I hoped it was much further away, and yet feared that it wasn't. My fear was greater than my hope, it seems.
What to say? I will proudly bear the name 'Sayumi_fan' until I cease to breathe. She will be gone from Momusu, but she will be forever in my heart, with thankfulness to have followed Momusu since not so long after she and the other Rokkies joined up. I will always remember first noticing her on the cover of Morning Musume Otomegumi's first single Ai no Sono ~Touch My Heart!~ ... I had only just discovered H!P but I desperately wanted to know, who was that girl with the cute face and piercing gaze out from under her jet black hair?
For a while I toyed with other forums as I grew to know H!P, but by the time I found JPHiP in 2005, 'Sayumi-fan' was the only label I could rightly give myself. I was hooked, lined and sinkered by a 16-year-old enchantress from Yamaguchi named Sayumi. The next almost-nine years here have been magic, and I have watched her grow from a kid into a woman with adoration, fascination and delight.
My favourite performances are many. Who can forget
and the spin-off
? But the highlight performance for me has to be the sweet angel wearing that almost-not-there silver mini and those legs up to heaven in last year's Tanjou 15 Shuunen Kinen Concert Tour 2012 Aki ~Colorful Character~, where she sang
... my jaw hit the deck and I needed an earthmover to retrieve it for me!
This won't be my last post in this thread and I have to end for now; so I am sad, yes, and had hoped for another year or so... but I am so happy for who she has become and that I chose her as my oshi so long ago, and she has been a huge part of my adoration of j-idols for more than a decade now. It has been a great privilege, sweet Sayu, and I still will follow your career as much as possible in years to come.