This made me upset =/

Anime Expo® Announces Morning Musume As First Official Guests Of Honor For 2009 Convention In Los Angeles

Nation’s Largest Anime and Manga Convention Welcomes Japan’s Top Female Group from Hello! Project

Anaheim, California and Tokyo, Japan (February 12, 2009) — With excitement beyond belief, Anime Expo® proudly announces the attendance and performance of Japan’s most celebrated and top all-girl music group MORNING MUSUME (also referred to as “Momusu”) to the nation’s largest anime and manga convention held July 2-5, 2009 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. More information can be found on the website www.anime-expo.org.

The MORNING MUSUME (モーニング娘. Morning Daughter) is a one of a kind all-girl group whose story began in 1997 when Japanese producer TSUNKU♂ held auditions for a female rock vocalist for his band SHARAN Q held on the Japanese TV show ASAYAN. With the five runner-ups from the contest, Tsunku decided to create an all-girl group that sold 50,000 copies of their indies CD single “Ai no Tane” and debuted as MORNING MUSUME. They are the lead group of Hello! Project.

MORNING MUSUME’s first single “Morning Coffee” made a huge splash by hitting the #6 position in the Japanese pop charts within its first week of release. In August of 1998, MORNING MUSUME reached the #1 spot in the Japanese pop charts with their 3rd single “HOLD ON ME”. In 1999, the group had their first nationwide tour with 19 performances in 7 cities for 40,000 fans.

In September of 1999, MORNING MUSUME released their smash hit “Love Machine” that sold 2 million copies and held the first place spot in the Japanese pop charts and stayed 17 weeks on the Oricon Karaoke Chart.

MORNING MUSUME is famous not just for being the Japan’s top female group, but also for its unique approach with the shuffling of members. Producer TSUNKU♂ creates freshness by graduating band members and adding new members to create different units and adds fresh new faces for fans old and new.

In 2007, MORNING MUSUME made a historic impact within the Japanese music industry as the band welcomed new members Jun Jun and Lin Lin from China and began to reach an international audience. In 2008, MORNING MUSUME celebrated their 10th anniversary. MORNING MUSUME is definitely the world’s most famous and successful Japanese all-girl group.

MORNING MUSUME consists of band members Ai Takahashi, Risa Niigaki, Eri Kamei, Sayumi Michishige, Reina Tanaka, Koharu Kusumi, Aika Mitsui, JunJun, and LinLin.

Images available upon request and/or via the Anime Expo® 2009 Online Press Kit.

Attendees, Press and Industry Members are also encouraged to view the video coverage site of the 2008 convention at www.AXBackstage.org and to register for the 2009 convention at www.anime-expo.org.





Only to the USA D: come to the UK PLEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd laugh if they were at the May London Expo O_O

Even more upset-ness... American journalists can't even get facts right about them............

Part 1

Part 2

There are three HUGE errors in this article, and one of them most of you wont know... 1 on the first part, and 2 on the other part....

It pains me to read the errors....

PS: I can't sleep.... slept from about 7pm-10pm, then 11pm till about 1am =_=

wow alex i know you love them so its bad they made a mistake but its nothing to loose that much sleep over :/
lol and what were the actual mistakes then?

Page 1: they put "Leader Takahashi Ai (bottom centre)" when bottom centre of that picture is Tanaka Reina... You can't exactly mix those two up as they look completely different.

Page 2:

part 1: It says their are 9 members, but it lists 8 of them and misses out Mitsui Aika, how you miss out Mitsui D:

part 2: They say that Mini Moni was an animated series based around morning musume. COMPLETELY WRONG, Mini Moni was a mix group of some morning musume members, then they had an animated show based on mini moni, not morning musume.

It hurts me that they let such a retard make a report about them...

Bring them to the UK, we wont fuck up like the yanks did!!!

...*asianinfluence~~~*

sorry just had to say XD

One must accept the world is full of incompetence.

Here was me half-expecting it to be some dramatic, tragci, heart-wrenching story; stupidly I didn't realise you had posted it, so obviously it's about Morning Musume or similar XD

Lol Jami XP