Ootsuka Aina Has Left Juice=Juice & H!P as of 7/5

[otaku_blue]

I feel relieved in a way. Now I don't have to grow accustomed to her strange ear.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/4371adb81e67 ... 4_1280.png

But w/evs.

[wotakubrandon]

I feel relieved in a way. Now I don't have to grow accustomed to her strange ear.

There is no reason why I should find these sentences as hilarious as I do.

[otaku_blue]

Like it bugged me around the 5th time watching the Samidare Bijin video, and I was like "hey there's something off about her" and when I noticed it I was in left in awe. But I totally forgot about it

[Amped]

at the H!P Shop today, they said that the withdrawal of Otsuka Aina from Juice=Juice has forced them to stop all sales of her photos and remove all of Aina's stuff with Juice=Juice including signed stuff from the events they had there.


【速報】ハロショの店内から、Juice=Juiceを昨日付で脱退した大塚愛菜さんの写真が全て撤去されました。昨日7/5で、全て販売終了の扱いに。
また、ハロショイベントの時の写真パネルやサインは、Juice=Juiceのものは全て撤去。 #JuiceJuice #hpkenshu

[Amped]

Anyway, here are Akari's, and Karin's blog entries thanking Aina for her time in J=J:

Akari:
http://ameblo.jp/juicejuice-official/entry-11567044931.html

Karin:
http://ameblo.jp/juicejuice-official/entry-11567118203.html

Anyone care to translate please?

Here is Yuka's entry. its a sad entry about Aina.
http://ameblo.jp/juicejuice-official/en ... 42570.html

[Denki]

RoxasXIII from H!O translated these

http://ameblo.jp/juicejuice-official/entry-11567118203.html
Juice=Juice’s 3rd grade of Junior high school in charge of the grapes, Miyamoto Karin
Today, retirement of Otsuka Aina-chan has been announced
When Tsukapon became kenshusei,
Tsukapon and I both love collect Okai-san goods, and since we're in same grade, we quickly become friends
We notice each other changes quickly and also encourage each other, I think that was kind of relationship that we have
You always lead Karin when Karin is too carefree, and that really help me many times
Until now, thank you for everything
Tsukapon's singing voice was cute and unique
I'm afraid if your smile will dissapear from Juice=Juice,
however, Tsukapon must absolutely, surely go to the new path without any regret
Karin too, with combining power of all 5 members together, will work hard so Tsukapon can feel proud of once being a Juice=Juice member
From now on, please still support Tsukapon and also Juice=Juice
5 members will work harder and even hardest for our major debut song "Romance no Tochuu"!
This is Miyamoto Karin!

http://ameblo.jp/juicejuice-official/entry-11567044931.html
This is Juice=Juice's Uemura Akari
There is announcement in Hello!Project official homepage that Otsuka Aina has retired
 
In the future, Otsuka-chan won't be in Juice=Juice anymore
But I think all other members will be able to fill the hole that Otsuka-chan left little by little
From now on, Uemura Akari, Miyamoto Karin, Takagi Sayuki, Kanazawa Tomoko, Miyazaki Yuka
These 5 are Juice=Juice
We will work hard toward our major debut (*´∀`*)ノ
Now is just the beginning
I will be glad if you still support Juice=Juice
Otsuka-chan, until now, thank you very much
Well then, good night

[koregaboku]

at the H!P Shop today, they said that the withdrawal of Otsuka Aina from Juice=Juice has forced them to stop all sales of her photos and remove all of Aina's stuff with Juice=Juice including signed stuff from the events they had there.


【速報】ハロショの店内から、Juice=Juiceを昨日付で脱退した大塚愛菜さんの写真が全て撤去されました。昨日7/5で、全て販売終了の扱いに。
また、ハロショイベントの時の写真パネルやサインは、Juice=Juiceのものは全て撤去。 #JuiceJuice #hpkenshu

So...
Where does this leave the PVs they already shot?

[koregaboku]

at the H!P Shop today, they said that the withdrawal of Otsuka Aina from Juice=Juice has forced them to stop all sales of her photos and remove all of Aina's stuff with Juice=Juice including signed stuff from the events they had there.


【速報】ハロショの店内から、Juice=Juiceを昨日付で脱退した大塚愛菜さんの写真が全て撤去されました。昨日7/5で、全て販売終了の扱いに。
また、ハロショイベントの時の写真パネルやサインは、Juice=Juiceのものは全て撤去。 #JuiceJuice #hpkenshu

So...
Where does this leave the PVs they already shot?

[Denki]

They can rearranged the vocals (which each member records the whole song individually) and dance. The only thing they have to rerecord are the group/dance shots. For the scenes where Aina was suppose to sing, they can easily do a close up during that time.

[koregaboku]

I meant with the Watashi ga Iu mae ni and SAMIDARE PVs. I've never heard of H!P completely pulling the images of a girl before (or maybe they have but I completely missed out on the Berryz girl and the C-ute girls that quit so I don't really know) so this seems more serious than girls who just decided to "pursue" their studies instead.

This seemingly gives their reason about contractual disputes more and more legitimate. Like a bunch of people have said, they could've easily gone with a fluffy excuse for her quitting but they actually went with a serious one that we'll never really know all the details about.