“Kamei Eri Morning Musume Sotsugyou Kinen PHOTO BOOK” Announced

Actually Tsunku doesn’t have as much power as you might think XD

He’s the producer which means that he most likely just makes the songs and directs concerts and other performances, but decisions like PBs, graduations, etc (basically all decisions that take a large amount of money to do or affect H!P in a big way) are most likely done by the higher bosses in UFA, which might mean that Tsunku is basically just the face of H!P (although he most likely has some say in all decisions in H!P).

Tsunku knows perfectly well the abilities of each one of the Momusu members and I strongly doubt he doesn’t give Jun and Lin lines because they aren’t Japanese (strongly, strongly doubt). Tsunku writes the songs and decides who is better for a solo line, but I would be very surprised if UFA didn’t influence in some way the amount of lines and the leads of each song based on who is more popular ~_~

One reason as to why they most likely don’t have a PB might be because UFA doesn’t think that Jun Jun and Lin Lin PBs will sell much because of their smaller fanbases, and since UFA is a business and not a charity they make the best decision based on the largest amount of money they know they will get for sure, not on the amount of fans they will please or an equal amount of PBs for everyone ^_^

I have no idea if this is true though, but Ai-chan having 11 PBs might be a good sign that it might be at least partly true since she is currently among the most popular in H!P XD