Harada Aoi (Aoichan) / 1st Generation

Even Aoi has announced graduation, and I was thinking she might be one of the last ones from 1st gen to leave.
This is like the 2018 and 2021 Nogizaka graduation surge.

 

NOOOOO!!!!!

https://sakurazaka46.com/s/s46/news/detail/O00020?ima=1240
https://sakurazaka46.com/s/s46/diary/detail/42657?ima=1248&cd=blog

 

see!! After Rika & Risa graduation then I already expected.. Aoi tan is really beautiful after she came back from Haitus in 2019 and I like her youthful and joking about elementary school kid with Tsuchida and also Pien from her JK school kids. Wish her all the best in the whatever she do in future but I want her to stayed in showbiz. Please Ozeki & Yukka stayed longer in Saku. Definitely Yukka should lead the group no matter her gen mate graduated.

 

Lost my top 2 current members in less than a week, but happy to see them graduating together. Risa x Aoi antics over the years have been some of my all time favorite Keyaki/Sakurazaka moments.

 

Good Luck, Aoi-chan!

 

From Weekly Playboy #18, 2022:

 

She sure is beautiful. From Weekly Shounen magazine, May 11-18.



For me, she has always been one of the most real or normal people in the group. A bit retiring. Not that confident...at least until she came back from her transforming hiatus. That reticence and lack of confidence may be why someone so pretty never became a big star as an idol.

Does anyone know at what stage she is in university? Or what kind of university she went/goes to? Top class, middle-class? From the beginning, I always had the impression she was brilliant and aiming for something like Todai.

For some reason, I see her as headed for a happy life. Maybe in work. Maybe in a high class marriage. Whatever she wants.

 

Aoi-chan opened an IG account!

https://instagram.com/harada_aoi_?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

 

Aoi-chan only mentioned the word "Ceremony" that is to be held on W-KEYAKI FES 2022, is she referring to her Graduation Ceremony? If so, then I'm really glad she's getting one.

https://sakurazaka46.com/s/s46/diary/detail/44184

 

Aoi is one of the new Fuji TV announcers!
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A couple of photos with Aoi from Fuji TV's official Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CsSj9M4rxrN/

 

Aoi has begun as a regular on a popular breakfast show, Mezamashi TV ("Wake-up TV"). [Click/tap to enlarge.]




Here's a video clip in which the show presents a feature about her growing-up and her time as an idol . And here's a clip of the show's opening, with Aoi participating competently in the scripted but relaxing banter.

 

[This video is private]

 

Aoi with her colleague Ebihara Yuka on the July page of the 2024 Fuji Female Announcer Calendar:
https://mdpr.jp/news/detail/3982347

 

Aoi remains booked and buisy and is now the narrator of Boku Ga Mitakatta's Aozora variety show.

 

Making video:


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A 'What's in my bag?' video with Aoi:


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Stage presentation for the movie 'Tonde Saitama ~Biwako Yori Ai o Komete~' with Aoi as the MC:


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Aoi drives to Kamakura for a vacation:


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Showing off techniques taught to her by a makeup artist during her idol days:


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