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The end of an era: Elder Club graduates

On Sunday, February 1, the 22 members of Elder Club graduated from Hello Project in a concert held at Yokohama Arena. The concert, which featured the return performance of 21-year-old Tsuji Nozomi, was the biggest H!P concert ever, featuring 72 members.Also, if the translated article is correct, this concert includes the last performance of the iconic Hello!Project hit "Love Machine".

Read on for pictures, video, and a full article translation.

Graduation concert for Nacchi and 21 other Hello Project members - Tsuji Nozomi's comeback and a tearful final show

To commemorate the March 31st graduations of the "Hello Project" Elder Club (the older members), including former Morning Musume members and Matsuura Aya (22), a concert began on February 1 at Yokohama Arena, and nearly ten thousand fans showed up to watch their final show.

This concert also included the currently active members, and was the largest Hello Project concert, with 21 groups and 72 members. In the same place they sang their major debut song "Morning Coffee" at a handshake event on February 1, 1998, original Morning Musume members Nakazawa Yuko (35), Abe Natsumi (27), and Iida Kaori (27) sang it again with memories of those days. Both graduating and current members also sang "Love Machine" for the last time, "retiring" the song.

During the final ceremony, representatives of the current members Takahashi Ai (22) of Morning Musume, Yajima Maimi (16) of C-ute, and Shimizu Saki (17) of Berryz Koubou each read a farewell message through their tears. Morning Musume's 6th leader Takahashi declared, "Even when you've graduated, we all look up to you. And of course, please keep on supporting us as fans. And please become even better rivals for us than you already are. Hello Project will last forever.

"In response, graduate representatives Nakazawa, Abe, Matsuura, and Melon Kinenbi's Saito Hitomi (27) read their formal reply, "Even outside of the Hello Project framework, each of us will continue to move forward in our individual ways, using all we've learnt in the past. We want to keep going on with everybody, always using our strongest weapon, 'smiles'." Nakazawa looked upward repeatedly to hold back her tears, while Abe wiped her tears away with her arm as they tried to muster their voices.

After a final choral performance of "All For One & One For All", with all members smiling, the 22 members lines up, joined hands, and gave an enthusiastic three cheers along with the fans. With so many feelings in their hearts, they left the stage.

With this, Hello Project shrinks from 78 down to 56 members, with the average age dropping from 18.0 to 15.1.

Former Morning Musume member Tsuji Nozomi (21), who married actor Sugiura Taiyo (27) in June 2007 and gave birth to daughter Noa (1) that November, also made her return to the stage this day. It had been one year and nine months since her last official event, debuting with "Gyaruru" that April. Her husband and daughter watched over her from the stands, as she sang six songs cheerfully. Tsuji boasted that, "I haven't danced in about two years, so when the music started playing at rehearsal, it was amazing. My body still remembered how. Even after 10 years (after graduating), I wonder if I'll still remember those songs."

At the end of the Hello! Project Award '09 Concert in Yokohama dated Feb 01th, 2009 Nakazawa Yuko has handed the leadership over Takahashi Ai current Morning Musume leader at the end of the graduation ceremony.

At the same time Ai Takahashi gave the three rules manifest of the "New" Hello!Project.

+NICE SHOW
+NICE SING
+NICE SMILE



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Source: Hello! Online


+Very well done. I was very expectative at this date concert since I wanted to grand by myself how the things can to raise it up and to change it & everything ...forever.
Congratulations Ai ^_^ now she is at last officialy the new H!P Leader,yes, with the whole and each word, and very well deserved! hard worker, modest, caring, talented, affective, etc.

Only yesterday we saw the Friday Magazine article, where Ai along Nakamura were leaving and saying goodbye after co-working. We must think that Friday's staff MUST love this artist too much! for writting only "How much Takahashi Ai is cute smiling when she is saying Goodbye" -yes unbelieveable '_'- they only said that.
And, we all know when we want to hate Friday's articles so much! we want!

After all, apparently Ai will never leave Morning Musume ...♥



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