Hello! Project/Characters

This is the character sheet for Hello! Project. Please also list concepts that were significant to a group under it's name such as Mini Moni's member's all being short or GAM being the embodiment of She's Got Legs.

The current lineup (as of May 23, 2012) is

• Tsunku is the man who produces the vast majority of Hello! Project's music and personally oversees the auditions process.

• Morning Musume
  • 6th Generation (2002)
  • Michishige Sayumi, the leader
    • Ms. Fanservice: though she's like us to believe she's an Innocent Fanservice Girl.
    • Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful
    • The Scrappy
    • Rescued from the Scrappy Heap
  • Tanaka Reina
    • Third Person Person
  • 9th Generation (2011)
  • Sayashi Riho
    • Trademark Favorite Food: Cider
  • Suzuki Kanon
    • Perpetual Smiler: Hardly ever seen without a big grin even while singing.
  • Ikuta Erina
  • Former H!P Egg Fukumura Mizuki
  • 10th Generation (2011)
  • Former H!P Egg Kudou Haruka
  • Sato Masaki
  • Ishida Ayumi
  • Iikubo Haruna

• Berryz Koubou
  • Shimizu Saki, the captain.
  • Tsugunaga Momoko
  • Tokunaga Chinami
    • A Day in the Limelight Sung main once and never again... But she often receives minor vocals.
  • Sudou Maasa
  • Natsuyaki Miyabi
  • Kumai Yurina
    • One Head Taller
  • Sugaya Risako
    • Face of the Band

• C-ute
  • Yajima Maimi, the leader.
    • Face of the Band
  • Nakajima Saki
    • The Cutie
    • Genki Girl
  • Suzuki Airi
    • Adorkable
    • Face of the Band
  • Okai Chisato
    • Ensemble Darkhorse
  • Hagiwara Mai

• Buono!
  • Tsugunaga Momoko, the leader.
  • Natsuyaki Miyabi
  • Suzuki Airi

• Hello! Project Eggs
  • Kaneko Rie
  • Takagi Sayuki
  • Arai Manami
  • Miyamoto Karin
  • Tanabe Nanami
  • Nagasawa Wakana
  • Taguchi Natsumi
  • Hamaura Ayano
  • Ogawa Rena
  • Yoshihashi Kurumi
  • Ootsuka Aina
  • Mogi Minami
  • Oda Sakura
  • Yamaga Kanae

• Frances & Aiko (Big Missy)
  • Frances
  • Aiko

• S/mileage
  • Wada Ayaka
  • Fukuda Kanon
    • Spiritual Successor to Kago Ai, for some fans.
  • Nakanishi Kana
  • Former H!P egg Takeuchi Akari
  • Former H!P egg Katsuta Rina
  • Tamura Meimi

• SI☆NA
  • Suma Ai
  • Iwashima Manami
  • Abe Asami

• Soloists
  • Mano Erina
  • Jang Dayun
  • Kikkawa Yuu
  • Sengoku Minami

Subgroups include:

• Shugo Chara Egg!
  • Saho Akari (Amulet Spade)
  • Fukumura Mizuki (Amulet Heart)
  • Maeda Irori (Amulet Clover)
  • Tanabe Nanami (Amulet Diamond)

• Guardians 4
  • Mitsui Aika
  • Nakajima Saki
  • Kumai Yurina
  • Sugaya Risako

• Shin Minimoni.
  • Fukuda Kanon
  • Miyamoto Karin
  • Takeuchi Akari

• Aa!
  • Suzuki Airi
  • Natsuyaki Miyabi
  • Saho Akari

• ZYX-a
  • Niigaki Risa
  • Tsugunaga Momoko
  • Tokunaga Chinami
  • Sudou Maasa
  • Ogawa Saki
  • Wada Ayaka

• Pucchimoni V
  • Nakajima Saki
  • Hagiwara Mai
  • Mano Erina

• Zoku Viyuden
  • Michishige Sayumi
  • Sugaya Risako

• High-King
  • Takahashi Ai
  • Tanaka Reina
  • Shimizu Saki
  • Yajima Maimi
  • Maeda Yuuka

• Tanpopo#
  • Mitsui Aika
  • Kumai Yurina
  • Okai Chisato

• Lilpri (anime only)
  • Wada Ayaka (Yukimori Ringo/Shirayuki-hime)
  • Maeda Yuuka (Takashiro Leila/Cinderella-hime)
  • Fukuda Kanon (Sasahara Natsuki/Kaguya-hime)

Former Morning Musume members:

