Nogizaka Ichijo popularity group member Ikuta Eirihana announced this year that she will "graduate" at the end of 2021, whether you are familiar with Nogizaka 46 or not, as the ace of the first term, her sweet appearance and strong singing strength, from the beginning of her debut, she became a core member and soon assumed the responsibility of the center C position. Her announcement of "graduation" made Nogizaka 46 fans shout reluctantly, why do idols have to "graduate"? What else can they do after graduation?
Born on January 22, 1997 in Düsseldorf, Germany, Ikuta returned to Japan at the age of 5.
When she was a child, after watching the musical, Little Annie aspired to become a musical theater actor, and learned a lot of talents for this. Classical ballet, calligraphy, swimming, English, piano... Nothing is difficult for her, and she has even been selected for the piano department of the Japanese Classical Music Competition, which can be said to be a veritable talented and beautiful girl.
Although originally aimed to be a musical theater actor, but at the beginning there was no way, and then just saw the nogisaka 46 first term student recruitment advertisement, felt that idols and musical theater actors are singing and dancing on the stage, although the name is different but the essence remains unchanged, in August 2011 through the draft as a first-term student to join Nogisaka 46, but also because she became an idol, so that Ikuta Eirihana has the opportunity to contact her favorite song and dance, musical, her talent has also been noticed by people in the industry, He even participated in the performance of the world-famous musical "Les Misérables", and received the "Iwatani Shiko Award" and a prize of 1 million yen for the music and art awards that are active in many fields. Strong singing prowess was also perfectly performed at the unplugged solo concert "MTV Unplugged: Erika Ikuta from Nogizaka46".
Many people may have doubts, have heard of Janis idols or other members of the boy group say that they want to quit or disband, but rarely hear "graduation", but every once in a while there will be members of the female idol group who will announce graduation, why must they graduate?
The main reason is that the Japanese definition of "idol" does not simply refer to "worshiped characters", but has the label of "young and beautiful and cute dynamic singer", they believe that idols have a shelf life, especially for the age of girls, there are high standards of requirements, when an age is not suitable to continue such an image, so to use "graduation" to transform. However, there are exceptions, such as AKB48's Yuki Kashiwaki, who has turned 30 years old, is still active in the group as an idol.
Another reason is that most of the way women's groups operate in the form of new and old blood rotation to keep fans fresh, and there will be new selection meetings every period of time, so there will be a distinction between first-term students, second-term students, and OO students, representing the period when the idol was selected to join the group. However, the graduation of popular members and the rotation of new blood are also risky, and it is necessary to cultivate a good successor before the core figures leave, otherwise the entire group may suffer a crisis of declining popularity.
In addition, there are some "personal factors", such as rumors that affect fans' perception of the group and have to hurry to graduate, if they break the law, or other bad things, they may be fired by the operator. Previously, "Yurina, a drawer of Beechaka 46, left the group to start a personal job in the name of "getting rid of".
Although Ikuta Eirihana graduated from idol status, she will still develop in the show business circle. In addition to her favorite song and dance dramas, she will continue to work in TV series and movies, and continue to communicate with fans with different identities.
Ikuta's 10-year "Growth Trajectory"
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