#Helloproject

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"Hello! Project New Member Audition 2024" is being held!

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ほのぴのエレピ

おされな音

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2 Conan Attractions

Evening

At USJ, I know that today the Conan one started today

But from March 22nd, A permanent attraction is being created, Eh!? I didn't know that but!?

Today I found out…🫣✍🏻

It seems that the information came out around last December? I was really surprised, why didn't anyone tell me…

USJ's Conan Attraction, And also the limited time movie release, I haven't ever experienced them once so, I thought, someday…… But I guess its different than that if its going to be permanently installed,

Its crazy, its finally come true🪽 There is a Conan attraction~~~ I'm so happy~~~

Lets go some day🫶🏻

I'm going to go since I have drive for it this year🫶🏻

Eh, the permanent attraction is from March 22nd, and if you go during the limited time event that goes till June, Does that mean you can enjoy both……?

Eh, isn't that amazing? USJ has two Conan things?

I really haveeee to go again🥳🪽

As its March, the movie will be released in a month,

It feels like its been a year, I'm looking forward to it

!!

This is a sad announcement but,

As of today, Ichioka Reina-chan has graduated

helloproject

We have even talked about Conan together

Therefore, even though its not because of that, The sudden announcement was surprising and sad

In any case I hope she feels better…🪽

Ichioka Reina-chan was taking a break during the winter Hello Project Concert as well due to not feeling well, I watched everyone continuing to work hard as a follower of BEYOOOOONDS

I hope that the shine of everyone in BEYOOOOONDS, will certainly continue to be a source of strength for many

For me, during our rehearsals last December, from the performances in the winter, It gave me strength, thank you!!

📺Hello Pro Dance Gakuen Season 11

April 18th 11:30PM~ A Learning From TSUKUSHI-san Adventure🕺

In season 10 we challenged breakin', its reairing continuously! On the 15th, 17th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, #1~#6 all at once! Check out HP for info!

Thank you for following.. Instagram💙🩵

💿Releasing February 7th

Morning Musume '23 25th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT TOUR ~glad quarter-century~ at Nippon Budokan

Thank you for waiting for the Blu-ray&DVD! Its finally releasing--!

Its already nostalgic but, It has an amazing medley, really Please enjoy it many times

📚Releasing on February 7th "Hello! Project BEST SHOT!! Vol.26"

Ishida AyumixOda SakuraxNonaka Miki📸 Fukumura MizukixIshida AyumixOda Sakura📸

✍🏻Tokyo Sports note Series #144 1 Person Review After a Conversation

I also talked about my solo trip to Kamakura I'm looking for ways to take photos of myself while on trips

🪩Spring Tour Has Been Decided Morning Musume '24 Concert Tour Spring MOTTO MORNING MUSUME

We'll be going around the country from March 16th!

🪩HinaFest March 30th and 31st at Makuhari Messe

🪩JAPAN JAM Morning Musume '24 will be performing on May 3rd!

《LIVE DAYS！～Exciting Big Exhibition Match～》 June 2nd(Sun), after the Hokkaido Ham Fighters vs. Yokohama DeNa Baystars match, Morning Musume '24 will be having a special mini live!

.👗👠 Aoyama Clothing x Morning Musume '24

📻Morning Musume '24 Morning Jogakuin ~Houkago Meeting~

Airs Every Saturday, On Radio Nihon at 12:00AM~

Past Broadcast Episodes Are Available →Program Details

It seems like the birthday goods!? Are starting to arrive!?

see you ayumin <3

[papirouge]

im the jpop anon. thank you for the long and thoughtful reply! :)

yeah, theres something really wrong with kpoppers. i actually remember what perfume video the "fat legs" comments were from - it was their first budokan concert back in 2008, i think they were wearing the pink outfits (or perhaps the yellow ones from drream fighter). i think what those kpoppers might meant were kashiyukas thighs, since she wore very short shorts in the pink outfits, and while her legs are thin her thighs are plumper. but like, thats literally what makes her known as "the hot one" among fans. like shes very renowed for having very nice legs, and in general its normal for women to have bigger tighs and wider hips. i guess one could just shrug it off as kpop fans being salty and petty, but many kpop girl members have crazy thin legs. like if you look up snsd aka girls generation, youll realize that many of their promotional images have them with really skinny legs. one of the very few kpop songs that i like is "gee" by this girl group, and i decided to look at the comments of the dance ver and some poeple were defending one of the girls because koreans fans were being mean to her for being "fat". i think she was called jessica or something like that, and i look her up to know which one of them was and like, if they didnt mention anything i wouldnt even have realized but her "problem" was basically that she had this "square-y" body type and that made her look like 0,5 millimeters bigger that the rest.

