Tokyo Sports claims to have gotten insider info that AKB48 1st generation member Kojima Haruna is planning her graduation to coincide with Takahashi Minami’s concert in March 2016. Tokyo Sports has time and again speculated on her graduation date, and whilst Kojima has always avoided realising Tokyo Sports’ speculations, it seems like she’s finally come to a decision.
Insider says “They are from the same generation and it might be due to Takamina’s influence. Kojima is saying she’ll have pressure doing her own graduation concert so she wants to graduate with Takamina. Her family is also troubled. Last year, she invited her family to watch Kouhaku since it would be her last performance with AKB48. However she did not graduate. She also thought about the tough times ahead if she decided to go solo, so she thought it’d be fine to not graduate too.”
However, with the recent “passing of baton” going on with the younger generations, she changed her mind and seems ready now.
Insider predicts that she will make the announcement to graduate with Takamina during AKB48’s annual Request Hour event in January 2016, and she’ll use the first day of Takamina’s concert (26th March 2016) for her own graduation concert.
It seems like management is also reviewing the possibilities of AKB48 43rd single(which features former members Maeda Atsuko, Oshima Yuko, Shinoda Mariko and Itano Tomomi)as Kojima’s graduation single.
In another article where Takamina was interviewed by Tokyo Sports about this, Takamina actually pleaded with Tokyo Sports not to write anymore about Kojiharu’s graduation as it’d just force her to postpone her plans.
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Maybe Miichan can join those two so they can all graduate together?
I think so too..and given her in-and-out senbatsu status, it’d be best for her to tag along so she can get a glamorous sendoff.
I don’t think is true, there wasn’t an article about Kojiharu pushing her graduation so it doesn’t drive attention from Takamina’s one ??. Besides, if she graduates the first date of Takamina’s concert dates it would have the same impact than have their own graduation concert. She said she is gonna graduate next year she can do it in the second half of the year that would be perfect not need to graduate with Takamina I don’t see the point.