert is not at Budokan.
- The first corner is "Musume. Summit Battle! My "Homasha" Championship ♥" : Morning Musume '23 members submitted their best "Homasha" photos of Okamura, and the audience applauded to decide the winner. The member who submitted the best photo will receive a photo from "Homapyon" with an official message.
~ The first photo is of a mini-skirt set-up and long boots submitted by Nonaka-san, who commented, "Beautiful legs and a pretty face, the best!"
Okamura said that Nonaka-san gave her that dress for her birthday last year. Okamura said she would give it back to Nonaka-san when she has more juniors because she has grown taller and outgrown it.
~ The second "Homasha" is a three-shot taken by Makino-san with Fukumura, Makino and Okamura in front of the motsunabe hot pot. The comment says "At a motsunabe restaurant. It's delicious! It's delicious! it didn't mention Homare at all." Okamura-san said it was taken during her first ZDA. When asked what kind of person Makino-san was, Okamura said she was exactly as she appeared to be, in a good way, both on stage and when chatting with the audience.
~ The third "Homasha" is Okamura-san doing a double peace in an up-do submitted by Kitagawa-san.
Kitagawa-san commented that this is the best photo of the "curly" Homare, who was unable to curl her bangs yet at the first Hello Concert in Winter 2020 when she joined the group and Kitagawa did it for her. Okamura said that she can keep his bangs now, but there was a time when she was wearing a half up-do at a Countdown concert and it looked like what happened to it. Rio-chan was good at it.
~ The fourth photo is of her wearing a flower crown hair ornament with the white costume for the spring tour submitted by Sakurai-san. The hair ornament was a spare, usually a feather-like one, but Sakurai said she wondered when she would put the spare one on, so Okamura took this picture on Sakurai's phone without her permission.
~ The fifth one is a photo of Okamura wearing a mask but with bright red cheeks, which Ikuta-san submitted, with Ikuta-san's comment, "Homa, one minute after waking up! Sleeping habit!" Okamura says, "My red cheeks are bad in the photo from the "LOVEpedia" days. A picture of when she fell asleep between individual talk sessions, and she said she used too much energy when she was young and slept through some sessions.
~ The sixth photo is of a sexy and mature Okamura wearing a black camisole, hot pants, and a transparent jacket submitted by Fukumura-san, and the audience was in awe.
~ All the entries were announced and the audience applauded to determine the winner. The winner was Ikuta-san, who submitted an individual photo of Okamura from her "LOVEpedia" days, sleeping and waking up in her sleep. Okamura said, "I knew everyone liked my bubbly face."
~ After, Okamura shared a photo of herself in white costume from the spring tour. She explains that the quality of the picture is good and that she did her own eye makeup, and that she was happy with how crisp and clear it was.
- The next corner is "Homa-usa ♥ Five Mission!" : The audience will be challenged to play games along with Homare, and Okamura's favorite meat will be given away for each game cleared.
~ The first game was "Can you read your friend's name?"
The challenge was to see they could read the kanji for the animals of the "Homa-usa" friends, and if you cleared the game, they receive three "big cutlets"
~ The second game was "Play it backwards, can you guess what song it is?" The prize was a pack octopus wieners.
~ The third game was "Can you guess the proverb about the rabbit?"
~ The next game was "Can you find a friend with the same name?" If the audience member has the same first name and last name as the seat number, he or she will be successful and win a piece of roasted agu-pork. If the name or surname of the customer in the seat where the raffle is drawn matches that of a Hello Pro member born in the Year of the Rabbit, the game is cleared.
~ Hello members born in the Year of the Rabbit :
Oda Sakura
Nonaka Miki
Kawamura Ayano
Kamikokuryo Moe
Niinuma Kisora
Tanimoto Ami
Ichioka Reina
Takase Kurumi
Hirai Miyo
Okamura "Aren't there many unusual names?"
Goro: "There are a lot of people like Kamikokuryo, aren't there? LOL"
~ The last game is "AMAETE♥HOMA-USA!" (spoil Homa-usa) Level up version. The prize was a Kagoshima beef sirloin steak. Okamura wants everyone to spoil her. When saying sweet things like "Give me an applause, including the the people in the back." She cleared the game.
- VTR Birthday message from ANGERME Hashisako Rin
Live corner
2. Eighteen Emotion (S/mileage)
3. My Darling ~Do you love me?~ (Tsubaki Factory)
4. Kare to Issho ni Omise ga Shitai! (Morning Musume.)
MC
5. Onegai Miwaku no Target (Melon Kinenbi)
2nd event
3. 21ji made no Cinderella (Berryz Kobo)
Homare said she made this setlist with cheers and calls in mind. She was so impressed by everyone's calls (first time callers and those who have not called in a while)
Homare said she wanted to everyone do the "Oui oui oui oui" part of "Onegai Miwaku no Target", and was so glad she was able to sing it today.
Okamura "I will do my best to cheer up the audience by being happy and energetic at the age of 18."

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