No, I DON'T care if everyone else has already commented on this

[matataku_hoshi]

*seethes and fumes* This is…so not allowed it’s not even funny.  It’s taking all of my will power not to go into all caps locks.  Oh, what the hell: THIS IS NOT ALLOWED!!!!  I FORBID IT!!!!!!!!  STOP MESSING WITH ME, UNIVERSE!!!!!!!!

It’s always the ones you don’t suspect.  I was worried that it was going to be one of the M girls unexpectedly taking off.  Obviously I’m happy that didn’t happen, but…this sucks just as much as that scenario would have.

And I swear, I am cursed when it comes to background people in tsukigumi.  Every time I start to notice someone they announce their retirement.  I was expecting Kitajima Mami after she didn’t get promoted to fukumichou, but there was no warning about Shiki Erio.

I like Koshino Ryuu a lot, but is she really ready to be kumichou?  She only just started as fukumichou.  I wouldn’t be surprised if Misa Noeru takes over as the new kumichou, given how much she’s been hanging around tsukigumi lately.  Or if Koshino Ryuu does get moved up to kumichou, I think they’d need to bring in someone else as fukumichou.  (Keep in mind that Koshino Ryuu graduated in 1993 and is already slightly younger than Asako.  Dear God, if they don’t bring in someone older as the new kumichou, Asako is going to be the oldest member of the troupe).  *scratches head* Or maybe the upperclassmen musumeyaku from hana who recently got moved to senka?  (My sincerest apologies, Lucia, but without the TakaWiki I’m quite frankly useless).  Or Miho Keiko?

In any case, this is still not acceptable.  However, if Misa Noeru becomes the new kumichou I will at least agree not to take the next shinkansen down to Takarazuka-shi and start throwing things at whatever building Hankyu uses for their administration.

There has been an incredible amount of movement of people out of tsukigumi recently, and in key positions too.  I’m thinking there has to be some sort of movement in the other direction.  There has to be some new people who are transferring in.  For some of the positions (new sanbante otokoyaku, new top musumeyaku, new kumichou) it’s very possible that people already in tsukigumi will be bumped up, but even if that happens tsukigumi is wearing a little thin.

*wails* But I don’t want new people, I want the people we have now~!  It wasn’t until I watched some footage of Mihoko from the MiiMai press conference the other day that her retirement really hit me.  With these three as well, the entire thing seems like a really, really horrible dream.  I’m quite frankly in shock.  I’m imagining this whole fan-fiction-esque scenario in my head where Asako was lifeless in the Tokyo run of A-“R”ex because she found out that so many cool people were leaving her.

I will soon after posting proceed to sell off the rest of my worldly possessions so I can afford a scalped B-seki Tokyo senshuraku seat.  Someone please remind me that I’m not allowed to buy anything for the next four or five months.