This is really sad
I agree with Almond, it's really suspicious that she was going to be absent of the elder concert, now I'm positive that this was the reason, it was already planned. That also explains the shitty promotion her How to use SEXY album got, and it was her best work (damn, it was H!P's best album ever), they just ignored her since she was already leaving....
It's sad that one of H!P's emblematic artists is leaving, I'll still support her ofc, but there's a big void in H!P right now, it'll still survive, specially because of Morning Musume C-ute and Berryz, which still sell decent numbers and have successful concerts and merchandise sells, but the elder concerts are really weakened now...
Anyway, I hope the goddess gets a really successful career wherever she goes, all my
to you.