Hello! Project 20th Anniversary!! Hello! Project 2018 WINTER

Hello! Project 20th Anniversary!! Hello! Project 2018 WINTER was Hello! Project's annual winter concert tour, which was also held to commemorate the 20th anniversary of their formation. It ran from January 2 to February 24, 2018.
The concert tour was split into two series:
*Hello! Project 20th Anniversary!! Hello! Project 2018 WINTER ~PERFECT SCORE~
*Hello! Project 20th Anniversary!! Hello! Project 2018 WINTER ~FULL SCORE~
The DVD and Blu-ray of the concert tour were released on May 2, 2018.
==Setlist==
==DVD/Blu-ray Tracklist==
==Featured Members==
*MC: 
*Assistant MCs: Yamaki Risa, Ozeki Mai
;Morning Musume '18
*9th Gen: Fukumura Mizuki, Ikuta Erina
*10th Gen: Iikubo Haruna, Ishida Ayumi, Sato Masaki
*11th Gen: Oda Sakura
*12th Gen: Ogata Haruna, Nonaka Miki, Makino Maria, Haga Akane
*13th Gen: Kaga Kaede, Yokoyama Reina
*14th Gen: Morito Chisaki
;ANGERME
*1st Gen: Wada Ayaka
*2nd Gen: Nakanishi Kana, Takeuchi Akari, Katsuta Rina
*3rd Gen: Murota Mizuki, Sasaki Rikako
*4th Gen: Kamikokuryo Moe
*5th Gen: Kasahara Momona
*6th Gen: Funaki Musubu, Kawamura Ayano
;Juice=Juice
*Miyazaki Yuka
*Kanazawa Tomoko
*Takagi Sayuki
*Miyamoto Karin
*Uemura Akari
*Yanagawa Nanami
*Dambara Ruru
;Country Girls
*Yamaki Risa
*Morito Chisaki
*Ozeki Mai
*Yanagawa Nanami
*Funaki Musubu
;Kobushi Factory
*Hirose Ayaka
*Nomura Minami
*Hamaura Ayano
*Wada Sakurako
*Inoue Rei
;Tsubaki Factory
*Yamagishi Riko
*Ogata Risa
*Niinuma Kisora
*Tanimoto Ami
*Kishimoto Yumeno
*Asakura Kiki
*Ono Mizuho
*Onoda Saori
*Akiyama Mao
;Inaba Manaka
;New Group
*Ichioka Reina
;Theater Section
*Takase Kurumi
*Kiyono Momohime
;Hello Pro Kenshuusei
*All Shows:
**19th Gen: Inoue Hikaru
**22nd Gen: Horie Kizuki
**24th Gen: Maeda Kokoro
**25th Gen: Noguchi Kurumi, Yonemura Kirara
**26th Gen: Yamazaki Yuhane, Nishida Shiori
**27th Gen: Shimakura Rika
*Tokyo Only:
**24th Gen: Kanatsu Mizuki
**25th Gen: Ono Kotomi
**27th Gen: Yamada Ichigo, Nakayama Natsume
*Osaka Only:
**27th Gen: Hibi Marina, Eguchi Saya, Doi Rena, Okamura Minami, Matsunaga Riai
*Aichi Only:
**25th Gen: Kodama Sakiko
**26th Gen: Hashisako Rin
;Opening Acts
* (Osaka only)"「Hello! Project 2018 WINTER」大阪公演オープニングアクトのお知らせ" (in Japanese). Hello! Project. 2018-01-16.
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*Hello Pro Kenshuusei Hokkaido (Hokkaido only)"「Hello!Project 2018 WINTER」北海道公演 ハロプロ研修生北海道出演のお知らせ" (in Japanese). Hello! Project. 2018-02-15.
**Oota Haruka
**Sato Hikari
**Ishiguri Kanami
**Kawano Minori
**Kudo Yume
**Yamazaki Mei
;Special Guests
*Morning Musume OG (1/28 only)"モーニング娘。1期がハロプロ名古屋公演に全員集結。安倍なつみ「本当に奇跡だなって」" (in Japanese). BARKS. 2018-01-28.
**1st Gen: Nakazawa Yuko, Ishiguro Aya, Iida Kaori, Abe Natsumi, Fukuda Asuka
===Absentees===
*ANGERME member Wada Ayaka,"お知らせ" (in Japanese). ANGERME Twitter. 2018-01-02. Juice=Juice member Uemura Akari,"お知らせ" (in Japanese). Juice=Juice Twitter. 2018-01-02. and Country Girls member Yamaki Risa"修正・お知らせ" (in Japanese). Country Girls Twitter. 2018-01-02. were absent from the January 2 and 3 shows due to the flu.
