graduation

At the premiere for AKB48's documentary "No Flower Without Rain", tomochin announced that she will be graduating sometime this year.

I was somewhat expecting this news,

I mean, she's mentioned thinking about it,

She's pretty successful solo,

and when teamtomo was created,

I just assumed this was so that if she graduates,

She would still know how many fans she has.

I'm extremely excited to see what other things she will do.

I know this won't be the last time we see her around AKB48,

I mean, she still meets up with acchan now,

and acchan showed up in the 1st gen picture to support miichan~

So yay for tomochin taking a step forward,

and possibly paving another path that younger ones could take :)

-mikari