56th Kouhaku & H!P Sports Festival 2006

Could this be true?

According to Idolizing St. Anna, some sources state that Morning Musume will appear with a dream line-up at this year's Kouhaku.

Dream as in almost all original 'Love Machine' member (except for Asuka, Aya and Sayaka) plus the fourth generation.

That would give us following line-up ...

Abe Natsumi
Iida Kaori
Nakazawa Yuko
Yasuda Kei
Yaguchi Mari
Goto Maki
Yoshizawa Hitomi
Ishikawa Rika
Tsuji Nozomi
Kago Ai

The biggest surprise for me would be to see Mari back in action, but a pleasant surprise, of course ^_^ It's been too long since she's been on stage.

If these news prove to be true, this year's Kouhaku could well be the best since 2000, when Morning Musume did a great medley of Happy Summer Wedding, Love Machine & Renai Revolution 21 with the same line-up that seems to be appearing again this year!

In addition, it's seems we'll finally be getting a new Hello!Project Sports Festival.

According to http://www.e-kei.net it will be held on March 19th 2006 in Saitama Super Arena.

God knows I'm excited because they've become better and better over the last few years.
2001 was funny, I haven't watched 2002 yet, 2003 was great, 2004 was amazing, what will 2006 bring for us?

Let's just hope Yuko and Kei will be team leaders again ^_^