Rena Matsui: April 2015 happenings....

 Don't know if others had heard the news as I just learned about this today but on April 12th after a Nogi46 handshaking event Rena graduated from the group! There was zero news or any indication that she was going to be leaving the group, there was also no reason from her about it as during her graduation speech she gave no reasons and just stated the obvious things one would expect to hear.
 There really was no reason why she was transferred originally to Nogi46 a year ago but could have had something to do with helping their sales out, their singles have increased in sales but were increasing before Rena joined the group so don't think she had much of an impact on their popularity. One reason could be that she was getting a bit burned out as she's also a full time member of SKE and a part timer with AKB, she's really had no breaks for a long, long time. However just because she's left the group doesn't mean we'll be hearing any less from her though as she was just a part timer with Nogi, if you go to nihongo.com you can read an article about the graduation, some pics from it.

 Guess these will be the last set of Rena Nogi cards and they're for March/April.

 Have a couple of mag spreads and this set is from volume 67 of Spoon.

 One last Rena thing and that's a another superb new mag spread from Big Comic Spirits #20.