Sayashi Riho to Graduate from Morning Musume。'15 on 12/31

[Jessi]

I'm sure hello station will have something too

[AyuHikaru]

Riho decided to graduate during one of Japan's biggest holidays. Maybe she really didn't want a spectacle

[otaku_blue]

actually weird i was back tracking and they never really did show Countdown Live footage last year except for CG.

please dont do this ;_____________; i hope they upload it next week. i need closure!

[Jessi]

Ok I was wrong. What the? Maybe on the girls live? Did that air yet?

Edit: Was wrong again.

Guess we will just wait until the... DVD? They release those for the Countdown Live right?

[Amped]

from Hello! Station

- Sayashi Riho's graduation ceremony at H!P Countdown Party
https://youtu.be/uZn4x2y3Ryk?t=7m18s

- Sayashi Riho's last performance - ENDLESS SKY (H!P Countdown Party)
https://youtu.be/uZn4x2y3Ryk?t=16m45s

- Sayashi's Riho final comments
https://youtu.be/uZn4x2y3Ryk?t=16m44s

[erilaz]

Guess we will just wait until the... DVD? They release those for the Countdown Live right?

Yes, but they don't come out until April or May.

[Jessi]

^ I just saw that hellostation did in fact show some footage from Riho's graduation and a little bit of buono and other stuff. For now I'm satisfied.

[Amped]

Love Music 1-15-16 - superfan Matsuoka Mayu passionately continues to talk about Sayashi Riho's graduation

[Shoujo Q]

I didn't know where else to put this so I found this ancient thread and bumped it.

Sayashi Riho ended her contract with Up-Front at the end of November. She's officially gone.

The Source -> Up-Front Statement and her own.

I wish her all the best in her future goals. She's got a lot of talent and I'm sad she got burnt out in H!P so quickly.

3 years sure does fly by.

[Celedam]

And so the theory that H!P members have four-year contracts with Up-Front is sustained. Assuming she had to sign a contract when she entered the final rounds of the audition in late 2010, it has been eight years total.

We’re left to wonder, if she renewed her contract in late 2014, then why did she graduate only a year later? Remembering various things from that time, I still think she developed some sort of health problem that made it difficult for her to work full-time. But that’s just me.