New Morning Musume。 Auditions

This week, at the last date of the Hello! Project 2006 Summer～Wonderful Hearts Land～ tour in Tokyo, it was announced that there will be an upcoming auction to find the eighth generation of Morning Musume。 The auditions will start sometime this summer. This concert was also the graduation of fifth generation member Konno Asami and she gave her final concert to 11,000 fans who showed their support of her by illuminating the live hall with pink glow stick roses, her favourite colour. Asami's graduation was a real goodbye since she is also quitting Haro!Puro to focus on her studies.

Ogawa Makoto, also a fifth generation member, will be leaving the band after the group's Ribbon no Kishi The Musical performance on August 27th.