Wild. I normally check the bbs before work, and of all days, today I didn't.
More TF graduations aren't a shock -- their last two singles have felt like a transitional period, like trying to figure out what TF is moving toward but definitely leaving what they had been behind -- but a double-grad? And three groups leaders graduating in a single year? Crazy. We've seen periods of high turnover in H!P before, but 2023 seems uniquely transformational because all of the graduates are pretty important members.
Of the two leaving, Kishimon surprises me the least because it has increasingly seemed to me that she had outgrown the group, or was at least being constrained by it. I'm not sure how a solo career will work for her outside of M-line (if that's what she's gunning for) since her name recognition is pretty much non-existent outside of the Harowota bubble.
Riko is slightly more surprising, although still not an actual surprise based on her age and the fact that the Tsubaki Factory she lead has been irrevocably changed. I think that will likely prompt other members to peace-out, too, maybe as early as next spring or summer (looking at some combination of Mao, Saorin and Kisora.)