The year is almost over and post-13th gen seems like a good time to start this thread again
Hopes:
H!P in general
- They keep up the high quality MVs
- They get better at promoting each girl's strengths in general (or at least the stand outs)
- No new groups next year
- sub H!P Station
- More creative photo-books in general (at least for the more popular members)
-More magazine covers for individual members
-H!P gets a show that doesn't include the non-H!P groups
Morning Musume
- 13th gen prove me wrong and find a way to stand out (kind of got my hopes of Reina)
- Ayumi gets more acting work and step up from specials to full length dramas (or at least a few episodes)
- More modelling work for members, especially W Haruna, but it'd be good to see Maria do more too
- They find the direction they want MM to go music wise
- W Haruna and Haruka gets to do more variety
- We get an album next year
- More overseas concerts
- We get more singles with Maria/Haruka/Ayumi centers
C-ute
- They kill it at SSA
- Get a good bye single to be remembered as the hallmark of grad singles.
- make a 10th studio album
Country Girls
- They bounce back from the drop in sales
- They add people capable of filling the whole that Momoko will leave (it doesn't have to be on person)
- I'm guessing it'll be one of the following: Momohime, Takase Kurumi (unless they miraculously change the age of MM auditions which would be better), Ayano
- They get to do more TV work
Tsubaki Factory
- The debut MVs beat the standard set by Hitorijme
- The last song for their debut is much more memorable than the first 2
- They get promoted properly
- Several members get to go into modelling because this is definitely a visual group
- Their debut sells at least 30k
- They do a musical with all nine of them
- H!P give them better styling (the only one I really don't like is the just try outfits so for now it doesn't seem impossible)
- They adopt C-ute's stylist after they leave
- They figure out what sound they want TF to go for (and fingers crossed its something closer to Nogi46 since that would suit TF well)
I don't really follow the other groups anymore since there are too many so I don't have anything for them
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