• First Generation
  • Nakazawa Yuko
    • Kansai Regional Accent
    • She was a Sexy Secretary before joining Morning Musume.
    • Deadpan Snarker
    • No Sense of Personal Space, Though it's really her being a bit of a Jerkass mixed with Comedic Sociopathy.
  • Iida Kaori
    • Can't Hold Her Liquor: According to a parody version of "Love Machine" she did alongside Yasuda Kei.
    • Deadpan Snarker
    • Pungeon Master
    • Tall, Dark and Snarky
  • Ishiguro Aya
  • Fukuda Asuka
    • Break the Cutie: Asuka claims to have left Morning Musume because the other members bullied her due to her young age. She is the shortest lived member and the only one to completely go back to civilian life.
      • No longer the case as she has resurfaced as part of a group called PEACE$TONE.
  • Abe Natsumi
• Second Generation
  • Yaguchi Mari
    • Cute but Cacophonic
    • Fun Size: She's only 4ft 8!
    • Hot-Blooded
  • Yasuda Kei
  • Ichii Sayaka
• Third Generation
  • Goto Maki
    • Hotter and Sexier: Some of her solo songs such as "Some Boys! Touch.
• Fourth Generation
  • Kago Ai
    • Identical Stranger with T&C Bomber's RuRu
    • Bratty Half-Pint
    • Take That: Her first solo song after being fired "No Hesitation" has a few veiled references to her time as an idol.
    • Rule of Symbolism: In the video for "No Hesitation" she starts off trying to pack a large suit case and is wearing a dress but at the lyrics "Dangling my halfhearted feelings/with big baggage over my back/I don't need things like that any more" she stops, changes her clothes for a practical t-shirt, shorts and walking boots and opts to carry a backpack.
    • Self-Harm: After being fired from Hello! Project by Up-Front Agency for being photographed smoking having already being suspended for it a year earlier, suffered from severe depression and started cutting herself. She has even admitted to having suicidal thoughts. She has since recovered, in addition to making a comeback as a musician and actress. Unfortunately as of September 2011, Kago Ai has once again attempted to slit her wrists and has been put on suicide watch.
  • Tsuji Nozomi
    • Bratty Half-Pint
  • Yoshizawa Hitomi
    • Bifauxnen
    • Darker and Edgier: Hangry & Angry, a punk duo formed with Ishikawa Rika to sell lolita fashion by h.Naoto.
    • Intergenerational Friendship: With Ogawa.
    • Meaningful Name: She got her name due to her beautiful eyes, which is hitomi is Japanese.
    • Naughty Nurse Outfit: Invoked, but only for cuteness, here
    • Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy with Ishikawa Rika
    • Vitriolic Best Buds: Her friendships with both both Ogawa and Ishikawa she tended to tease them both and would pointedly knock Rika down a peg if she started sounding arrogant, the latter seeming to be her actual best friend in the group.
  • Ishikawa Rika
    • Darker and Edgier: Hangry & Angry, a punk duo formed with Yoshizawa Hitomi to sell lolita fashion by h.Naoto.
    • Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Girly Girl with Yoshizawa Hitomi.
    • Vitriolic Best Buds: Got a lot of teasing from her friend Yossey, some of it was deserved though.
• Fifth Generation
  • Konno Asami
  • Ogawa Makoto
    • Intergenerational Friendship: With Yossey.
    • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Yossey
  • Takahashi Ai, the leader. (Will graduate after the autumn 2011 tour)
    • Cute but Cacophonic: Her screams fit the dissonant sound side of the trope rather than outright volume.
  • Niigaki Risa
• Sixth Generation
  • Fujimoto Miki
    • Jerkass
  • Kamei Eri
    • Ill Girl, which lead to her deciding to graduate from Morning Musume
    • Running Gag, Kame (no i) is Japanese for turtle so whenever one of the other members sees a turtle they'll often exclaim "There's Eri chan!"
• 7th Generation
  • Kusumi Koharu
    • The Scrappy
    • Rescued from the Scrappy Heap
• 8th Generation
  • Junjun
    • Brutal Honesty, especially when you consider how much Japanese etiquette means the Japanese have a hard time telling people things they may not want to hear.
    • Characters As Device
  • Linlin
    • Characters As Device
    • Stock Foreign Name
  • Mitsui Aika
    • Kansai Regional Accent

Graduated Soloists

• Matsuura Aya
  • Jiggle Show: In some concert footage and PV's (such as the "Wild Ayaya" version of Goodbye Natsuo) it is very obvious she's not wearing a bra.
• Maeda Yuki
• Miyoshi Chinatsu
• Ishii Rika
• Heike Michiyo
• Shimmin

Disbanded Groups:

• GAM
  • • She's Got Legs
    • Vitriolic Best Buds
  • Matsuura Aya
  • Fujimoto Miki
• Mini Moni
  • • Chibi: Many of their Music videos
  • Yaguchi Mari (First Leader)
    • Does not like milk
    • Odango Hair
  • Mika Todd (Second leader)
  • Kago Ai
    • Odango Hair
  • Tsuji Nozomi
    • Odango Hair
  • Takahashi Ai (second Generation, joined upon Yaguchi's departure.)
• Pucchi Moni
  • Yoshizawa Hitomi
  • Ichii Sayaka
  • Gotou Maki
  • Kimura Ayaka
  • Ogawa Makoto
• Tanpopo
• T&C Bomber
  • Inaba Atsuko
  • Shinoda Miho
  • RuRu
    • Identical Stranger with Morning Musume member Kago Ai
  • Kominato Miwa
• Viyuden
  • Ishikawa Rika
  • Okada Yui
  • Miyoshi Erika
• W
  • Kago Ai
  • Tsuji Nozomi
    • Achievements in Ignorance: In the video for "Aa ii na" they walk off straight of a cliff and it takes them a second to notice as the camera pans back to a wide shot, then it takes a few more second before they actually fall.
    • Catch Phrase: W Desu!
• Ice CreaMusume
  • Shenshen, the leader
  • Anchii
  • Peipei
  • Youko
  • Reirei
  • Guu-chan

• Coconuts Musume
  • Mika Todd
  • Kimura Ayaka
  • Danielle Delunay
  • Chelsea Ching
  • Lehua Sandbo
  • April Barbaran

• Country Musume
  • Yanagihara Hiromi (deceased)
    • Never Got to Say Goodbye: she died in a car crash.
  • Kobayashi Azusa
  • Rinne
  • Asami
  • Miuna
  • Satoda Mai
  • Ishikawa Rika
  • Fujimoto Miki
  • Konno Asami
• Melon Kinenbi
  • Saitou Hitomi
  • Murata Megumi
  • Ootani Masae
  • Shibata Ayumi
• Shekidol
  • Kitagami Ami
  • Ooki Ibuki
  • Suenaga Mami
  • Arai Saki

Special Units:

• Gomattou
  • Gotou Maki
  • Matsuura Aya
  • Fujimoto Miki
• ROMANS
  • Yaguchi Mari
  • Saitou Hitomi
  • Ishikawa Rika
  • Kimura Ayaka
  • Satoda Mai
• Nochura Natsumi
  • Goto Maki
  • Matsuura Aya
  • Abe Natsumi
• Ecomoni
  • Ishikawa Rika
  • Michishige Sayumi
• DEF.DIVA
  • Abe Natsumi
  • Gotou Maki
  • Ishikawa Rika
  • Matsuura Aya
• Kira☆Pika
  • Kusumi Koharu
  • Hagiwara Mai
• Athena & Robikerots
  • Niigaki Risa
  • Mitsui Aika
  • Nakajima Saki
  • Okai Chisato
• Milky Way
  • Kusumi Koharu
  • Kikkawa Yuu
  • Kitahara Sayaka

Other units:

• Ongaku Gatas
  • Yoshizawa Hitomi
  • Ishikawa Rika
  • Konno Asami
  • Satoda Mai
  • Korenaga Miki
  • Noto Arisa
  • Sengoku Minami
• THE Possible
  • Hashimoto Aina
  • Akiyama Yurika
  • Morozuka Kanami
  • Gotou Yuki
  • Okada Robin Shouko

Former Hello! Project Eggs:

• Ooyanagi Maho
• Kawashima Miyuki
• Hashida Mirei
• Ogura Manami
• Yutoku Ayumi
• Mutou Mika
• Sawada Yuri
• Noto Arisa
• Korenaga Miki
• Oose Kaede
• Hirano Tomomi
• Aoki Erina
• Tanaka Anri
• Sengoku Minami
• Kikkawa Yuu
• Furukawa Konatsu
• Sainen Mia
• Mori Saki
• Kitahara Sayaka
• Sezaki Azusa
• Komine Momoka
• Satou Ayano
• Saho Akari
• Okai Asuna
• Sekine Azusa
• Maeda Irori

Former Berryz Koubou/C-ute members:

• Ishimura Maiha (Berryz Koubou)
• Murakami Megumi (C-ute)
• Arihara Kanna (C-ute)
• Umeda Erika (C-ute)

Former S/mileage members:

• Maeda Yuuka
• Ogawa Saki
• Kosuga Fuyuka (Dropped out while being a sub-member becaue of anemia, and will return as H!P egg when she has recovered).

Former SI☆NA members:

• Nakayama Nana (now a member of NMB 48)

Shuffle Groups:

• Colour Groups (2000)
  • Akagumi 4 (red)
  • Kiiro 5 (Yellow)
  • Aoiro 6 (Blue)

• Festival Groups (2001) (Matsuri is Japanese for festival)
  • 3-nin Matsuri
  • 7-nin Matsuri
  • 10-nin Matsuri

• Happiness Groups (2002)
  • Happy 7
  • Sexy 8
  • Odoru11

• Elemental Groups (2003)
  • Salt 5
  • 7 Air
  • 11 Water

• One School Group (2004)
  • H.P All Stars (all 46 active members in one group)

• Elegence Groups (2005)
  • Elegies
  • Sexy Otonajan
  • Puripuri Pink