another thing that happened to me very recently was that i was looking for a notebook to buy and there were selling some with kpop groups in the cover, and i stumbled upon one that had this boy band named stray kids, and god dammit... these guys have such heavy plastic surgery like wtf... some of them look like literal wax figures its scary. i remember when kpop fans were saying it was racist how some people made fun of boy bands by saying they all looked the same, and sure, definitely some of them probably were, but you cant deny that some of these guys (and girls) dont end up looking the same when they get their faces botched up all to follow the same very narrow korean beauty standards.

and yeah, i can see the difference between kanon and akari, but i also think it was because kanon was much bigger than akari. like she even made fun of herselkf many times when she introduced herself. i always remember when michishige sayumi was asked which animal fit their teammates the best, and she said kanon was a hippo or an elephant 💀 i always got the impression that kanon making fun of herself like referencing she had a full meal before a performance so she was full of energy was a defense mechanism - a lot of fat people usually make fun of themseves because they want to do it before others can make fun of them first, like "look at me, im fat and i know it and dont take it seriously, please dont make fun of me because i already do it and it doesnt hurt me at all!".

speaking of sayumi, she once was also asked which helloproject group she would least like to be stuck with on an island, and she said berryz koubou because they seemed like they liked to eat alot.. im guessing she was referring to maasa and risako.

i wanted to say more but this got so fucking long lol sorry papi... perhaps ill send another message later...

Tbh Kpop visuals are so ridiculously filtered that I'm pretty sure those girls are made prettier and skinnier than they really are. People these days are soooooo freaking guillible and believe anything they see online. These girls get ps to oblivion and still need to be photoshopped like mad.... They're not perfect. Nobody is.

The thing is japanese idols aren't expected to look perfect like Korean do. Jpop idols aren't supposed to look 'flawless'. Perfume debuted when they were like 12-13 years old ; we saw them grow before our eyes, so if they did anything shady with their appareance everyone would have noticed. These women are soon 35 and still kicking.. - I wonder how these Kpop girls will look at that age 👀

I don't even think that Kpoppers know what "sexy" is anyway. What's stricking with Kpop is that despite how much polished their aesthetic are, they emanate 0% charisma. They give off an absolutely frigid energy. Every single of their move and face expression are policed. Kpop MV would make anyone epileptic so much shit is going on because that's how bad the artist themselves can't put it up themselves.

At least, old school jpop idols still have a lil bit of personality - which is why we still remember of them 10, 20 years later. The same couldn't be said for today's one tbh (I lost interest after Morning Musume 13./Michishige graduated because all the newcomers were more dull than the others... Even Riho who was hailed as The Ace of the group didn't leave the same impact as OG members (Ai Takashi, Tsuji Nozomi, Ai Kago, Maki Goto, Reina Tanaka, etc.) AKB48 fell off after the Kami 7 all graduated (the sister groups are meh).

But to be fair, the new Reiwa era (more conservative ) isn't just prone to leave raw personalities pop out in like that... Ai Kago stunts would have made her cancelled without afterthought or second chances today...😬 The idol group era is pretty much over in Japan. Right now, 'boring edgy' like Aimyon or Yonezu Kenshi are popping.

I can't bring myself to find Kpop boys attractive. Period. They are all ugly and I have no shame to say it because they were all much better before doing plastic surgery. So no it's not racist to say they all look the same because plastic surgery made them look the same - not their race...

I DARE someone to tell me the 2 dudes on the left aren't the same. The one at the top particularly looks like an otome game character 💀 like- he straight up looks like his face was DRAWN.

And you know what freaks me out the most? It's that from one picture to another THEY DON'T LOOK LIKE THEMSELVES??!?

