Akane Haga & Reina Yokoyama to Graduate from Morning Musume。’25 at the end of the fall tour.

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I'll be sad to see them (and Eripon and Sakura!) go - this is beginning to feel a bit like the tail-end of the Platinum era, with long-time members kind of drifting away. Time for a four-member 18th gen! (The current members are wonderful, but I think the group needs as much of a fresh start as when the 9th gen joined - and the era that they started is pretty much gone by now.)

Kershaw? Time for a pitching battle between her and Maria!