#moeno

So there’s a new... promo unit type thing... in town. Nito Moeno (ex-AKB), Yamauchi Suzuran (SKE), Ishida Anna (ex-SKE), Nagashima Seira (ex-N46), Momose Misaki and Yamane Chika are teaming up to... promote drones?

If this was just a one-time advertisment this wouldn’t cross my mind but it’s kind of being promoted like a shiny new idol unit with a full website, member profiles, etc. I’ll spare you from the full description, but to paraphrase:

‘Drone Venus is a female unit consisting of lovely young girls who promote “dorokatsu” (drone activities), with the motto “Flying, Winning, Drone Promotion, Social Contribution”.

To tell everyone about the appeal of drones through song and dance, as well as improving the possibilities of drones by spreading information on using drones as social contribution.’

And then some nonsense about the activities being ‘participating in drone races -> improving their skills with drones -> using these skills for agriculture projects -> drones contributing to society.’

Today was the wedding of 4th gen KKS Akane Uriya. Fellow 4th gen Shiichan, Moeno, Ucchi and Mikachii were in the wedding party, and Chiichan, Micha, and ex-KKS Kaneko Satomi also attended.

Harukyan is the latest member to play Miyabi in the stage play ‘SAKURA’, joining Moeno and Karen.

I think I posted Moeno/Karen before, but I didn’t realise that this play is actually kind of a big deal??

It’s taking place at Meijiza Theatre, which is the oldest Tokyo theatre, and pretty prestigious and famous in that regard. The play itself is a mix of traditional music and dance; and modern jpop and anime influence. It’s aiming to revitalise interest in theatre and the Nihonbashi district in which Meijiza resides. Given the fairly high quality of the stage settings/costumes/music, and the amount of publicity the stage is getting in JP and international jounalism, I almost feel there’s a certain amount of Cool Japan funding behind it.

Which really begs the question as to how 3 ex-theatre girls have landed as one of the lead roles of the play. (lol) But, I feel Hori Pro (whom Moeno, Karen, and Harukyan are signed to) have over the past year ramped up the promotion of their members and ex-members.

Back in 2009-12 everyone wanted AKB and HoriPro barely had to even try to get their members work, because the work came to them. Then as AKB’s popularity plateued, and the slightly older-gen members stagnated in AKB, it feels like HoriPro stopped caring so much. But now it’s like HP have realised, ‘oh wait, we have a selection of some of the more talented AKB members, who’ve proven themselves to be hardworking, and already have a built in fanbase,’ and have decided tat actually it might be worthwhile giving them work. It would certainly explain Myao’s revival-push, and the fact that Suu & Ranran having started getting outside work for the first time since they transferred to SKE.

2013-07-25 21:44:44

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