Kudo Haruka's graduation

On December 11th Kudo Haruka graduated from Morning Musume '17 on their tour final in Budokan. She is the first member of 10th generation to graduate the group and the first person to graduate in over 1 1/2 years. After 6 years of being active in Morning Musume and 8 years in Hello!Project, she graduated at the prime age of 18 years to pursue an acting career.

How do I say this.. with her being my favourite Idol not only in Morning Musume but also in general I'm still having mixed feelings about this graduation. I still kind of did not realize that it really happened and that time has passed so fast. Kudo announced her graduation 6 months ago when I was still in Japan.. and now I am back in Germany and I could only follow her graduation on the Internet. On one hand it's really sad I couldn't be in Japan around this time to send her off probably. But on the other hand, I kind of got to distance myself a bit from the whole issue to not be so emotionally about it. I'm still really emotional, don't get me wrong. But I came to accept it and I enjoyed her time as an Idol a lot!

This is not about me though, It's about Duu. Leaving the Idol world at such a young age is a really damn brave thing to do and I respect her a lot for it. She didn't even graduate High School yet and she spent almost half her life as an Idol. She has been fairly succesfull as an Idol and she experienced her group getting more popluar.. so did she herself. She got to practice singing, dancing, modelling and had so many chances to try interesting jobs in the entertainment industry. One of that was acting in Musicals, which definitely paved her as a person and her dream for the future: She wants to become an actress now. Having so much experience in acting it makes perfect sense to see her going into that direction. Being able to practice as a variety of different roles she already has a lot of experience. And even though I do think she will having struggles and still a lot more to learn I'm positive about her future career and I think she will really be doing her best in everything. I really like how she sticks to something, gives her best but never gives up! I rather hope she won't be too strict on herself since she can be quite a perfectionist. Still, she has a lot of conficence which is something really important in the entertainment world and something I admire her for.

Of course we don't actually know everything about her and maybe the real Duu is actually different from Idol Duu. I got to think a lot about that lately and Maa-chan's blog post got me to think even more about it. Cause yeah, actually Idols are all humans too and they have secrets, sides of them that they don't show. We don't know.. but that's also something quite exciting.
Speaking about Maa-chan, I really liked the whole 10th generation bond, but especially MaaDuu. They were sticking together and even though they had some ups and downs for me they feel like these sisters, best friends or school comarades that alwas got to be together even after they fight. I do wonder how their relationship will change from now on and it got me kind of scared.. Well, but it's their issue and they got enough attention on them for the last 6 years. I will miss this pairing a lot though, funny Maachan and Duu have been always so nice to watch. Since we kind of get to see Idols grow up, especially these two since they have been so young when they joined, the kind of feel like little sisters to me.

Back to Duu, she seemed to be such a nice person, being loved by group members and other Idols alike. When she joined she was called an 'Angel' and she kind of got to have a lot of different characters over time, one of them being the 'cool boy' character. Going from the youngest and cutest girl to a cool boy is still something really funny to me haha. This just shows that she has a lot of sides and maybe it also shows her acting talent. But honestly, she is such a fun person and she just rocks on stage. There's so many things I like about her and I could go on about how I loved at concerts, how I even got to meet her in person, which is one of my best memories of her! Meeting her was such an awesome experience and I will never forget how exciting and happy I was at that moment! I have so many nice memories of being a fan of her and meeting other fans, also other Idol fans was also really, really cool.

I guess it's time to wrap up this post. I apprechiate everything Kudo Haruka has done so far and I really can't wait to see her as an actress in the future! I'm looking forward to her activities and also to what Mosning Musume will look like without her.

I love Kudo Haruka!

THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING

Bye, bye my Idol

A concert full of joy and tears

Today when I learned and did my homework, I decided to watch the AKB48 Budokan Concert Live Stream.. I just wanted a bit music while learning.. But when you watch an 48 group concert, you can't do your homework at the same time.. It just doesn't work xP
So I watched the concert and didn't do my homework (well, I've still time left..)..

And the concert was absolutely amazing!! All the 48 groups were participating (even JKT!) and there were just sooo many girls on the stage (over 200!!). And I was surprised that I knew so many of them.. I know nearly all AKB members and many, many SKE members.. Then also many of NMB members and a few HKT members.. Oh, I'm good :]

I missed the beginning of the concert, so NMB48 was already singing 'Junjo U-19' (yeah, I missed much..)
But my first impression was really good.. bad-ass Sayanee^^

And then JKT48 came and performed 'River'.. WOW.. I've never seen them live before and they are AWESOME!!