Like wtf is this shit???

It's supposed to be the same band but the faces.... don't match others pictures 💀

You know society colllapsed now that stray kid dudes are considered attractive....when back in the day we had natural and authentic beauty like Takeshi Kaneshiro *sigh*

downgrade of the millennium. Mishima killed himself for this.

And you know what freaks me out the most about these kpoppers? It's that they seemingly don't "exist" beside these ridiculous doctored photoshoot. Are there any candids of them out and about in the street? Without perfect lightening, angle and filters? Tbh I wouldn't be surprised they are AI or shit like that.

Perfume look the same when they do bc....they arent botched

Michishige is RUTHLESS 😭 I mean, in Morning Musume she had the persona of being a narcissist so it makes sense she put down other girls for not being as pretty as her. But yeah dunking on a girl who's like a decade younger than you is shitty. Those idol group are shoving together girls from entire different generations (Michishige was in her mid 20s when she graduated and the youngest member of the group were like 13-14 years old 🥴) so awkward girldrama situations are bound to happen.... That being said, it's a very bad idea to get into an idol group if you're feeling awkward about your physically appearance... Kanon should've never been in Momusu, imo.

I always found Berryz Kōbō was much coherent than Morning Musume ; members were closer in age and experience. I was a smaller band and the lineup was consistent so you weren't lost in the amount of new faces every other years (like Momusu regular call for new members).

I think its fitting that some of its members love eating when they have a song called 1億3千万総ダイエット王国 ("A kindgom of 130 million [people] complete diet[ing]") *the population of Japan is of 125 million but I guess the evened it out for the song that was kinda critical of diet culture. Good for them tbh And that song was bop. Berryz Kōbō truly delivered the few years before disbanding.

[haropro-confessions]

Are there any fans from the era of the Momusu vs dream and sweetS vs berryzKoubou? When people were saying avex was trying to copy HelloProject and failed miserably, what are your thoughts on that period from 2003 to 2008?

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Tour First Day！ #mm23_gqc @Nonaka Miki (23.03.19)

💛Chel here🗽

Thank you very much

For coming to look at my blog！

Your likes and comments

Make me super happy ❤️

💛Yesterday's 2 choices

If you could be reborn

Would you be a human？

Or something else？

I'd want to be a human

Was the majority！

Sometimes I think that

It'd be nice to be reborn as something else、

But generally I also would prefer to be human、、

💛Hello! Project 2023

Spring CITY CIRCUIT

Morning Musume。'23

25th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT TOUR

～glad quarter-century～

First day！Hachijoji！

Thank you very much ❤️

Even from just watching our rehearsal footage

I knew it'd be a super duper fun tourー！

I'm looking forward to

Going around to all sorts of different places 💕

It was a happy opening day！

Thank you very much！

Details are here

https://www.up-fc.jp/helloproject/sp/news_Info.php?id=20879

(T/N News and information has not been translated)

💛Today's 2 choices

Tea？Coffee？

For reading until the very end

Thank you very much！

Please come by again tomorrow ❤️

For the tour、we'll do our best！

Leader

Told me about this hashtag！

#mm23_gqc

Please be sure to use it 🐱

See ya 🐾

[loveisurvival]

trying to think of ronpa characters that fit certain helloproject songs. failing at it but concepts are fun

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Biyori Kamikokuryo Moe (23.09.20)

🌲🌲🌲

Kamiko Biyori#5 has started streaming！

I talked about my solo trip、to Yakushima

Please listen to it〜！

🌲🌲🌲

Anyway、

Onto the main topic。

I took some photos with Yuppyon〜！！

I really love Yuppyon in this left photo😊✌️

I did Yuppyon's makeup on this day、

And Yuppyon's face、is super duper pretty😳

I didn't know what to do because I wanted her make up to be heavy so you could see it on screen during the live but also kind of light and subtle、but she was so cute that it turned out great！笑lol

It was really hard doing makeup on a face that's totally different to mine！笑lol

Thank you Yuppyon〜！

I didn't have any time to do my makeup on this day so it's unbelievably sloppy 😅 Sorry

But、I'll do my makeup properly for dress rehearsals💄

Something I've really liked recently is

Using rhinestones like freckles✨

It makes me sparkle on stage〜！

Please be sure to watch the stream of our 1st Yoyogi performanceー！笑lol

See ya！

p.s.

