Morning Musume celebrates their 16th anniversary!

| Hello! Project | Posted by TokyoGirls'Update on Sep.17.2013

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On September 14th, Morning Musume held their 16th anniversary event ‘Watashitachi ga, Ima no Morning Musume desu. 17-nen mo, Saa, Ikouka.‘ at Bellesalle Shibuya Garden.

This day marked exactly 16 years since the group’s name was announced on TV Tokyo’s audition program ‘ASAYAN’ back in 1997. Leader Michishige Sayumi expressed, “We could peacefully make 16 years thanks to everyone who always supports us.”

Morning Musume currently consists of 10 members: Michishige, Fukumura Mizuki, Ikuta Erina, Sayashi Riho, Suzuki Kanon, Iikubo Haruna, Ishida Ayumi, Sato Masaki, Kudo Haruka, and Oda Sakura.

During the event, Morning Musume performed “Renai Revolution 21 [Updated]” with new choreography for the first time in current 10 members. After introducing themselves, they made an appeal of the new generation of Morning Musume by shouting in unison, “We are Morning Musume!”

Michishige commented, “I’ve been a part of Morning Musume for 11 years and have experienced many things. I feel that we arehere now because the members of each generation worked hard. I am grateful to the elder members of the successive generations.” Sub-leader Iikubo added, “We will do our best to entertain those who have loved Morning Musume from before and those who have recently become to love us.”

There was also a voice message from producer Tsunku♂ announcing that he has added a concert on November 28th at Nippon Budokan to their upcoming tour that starts on the 21st. In tears, Oda said, “I had a dream that our additional performance was Budokan!” Michishige added, “We’ve only performed at Nippon Budokan when someone was graduating. So from now on, we want to do our best to become the group who can hold the tour finale at Nippon Budokan or Yokohama Arena.”

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