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[midnightbottle]

It's interesting that she is going back into the entertainment industry doing back-up dancer to Babymetal and then now doing stage plays.

Perhaps she has no interest in being a solo music singer, which may not be a good thing coz she could be marketed as another idol singer and I think it will stress her out.

[ItsudemoAibon]

I don't think, at this point, you can put any limits on what she's going to do. She is starting her fanclub on the 24th, she has ManoEri's former manager as hers now, there's even a "Riho Sayashi staff" twitter account. In essense, she's setting herself up to be a force in the entertainment industry. Expect goods, FC events, more stage work, singing and dancing and record releases.

[midnightbottle]

I don't think, at this point, you can put any limits on what she's going to do. She is starting her fanclub on the 24th, she has ManoEri's former manager as hers now, there's even a "Riho Sayashi staff" twitter account. In essense, she's setting herself up to be a force in the entertainment industry. Expect goods, FC events, more stage work, singing and dancing and record releases.

That's true. Perhaps she is just starting out with things that she likes to do first (or she is most comfortable with) and then based on how well-received her solo work and then slowly venture off into doing more other stuff in her own time.

[XFER]

I am seeing Riho, like many (or most) of former Momusu members. They are out there, doing work we may never see, like plays. And are not exactly singers or actresses, or this or that. And instead they do a bit of everything, which kinda dilutes their appeal to me, since as a main consumer of music, I don't really get anything from whatever they do, except if they release music. Still, I wish Riho went into a music career.

[Brainstorming]

Nah I strongly disagree. First you can already pre order her latest play she's starring. She did really great in it, her singing improved so much. She went to a clinic before going abroad to heal her voice.
Now Riho just happens to be great at all three types of performance she likes : dancing, singing, acting. Plus she's a curious person, she can't just stick to doing one thing. I personally find that great that she does different things. For now her articles, her two plays(the second one is co produced by amuse!) , her drama next month.. Also she mentionned wanting to do a liveshow. So we may hope for a solo musical project of some sort.
It's so great to see her fully back and active doing what she loves, performing on stage

[rcb2418]

I was always under the impression that she liked doing musicals more than anything.

[Brainstorming]

She has a website, soon the fanclub opens and a solo show is announced for her next birthday

[Satur]

She has a website, soon the fanclub opens and a solo show is announced for her next birthday

May 28th (her birthday)

[ItsudemoAibon]

There's a nice long interview in the notorious Friday magazine. My takeaway was that the reason she quit Morning Musume is because she felt her life was being micro-managed and she had no freedom. That explains why she moved to New York City, where she had to find and rent her own apartment, do her own cooking, manage her entire life by herself. She even said she often ate out alone.

https://news.yahoo.c...961d62b0c155ce8

[RihoZukki]

If I recall correctly, her last straw was when she posted on her blog something like "Should I dye my hair?" and the wota were like "No, stay pure and keep it black".

[Brainstorming]

Obviously shes more free now to do what she wants. Officially in her recent interviews she mentions how everyth was planned for her in MM and she had nothing to do. So she wanted to learn how to do things on her own instead of having everyth served to her on a plate. Plus her whole '' becoming and adult '' taking the time to reflect on what she wanna do and who she wanna be... She also mentions how disorienting it was at first to suddenly have all this free time, but she got used to it and could spend much time with her family.
Off record, I assume being overworked and having her voice damaged played a role too. On Niira 's advice (vocal coach and friend) she went to a clinic for her voice before gng abroad. Now her singing in her two recent projects is sooo amazing!!
I don't think she was that disappointed about the management otherwise we wouldn't have seen her perform with MM again.
Btw between her two projects she had and about 15 interviews in 3 months, Japan very much knows she's back now yeyy, time to make your music Riho, she hinted that she will at least

[Touki]

Being famous as an idol has its own price to pay, unfortunately. I'm glad that she can find the way out of it, even if it means she had to graduate at an early age. As a fan, I don't want to see her being unhappy while being a MM member.

[ItsudemoAibon]

I don't think it's a case of being happy/unhappy, it's a matter of which trade offs one is willing to accept. I'm sure there are equally many good and bad points about being an idol. That's why you're going to see a certain number who just drop out and return to normal life, like Sakitty and Yuukarin from S/mileage, or those who have no intention of quitting, like Miyabi.

The main thing about being an idol, for all its costs and rewards, is that being one opened the door for everyone of these girls to build a career on it.

Thinking of three fairly recent graduates, Harunan, Kananan and Haachin, all three couldn't be making a social media splash today if it wasn't for being H!P idols. Well, Harunan still works for the company in a couple of jobs but her main presence is on social media.

[bobvahn]

it said thet she was going to US alone, searching rent by visiting many city, alone.. and living alone.

i dont have any idea how she do that. I`m fine with living alone, but How she know where to go around and with what? she is not afraid to get robbed in NYC? i dont even know how good her english.

She have to teach me how to do that.

[ItsudemoAibon]

I imagine there were some resources available to her. NYC has the largest Japanese population in the world outside of Japan, I presume she was in contact with someone in the Japanese ex-pat community.

[gurico]

[Brainstorming]

https://twitter.com/...596295949721600trailer without area restrictions.
The episode comes out this Friday, expect a subbed version few days after. Riho plays an homonym character but with a slightly different personality. The story is about how the main character is getting more hopeful as he s beside Riho's lively personality.

[gurico]

I couldn't upload the image ,so I shared it here

 

https://imgur.com/a/6N9FA5e

[AloiChan]

Oh, wow. I felt like she looked a bit more mature in recent pics, but if you'd told me that that trailer came out 5 or 6 years ago, I wouldn't have questioned it for a second.

 

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I imagine there were some resources available to her. NYC has the largest Japanese population in the world outside of Japan, I presume she was in contact with someone in the Japanese ex-pat community.

 

 

Sorry, but I'm pretty sure that's not accurate. I know this is nitpicky, but where'd you get your information?
It's not too important, since NYC does still have enough of a Japanese population to where she could have easily reached out to someone. Still, I believe even within the US, it's not as much as Honolulu. As far as I know, São Paulo has the largest Japanese population in the world outside of Japan, but I may just be confusing that with Brazil in general.

[ItsudemoAibon]

First radio show under her belt! Special message included in the first four minutes.