Happy 8 Ki Audition (8th Generation Audition)
- Application requirements: Female, junior high or under 21 years of age
- Total applicants: 6,883
- Training camp and theme song: Ambitious! Yashinteki de Ii Jan (dance, Morning Musume's 30th single) and Aruiteru (voice training, Morning Musume's 31st single)
- Broadcast on Hello! Morning starting September 2006. Audition result aired on December 10, 2006.
- Finalists: Minami Okumura, Natsumi Hanada, Yuu Kikkawa, Aika Mitsui, Sumire Satou, and Masuda Ayami
- Winner: Aika Mitsui
- Kikkawa would later become a soloist. Kashiwagi later joined AKB48 Team B becoming the Captain, Sato also later joined Team B and KitÅ joined Team KII of SKE48. Kawamura joined the 2nd Generation of Idoling!!! in 2008.
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