Sayashi Riho to Graduate from Morning Musume。'15 on 12/31

[otaku_blue]

I hope she get's graduation dress, even Mitsui did. ; _ ;
It kinda sounds like she got accepted into a school or something with how much short time we have left.

I just want a proper send off now.

[otaku_blue]

Grad:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3bo78s

[Pavlova]

I hope she get's graduation dress, even Mitsui did. ; _ ;
It kinda sounds like she got accepted into a school or something with how much short time we have left.

I just want a proper send off now.

There's no way they won't give her a proper send off. She's Sayashi Riho, and there's enough time left. Sure, it won't be a whole fucking tour built around that the way it was for Aichan, etc. But she'll get a proper send off. Don't worry.

[jeiwa42]

And she could really continue to affect how dance in H!P is done when she returns

Together with Captain, H!P might become much more of a dancing dynamite in the future

[AyuHikaru]

I hope she get's graduation dress, even Mitsui did. ; _ ;
It kinda sounds like she got accepted into a school or something with how much short time we have left.

I just want a proper send off now.

There's no way they won't give her a proper send off. She's Sayashi Riho, and there's enough time left. Sure, it won't be a whole fucking tour built around that the way it was for Aichan, etc. But she'll get a proper send off. Don't worry.

The tour thing probably would have happened, too, had she given them more time.

[forgetmenots]

I do think it might be a bit odd since it'll be the countdown concert. I'm sure they're having to change things around a lot, as they've more than likely started prwp before the decision. And I think they've sold fan club tickets already for the concert before fans knew she'd be graduating and instead of MM only celebration, all of H!P will be there OG as well.

So I wonder if they're going to make the whole concert about her or if only a small part will be hers. I'm sure they'll come up with something good, but it'll feel weird not to have a "Morning Musume Sayashi Riho Grad Concert you know?

It's probably impossible to find a venue, but I do wish her grad was a standalone MM concert instead.

[AyuHikaru]

Oh, it's a countdown concert? That's kind of balls. I wonder how they are going to balance it being Riho's graduation night with the fact that's arguably H!P/UF's biggest concert of the year. Taking away from the other acts may make fans cranky, but if Morning Musume's section was the only part that mentioned Riho's grad that doesn't seem like a proper send off.

[Sohee]

If anything I'm excited to see how they do it. It'll be the first graduation in AGES (since... Nacchi? W?) that a MM member graduates at a H!P concert.
I'm sure she'll get her ceremony a few songs before the pre-countdown. It'll be interesting. And kinda nostalgic that it happens at Nakano Sun Plaza.

Also, isn't the ~tour dedicated to graduating member~ a fairly recent thing? At least with the name in the title, that only started when Aichan left, no?

[Shoujo Q]

^ Kaori graduated at the 2005 H!P Winter concert and Konno with Makoto, had their graduation concert at the 2006 Summer Wonderful Hearts concert. So it's been roughly 10 years since Musume graduation at a H!P concert. :O

And yes, naming the concerts after a member graduating only started with Takahashi. So since 2011. Not long at all. Also, Takahashi's the only member to have the entire tour center around her name. Reina wins for having an entire tour centered around someone else's (Sayumi's), name.

[Amped]

from Hello! Station

Sayashi's graduation announcement in her hometown of Hiroshima
https://youtu.be/adP4eyuql4w?t=20s