*Morning Musume '18 member Sato Masaki was absent from the January 2 to January 7 shows due to the flu."お知らせ" (in Japanese). Morning Musume '18 Manager Twitter. 2018-01-02.https://twitter.com/morningmusume18/status/949506753481261056https://twitter.com/morningmusume18/status/949822159332950016
*ANGERME member Katsuta Rina"お知らせ" (in Japanese). ANGERME Twitter. 2018-01-03. and Kobushi Factory member Wada SakurakoInoue Rei. "『どうでした？？？』井上玲音" (in Japanese). Kobushi Factory Official Blog. 2018-01-03."お知らせ" (in Japanese). Kobushi Factory Twitter. 2018-01-06. were absent from the January 3 to January 7 shows due to the flu.
*Juice=Juice member Miyamoto Karin was absent from January 3 to January 7 shows due to poor health.Miyazaki Yuka. "月 宮崎由加" (in Japanese). Juice=Juice Official Blog. 2018-01-03. On January 12, a notice on the Hello! Project website announced that Miyamoto accidentally twisted her neck during rehearsals on January 3, and due to the doctor's suspicions that she may have Bell's palsy, she was hospitalized for a week and therefore was absent from the January 13 and 14 shows."Juice＝Juice 宮本佳林に関するお知らせ" (in Japanese). Hello! Project. 2018-01-12. Miyamoto was discharged on January 15 and gradually resumed activities, but due to her still feeling discomfort with her hearing sensitivity, she was absent from all shows up to February 3."Juice＝Juice 宮本佳林に関するお知らせ" (in Japanese). Hello! Project. 2018-01-18."Juice＝Juice 宮本佳林に関するお知らせ" (in Japanese). Hello! Project. 2018-01-24. On February 8, it was announced that Miyamoto's condition was diagnosed as sudden sensorineural hearing loss, and she had become stable enough to make a partial return to performance and returned to the tour on February 10."Juice＝Juice 宮本佳林に関するお知らせ" (in Japanese). Hello! Project. 2018-02-08.
*ANGERME member Murota Mizuki was absent from the January 3 PERFECT SCORE show to the January 7 shows due to the flu."お知らせ" (in Japanese). ANGERME Twitter. 2018-01-03.
*Morning Musume '18 member Nonaka Miki"お知らせ" (in Japanese). Morning Musume '18 Manager Twitter. 2018-01-06. and ANGERME member Sasaki Rikako"お知らせ" (in Japanese). ANGERME Twitter. 2018-01-06."お知らせ" (in Japanese). ANGERME Twitter. 2018-01-06."お知らせ" (in Japanese). ANGERME Twitter. 2018-01-07. were absent from the January 6 and 7 shows due to the flu.
*Juice=Juice member Kanazawa Tomoko was absent from the second half of the January 13 PERFECT SCORE show due to not feeling well,https://twitter.com/musiclies/status/952095141107458048Kanazawa Tomoko. "♪.中野 金澤朋子" (in Japanese). Juice=Juice Official Blog. 2018-01-14. but she returned for the following FULL SCORE show.https://twitter.com/morningmusume18/status/952109688723726336
*Morning Musume '18 members Ishida Ayumi and Oda Sakura were absent from the January 20 and 21 shows due to the flu."モーニング娘。'18 石田亜佑美・小田さくらについてのお知らせ" (in Japanese). Hello! Project. 2018-01-17.
*Tsubaki Factory member Asakura Kiki was absent from January 21 PERFECT SCORE show due to poor health."お知らせ" (in Japanese). Tsubaki Factory Twitter. 2018-01-21.
*Country Girls member Ozeki Mai was absent from all February shows in order to prioritize her studies."お知らせ" (in Japanese). Country Girls Twitter. 2018-01-27.Ozeki Mai. "1月27日 お知らせ 小関舞" (in Japanese). Country Girls Official Blog. 2018-01-27.
*Juice=Juice members Yanagawa Nanami and Dambara Ruru were absent from the February 3 show due to the flu."「Juice=Juice LIVE GEAR 2018 ～Go ahead～」2月2日(金)福岡・2月4日(日)熊本公演中止のお知らせ" (in Japanese). Hello! Project. 2018-02-02.
*Hello Pro Kenshuusei Hokkaido member Kitagawa Ryo was unable to participate in the opening act on February 17 because of an injured foot."いよいよ明日。ﾄﾞｷ(((*〃ﾟ艸ﾟ))ﾄﾞｷ" (in Japanese). Inaba Manaka Official Blog. 2018-02-17."なまら楽しかった♡" (in Japanese). Inaba Manaka Official Blog. 2018-02-17.
==Concert Schedule==
:PERFECT SCORE+ concerts had partly different content from regular PERFECT SCORE concerts (see setlist above).
