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[Fall]

Honoka's dance covers are painfully adorable

[Fall]

The RakuHo combination is strong:

[Blackmallow]

Could Honoka have participated in the latest MM audition?

[Fall]

If I recall correctly, there's a line in the audition prerequisites about not being signed to an agency.  That line may be there as a way to prevent potential contract tampering charges by disallowing auditionees from other agencies, but I suppose it could also ambiguously be applied to current UF talent since they usually have specific exceptions for KSS. Depending on internal enforcement or whether or not outstanding contracts are group-specific, it may be possible for her to audition for MM. I just imagine that the perceived lack of loyalty to her current group would be severely looked down on if she did try to get a "promotion" to a more well-known and prestigious group, even if both are sui juris Up Front groups.

[Blackmallow]

Lack of loyalty is a really good point I didn't think of. UUG2 seems like a progressing idol group so it's not like she would be changing groups to stay relevant.

[Fall]

Bringing it back to (2), dancing to "-tte Iu Hatsukoi no Oyakusoku"

Warnings for those who suffer from Cute Aggression are fully applicable:

 

 

^If that kind of transfer were ever to happen directly from the group, it would be a surprise even to the members. I'd imagine it more likely for that kind of move to happen after a member has already graduated from (2) or as a surprise after they've already announced their graduation. That said, I think the trajectory for (2) members in general though would be into (仮) in that type of situation rather than into H!P.

[ruel]

kaji & ho-chan 2-day release event in fukuoka

clip1 https://twitter.com/...454816353185793
clip2 https://twitter.com/...499767350849536











rehearsal






returning to tokyo

^ i didn't put spoiler so you won't missed her cuteness

[ruel]

ho-chan camera

8 minutes of ho-chan & shima-chan cuteness with a bit of kaji

[Blackmallow]

Hmm, we missed this one back in December. Enjoy!
 
https://www.youtube....h?v=U-n78aQjZ1o

[ruel]

one two three dance cover

[Fall]

Super sharp, she put a lot of practice into that

[ruel]

'itooshikutte gomen ne' dc with raku

[Fall]

Her expressions are so animated in every single frame of that video. Her dance covers leave me exhausted from cuteness overload and I swear one of these days I'm just going to keel over. She's so cute, I could literally die.

[Blackmallow]

Her expressions are outstanding. While the other dancer is deadly focused on her dancing, Ho-Chan has the choreography down pat and is unapologetically communicating her joy of performing. She looks like she is having a ball just being Sasaki Honoka, member of Up Up Girls Kakko Niki. Up-Front is wise in marketing her as the new face of the group.

 

Thought snippets:

I wonder if the Japanese see her the same way as we do in the west? How is her popularity?

Do you think it could happen that an outstanding prospect like her could generate an audition? Producer sees outstanding prospect. Producer approaches her and nudges her to apply to their unannounced audition coming up. When she says yes, open auditions... It has worked 3 times now: Mayu is the ace, Honoka is the face of the group going forward and Yuria looks like the real deal already.

[ruel]

she did some photoshoots for vv magazine as price for placing second on a recent cheerz event

Spoiler

https://cheerz.cz/ar...252#item-706392

https://cheerz.cz/ar...252#item-706560

and monthly entame (5/30) july issue

Spoiler

https://cheerz.cz/ar...252#item-707411

[Blackmallow]

New dance video with Raku:

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=RcepRnzRuJQ

[ruel]

New dance video with Raku:

^embedding that

i found a younger ho-chan, introducing..honotan






she was a former member of SeiSHUN Gakuen with a duo called 'aihono'. she graduated on 2016.9.22


早希ほのか 'saki honoka'
no make profile http://nomake.jp/talent_kids.html
aihono blog https://ameblo.jp/aihono-seishun/
2012-13 blog https://ameblo.jp/shihohime05/
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[ruel]

'triangle dream' by niji no conquistador


Dempagumi.inc - Chururi Chururira

 
babymetal's gimme chocolate dance cover by ma-chan, chi-ko and ho-chan

 
maji de suka ska! with raku

 
juice=juice's watashi ga iu mae ni dakishimenakya ne

 
shugo chara egg - minna no tamago

Edited by ruel, 18 June 2019 - 11:23 AM.

[ruel]

i'll post it here too

 

paprika - foorin dance/mv cover, sung by mayu

dance shot

 

 

@helloshop

 

and another babymetal dance cover

 

honoka&chinatsu @idol mou iccho plus

Edited by ruel, 07 July 2019 - 01:30 PM.

[ruel]

konatsu will team up with honoka for their upcoming up up girls (fest) 2019, they consulted the fans via showroom on what their team will be called, what songs to perform and what costume to wear.
they have decided to use team momotaro, formed using their chinese zodiacs: monkey and dog, which are characters from the famous folklore "momotaro"

they haven't decided for their songs yet, they prefer the cute ones

they might exchange costume, they said "koukan"(交換) but not sure if it was settled