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H!P Unpopular Opinion:

Being in Angerme warps the natural innocent charm of the girls and makes them wannabe-edgy Alt models. IE: Funaki Musubu, she was very pure and commercial in Country Girls. I blame Rinapu's 'fashionista' phase when she was in the group.

When Goto Hana joined KSS, she had an unshakable smile (similar to Kananan) but since her time as a Oha Girl you can tell that she puts a lot of pressure and expectation on herself and overthinks now, gone is the smiley girl who can't read the room... Idk if I wanna see how Angerme will change her. Wakana seems to be the only one Angerme hasn't over-influenced.

The new members have been chosen.
Morning Musume '23: INOUE Haruka (17) & YUMIGETA Ako (14)
Angerme: GOTO Hana (14) & SHIMOITANI Yukiho (16)
Juice=Juice: KAWASHIMA Mifu (15)
Hello Project Trainee Unit '23: YOSHIDA Hinoha (15) & KAMIMURA Rena (13)

I tried signing up since I got hooked on the article.  Unfortunately I didn't go far since the second page couldn't get translated by google translator.

If you screenshot it maybe someone can translate it.

^

To read past the first question you have to sign up for the newspaper (site)

 

But in the first question she basically says, it was work, she had to do what they were told.  She didn't really think of it as sexual (or sexualizing) but rather looked forward to the cute costumes.

 

However, the teaser for the rest of the interview heavily implies that she had a change of perspective on it later in her career.

 Google translate already got me that far.

https://www.asahi.co...Q2HPTFC00B.html

I hope this gets translated, Ayaka talks about how she really felt about the short skirt era of S/mileage.