A Crackhead Will Leave the Building

In case you’re living under the world’s biggest rock, let me tell you this: Kusumi Koharu is set to graduate from Morning Musume and Hello! Project.

She’ll go after the last concert of the current Momusu tour in December. It seems she’s set to go after some solo work… particularly modeling. It seems she’ll take some time off to take some classes and all of that. But, oddly enough? Like °C-ute’s Erika who also left to pursue modeling… she’s leaving at the age of 18.

I guess I can see where you’d want to cut ties with H!P when you do get that age if you feel like there’s more you could be doing. And, Koharu’s attractive enough in my mind (unlike Erika, to me) that I can see her doing particularly well in the modeling world, even if she isn’t quite tall enough by “world standards”.

I’ll be sad to see Koha go. The girl, if nothing else, had charisma bursting at the seams.

That said, seeing as how Koharu has been doing a lot of TV shows lately… I’m wondering if Sayumi will be the next to go as she turns to being a talento.