HELLO! PROJECT AND CRUNCHYROLL TEAM UP TO BRING A SPECIAL WORLD EXCLUSIVE ONLINE VIDEO ANNOUNCEMENT FROM MORNING MUSUME
August 19, 2009 by Dennis Amith
San Francisco, CA (August 19, 2009) — Within the last days of their live
concert shows at the Nakano Sun Plaza, celebrated lead group of Hello!
Project, MORNING MUSUME, will be sending out a special message to all their
fans via the number one online destination for Anime and Asian Entertainment
… Crunchyroll. More information can be found at
http://www.crunchyroll.com.
Crunchyroll Kabushiki Kaisha president Mr. Vince Shortino states, “I am
extremely pleased and honored to be working with Hello! Project. Morning
Musume is an amazing band with a worldwide following. By utilizing
Crunchyroll to communicate with fans, I truly feel that Crunchyroll can help
bring the global fans of Morning Musume closer.”
About MORNING MUSUME
The MORNING MUSUME (Morning Daughter) is a one of a kind
all-girl group whose story began in 1997 when Japanese producer TSUNKU held
auditions for a female rock vocalist for his band SHARAN Q held on the
Japanese TV show ASAYAN. With the five runner-ups from the contest, Tsunku
decided to create an all-girl group that sold 50,000 copies of their indies
CD single “Ai no Tane” and debuted as MORNING MUSUME. They are the lead
group of Hello! Project <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello!_Project> .
MORNING MUSUME consists of band members Ai Takahashi, Risa Niigaki, Eri
Kamei, Sayumi Michishige, Reina Tanaka, Koharu Kusumi, Aika Mitsui, JunJun,
and LinLin.
On October 7, pop group Morning Musume will release an album called "Morning Musume Zen Single Coupling Collection." The album will include all of the B-sides from their 40 singles released so far, from their debut single "Morning Coffee" in 1998 up to "Nanchatte Renai," which came out last week.
The collection consists of three CDs. The limited edition will also come in a special package and include a photobook.