Kamikokuryo Moe to graduate from ANGERME and Hello! Project after 2025 Spring Tour

[tadase]

The inevitable has come: Kamiko is graduating from ANGERME and HP in Spring 2025.

Announcement: https://www.helloproject.com/news/18286/

Google Translated the announcements, Amped could do a better translation:

Thank you for your continued support of Hello! Project and ANGERME.

ANGERME's leader, Moe Kamikokuryo, will graduate from ANGERME and Hello! Project after the spring concert tour scheduled for next year.

It has been 10 years since she joined ANGERME in 2015, and since last year she has been leading the group as the leader.

As she thought about her future, she felt a strong desire to broaden her horizons, and she consulted us about wanting to end her activities and start by studying abroad.
After considering her wishes and considering them, we have come to the conclusion that she will graduate after next year's spring tour.
She plans to continue her entertainment activities after graduation.

She will continue to work hard until her graduation, so we ask for your continued support of Moe Kamikokuryo, ANGERME, and Hello! Project.

December 20, 2024
Up-Front Promotion Co., Ltd.
Representative Director Nishiguchi Takeshi

Thank you for your continued warm support.

I have an announcement to make to everyone.

I, Kamikokuryo Moe, will be graduating from ANGERME and Hello! Project after the 2025 spring tour.

I'm sure this sudden announcement has surprised everyone.

And for all of you who love ANGERME, I may be saddened by the succession of graduations in such a short span of time.

I love ANGERME with all my heart.

The days I spent with my beloved older sisters,
the days I spent with my beloved younger sisters.

The more you wish it could last forever, the more difficult it is,
and I think I understand that better than anyone, having seen so many members go.

I auditioned for ANGERME and joined in 2015.

Looking back, I think I had a youth that shone so brightly that it was almost too dazzling for me now.

I spent every day thinking it would last forever.
But everyone will find their next dream and graduate.
As my seniors continued to graduate, I wondered if one day I too would have to graduate.
I loved ANGERME and joined the group in pursuit of my dream to be a part of it, but the thought that one day I would have to find my own dream and leave it behind seemed a little cruel to me at the time.

But that's why I think it became my dream to make my dream come true with ANGERME while I could still be in it.

It was just about two years ago that I decided to graduate.
I set myself a time limit.
Since then, I think I've been putting more effort into ANGERME than ever before.

These past nine years.
If I had been alone, my dreams would have remained dreams, but because I wasn't alone,
many of my dreams have become reality.

It's all thanks to all the ANGE members I love,
the fans who support me, the managers and staff who walked with me,
and my family and friends who support me.
Thank you so, so much, from the bottom of my heart.

I will be sad to leave the amazing Angerme that I have built with all my beloved juniors, carrying on the history from my beloved seniors, but I am sure that my graduation will bring an exciting new form to Angerme.

I have always worked hard so that you will be excited every time a member graduates! That is how Angerme will continue. I have about six months until my graduation, but I will keep charging ahead. I want to graduate after making Angerme a little bigger so that I can bring the dreams of all my beloved juniors closer. I will run through it with a positive, cheerful, and loving attitude, intending to return the love I have received from you all more than double!

After graduation, I plan to study abroad.

I would be happy if you would continue to watch over Kamikokuryo Moe as an Angerme member until the end. This has been a long story, but thank you for reading this far.

Well then, see you again at our favorite live show!

December 20, 2024
Angerme leader
Moe Kamikokuryo

[DJChisato1]

Not surprising, I was wondering who'd be first to announce. Maybe we'll get a new Hello!Study abroad member.

[Zunu]

NOooooOoooooOOOOOOoo!!!!

I mean, good for her!

[Denki]

Kamikoooooo
Best wishes to her. Would love to see her continue a singing career post-graduation.

[Shabranikuduu]

Noooooo!

[Amped]

If she said she had been planning to graduate for 2 years now before becoming leader, she might have had graduation talks with Sasaki, and Kawamura already.

[Sohee]

I still remember seeing her on countdown 2015 and being lost where she’s gonna go next… and now she’s leaving T.T

[that1guy_J]

Not surprising, I was wondering who'd be first to announce. Maybe we'll get a new Hello!Study abroad member.

This is exactly what im hoping for. Looking at the videos of her speaking english, shes off to a pretty good start already

https://x.com/UpFrontLink/status/1856683434929762620

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