I planted cosmos。

I water them everyday

But they're not looking too great。。。

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BD Goods Unveiling！Matsumoto Wakana (23.08.31)

Good evening！I'm Matsumoto Wakana 🙉

Thank you very much for your comments 😊

Lots of you left comments saying that reading my blog is part of your daily routine!、which made me super duper happy！🥹

On your way to work、or at the end of the day、I hope I can create something that you look forward to reading！

Really thank you very much！😘

『Angerme Matsumoto Wakana Birthday Event 2023』 goods have been unveiledー！🙌🙌🙌

https://www.up-fc.jp/helloproject/sp/news_Info.php?id=22145

What do you thinkー？？？🤭

This costume、was made by Usami Masaki-san！

I wanted a gothic lolita style costume、and she conveyed that、and made this absolutely wonderful costume for me😭✨

I'm so happy！Thank you very much！！

There are so many parts I was you to pay attention to、so I can't write them all here、

But personally I love fabric of my twin tail ribbons and the costume！😍

I'm really looking forward to、wearing this costume tomorrow for my birthday event！！！

Also、my birthday goods！

No way、no way、no no no way！

I requested that Matsumoto Pleats-san drew my birthday T-shirt illustration、and they very kindly did😭😭😭

I'm so happy。I'm so so happy。。。。

Even before I could understand what was going on I watched the anime 『My 3 Sisters』 many times、and once I understood more I read the 『My 3 Sisters』 essay book too、and now I still read Matsumoto Pleats-san's blog！！！

Having my beloved Matsumoto Pleats-san draw an illustration of me、is something I never even dreamed of 🥺

I'll buy a lot of them myself too！

A true treasure🥲🤍 Thank you very much！！！！

And And、the “Matsumoto Wakana Birthday Acrylic Chopstick Rest”！

When I was thinking about what kind of goods I wanted to make〜、I knew I found the perfect thing! I'll make a chopstick rest since I love them and collect them!、and it got approved！

You can rest the chopsticks on my hand🥢

It's like a FSK、so you can use it for photos with your meal、and you can rest your chopsticks on it、so it's an item that kills two birds with one stone！😚

Please be sure to get it♡

(T/N News and information has not been translated)

I'll end today's blog here (๑･̑◡･̑๑)

Thank you 15ー！🐣

See ya！

Matsumoto Wakana

[nikologueplus]

[magicmorningmeteora]

Today is the anniversary of the release of Morning Musume's "Mikan". Happy anniversary!

[sumiretranslations]

Growing Up Tashiro Sumire (23.03.03)

Yaposhumi〜

I'm Tashiro Sumire 💜

Today was rehearsals✊🏻

I worked hard 😮

Rehearsals make me so nervousー（ ; ; ）

But I enjoyed today's rehearsal！🎶

I've gotta keep working hard for the real thing💪🏻

Today's Sumire 😼

Pretty makeup free because of rehearsals ^ ^

Also！！A happy announcement！

We'll be having another tour👏🏻

The title is

「OCHA NORMA CONCERT TOUR 2023

SPRING 〜Growing Up！〜」 🌱

Tours make me so super happy！

Everyone please come and see us ❤︎

Details are here 😸

https://www.up-fc.jp/helloproject/news_Info.php?id=21125

(T/N News and information has not been translated)

Thank you very much for your likes・comments🎀

I always read alーーl of your comments🎶

Well then！

OyaChumire〜

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『Morito Chisaki-chan♡♪*ﾟ』Makino Maria (2022-02-28)

🧡Morito Chisaki-chan🧡

 Morito Chisaki-chan、at the end of 『Hello! Project 2022 Spring CITY CIRCUIT Morning Musume｡'22 CONCERT TOUR ～Never Been Better!～』、will graduate from Morning Musume｡'22 and Hello！Project。

  Maria、has been helped by Chii-chan a lot

I often think how glad I am that Chii-chan is around

 When I look at Chii-chan now、I feel sad😢

But I don’t want Chii-chan to know that、so I want to spend our time together as we always have🐰Maria。

