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[hanawopun]

I'm only familiar with the Dream Morning Musume reunion in 2011... have there been other such reunion shows of post-graduates??  I'd love to see more (especially on DVD).

[Nayok-Kihara]

Not full dedicated shows of their own, but what immediately comes to mind are T&C Bomber (minus Ruru) and Melon Kinenbi perorming at "COUNTDOWN PARTY 2013", and Melon Kinenbi performing again this year at "Hello! Project 20th Anniversary!! Hello! Project Hello! Fes 2018".

[hanawopun]

That's unfortunate... I mean obviously many idols leave for a REASON and start families, etc. but... maybe if they actually made good money themselves, they'd do more like traditional band comebacks, but I guess since idols are merely puppets of the record companies breeding new eggs is more financially profitable then trying to pull together older stars. What a shame.

[Juandalyn]

They often have former MM members perform Love Machine, RR21 or The Peace on TV, but that's not exactly what you mean with reunion, right? 

 

I kind of feel like Berryz and/or °C-ute will have a reunion for a special concert one day, though. None of the members has disappeared completely.

[hanawopun]

^ a tiny image like that (even when I opened it) where I can barely make anyone out is hardly what I had in mind... but thank you for sharing.

 

They often have former MM members perform Love Machine, RR21 or The Peace on TV, but that's not exactly what you mean with reunion, right? 

 

I kind of feel like Berryz and/or °C-ute will have a reunion for a special concert one day, though. None of the members has disappeared completely.

 

I agree!  I would LOVE a Berryz or C-ute reunion, though in some ways it feels too soon right now.  I guess with Risako having a baby (and who knows who else) it may become a challenge.

Perhaps it would be easier to do like a combo concert where each group performs like 3-4 songs... not as taxing on them as a full concert.

And yes by reunion I didn't mean like a one off performance... I saw some recent MiniMoni reunion (though it wasn't all members) make a TV show appearance, which is cool and all but I'd want to have something a bit more, especially to own on DVD / blu ray.

 

I just watched the Dream Morning Musume concert and Koharu really shouldn't have been there (as much as I love her).  I just don't get why they couldn't have Maki Goto - that would have made it so much better.

[Nayok-Kihara]

Maki appeared at the 2012 Dream Morning Musume Budokan concert at least? She'd been on indefinite hiatus before that, and was no longer affiliated with Up-Front; those are the most likely reasons to her not being in the group itself (though I think I remember DMM making a brief appearance at her final concert before hiatus, in 2011).