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I was rather skeptical about news partly as it was revealed after the AKB48 General Elections and that the publication was known to have reported false scandals before. I believe that it's a doing of a Sasshi's hater, in response to her fast rise in ranking - entering 4th in position this year.
Genuine or not, I already expected that Aki-P (Akimoto Yasushi Producer) would not just do nothing about it. I was starting to fear that Sasshi might need to be suspended.
Surprisingly, it was just revealed on ANN that Sasshi will be transferred to HKT48, instead of being suspended. Looking at the bright side first... she's won't be graduating but... I strongly feel that this is totally not a good solution.
On ANN:
秋元康「いろいろ考えました。どうすればいいのかと。指原がどういう形であれ、AKBを応援してくれるファンの方に過去だけど誤解を招く形の行動をしたことは間違いないです。指原莉乃は明日からHKT48に移籍します」
Translation
Akimoto Yasushi: I’ve thought about it for a long time. What should I do. Because of Sashihara’s misleading behaviour in the past to the fans who have supported AKB. Sashihara Rino will be moving to HKT48 tomorrow.
So instead of suspension, Sasshi would be given a chance to start afresh in HKT48. Even though Sasshi is one of my top favourite AKB48 members and would not want her to graduate just because of that news article but I strongly disagree with the decision of transferring her to HKT48. A punishment might just be unavoidable but with this transfer, it feels as if that HKT48 is being punished as well - for apparently no good reason!
With HKT48 Team H being full and that Sasshi is being transferred as a 'reset', I am guessing she would be joining the Team Kenkyuusei.
I initially am only feeling very sad for Sasshi's plight and with this I am really worried for HKT48 too. Hope everything would somehow turn out to be okay and that HKT48 would not be affected in a bad way.
UPDATE:
Sasshi's last concert performance would be on the 20th of June
Source: AKB48 Official Blog
UPDATE (17th June):
Sasshi's last concert postponed to July as to not clash with Natsumi Matsubara's birthday party on the 20th of June.
Source: AKB48 Official Blog
UPDATE (19th June):
Sasshi's profile have been officially removed from Team A and placed under HKT48 header in the AKB48 official site. Her profile is also under a team in HKT48 official site called 'チーム未定' ('Team Unconfirmed').
Sasshi's profile removed from Team A
Under HKT48
In Team 'Unconfirmed'
UPDATE (5th July):
Sashihara Rino will be joining Team H
And now Team H consists of 17 members.. hmm...
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