Date 	Venue 	Prefecture	Doors Open	Concert Starts	Pattern
January 2 	Nakano Sun Plaza(中野サンプラザ) 	Tokyo 	17:30 	18:30 	PERFECT SCORE
January 3 	Nakano Sun Plaza(中野サンプラザ) 	Tokyo 	14:00 	15:00 	FULL SCORE
January 3 	Nakano Sun Plaza(中野サンプラザ) 	Tokyo 	17:30 	18:30 	PERFECT SCORE
January 6 	Nakano Sun Plaza(中野サンプラザ) 	Tokyo 	14:00 	15:00 	FULL SCORE
January 6 	Nakano Sun Plaza(中野サンプラザ) 	Tokyo 	17:30 	18:30 	PERFECT SCORE
January 7 	Nakano Sun Plaza(中野サンプラザ) 	Tokyo 	10:30 	11:30 	PERFECT SCORE
January 7 	Nakano Sun Plaza(中野サンプラザ) 	Tokyo 	14:00 	15:00 	FULL SCORE
January 7 	Nakano Sun Plaza(中野サンプラザ) 	Tokyo 	17:30 	18:30 	PERFECT SCORE
January 13 	Nakano Sun Plaza(中野サンプラザ) 	Tokyo 	14:00 	15:00 	PERFECT SCORE
January 13 	Nakano Sun Plaza(中野サンプラザ) 	Tokyo 	17:30 	18:30 	FULL SCORE
January 14 	Nakano Sun Plaza(中野サンプラザ) 	Tokyo 	10:30 	11:30 	FULL SCORE
January 14 	Nakano Sun Plaza(中野サンプラザ) 	Tokyo 	14:00 	15:00 	PERFECT SCORE
January 14 	Nakano Sun Plaza(中野サンプラザ) 	Tokyo 	17:30 	18:30 	FULL SCORE
January 20 	ORIX Theater(オリックス劇場) 	Osaka 	14:00 	15:00 	FULL SCORE
January 20 	ORIX Theater(オリックス劇場) 	Osaka 	17:30 	18:30 	PERFECT SCORE
January 21 	ORIX Theater(オリックス劇場) 	Osaka 	17:30 	18:30 	PERFECT SCORE
January 27 	Aichi Arts Center Dai Hall(愛知県芸術劇場 大ホール) 	Aichi 	17:30 	18:30 	PERFECT SCORE
January 28 	Aichi Arts Center Dai Hall(愛知県芸術劇場 大ホール) 	Aichi 	13:30 	14:30 	FULL SCORE
January 28 	Aichi Arts Center Dai Hall(愛知県芸術劇場 大ホール) 	Aichi 	17:00 	18:00 	FULL SCORE
February 3 	Fukuoka Sun Palace Hotel & Hall(福岡サンパレス ホテル&ホール) 	Fukuoka 	15:30 	16:30 	PERFECT SCORE+
February 10	Sendai Sunplaza Hall(仙台サンプラザホール) 	Miyagi 	16:30 	17:30 	PERFECT SCORE+
February 17	Nitori Bunka Hall(ニトリ文化ホール) 	Hokkaido 	15:30 	16:30 	PERFECT SCORE+
February 24	Hiroshima Bunka Gakuen HBG Hall(広島文化学園HBGホール) 	Hiroshima 	15:00 	16:00 	PERFECT SCORE+
==Trivia==
*This was the first Hello! Project concert tour since 2011 to not feature Kudo Haruka as a member of Morning Musume, and the first since 2014 to not feature Taguchi Natsumi.
*This tour was the return of Inaba Manaka, who had not participated in a Hello! Project concert tour since 2016 due to a medical hiatus. It is also her first Hello! Project concert tour as a soloist, and she is the first soloist to perform in a tour since Mitsui Aika in 2013.
*This was the first tour that all five original Morning Musume members have performed together in since the Morning Musume '99 Memory Seishun no Hikari Tour.
*This was the last Hello! Project concert tour to feature Morning Musume '18 member Ogata Haruna.
*Takahashi Ai came to watch the first concert on January 2."お正月と言えば！" (in Japanese). Takahashi Ai Official Blog. 2018-01-03.
*Mori Saki came to watch the FULL SCORE concert on January 3.https://twitter.com/mori_saki1012/status/948477488526606336
*Yajima Maimi and Nakajima Saki came to watch the PERFECT SCORE concert on January 13."ハロコン♪" (in Japanese). Yajima Maimi Official Blog. 2017-01-14.
*Mano Erina came to watch the FULL SCORE night concert on January 14.https://twitter.com/erina_mano/status/952518801106485250"ハロコン！光り輝け！諦めずに！" (in Japanese). Mano Erina Official Blog. 2017-01-15.
==Gallery==
H!P2018WINTER-livepic01.jpg|January 2 at Nakano Sun Plaza
H!P2018WINTER-livepic02.jpg|Tsubaki Factory
H!P2018WINTER-livepic03.jpg|Country Girls (without Yamaki Risa)
H!P2018WINTER-livepic04.jpg|Kobushi Factory
H!P2018WINTER-livepic05.jpg|Juice=Juice (without Uemura Akari)
H!P2018WINTER-livepic06.jpg|ANGERME (without Wada Ayaka)
H!P2018WINTER-livepic07.jpg|Morning Musume '18 (without Sato Masaki)
H!P2018WINTER-livepic08.jpg|Morning Musume 1st generation members on January 28
==References==
==External Links==
*Concert Schedule
*Goods
*Discography:
**DVD: Hello! Project, UP-FRONT WORKS
**BD: Hello! Project, UP-FRONT WORKS
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