Takahashi Juri (Juri) / 12th Generation

A Korean fan commented Woollim had more female trainees and these 6 might not be the definite line-up. That might be true. Nothing is confirmed until Woollim announces these are final line-up of the group.

Sohee had childishly bubbly character. Nothing wrong with a kid looked alike a kid but, her stage charm was lacking because of it. She may have gotten better as she has been older. She reminded me of Jiheon of Fromis9 (Ahn Yujin's classmate). Jiheon has learnt dancing since she was little and has powerful move but cute expression.

Nothing specially stood out for Suyoon. She was not bad yet not that good to leave strong impression/ to be memorable.

Yeonhee sounded flat at some parts and her voice did not sound strong/weak support.

Regarding the concept and the age of members, Itzy is a young group too with no adult member. There have been some girl groups of fierce concepts with some high school member.

Due to her age and her experience in entertainment business, I expect Juri to be the leader regardless of her Korean skill. It will be hard for other girls to order her and not respect her. She also has strong leadership by personality. Leader indeed is a very important position. I don't remember any group with foreigner leader. Is there any?

How is IZ*One without Eunbi and Saku taking lead? Here it is.
https://www.vlive.tv/video/124730?channelCode=C1B7AF
Kkura leader quickly was overtaken by Chaeyeon and Minju.

 

Did you all expect Juri to miss the Kojimako grad stage? I didn't expect that and I thought she'd fly back for it. Very disappointing, but I guess the Woolim debut is closer than we might expect.

 

Yeah


In training gear somewhere is Kankoku?



https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwwr56hhVrL/

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Obviously missing each other. She otherwise would've attended

 

Yeah, kinda expecting her not to be there since she's not on the line up. Although it would have been nice if she was there for Mako. Can't help it though, Woolim probably wants to debut their kpop group ASAP.

 

f(x) - Victoria

 

I'm thinking when these girls promote (the 6 of them), I'm pretty sure Juri will be all over Jeon Dahyun(the youngest), Dahyun will be the Korean Moeka


we are days away until the final day of Juri as an AKB,
and were (unknown)days to go to see the new Juri

 

The vocals aren't theirs, they're just doing the dance cover to this song. The original singer of the parts she did is Jung Eunji from Apink

If Eunbi joins the new group, then she will become the oldest one, although we still don't know when is their debut. There are some groups where the leader isn't the oldest member. The difference in girls' age is quite big, but Woollim doesn't have to debut all of them now. They probably also have more trainees, who weren't revealed yet. Everything probably depends on how the girls will do during the company evaluations.
If by any chance Woollim girls from IZ*ONE join the new group, I'm looking forward to Juri x Chaewon interactions~

 

Ah. She too was much elder than other members and her Korean was not fluent when the group debuted. If Vic could, Juri too can function as the leader.

Anyway, seemingly, it's S.M.'s tradition to appoint the eldest member the leader.

At first I thought it was dance cover video too but, seeing the name of music academy in the video title made me curious thus, I played A Pink's MV next to it and they sounded slightly different. Line distribution also was different. Yunkyung covered Eunji's parts but high note ones.

Eldest member as the leader is default setting. Unless the eldest member lacks the leader quality or not willing to be one, she will be the leader. If Eunbi later joins the group, I believe the leader position will be transferred to her. She joined Woollim earliest, is the eldest and has K-pop leader experience.

Woollim does have some hidden female trainees but, it's said all of them were young, born in 2000 or later and joined Woollim around 2017 or later.

 

It must be a remix then. I agree the track sounds a little bit different, it's because I think they shortened it and in the post-production it came out sounding a little bit more rich? But anyways, Eunji and Chorong from Apink have very distinct vocals and it is just impossible to sound 99% like them. I think maybe they mixed in like 10% (if anything) of the Woollim girl vocals in here, but nevertheless it is still mostly only a dance cover.
But I'm still glad they chose Apink song to dance to, it's a very good track Looking forward to see Juri and Yunkyung together~

 

I declare day of mourning

 

And the day has come

this will be the worst month of my life

 

Today is the day

And the thing is I'm not into kpop so I wouldn't be able to support and follow her the way I am doing right now.

 

i am so depressed my 2 oshimen will graduate

 

I wish this day had not come. A bright era in my 48G life has come to an end.

Juri, I truly wish you every success in Korea, and when you debut I will continue to follow you. Live your dream and keep shining.

P.S. that grad dress is stunning!

 

if i may ask, graduation dress are customized right? i mean, it was based on their own sizes, not those hand-me-downs / for-sharing dresses right? cause, this is the 1st time for me to see that kind of dress in a graduation stages. i'm use to those white, wedding-like dress, Juri's has a uniform-feel on it, AKBish if I may say, in which Juri really stand out. Now i really wish Juri will be present in Mako's graduation stage, hope Woolim will allow her, it's just a day or 3 though.

 

Congratulations on your graduation,Juri!!!!!!. We will miss you in AKB!!!!!!.

@sscrla Did the article write Okada Nana instead of Owada Nana?

 

I've seen that dress somewhere, some stage...but my memory is failing me

 

I think it's based on the outfit worn by AKB members during Kouhaku last December?