   2019 Christmas Event

50 good thinks about Chii-chan questionnaire

I sent this to out Manager-san🐰maria

 Cute

Cute face

Wears stylish clothes every day

Looks cool wearing a transparent belt

Good at make-up

Pretty hair colour

Suits the white eyeliner she used while on tour。

I like Chii-chan’s mouth (when she impersonates Chuuei-san)

I like Chii-chan’s smile

I like Chii-chan’s laugh

 Chii-chan’s new words

Chii-chan is funny

Chii-chan is super funny

Chii-chan makes Maria laugh

Chii-chan is kind

Chii-chan is always kind

Chii-chan thinks of others before herself

If we choose the same thing、Chii-chan will always let me have it

Chii-chan calls me Maria-chan

Recently、she’s started calling me LOVE Rin more often。

 Chii-chan’s dancing is cool

Chii-chan’s dancing is sharp

Chii-chan’s dancing、has really cool head rolls

Chii-chan、looks cool when dancing freely

Chii-chan’s choreography during Seishun Night is cool

Chii-chan’s point dance is cute

Chii-chan’s expressions on the large screen are cool

Chii-chan waits for Maria’s Starbucks order。

Chii-chan waits for Maria’s order at the tapioca store。

When I gave Chii-chan a snack、Chii-chan gave me one the next day。

 When Chii-chan eats snacks or rice、she always says 「Eat up」

Chii-chan often shares her food

Chii-chan often shares her drinks

Chii-chan’s shoe size？

Chii-chan、is cute when she says 「Chii is、」

When she said「Chii、is going over there」、Maria overheard her。

(Related to previous point) When I told Chii-chan、she said 「Maria-chan、、、」。

Chii-chan listens to Maria’s puns。

But she doesn’t laugh much。Chii-chan just listens to my puns。

Chii-chan、ignores。She ignores Maria’s puns。

 Pon-chan is cute

Chii-chan loves Pon-chan

Pon-chan is a Pomeranian pupper and a toy poodle pupper

Chii-chan draws cute pictures of Pon-chan

Chii-chan draws Pon-chan so quickly

 Pon-chan’s name is Morito Ponzu-chan

Chii-chan is Morito Chisaki-chan

Chii-chan’s stories are always entertaining

Chii-chan is a super hero

Maria is super happy that Chii-chan is in Morning Musume｡♡ Thanks Chii-chan

Chii-chan LOVE Rin♡From Maria

 The end❣️I think there are 50 ＋1。

※Now is 2022/2/28、I can think of even more

  Chii-chan LOVE

I love Chii-chan

             From Morning Musume｡'22 Makino Maria

   Photo📷Up To Boy vol.309 off-shot

❋We only took our masks off to take photos

     Take a look at MariSta🐰Makino Maria's Instagram 💗

                                   🍀Makino Maria🍀

 Original - https://ameblo.jp/mm-12ki/entry-12729421448.html

T/N Emojis have not been added into this blog post

[papirouge]

the jpop anon... again 😳

yeah, its pretty obvious that kpop groups do get super prepared and photoshopped to hell in promotional pictures. thats why when you look up their photos from like, award shows or other live events like that, sometimes they may look a lil different. like again, i mentioned snsd, their legs look super skinny in promotional material and videos, but in photos of live events, some girls legs for example look bigger. theyre still thin ofc, just not stick thin.

and like you mentioned, jpop idols arent expected to be perfect or have a flawless look. many times, part of the appeal of a japanese idol is watching her grow and get better and more profesional, which i think its one of the reasons kpop is ages more popular than jpop; many times ive heard o read people say how impressed they are with the complex choreographies of korean groups, something that jpop idols rarely perform. kpop idols debut when they already have achieved some good "performance level" for a lack of better terms.

you know, i dont think every idol company does this, but i always though it was super cool how helloproject actually forbid their idols from having plastic surgery. thats why many of them look so different from another, and i think its awesome theyre not pressured to change their appearances to fit some modernr beauty standard. also apparently they cannot wear braces, i think its because it can affect your singing ability, though it may just be an aesthetic thing, and those inside braces can actually damage your tongue which is not what a singer would want. like you know how airi suzuki has a tooth thats a little behind the others and she has never "fixed" it? i just mention this because i have that literal exact same tooth in the same place. in fact, we have the same smile, which i think is sorta cool.

