Sasaki Rikako to graduate ANGERME and Hello!Project in Spring 2024.

[Shoujo Q]

Official Announcement

She will graduate next spring at the end of the Spring ANGERME tour.

Future plans are undecided, or maybe they are? Time will tell.

I'll miss Rikako. She was a big ball of energy.

[Amped]

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

Sasaki Rikako will graduate from ANGERME and Hello! Project after the spring tour scheduled in 2024.

She has decided to graduate after the concert tour in the Spring of next year, as she has decided that she would like to bring her activities as a member of the group to a close and challenge herself to see what she can do on her own and how far she can go.
We will announce the exact date as soon as it is decided.

It has been 11 years since she started as a trainee of Hello Pro and 10 years since she became a member of ANGERME.
I am sure that she will continue to make ANGERME even more exciting until the day of her graduation.

Please continue to support Sasaki Rikako and ANGERME.

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To all of you precious people who have always loved me.

I, Sasaki Rikako, will graduate from ANGERME and Hello! Project after next year's Spring tour.

Since joining Hello! Project at the age of 11 and joining ANGERME at 13, I have selflessly chased after my dreams at a very young age.
I would like to thank everyone who has helped me to become the "Sasaki Rikako" I am today, and I would like to thank all the people I have met and all the members for their support.

I was too young to imagine it, but it made me into the person I am and taught me the form of love, and I always felt how big it was and how it shaped me, and it taught me not only the performance but also the warmth of the heart and the relationship between people, even when it was difficult and painful at times. It is a place that has established my personality.

In the process,
I encountered something that thrilled me from the bottom of my heart, "expression," which moves someone's heart and moves my own heart,
One of the reasons I decided to graduate was that I wanted to know a different side of myself.

I have grown so much through Hello! Project, which I love, that I strongly want to move people's hearts and be a light for them, in a different way,
Sometimes I am scared because I don't know what I will choose or what will happen in my life, but I only have one life,
I don't want to regret not taking off.

That is why I would like to be a person who can take on any shape and color, and I would like to continue to challenge myself.

I will do my best to show you a more matured version of myself, since dance and music, which I love, are indispensable to me!

I hope my presence, even if only a little, will give you hope and confidence to love yourself.

If it doesn't work, I will get up again and hope that everyone will see the new me.

And my eternal youth, the existence of ANGERME

In fact, I want to stay with them until they all grow up.

But time keeps moving forward, so I'll try to take another step forward.

I love you guys.

May we all spend about six months until graduation day laughing, sharing happiness, and chewing on each other's hearts.

I will convey my love with all my might!

Until the very end,
Thank you for your support.

Stay smiling everyone.


http://www.helloproject.com/news/16833/

Sorry for the sudden announcement.

Thank you all for another day of work
Sorry for the end of the day.

Time in ANGERME is Time that is too luxurious
It is an asset for life It is the proof of my life

As long as I continue to exist I will continue to be like the sun.

https://ameblo.jp/angerme-ss-shin/entry ... 54661.html

[Denki]

I am sooooooo sad about this.

[Shoujo Q]

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Maria already mentioned Rikako.

They were such babies when they started.

[Shabranikuduu]

Not unexpected, but still sad!

[JonCC]

11 years is a very good run, the best we could have hoped for really.
And I'd say there's a pretty good chance we'll see more of her post-graduation.

[Ayin]

She's the last one from the S/mileage time no?
I know 3rd gen didnt have a release under the S/mileage name, but they still joined when 1st and 2nd gens were still S/mileage.
Is this the end of an era on this group?

[Denki]

She joined 2 months before they became ANGERME.

But wow. Summer 2024 will have no founding members of Juice=Juice and Anju. They do have great juniors to run the groups.

[Moh]

Mannnn I can't do this anymore.

[Idol Tenshoku Ondo]

Dang, I was expecting either Rikako or Moe to graduate but I'm not happy to hear it. My interest in Angerme was rekindled this year and Rikako was part of it. She's been slaying it for 10 years, I guess it's time for the next stage.