Risa Watanabe: "Soko Magattara, Sakurazaka?" show #82 recap, second of two farewell episodes....

 

 That top pic had never been posted before which is from Risa's second photobook and that's one of her best ones ever. That was released on May 17th and it's been a solid seller as it's been in the top ten for sales all five weeks it's been out. Sure you read the above post and this is just a continuation of what took place for Keya and their 'Soko' hosts wishing Risa a farewell. Seems this graduation was handled better than any other one for a '46' member and that includes all of Nogi's departures. So it ended off with Risa having these two shows, a pair of graduation concerts and a photobook. Nogi has usually done these graduations well but not Keya and it's not management's fault to an extent as often the girls only announce a month in advance when they're departing. So hopefully the other first generation members noticed how well things went and will also announce their grads in the same way

 This episode aired on May 22nd, that was a Sunday and was also the day of Risa's farewell concert at the Yoyogi National Stadium. We picked up right where the last recap ended which is of the second generation members wishing their Senpai a happy future and of course the tears were flowing, they kept up until the vey end. In the previous episode Risa, along with the two hosts Sawabe and Tsuchida, headed to three locations, they headed to a fourth after this scene with the 2G members. The location was an unknown one but it was a house which was fairly good sized and packed inside were the remaining eight first generation members.

 Risa's final activity, outside of her two concerts, was to have a game of Hide and Seek with her long time mates. Said eight members were left but that number will be dwindling on July 24th to six as both Aoi and Rika O will be graduating that day. That will be on day four of this year's 'W-Keyaki Fes'. In all honesty the game was a bit of a lame one but with only fifteen minutes remaining in the show there probably wasn't time for a different kind of long scene. Finding the members wasn't too difficult for Risa and that's when I noticed what a huge house this was, also learned then she does have a driver's license which is a bit rare for an Idol. So after all eight hiding places were found it was time for everyone to give their final farewell speeches to Risa.

 In the last show Yui didn't make an appearance so was hoping she would get a lot of screen time in this show. That sadly didn't happen and I'm also hoping her activities pick back up as she's now my top member for all of the '46' groups. Naturally many tears were shed but luckily was able to hold mine back to an extent, Risa never did reveal what her future plans would be besides doing a bit of modeling work. That wraps this pair of semi sad recaps, as mentioned start with the first screenshot and view all of them in a row to see what took place in the show as they go in order. This is the first time I've had solo posts for the 'Soko' show as I had always included them in group posts but think doing recaps this way works out better but don't think they'll appeal to many fans. Ooops, almost forgot to mention that a little over halfway through there were a couple of taped video messages. You'll see them below which feature Hina's captain Kumi and the long ago departed Keya gal Neru.