Hello! Kago Ai

Okay, so I was going to write this, like, totally cool post about how I got to see the opening of the new opera house yesterday. I was going to tell you all how I got to see the opening ceremony before even the king did, because my dad's made of awesome. But I, like, failed.
/Ini Miney

Soo... I thought I'd share with you all the news I found on the internet that made me so fangirlishly happy! Kago Ai is planning a comeback! You hear me!? Aibon is back! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! ><

Kago Ai (加護 亜依),

Profile:
Name: Kago Ai (Kago being her family name)
Nickname: Aibon
Age: 20 (1988-02-07)
Birth place: Nara-ken, Japan
Blood type: AB
Height: 155 cm
Hello! Project groups:
Morning Musume (2000 - 2004)
W (2004 - 2006)
Subgroups:
Tanpopo (2000 - 2002)
MiniMoni (2000 - 2004)
Morning Musume Sakura Gumi (2003 - 2004)
Shuffle Units:
2000: Kiiro 5 (Second Generation)
2001: 3nin Matsuri
2002: Happy 7
2003: SLAT5
2004: H.P. All Stars


Ai Kago is a former member of the Japanese all-girl pop group Morning Musume, part of the Hello! Project. She auditioned for Morning Musume at the age of twelve, and was accepted along with Tsuji Nozomi as 4th generation members in 2000. After graduating from Morning Musume in 2004, Kago and Tsuji went on to form a group of their own, called W.

After the gossip magazine Friday published pictures of Kago smoking while underage, she was suspended from Hello! Project for a year, and went back to her hometown of Nara to live with her family. In January 2007 she returned to Tokyo and began working as a receptionist in the Up-Front Agency's office while the details of her comeback were decided.

24 March 2007, Weekly Gandai (also a gossip magazine) published photos showing Kago holding hands and visiting a hot springs resort with Ishimoto Yasuyuki, a man many years her senior and the owner of the popular SOMA café. There were also pictures showing her smoking in his car. Two days later Up-Front Agency confirmed the story and terminated Kago's contract, thus disbanding W. (Nozomi Tsuji became a member of a new group called Gyaruru, but 2 weeks after she joined it announced that she was pregnant and engaged. She's now on maternal leave.)

But Aibon is back, and it's all sunshine, roses and fluffy pink clouds! Although she's not coming back to Hello! Project, I'm glad to hear from her again. Hisashiburi, Aibon!


It's time for me to stop fangirling now. I need to work on my history assignment. ><

PS: If you want more information about Aibon, go here. It's my source for most things J-pop/J-rock. =P