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Posted: **Wed Jan 08, 2020 11:58 pm**

Honestly kinda in shock right now but uh.
http://helloproject.com/news/11547/

Last live will be March 30th, 2020 at Tokyo Dome City Hall.
Last single will be released on March 4th.

I'm sure someone will translate everything literally eventually, but summary is:

Spoiler: show

New single info:

Amped wrote:Kobushi Factory 8th single "Seishun no Hana / Start Line" (青春の花/スタートライン), Release is 3/4

Limited Edition A (DVD : Seishun no Hana Music Video + Other Ver.)
Limited Edition B (DVD : Start Line Music Video + 4 A capella Videos)
Normal A : Seishun no Hana Trading card
Normal B : Start Line Trading card

http://www.helloproject.com/release/detail/EPCE-7584/

Posted: **Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:04 am**

*Accidental repeated info. Feel free to delete this.

Posted: **Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:04 am**

(new post cause I don't wanna spam in the top post)

i can't really comprehend this
goddamnit :crying:

Posted: **Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:05 am**

Seriously. They've just started really coming into their own. This is so upsetting.

Posted: **Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:15 am**

It’s interesting that groups created after Tsunku quit as producer are breaking up in order...

Country Girls
Kobushi

And also kinda fulfilling the theory that most contracts are for about 5 years (Kobushi formed in Jan 2015)

Posted: **Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:20 am**

They had a good run and it sounds like they're getting out on their own terms.

I'm shocked...but not....surprised?

Sakurako :heart:

Posted: **Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:52 am**

It's hard to come back from losing three members to scandals in just a few months. It's never been the same since.
Had they added new members quickly to compensate they might have found new momentum, but sadly they didn't. We can be happy they lasted this long after that.

Interesting to see what Inoue Rei will do within H!P. Hope it's the core of a new group, or transfer to another one.

Posted: **Thu Jan 09, 2020 1:24 am**

At least, it sounds like Hirose, Nomura, and Hamaura will probably stay with Upfront for their solo activities. Inoue Rei will stay a soloist for H!P. With the exception of Wada Sakurako, Hamaura says none of them won't disappear in front of their fans when they start solo activities.

news reports
https://www.sanspo.com/geino/news/20200 ... 32-n1.html
https://mdpr.jp/music/detail/1931074
https://popnroll.tv/articles/6189
https://natalie.mu/music/news/362486
https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2152803/full/

Reactions

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Posted: **Thu Jan 09, 2020 1:38 am**

teth wrote:And also kinda fulfilling the theory that most contracts are for about 5 years (Kobushi formed in Jan 2015)

Four to five years, with some flexibility built in to allow for the scheduling of debuts and graduations.

In this case, after reading Sohee's summary, I think their contracts came up for renewal in late 2018* or early 2019 and that's when the trouble began. Up-Front somehow got all of them to renew, but no one was happy with the way things were going through 2019.

* Why late 2018? Because even though the group was announced in January 2015, the members must have been selected months before that. Selected and signed in late 2014, renewed in late 2018, if we go by my theory of a four-year contract.

I also think disbanding the group in March is more about the fiscal year (and all of the administrative processes associated with that) than about their contracts. Their agreements to continue with solo activities is how they will finish the contracts they already renewed; Up-Front wouldn't renew their contracts just to do those activities.

Zunu wrote:I'm shocked...but not....surprised?

This. They've obviously been struggling for a while.

Posted: **Thu Jan 09, 2020 2:01 am**

Oh no.

I can't believe this is happening. I'm glad Ayaka got into a university, she sounded really upset when she wasn't able to straight after high school.

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