Hayashi Mirei (Mirei) / 10th Generation

This news is definitely very shocking... I didn't expect this at all... o_o I noticed that it's been a while since the last time Mirei centered a single, and I thought that maybe management is giving her a break but I thought the push would return. Now I'm wondering if management had discussions with her for a while now and that this is why they didn't make her center since maybe her situation in the group wasn't sure... Although she still centered for Team E in the last single, she centered songs in the new Team E stage last year and she had a solo song for units... So yes... This whole thing is just very surprising because Mirei really looked like she had tons of motivation, a lot of maturity, she looked like she was really in control, very serious about being an idol. I'm wondering what happened to make her decide this...

This is such a loss for SKE, they invested a lot in her and it gave good results. The fans like her... Once again, SKE loses one of their young aces at a young age. and it's getting more and more difficult for 48 groups nowadays to make a member get popular. They have to start all over again with other members ._.

Personally I'm not usually in favor of pushing members at such a young age but Mirei was such a good performer and had a mature personality, she handled everything so well. But again things end like this :/ The fact that she leaves when she's like 15 years old and it's just now that she could have started doing her best as an idol... Sigh :/

This is one of the most surprising graduations of 48G in the recent years. It's been a while since I last thought "this is way too early for her to graduate" about a graduation. it's sad