ZOMG SHUFFLES YAA~Y!!1!

Taken from Hello Non-Pro Hour, read here. Well, there's nothing to say these are really shuffle units, but let's dream.  They're groups who will be doing something, whatever that might be. Some comments on each of them::

2/11/08 Sapporo
Nakazawa Yuko, Abe Natsumi, Aya Matsuura, and Melon Kinenbi

I'm sure this one will be my favorite right away. Yasuda should be here though. I don't care for Melon Kinenbi, but they will fit well in this group. As I'm looking through all the names, this looks like it'll be the adult group... I think they should do a ballad with 80% vocals from Yuko/Nacchi/Ayaya.

2/17/08 Osaka
Nigakii Risa, Kusumi Koharu, Mitsui Aika, Jun Jun, and Lin Lin

I have hope Gaki and Jun Jun will save this one for me. I'm afraid this might have a childish song with mainly Koha/Mitsui vocals, little chance I'd like that. History says you can't expect Gaki to have much of the spotlight in anything -_- This is the group I'm not sure if I'll like.

2/23/08 Fukuoka
Yoshizawa Hitomi, Konno Asami, Shimizu Saki, Tokunaga Chinami, Sudou Maasa, Kumai Yurina, and Sugaya Risako

Yossie and KonKon. That alone does it for me. Also some Berryz girls I can recognize, but no Momoko, so nothing to say on that. I'll like this one no matter what, but I'm waiting for the Berryz ones to surprise me and maybe make this a perfect shuffle.

3/1/08 Tokyo
v-u-den, Ayaka Kimura, Mai Satoda, and Maeda Yuki

I don't know about this one. Well, it has Ayaka. But Rika will be in the spotlight anyway, so that will not save this for me. I don't know most of them, so I'll just have to wait and see what happens...

3/2/08 Tokyo
Inaba Atsuko and Berryz Koubou

Inaba and Kids? Who was the idiot who made this up? Put poor Inaba in the Elders unit, for God's sake! What's the deal with mixing Elders and Kids? It's obvious they should be doing completely different kinds of music... Or is that just me? Anyway, I have nothing against both of them, and it looks like this is the one Momoko is in, so I'm looking forward to it. But Inaba is wasted here.

3/8/08 Nagoya
Yasuda Kei, Yaguchi Mari, and °C-ute

Another "God knows what they're smoking" unit... Yaguchi and Kids, nothing new about that, but why Yasuda? Send her to that first group, come on -_-

3/9/08 Nagoya
Yasuda Kei, Yaguchi Mari, Takahashi Ai, Kamei Eri, Michishige Sayumi, and Tanaka Reina

Ohhh, I love this <3 Many of my favorite members together, this can probably work perfectly <3 I only think someone should remember whoever will be organizing this groups that Yasuda isn't doing much lately and Kamei can sing, so Aichan should have, at most, 50% of the lines. Or some fans could get angry.

Comments

[投稿情報: laura]

Im excited about these groups!! Im especially looking forward to Osaka, Fukuoka, Tokyo and Nagaoya. Although Im a bit confused about why there are two Tokyos listed aswell as two Nagoya. Is it because the first line up that was reported was found to be wrong? I've just realised that I've named everyne one of the groups except Sapporo. I actually am excited for this group but as I tend to prefer upbeat songs to ballads and the likely hood is that this group is sinigng a ballad is well, high then Im looking forward to the others more. However Im looking foward to hearing a lot more Yuko and Nacchi ♥

[投稿情報: Rad♂]

Isn't some "shuffling" done all the time? Recall the mix of groups that did all the old songs during the July 29 H!P concert; that was cool! Is that shuffling, or what is it???

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[投稿情報: HarimaKenji]

The traditional "shuffle" units are temporary units created every year that had one single and PV released. If you consider this definition, it's definitely a step over what happens just during H!P concerts. Sure, what they did was a "shuffling" of the members, but not shuffle units.
It's also impossible to say any of these arrangements are for shuffle units. I believe it's more probable that they aren't, because we wouldn't have a date with a location but a date for release of a single if they were. That said, it's still a step over the shuffling of H!P concerts - these members are doing, maybe a concert, by themselves. That is something I haven't seen done up until now. And since some members are seriously lacking some spotlight, I look forward to this even more than the old shuffles. This can be great.

[投稿情報: HarimaKenji]

As I said in the post and is written on the original news in Hello Non-Pro Hour, there aren't any indications that these are shuffles. These are groups that were announced and will be doing something in the mentioned dates and locations. I think it's most likely going to be mini-H!P concerts. Maybe they thought it's a good idea to do concerts with few, selected members, after they did the Morning Musume Tanjou Kinentai tour. Because that and the Otome Gumi/Sakura Gumi era are the closest they've come to this, if these are really concerts. Well, that explains why there are 2 Tokyo - "Tokyo" isn't the name of the group, it actually means they'll be in Tokyo in those dates.

[投稿情報: momo]

I think all these shuffle groups are well thought out.  although I would be happy to see sayu and koharu together in one, although I would like to know the names of these shuffle groups.  I'm sure we'll know soon

[投稿情報: laura]

Heh im quite stupid not realising that they were places names and not the group names.. I thought they might just be named after the places :P I hope they are shuffle groups as they sound good and I cant wait to hear them singing a single together

[投稿情報: royalpalmtree]

I just can't seem to get excited about this news, since we don't actually know what it means. "Something" could be a handshake event for all we know, or just a mini-concert (which, while neat, wouldn't really be that big of a deal). I miss the shuffle units so much though...low sales or not, I wish they would have kept up such an important and fun tradition! But I guess they have to think about profit, and you can't blame anyone for that. Still...

[投稿情報: HarimaKenji]

Oh, I think a mini-concert would be a big of a deal. If you analyze the line-ups, some whole groups are included in some of them, like Berryz and C-ute... Those don't look so great, because how would that be any different from a normal concert from these groups? Also, these groups are paired with traditional MCs in H!P concerts (Inaba, Yaguchi) which just boosts the possibility that these are mini-concerts. But then, when you look at groups like the last Nagoya one, Momusu is broken in half. It would be strange for them to perform Momusu songs like that, I mean, what would be the use of that? They could keep the whole Momusu together. If this is anything like the Tanjou Kinentai concert, with them doing older songs and all that, I'm really excited about it.

Also, I don't think some of them, like Ayaka and Maeda Yuki, have a fanbase that explains organizing a handshake event. Yasuda probably doesn't have one too, and she's in the list twice.