A few hours ago, the sole 7th gen member of Morning Musume, Kusumi Koharu, graduated from the longest stable line up that Morning Musume has ever had. I realize that many blogs are commemorating this date with various pic spam posts and goodbye messages.

While she was never a favourite member of mine, she was definitely an interesting character and Morning Musume will have a different feel to it as it always does after a member graduates. So, I thought in order to commemorate the enjoyment she brought to me during her tenure with Morning Musume, I’d just post these two videos from Music Fighter appearances in the past year or so. Koharu was definitely a member that could get me laughing.

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I love this story of Sayu’s about how much stress Koharu brought her as she mentored the then 12-year old. I’m sure any that for TV performances they had around this time, the staff made Sayu’s messed up eyebrows look presentable. But man, a stressed out Sayu taking it out on her eyebrows would have been amusing to see. XD [translated by xmorfis]

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Now, I wish I could read Kanji, but gathering from the other girls’ responses her Kanji was horrible. XD I love Linlin’s “Are you Japanese?” LOL! [translated by N!N]

Also, for those of you who wanted to read a translation of the messages from each of the members during the graduation concert, turbos86 from Hello! Online translated them here.

Congratulations Koharu!! Good luck in all your future endeavours!!

Now, I’m sure we’re all waiting with baited breath to learn when the next set of auditions will begin.