Nozawa Rena (Renachan) / JKT48 1st Generation

Rena Nozawa - The Last Stage @ AKB48 Theater (3/2/2019)

 

I noticed Rena's still on the official website, will she be a member until the handshake event?

 

https://pastebin.com/QPg26LgZ

 

Thank you!

 

The first, the last, and the only time where her handshake line are not available for oshimashi.

Strangereal.

 

Rena seems to have disappeared from the world after her graduation. Nothing on Twitter nor Instagram since May. Anybody who knows anything about her?

 

Back to school as a "normal" girl?

 

I think she finished uni already? Or on her final year.

 

I was watching her in Showroom about a year ago when someone asked her when she would be posting any new NOZAWORLD videos and she said that she’d make some more once she’d finished her finals. I think she’s simply finished her education and quietly started a new career somewhere.

 

She said she want to be a reporter, so maybe we'll see a lot of her later

 

I hope she opens a public Twitter or Instagram one day but I also understand enjoying her privacy after being in the public eye for so long. Hopefully in the meantime she pops up on some of the other members blogs.

 

i miss this girl so much. hope to hear from her again.

 

At last, an update!

Looks like Rena has graduated from university! Via her Instagram story.

 

Rena posted this picture on her Instagram story which redirected to a collection of English writings by Waseda University students. Amoung the pieces was one written by a "Rena" from Tokyo, Japan.

Spoiler: Time Flies and So Do I by Rena

Time Flies and So do I
People fly by my sight, like the vast majority.
Happy lights twitch in the pitch-black sky.
No one to see them. No one to clean them.
Money, flies with white wings,
Buzzing, the mosquito sounds.
Only for the plants.
Yes, I know
the toxic ones.

Warm lights for people who sit on the high chairs.
Cold lights for people who move with the heart.

As an adult,
I thought I couldn’t hear them anymore
But, I guess I was wrong,
I can hear them when I want to.
I can hear them buzzing around my head.
Round-and-round
But, I don’t know how much that will last.

As the snowflakes dry away,
I will walk down the long corridors of the sparkling clean towers
Looking down, seeing the fast-moving tinny city,
I will say,
“Good thing I studied hard”
and feel my mask, wet with tears

I see myself smiling
But our eyes never meet
I look again,
My fake eyes,
Made of brown lenses and liner and shadow
and that ink I put on with my black fluffy worm

I look at the eyes
And, it looks away.
I look at the one eye, on the top of my device
And finally see my straight face

I look down and see my bandaged fingers.
My short bony fingers,
placed on the keys like two claws.
I hated these once.

But now, with nobody to see them,
I don’t mind at all.

They see me.
From the perfect angle
Perfect as I will ever get

And

I am here
Just being me.

Just being Female.

Rena, Tokyo, Japan

 

Today is Rena's 23 birthday!
She treated us with another update on her Instagram story.

 

Rena has tweeted today for the first time in nearly a year, she attended the JKT48 10th Anniversary Concert and took a 2-shot with Gaby who graduated today:
https://twitter.com/RENAN0ZAWA/status/1555953388877398017