oh, and i never could get into akb48. i dont know why, they just never caught my eye. the only songs i tried to listen to were heavy rotation and koisuru fortune cookie since theyre so popular and i just wasnt a fan (also wtf with the heavy rotation MV?).

i also cant find those stray kids attractive. same goes for bts. and yeah, i also though they looked like AI xD. i just thought it was a little mean to say. and i never got why bts got so popular, though to be fair the only songs ive ever heard from the were those english ones like dynamite and butter (i think that what its called). theyre just... not that amazing what can i say,..

i liked berryz koubou. they always stood out when you watched them due to having such an interesting assortment of girls: you had two big girls with risako and maasa, the super tall yurina, the very short momoko and captain, chinami who was very skinny and had a darker complexion than the rest, and you also had risako constantly changing her hair color and miyabi dying her hair blonde or orange and wearing light color lenses. i always though goofy berryz (like in yuke yuke monkey dance) or serious berryz (like jiriri kiteru or ai wa itsumo kimi no naka ni) were the best berryz. it was so weird when they tried to shove them into sexy roles like in want! or ai no dangan, the girls look so awkward. and you cannot expect me to find momoko sexy when in concerts she would perform those sexy songs with those wretched pigtails of her...

I think that's something you addressed in your ealier posts, but I lowkey disagree with the fact that ugly people are fated to remain the 'ugly one' in the band even after ps because there are legit extremely good surgeons doing wonders. You can make drastic changes to a face and still have compelling results

Look at AngelaBaby who's the blueprint for every east Asian girl seeking to achieve the eurasian look

They look like 2 different person, but right still looks like what a natural very pretty Eurasian woman would look

The problem is going overboard with plastic surgery, which is why she ended messing up with her unecessary chin implant that makes her look botched. She should've stopped in 2009.

Kpop idols simply look botched bc they are cheap surgeons ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Japan is indeed less heavy with plastic surgery but idols, even underage, undergo plastic surgery xD they are just more lowkey and hypocrite about imo (that's the only redeeming thing with the Kpop industry imo ; they're pretty straightforward in their heavy course of beautification so people don't get gaslighted in thinking those people were born like this)

Look at Sayumi Michishige and Reina Tanaka who respectively got their eyelid and eyelid+nose done

Japan will accept crooked teeth, but not monolid lmaooo

And it was already the case with OG Momusu

Tsuji Nozomi waited to graduate to do eyelid surgery though - it's lowkey hilarious how both she and her husband got the same procedure on the same time(?)😭

And yeah I see what you mean with teeth thing of airi Suzuki. Naoki Umeda had the same feature and it made him super cute. I will forever miss UmeTsuba 😭😭

That being said, while it's true that those imperfections will fly because idolship is all about seeing little girls grow into womanhood, it's pretty significant to see how quick former idols switch into conventional beauty after graduating. Japan is extremely ageist with women, and things young girls have been elevated for, will be helf against them past a certain age.

There's something dread9ful with the Heavy Rotation MV.... "Mystery Night" (by Angerme (formerly S/Mileage)) lyrics are pretty awful too. All of them were underage, singing about hitting up with a rando during a party...

Koisuru Fortune Cookie was AKB48 peak. I never got into their music but the MV was great - it's pretty rare to have idol MV with that much work done (I think Heavy Rotation MV, as disgusting it was, very polished - isn't its artistic director the same woman who directed Helter Skelter?)

Berryz Kobo went off out of nowhere for "Ai wa Itsumo Kimi no Naka ni" lol I like when idols do assertive songs. That's why I also loved "Otome no Gyakushuu" by Angerme ("Counterattack of the maiden"). But imo nothing will ever top the aesthetic of Momoiro Clover Z for "Birth Ø Birth" - absolutely iconic

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【Cover song from Hello! Project】

The video that won the prize at the Alafor Idol Project Audition produced by Tsunku has been uploaded to Laurea TV.

The song is "Thanks!" sung by Aya Matsuura and Miki Fujimoto's unit "GAM".