A Post About Some Chicks Nobody Cares About

There was some news recently that I think went basically unnoticed or uncared for by the Hello! Project fan community (I’m speaking for those who have a grasp on English, but including the Japanese fanbase probably isn’t too much of a stretch). It was news about a new unit called HAPPY! STYLE that includes Ongaku Gatas’s Noto Arisa, two strange trainee additions named Aoi and Yui, and the girls of Hello! Pro Kansai: Iwashima Manami, Abe Asami (not Abe Natsumi’s sister…), Nakayama Nana, and Suma Ai.

L to R: Suma, Nakayama, Iwashima, Abe

Now, I’m not too “happy” with the concept of HAPPY! STYLE. They sound like the unit answer to the end of Uta Doki!, with a couple differences but that’s it. It’s a shitty way to debut the Kansai girls, and as a different place to put Arisa, since I’d really like for that fabled Airi-Arisa duo to happen. But regardless, I’m sure the Kansai girls are going to develop some sort of fanbase (especially since they’re not just doing that radio show [which you can easily find on YouTube, I'm pretty sure] anymore), so I want to give some general information and my opinions on them. Trying to suade everyone to like my favorite? Fuck yes!