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If you feel like combing through the site you can right here! I think it's important to archive this type of stuff because it's a big part of not just morning musume's history but other fandom's histories as well, and i think its cool to see the weird stuff people made back in the day!
cute little gif of takashi ai and niigaki risa from 2009, or possibly 2004???
the site this gif takes you to has a couple more gifs so if you'd like to take a look feel free to do so! (https://web.archive.org/web/20090728070650/http://hk.geocities.com/janetleung_1102/mm/link.htm)
Gif of the girls from 2009 again, although the site dates back to 2001
Again, here is the site on internet archive (https://web.archive.org/web/20090805074834/http://geocities.com/Tokyo/Club/8134/color.html) although it doesnt appear to me that the gifs are actually moving on the page so im not sure its possible to copy the rest of the gifs, which is very sad :(
animation of yaguchi mari (i believe???) in her minimoni outfit dancing.
Where's the rest of the girls??? i have no clue, shes just on the domain hosting thing that you cant buy the rights to anymore because yahoo japan is dead, but if you want to look at the site when it was up (kind of??) you cant find it here! (https://web.archive.org/web/20091026104855/http://geocities.com/morningmusume1999/mini-mem.html)
a simple button from either 2004 or 2009 that says "momusume love"
Very cute, i wouldn't think it was as old as it it if i saw it on somebodys page. I might even put this on my profile since its so clean looking! I think the site might have belonged to someone who wanted to be a member of morning musume, you can find the archive of the site here (https://web.archive.org/web/20090901151653/http://geocities.com/mandie_musume/mandie.htm)
An illustration of the girls in their shuffle unit outfits and their sub units from 2002
This site does have some more gifs as well, some are drawn and others are little slideshows like a lot of these gifs, so here is the archive if you'd like to have a look (https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040723/http://hk.geocities.com:80/hinmmhk/morning.html)
kago ai with some text from 2009
Im not sure where this gif came from originally because the site looks like one of those html resource sites, and i also dont know what the kanji reads, but it is consistent throughout these gifs so i think its important. if anyone has a translation please let me know! just heres the site archive (https://web.archive.org/web/20091027101341/http://hk.geocities.com/kgayaku_musume/link.htm) theres only one snapshot for it unfortunately so i dont know if they had any more gifs.
pocky girls ad from 2001
The site itself only has snapshots from 2009, but it says at the top that this gif is from 2001, with graphics of all the then members, along with some other jpop advertisements at the bottom. if you'd like a look, here's the archive (https://web.archive.org/web/20090831010309/http://geocities.com/alseidis/showing_room.html)
spinning minimoni logo from 2002
This is the original minimoni logo from 2000 or so, the site also has a nice little graphic of the girls so go to the site if you'd like to see that (https://web.archive.org/web/20021127140036/http://www.geocities.com:80/morningmusume1999/mini-mo.html) and NOT the weird naked cardcaptor sakura gif thats next to this one on GifCities (not joking, literally ruined my experience looking for this morning musume lost media)
The Peace!!! gif from 2003
I dont love the watermark thing they have in the beginning, and i also dont like that i have to go straight to the archive to even copy the gif properly, so if you want to copy this properly the archive will be here, and if anyone can cut the watermark part out i would appreciate it!!! (https://web.archive.org/web/20030321110212/http://cn.geocities.com:80/morningmusumecn/pic/mm_logo2.gif)
Another simple button, says Musume.love from 2002
Similar to that other one above, they might have come from the same site originally but i really dont know. (https://web.archive.org/web/20020411150333/http://hk.geocities.com:80/postpet_nacci/bar1.htm)
Morning Musume RANKING button from 2005
not sure where this gif came from either, since the archive is only of the image file. I imagine it may have been on an old fan site where people were ranking songs, members, etc, but i really have no way to know so this is unfortunately all we get :( (https://web.archive.org/web/20050109065308/http://www.geocities.com/sayamarin/morningrank.gif)
Little gif of abe natsumi dancing in renai revolution 21 from 2009
I dont think this gif originally came from this site, its a bunch of gifs of either people dancing or just weird gifs. when i opened the archive it downloaded a winamp file on my computer (which i deleted immediately lol) so keep that in mind before going to this archive for more gifs (https://web.archive.org/web/20091027135501/http://www.geocities.com/forty_thevz/dance/index.html)
souda! we're alive gif from 2003
This one, weirdly enough, is from a profile of abe natsumi??? i dont know why they didnt use a gif of nacchi, but then i guess we wouldnt have this cool little one of all the girls so i guess it works out! you can find the archive here (https://web.archive.org/web/20030503191833/http://hk.geocities.com:80/postpet_nacci/profile.htm)
mild epilepsy warning, theres flashing colors on this one so yeah :(
Member display from 2006
featuring one of my favorite morning musume eras with the members takashi ai, fujimoto miki, tanaka reina, niigaki risa, kusumi koharu, konno asami, yoshizawa hitomi, ogawa makoto, kamei eri, and michishige sayumi (not sure what to call it??? its not the gold era but its definetly not platinum era) I unfortunately dont know where this gif comes from. again, it's just an archive of the image file so i dont know if theres more like this or if there was a site this was on, which is sad because i liked this era. The archive is here if you need it (https://web.archive.org/web/20060706173018/http://hk.geocities.com:80/boy14372009/morning_musume3.gif)
very odd gif of goto maki from im assuming 2009
the crop is weird, the text is weird, the framing is weird, the fact that the only indicator this is from 2009 is the link is weird, the fact that the archive page is blank and its just the gif is weird. this is a very weird gif and i dont understand!!! if you want this for some reason, the archive is here for you (https://web.archive.org/web/20091027120811/http://geocities.com/pandionah/music/huntingmusume.gif)
Abe natsumi sanpo gif from 2001 (or 2002??)
very much in reference to when nacchi and yasuda kei sang the song sanpo together for a radio contest, so im assuming this was made by one of the fans back in the day who wanted it to be a real song like many other fans. if youre still hanging on and want to petition for sanpo to be released, you can find the archive here (https://web.archive.org/web/20020310135530/http://geocities.com:80/abemorning/sanpo-bunner.gif) though im not so sure nacchi will actually release it :P
That was all I could find on GifCities by just searching morning musume, let me know if you get better results with other search terms or if youve found other archives with more to see, i would really appreciate that!
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