Mano Erina has graduated from H!P

[Mizu_D3]

How can the setlist be out before the concert has even started
I have a feeling it ~might~ be fanmade.

yap! thats fanmade...
my bad

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http://mainichi.jp/mantan/news/20130223 ... 4000c.html
http://mainichi.jp/graph/2013/02/23/201 ... c/001.html
http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/music/2021978/full/

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Mano's profile is officially gone now from the main page
http://www.helloproject.com/member/

and now with OG
http://www.helloproject.com/member/member-og.html

[Zunu]

^ Just looking at that OG page. Ayaya is nearly unrecognizable. And why is Satoda Mai the only one with her old gig in parentheses?

[teth]

^ Cause technically the group hasn't disbanded.

[Mirai]

Good-bye Mano-chan, and good luck on your acting career.

[DARC1993]

love you Mano!
good luck!

[Menno]

I haven't posted that much for a while, but since it's Mano-chan's graduation it's a good time to pick it up a bit again.

Especially since since I went to her first solo concert back in 2009.... and her last one yesterday.


I might write a longer review later after somebody posts the actual setlist (edit: I didn't look into the concert thread), but the concerts where awesome. She was really strong and beautiful, she didn't cry as much as at her 1st concert. There were a couple of surprises, like the 4 girls that were the extra non kenshuusei up back dancers she had during a special dance break and some later songs. At the 1st concerts there were only 5 VTR's of the main H!P groups and Tsunku with a special message for Erina. They also played them at the final concert, but at the end during the 2nd encore Momochi and Maimi also came on stage to say good-bye. With the friends theme that is part of Mano's career it was only appropriate that they where there.

So even though it was a graduation concert and that I had some acute money problems after my credit card and debit card stopped working on the 1st day here (that was Friday, and today I will get "emergency cash" money via my bank at western union with my passport) I did really enjoy the concert.

It was not a sad graduation concert, she ended it with a fantastic concert that's worth watching for everyone when it comes out on DVD.


ps.
The western fanbase let her down a bit. Apart from me there were only 2 other western foreign fans at the concert, one guy from the USA who I met 2 years ago around the Takahashi Ai graduation (the guy from jphip translations). And a guy from Austria who I met last year at the Buono concert in Paris.

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Mano blogged, saying she just woke up and she realized that she graduated
http://ameblo.jp/manoerina-official/ent ... 73423.html

[erilaz]

^ Cause technically the group hasn't disbanded.

Incidentally, how would a group disband when it has only one member?

(Hi, teth! Long time no see!)