Morning Musume’s 25th Anniversary year has begun! Read on for Morning Musume’22 Interview with anan (October 2022) Magazine!
Q1 What’s a Morning Musume song that charges up your energy?
Q2 What kind of entertainment and culture gives you energy?
A1 Out of all the songs from 1997 till now, what’s your favourite Morning Musume song?
A2 If you could describe Morning Musume in one phrase what would it be? Please tell us your reason.
For the first time in about 2 years, Morning Musume will be holding their concert titled “Teenage Solution ~Sato Masaki Graduation Special~” on 13 December 2021. Tickets were sold out immediately as Masaki Sato who is known for her airhead and naive character, her energy and high level performances, will be graduating at this concert. This time, in line with the decision to broadcast this concert live on Hikari TV, we will be interviewing Masaki Sato, Ayumi Ishida who has gone through thick and thin for the past 10 years with Masaki as her generation mate, and 15th generation’s Rio Kitagawa.
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Morning Musume’21 released their 70th single on 8 December after about 1 year. This is a triple A-side single consisting of songs produced by Tsunku-san such as 『Teenage Solution』 and 『Yoshi Yoshi Shite Hoshii No』, as well as an upbeat funky song 『Beat no Wakuseii』. 10th generation member Masaki Sato will be graduating from both Morning Musume and Hello! Project at the concert that will be held at Nippon Budokan on 13 December 2021 titled “Morning Musume’21 Concert Teenage Solution ~Sato Masaki Graduation Special~”. As such, this single will be her last.
This time, we conducted an interview between 10th generation’s member, Ayumi Ishida (sub-leader) and Masaki Sato. Masaki first joined Morning Musume as a 10th generation member in September 2011 has been active for many years and had to send off her generation mates at their graduations. They will be talking about how they expressed themselves through the new songs, how they felt the rapid growth of their kouhais through the new songs, Sato’s honest feelings regarding her graduation, and what Ishida wishes to convey to Sato at the moment.
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Morning Musume’s Consultation Room on Newspaper: 15th gen members ask Ayumi Ishida-san for advice “Teach me! Senpai”. Ayumi Ishida gives advice to 15th gen members (Rio Kitagawa, Homare Okamura & Mei Yamazaki) on the problems they have.
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For the past 22 years of Morning Musume’s history, Ishida Ayumi-san is the first member that is from Tohoku. After passing the 10th generation auditions, she had to move to Tokyo from her hometown, Sendai city, at the age of 14. She has a regular program on a local TV station, where she shows her love for Sendai and recommends popular souvenirs.
Read More »“I dream of becoming a celebrity who can’t walk along Sendai’s Arcades (streets)”, says Ishida with passion.
— Ayumi Ishida
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