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A handful of things to note now that we know how leadership will change with Fuku-hime's graduation:

 

Fukumura is the longest tenured H!P member ever at 15 years 5 months 7 days, beating Tsugunaga Momoko's 15 years.

Ikuta will become the oldest assigned leader at 26 years 4 months 23 days, overthrowing Nakazawa's 26-year-long record by 2 years! Nakazawa will remain the oldest serving leader (for now).

Ikuta will set her record of longest tenured sub-leader at 9 years 2 days, beating out #2's Iikubo by 3.5 years

Ikuta will become the sole longest tenured member of Morning Musume, and the first to break 13 years in the group with Ishida only 9 months behind.

Oda will become the oldest assigned sub-leader (24 years 8 months 18 days), overthrowing Ishida's record of 21 years 11 months 24 days.

Ishida will become the 2nd sub-leader to serve under two leaderships (Fukumura / Ikuta), alongside gen-mate Iikubo (Michishige / Fukumura).

 

Another thing I noticed is that this last lineup and Ikuta's new one will have the most generations comprising the group (9ki Ikuta, 10ki Ishida, 11ki Oda, 12ki Nonaka/Makino/Haga, 13ki Yokoyama, 15ki Kitagawa/Okamura/Yamazaki, 16ki Sakurai, 17ki Inoue/Yumigeta). Most of MM history has members from 5 gens or less, with lineups since 2017 constantly breaking this statistic. 

 

ALL of these are a slay! I'm so proud of them for breaking these records!! For all the nay-sayers back in the early Colorful days!!
 

On another note, it seems Mizuki has named two eras during her leadership during her 11/24/23 graduation special :

Morning Musume. '23 Fukumura Mizuki Sotsugyou Tokuban 'I WISH Morning Musume. tte Subarashii'

https://www.bilibili...o/BV1Xc411B7t8/

 

2011 - Michishige's Graduation is officially "Colorful-ki" and is landmarked by "9ki/10ki/Oda" (I love how Yokoyan and Oda tried to correct it as 9ki/10ki/11ki and Fuku turned to Ikuta and was like "yeah, as I said, 9ki/10ki/Oda" LOLOL)

2014 - 2018 as "Mebuki-ki" (Bud Era).
2019 - Present as "Kagaya-ki" (Radiant Era).

Wait, so can people finally stop debating on the Era names now?  

Funny thing is I was most active on this site from around the time this thread was started (March 2015) and I think I slowed down around 2019. I've made my cute little posts here and there since then tho! It'll always be my cozy little comfort corner of the internet until the opinions I see make me angry and I close the tab.  

Slay!!! I'm so excited. If it's anything like their latest few singles, it'll be great!

^ I always think about how short some of the 1st-8th gen tenures were. It's definitely a standard in MM now to stay for like 5 years MINIMUM. I think Haachin was basically the only member in the last 8 Gens to stay less than 4.