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The story
ANGERME’s Suzu Hashisako will graduate from the group following next spring’s tour, it has been announced. Hashisako joined ANGERME in 2019 and is currently 20 years old (turning 21 next month), marking her 7th year in the group. On 5ch’s Hello! Project board, the announcement sparked lively discussion covering predictions for the exact graduation date, the status of trainees, and comparisons with other Hello! Project members from her same age group. The thread also floated theories that the move was a “course correction” after weak sales for the autumn concerts, along with complaints about the group’s stage direction — reactions that spread well beyond the graduation announcement itself.
What people said
Suzu Hashisako
Graduating at next year's spring tour
She joined ANGERME in Reiwa 1 (2019), so that's already 7 years.
Joined in 2019, so this is her 7th year.
The only one left is "Nishi" — Shiori Nishida.
Kawamura, Yuhane, and others.
Just Nishida now.
Used to also have Kawamura, Yokoyan, and the other Yamazaki (not that one).
She's 20.
And she still had so much ahead of her.
Turns 21 on the 6th next month.
https://stat.ameba.jp/user_images/20190718/09/rassy-bi/eb/80/j/o2001112514505603915.jpg
2005.05.09 Homare Okamura (Morning Musume。)
2005.06.16 Sumire Tashiro (OCHA NORMA)
2005.06.28 Airi Yamazaki (Morning Musume。)
2005.07.07 Ria Matsunaga (Juice=Juice)
2005.07.20 Kazuki Nakayama (OCHA NORMA)
2005.10.06 Suzu Hashisako (ANGERME)
2005.10.18 Risa Irie (Juice=Juice)
2005.11.11 Rio Sakurai (Morning Musume。)
Would be the group's first "proper" graduation (though not confirmed until the actual date passes)
They all look like completely different ages.
Classic Hello! Project thing.
Tashiro's already left, though.
Honestly, you could put together a solid group with just these members.
Well, obviously.
Got a source for that?
"Retiring" from an industry she was never really in to begin with?
Next spring.
I'd guess around June next year.
Way too late.
Just make it next month.
Maybe it's a course correction since the autumn concerts aren't selling.
Even if you don't like Hashisako, you wouldn't do something this blatant.
Re: #339
Tomorrow! Hana Goto
2026-09-11 21:43:55
https://ameblo.jp/angerme-new/entry-12978445666.html
Look forward to tomorrow!
I know I've gone and raised my own bar with this, but…!
See ya!
She literally wrote she's raising the bar for herself — she's just talking about her own thing.
Can you seriously not read that much?
That Budokan stage production was garbage.
Isn't it the same team as Juice=Juice?
No way it's the same stage director. If it were, they'd never let something that lame happen — a typo-ridden video intro followed by such a limp, awkward entrance.
(Anywhere but ANGERME… anywhere but ANGERME)
Here you go
→OCHA NORMA
UP-FRONT: "ANGERMEEE—GOTCHA!!!" (the agency forcibly slotting a trainee into ANGERME regardless of what she wants, mimicking a trap snapping shut)
Background and Talking Points
In Hello! Project, it’s standard for several months to half a year to pass between a graduation announcement and the actual graduation date, with a solo graduation concert or tour held in between — and no concrete graduation date was confirmed alongside this announcement either. The “next spring” and “around June next year” timeframes floated in the thread are purely speculation from posters, not official statements, and should be read as such. Likewise, the claim that she would also “retire from the entertainment industry” drew calls from other posters in the thread for a source, and remains unverified. Hashisako was born in 2005 and is often discussed alongside other group members from the same age bracket, but since joining dates and career milestones differ from group to group, such direct comparisons are hard to draw meaningfully.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “ANGERME’s Suzu Hashisako Announces Graduation.”
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