Next was 'UZA' by Team K (yeayyy Sayaka and Yuko)

A few shuffled unit songs (all of them were great).

And finally, Jurina appeared.. Yeayy

Rena being all hyper

My precious SKE48. *-*
.. with different line-up due to the mass graduation.
Yukiko is back in senbatsu *-*

Jurina is pleased

Tomochin did 'End Roll'. Wow.. But the background dancers were unnecessary..

'Flying Get' by Team B.

And Team Tall.. Waaaaaaah.. Sayaka, Sae, Mariko. Maria and Ami together? They have to make a sub-group out of all these tall members!! Like seriously, that would be so cool^^

Yeah, Sayaka.. Finally she gets some spotlight..

Twin Tower -  finally together again :)

Nito Moeno's sad graduation speech (WTF I thought she already graduated??)
But it was sad.. :(

Sasshi cried, too..

Wow, these four together as MCs works really good.. I mean, I didn't understand a thing, but it was cool nevertheless..

The youngest group: HKT48

Waah, I love how they mixed the groups in the songs...

Churi's expression.. LOL

Yukko!!! :)

Oogoe Diamond'.. awww.. I LOVE this song!!

Yuko is so awesome..

Random screen shots of my favourites..

Representing the groups.. Sashiko's was funny..

Akarin was amazing!!

And Paruru was just... bad.
Seriously I don't hate her, but how can she represent AKB48 like that??
She looks so helpless..

Jurina is pleased.

All of them together.

After the longest waiting ever, AKB48 performed their new to-be-released song 'Sayonara Crawl'.
I actually like it. :)
The summer songs are usually pretty upbeat and catchy, and this one is the same.. xP

First Rabbit.. Rena-chan :3

We had two announcements this evening.

First: 48 groups will make a Dome tour through 5 cities (Fukuoka, Sapporo, Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo)

That's fine I think.. I mean, it's always a special thing to perform at any Dome there..

Some of them just didn't look that happy when they heard it. (Especially SKE.. i guess they aren't happy about AKB48 performing in their Dome before SKE48 alone)

The second announcement was another team shuffle (I was expecting this).

They promoted three KKs:

Hirata Rina to Team K 

Sasaki Yukari to Team A

Omori Miyu to Team B

I'm happy for them.. Especially for Hilary, because she was the only KKS I actually knew/ liked.. xD

But then, shit happened..

Kitahara Rie, Yokoyama Yui, Ishida Anna, and Kotani Riho will leave their positions in other teams and will only be in their regular Team. OMG.. Why shuffle them back again?

Kitarie and Yuihan were just fitting into their new positions so good and now that??

They cried...

Then, new concurrent positions were announced.. WTF? Why new ones now??

These are:

Oba Mina to SKE Team KII

Ichikawa Miori to NMB Team N

Miorin: Noooo, the Team N members will kill me.. They are so badass..

Furuhata Nao to AKB Team K

Yagura Fuuko to AKB Team A

Kodama Haruka to AKB Team A

Haruppi: Noo, do not waaant.

Maritroll: Mwahahaha, new prey..

Paruru: Shit, a new rival..

Oh Fuuko.. Waaah.. *-*
But Miorin in Team N?? WTF?? I mean, I don't hate her or anything (I just think she's really annoying) but she doesn't fit into Team N at all!! arrgh..

But then there was something that shocked me even more. Three girls will also hold concurrent positions, BUT these are the girls from overseas groups:

Miyazawa Sae to AKB Team K
Suzuki Mariya to AKB Team A
Takajo Aki to AKB Team B

At first I was like: Yeayyyy, Sae back to Team K. Sayaka was also pretty happy about this announcement:

But then came this:

Sae isn't happy about that.. :/
She looks shocked and angry.. She doesn't want to come back so early, I can kinda understand that..

Not even Yuko can convince her to like her new position...

And then they tried to be funny and promoted Sasshi as HKT48 partly General Manager (I didn't really get that one)...
Aki-p keeps on trolling..

Well, the concert continued...

Mayutroll

Twin Tower and Team K Trio... together again :)
(And an annoying Lemon on the left)

That was the amazing concert at Nippon Budokan.. Just, if there wasn't the shuffle.. grrr..
Poor, Sae, she looked soooo angry!!
But we will see how this goes on..

Bye, bye for now..
Let's do homework ;)