Tsugunaga Momoko's graduation - Arigatou Otomomochi

As of June 30th, Tsugunaga Momoko has graduated from Country Girls, Hello!Project and from being an Idol. Adding to that, with her the last member of Hello!Project Kids has graduated. June 30th is also the 15th anniversary of Momochi passing the audition - together with 14 other kids in 2002.

This is really sad and now it really feels like an era has ended. With no Hello pro Kids members left, the Hello!Project I got to love is changing more and more. Fans from now on won't be able to experience anyone of Berryz Koubo and °C-ute being active in H!P and that does sound quite unbelievable for me.

Tsugunaga Momoko a.k.a Momochi has been active for 15 years and she loved being an Idol. That's why I think it's perfect for her to be the last one of the Kids. I was a bit worried her graduation would be overshadowed by °C-ute and all the things happening in Hello!Project right now, but that wasn't the case. Her graduation was perfect! (I sadly didn't go in person though.)

I still remember when I got into H!P and Berryz and I at first thought Momochi was funny but weird. Her Momochi character can be a bit annoying to a lot of people but I got to love it over time. I'm still using Yurushite Nyan from time to time and that makes most Japanese people laugh. Even though not everyone loves her, a lot of people respect Momochi and I am definitely one of them. Having such a character, being hard working as an Idol and seeing her promoting Country Girls over the last two years made me love her even more!!

I have been listening to Berryz songs lately and it made me realize how important that group and all the members are to me. And Momochi plays a big part of that even though she wasn't my favourite member of the group! Comparing it to two years ago, I respect her even more and I feel it was a really good decision of her to be in Country Girls for two years. Of course I feel sad about her graduating but rather than that I feel happy for everything she did as an Idol, everything she gave us.
With her graduating from Country Girls there will be other changes to the groups of Hello!Project so I'm also excited for that!!
And I also hope she will be happy in the future, being a teacher or everthing else she wants to do!!




Thank you for everything Momochi!!
You are the cutest Idolof them all!

Yurushite Nyan!!

Tsugunaga Momoko to graduate from Country Girls and Hello Project

Well, we all knew this day would come sooner or later.. Tsugunaga Momoko announced she would graduate from Country Girls and Hello Project in June 2016.

Momochi is quitting being an Idol after 15 years which makes her the last of the Hello pro Kids to announce stopping their activities from Hello project. With C-ute disbanding and Momochi stopping her activities soon too, it really feels like the end of an Era.

Momoko has never been a favourite Idol if me. At first i didn't really like her character that much, but I learned to lover her and admire her abilities to be an awesome Idol. She is a really clever woman and I like her not only as an Idol. I really hope she will be hapy in her future. Be it teaching kids or doing something else.. It's her desicion though I hope she will not vanish from the entertainment world forever. though if she becomes a teacher, is she even allowed to work on TV from time to time?
But yeah she is really funny and I'm happy that I could expereience her in Berryz, buono and COuntry Girls.  We knew her being in the latter would only last for 2 or 3 years. And even though it was a lot of fun with her, I'm excited to see the group after her graduation, with all the other members shining on their own. Though I really hope they won't always change their line-up for every single.. x'D

I'm looking forward to seeing her activities until net year and maybe I will be able to see them live before that :D