Murota Mizuki to graduate from H!P at HinaFest on 03/22/2020

[boinsie]

http://www.helloproject.com/news/11620/

Murota Mizuki graduates from Hello! Project at Hina Fes on March 22.
UpFront and She have talked about her graduation since the end of 2018.
She hoped to make a start from Zero again.

She does hope to graduation by the end of 2020 March.
Funaki Musubu who already announced her graduation also hopes to watch over Murota's graduation.

That's why Funaki Musubu graduates on the closing day of Angerme concert tour.

[Shabranikuduu]

Noooo not Muro! I hope she continues singing in the future. Either way, I wish her all the best.

[Shoujo Q]

What the hell is up with Angerme?!

This isn’t normal. Not even Morning Musume level jumping ship normal.

[boinsie]

She's been in talks with management about this since 2018, why is it suddenly being dropped on us 2 months before the grad date? To the point that it's pushing Funaki's graduation date back??
Seriously, I wonder what other opportunity Murotan came upon?

[Sohee]

^That's what I'm most curious about.

But yeah this sucks cause man she's a good one. But, I wish her all the best.

[Moh]

I also don't understand why this is happening so quickly if she's been talking about it for a while. Hopefully she'll elaborate on it herself.

Man, I HATE this. She's honestly one of my favorites; I'm really gonna miss her craziness.

Also, since UF has known about this for a while, I guess it makes sense why they're having an audition again?

[Nayoko-Kihara]

Since she seems so adamant about March, I'm guessing it has to be a job or school.

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[Amped]

Another one in ANGERME? Too many bunched up like this is not healthy for the group.

[Jessi]

I don’t think we’ve ever seen a graduation announcement so sudden that it literally bumps another graduation to a later date.

[Celedam]

I know someone, somewhere is going to frown at me for jumping in like this again, but I want to remind everyone that much of Japan's civil society is organized around the April-to-March fiscal year. It may seem weird or alarming to us outside of Japan that all of these changes are happening at the same time, in mid to late March, but it's quite normal to them. We as idol fans have been spoiled by the big, lavish, end-of-tour graduation ceremonies that are specifically designed and scheduled to maximize engagement and revenue. Those aren't normal. This is normal.

The next obvious question then is "Even if this is normal for Japan, it's not normal for H!P, so why is it happening now?" I think that might be simply because H!P is so much larger now, with more groups and more generations and consequently more turnover. Maybe the management has decided the schedule isn't big enough to give each and every graduating member a big ceremony, so it has stopped trying. <shrug>

All that being said, I will miss Murota and I wish her well in whatever she does next.