Kanna’s GONE?! (Donmai!)
Kanna goes Bye Bye Bye!! (cake+and+lemons)
Kanna Arihara leaves C-ute (Morningtime)
Wait…?  WHAT?!  NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! (Sora to Kujira)
Goodbye Kanna (Bikkuri Project)
栞菜ちゃんへ。。。 (モーニングBerryz…the morning after…..)

So this is the first major H!P departure we have seen since the massive Elder Club graduation announcement almost 9 months ago.  Understandably everyone has an opinion on this.  Not that this was a surprising announcement.  But this is the first change to happen to one of Hello! Project’s three core groups since Mikitty left Morning Musume.  (I think)

I must admit I really felt sad while reading Donmai’s post, which is a fictional description of what it would’ve been like the day Kanna returned to C-ute.  It’s a moment that will now never happen, which makes her sad too.  It would have been nice to see Kanna return to the stage with her mates again, even if it were one last time to give her a proper sendoff.

Deanna isn’t buying all of the hype about this being some sort of grand cover-up.  Is it really far-fetched to believe that Kanna merely decided that this was her time to leave H!P.  Maybe it was as simple as her wanting to return to a normal life.  Or perhaps her injury is one that would limit her future performing career.  Maybe the real story is that there isn’t an inside story.

Morningtime celebrates Kanna’s graduation with a series of pics of Kanna groping other H!P members…Bwahahahahaha!

Jin is thankful for the time he got to spend obsessing over his favorite C-ute member, and wishes Kanna luck for the future.  He feels C-ute doesn’t look right with a 6-nin lineup, and figures they will need to bring on another member to be complete again.  To him this has just as big an impact as someone like Miyabi leaving Berryz or Aichan leaving MoMusu.

On the contrary, Celestia figures C-ute will be fine moving forward as she didn’t see Kanna as a major impact member.  And she also figures there is some sort of scandal being kept quiet.  Case in point, why no graduation?

And finally MB presents us with a most beautiful and heartfelt post celebrating the memories of Kanna and her days as an H!P idol.  It is a wonderful love letter, one I am sure Kanna would appreciate if she had the opportunity to read it.  Hey MB, you should write that out and mail it to her.

Just a suggestion…more to come!