I just found out about 12-year-old Kusumi Koharu becoming the 7.5 Gen addition to Morning Musume on Idolizing St. Anna ten minutes ago, spent five minutes yelling "Fuck!" in disbelief, two or three minutes explaining to my wife why this is a disaster...

What are the five steps of grief?

Whatever.

I somehow hopscotched to Acceptance and figure, what the hell - she's in Morning Musume now, might as well love her and hope that Tsunku knows what he's doing. If I can learn to like Sayumi, I can certainly give this 12-year-old a chance to grow and blossom into... well, something better than she is now.

I don't think she's an Ace, but look at how Tsuji grew, and Konno... if anything, Morning Musume is a place for the seemingly hopeless to prove themselves.

(Whoops - I may still be in denial there.)

At May 05, 2005 4:07 AM, Alice Lee commented...

I like Koharu. I can't say I really paid much attention to the auditions before this week's Hello! Morning but seeing the way she interacted with Tsunku and at her school when they announced she was the winner of the audition, gave me great hope for her. She seems strong, not so utterly shy like the sixth gen when they were introduced, and I think even if she isn't the best singer she'll have a winning personality that will catch on real fast. Given that Tsunku has picked 'failures' for singers before (i.e.: Konno, as much as I love her, and look she was doing a solo in the Aka-gumi Winter concert!) the fact that Koharu isn't the best singer doesn't bother me much. Plus she's young so she has plenty of time before she's getting photographes with actors ^_^

 

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