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Ongaku Gatas (音楽ガッタス) was a Japanese pop girl group managed by UP-FRONT PROMOTION and formerly part of Hello! Project. The group was formed in 2007. The group's name combines the Japanese word ongaku (music) with the Portuguese word gatas (cats), taken from the name of the Hello! Project futsal team, Gatas Brilhantes. In early 2008, Erina Mano and Mika Muto (both Hello! Pro Eggs) graduated from the group. Mano left the group but continued as solo singer within Hello! Project, whereas Muto left both the group and Hello! Project in its entirety to return to life as a normal student and focus on her studies. In August 2009, it was announced that Arisa Noto and Yuri Sawada, two more Eggs, would both be graduating from Hello! Project. Sawada graduated from both Hello! Project and Ongaku Gatas, to focus on university. Noto, however, remained in the group, even though she had graduated from Hello! Project. Although, soon after their winter tour finished in early 2009, Hitomi Yoshizawa, Rika Ishikawa, Asami Konno and Mai Satoda, all officially graduated from Hello! Project in March 2009 the group remained together, though they switched management to Up-Front Agency (the parent management of Hello! Project itself). The group went on a hiatus after their graduation. Members: Yoshizawa Hitomi (吉澤ひとみ) Ishikawa Rika (石川梨華) Korenaga Miki (是永美記) Mano Erina (真野恵里菜) Muto Mika (武藤水華) Sawada Yuri (澤田由梨) Konno Asami (紺野あさ美) Noto Arisa (能登有沙) Satoda Mai (里田まい) Sengoku Minami (仙石みなみ) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.