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Morning Musume 1st-generation member Kaori Iida and current 15th-generation member Homare Okamura had lunch together, with Iida reporting on her own Instagram that she’d ‘had my first lunch with Homa-chan, aka Homare Okamura.’ On a thread in 5ch’s Hello! Project subforum, the post sparked discussion that Okamura has been meeting one-on-one with roughly 20 OGs (graduated members) over the past year or so, and that Iida has kept up ongoing relationships with several juniors, including Maria and Aoi — making the sheer breadth of both women’s social circles the thread’s main talking point. The thread also ran long on side chatter about changes in their looks with age, height comparisons, and who might make a good future leader.
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and Homare's had meals with almost every OG —
they're both amazing.
Wasn't Homare's 'mom-and-dad age' pegged at 49?
Mei's was more like 46-47, if I remember right. (fan slang for guessing which member 'reads' as how old)
guess Panda-san's finally done for. (a running in-joke nickname)
20 Morning Musume OGs between last year and this year?
Twenty people is basically half of all Morning Musume OGs
when there's only around 30 OGs who haven't fully retired from the scene.
Mei's mom was said to be the same age as Iida, so that'd make her 45.
standing next to Homare, Iida looks shockingly tiny.
The maze and the BBQ venue are both gone now, though.
It's not 'Nth-gen member' (期生) for Morning Musume — it's 'Nth gen' (期) or '(Nth gen) member.'
I feel that so hard.
The Iikubo I see now looks cuter than the Iikubo I watched on TV as a kid —
back then she kind of looked scary.
Is that a genuine typo, or are you doing it on purpose?
over the past year or two hasn't Homare
had one-on-one meals or drinks with people like
Nakazawa
Iida
Yaguchi
Ichii
Ishikawa
Tsuji
Ai-chan
Reina Tanaka
Fuku-chan
Ikuta
Sayashi
Ayumi
Ma-chan
Kudo
Chin
Yoko
Chii
…around there?
My memory's too fuzzy to be sure…
Wish some hardcore Homare stan would put together a proper list.
I'm pretty sure some of this showed up briefly in her Stories too.
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Had my first lunch with Homa-chan, aka Homare Okamura ✨
Homa-chan is so straightforward, honest, and a ton of fun 😆
Forgot to take photos, so we did the SEXY BOY dance instead ✨
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Thank you so much, Iida-san!! 🫶🏻
Honestly, you'd have to be a lunatic to survive that era's murderous schedule.
they've gone out tons of times.
I'd love to watch her lead for another 5-10 years,
but I'm also curious to see how a Homare leadership would play out.
Homare and Mei are as close as ever,
and Re: #53 nailed it —
the two of them have just the right distance between them.
Not a Sayu-Eri type pairing —
more like the perfect Sayu-Reina-style partnership. (fan nicknames for famous Morning Musume best-friend duos)
she hangs out with senior OGs way more than with her juniors.
Ah, true —
they're alike in that respect.
Background and Key Points of This Topic
At one point in the thread, a poster claimed Kaori Iida’s age was “45,” but as corrected in >>9 and >>11, that’s just posters’ guesswork based on memory, not a number she’s ever publicly confirmed — readers shouldn’t take it as settled fact. Separately, as pointed out in >>24, Morning Musume convention is to say “Nth gen” (期), not “Nth-gen member” (期生), so the “-sei” phrasing used in the thread title is the kind of thing fans would typically flag for correction. For context, Morning Musume is known as a group where alumnae (OB/OG) and current members stay closely in touch, and Iida, even among 1st-generation members, is known for frequently treating and cheering on her juniors. Multiple posters also testified that Homare Okamura, as a 15th-generation member, has had an unusually large number of one-on-one meetups with OGs over roughly the past year, and the sheer breadth of that social circle became the thread’s central topic. That said, it’s worth noting that the specific list of which OGs she’s met is based on posters’ hazy recollections, not confirmed official information.
※This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “Morning Musume.’s 1st-gen member Kaori Iida and 15th-gen member Homare Okamura went on a lunch date 🤍💛.”
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