“The Blue Sky I Wanted to See” is an idol group formed in June 2023 that drew attention for being billed as Nogizaka46’s “official rival.” Anya Nishimori and Yuria Miyakoshi, members since the group’s founding, have announced they will graduate from the group at the end of January 2027. According to the official website, the decision came at the members’ own request, with Nishimori commenting, “I came to feel that I wanted to pursue a different path.” On 5ch, discussion centered less on the graduation itself than on the group’s struggling popularity, the fact that collaborations with Nogizaka have barely happened, and suspicions about the management given the overlapping hiatuses of other members.
Anya Nishimori and Yuria Miyakoshi of “The Blue Sky I Wanted to See” will graduate from the group at the end of January 2027.
Nishimori and Miyakoshi have been active members of the group (nicknamed “Bokusei”) since June 2023. According to the official website’s announcement, the members themselves requested the graduation, and after repeated discussions, this conclusion was reached.
Nishimori explained the circumstances behind her graduation: “After thinking many times about what comes next in my life while doing this work, I came to feel that I wanted to pursue a different path.” She added, “For the time I have left, I’ll do my best to give back even a little of my gratitude, so I hope you’ll watch over me until the very end.”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
Dragging it out like this is exactly why the members can't bring themselves to give up.
Management needs to make the call.
They must be deep in the red — total Concorde fallacy situation, too far in to pull out now.
Guess it's actually been going for a while.
These two were definitely gonna quit lol
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Also, Ai Kinoshita is on hiatus to focus on her studies
Yua Kudo has also been on hiatus from group activities since late August due to poor health
and then got completely ignored by Nogizaka.
Of course their spirit would break.
Maybe it's because I live out in the countryside, but I haven't known anything except the group's name since their debut.
but the group never used that well.
That's totally wrong.
A lively otaku would go to Heroines,
a normal otaku would go to Kawara Lab.
next up recruiting are the Sashihara-affiliated groups and the Sakamichi groups.
Guess that's where they'll end up.
No matter what you do at this point, it's a sinking ship.
Unless you're a regular in the senbatsu lineup, you'll never get to see blue skies.
where are they gonna end up?
Well, the idol boom has passed anyway.
The "idol" title itself matters a lot, you know.
If anything, this girl is their last hope.
I wonder if there's even enough work for them to actually get paid.
Well, "The Blue Sky I Wanted to See" debuted as Nogizaka's official rival, after all.
Wasn't it a different talent agency though?
Getting completely ignored by Nogizaka must have been a miscalculation.
Morning Musume, AKB, Nogizaka —
old-timer fans just love idols who claw their way up through hardship.
Nogizaka also failed from the start, though.
I heard the Nogizaka era from their debut up through "Kimi no Na wa Kibou" is considered a "dark history" — never performed live, and most fans don't even know about it.
Apparently if you can name Nogizaka's debut song, "Guruguru Curtain," fans will respect you for it.
Background and Talking Points
“The Blue Sky I Wanted to See” formed in June 2023 and debuted billed as Nogizaka46’s “official rival,” but the group belongs to a different talent agency than Nogizaka, and actual joint appearances or collaborations have barely materialized. On the thread, comments pointing out this gap — being “completely ignored by Nogizaka” — stood out. Beyond this graduation announcement, posters also noted that Ai Kinoshita is on hiatus to focus on her studies and Yua Kudo is on hiatus due to poor health, meaning the overlapping departures and hiatuses of core members over the past few months became a bigger talking point than the graduation itself. Management’s announcement was limited to saying the decision came “at the members’ own request,” with no concrete explanation of treatment or future plans for the group. Many posts speculated about transfers to other Sakamichi-affiliated or underground idol groups, but these are all baseless guesses, and any post-graduation plans will have to wait for an announcement from the members themselves.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Idols] “The Blue Sky I Wanted to See” — Anya Nishimori and Yuria Miyakoshi Announce Graduation!“
