HKT48 2021 year in review, how do you see 2022 ?

Even Hakata desserve your thoughts

• The goods ?
• The bads ?
• A few words to sum up 2021 ?

And let's mix this up with the somewhat Stage48 traditional year end thread

• Hopes for 2022 ?
• Fears for 2022 ?
• Your predictions ?

Please don't just post a list, give some arguments to your reasoning.

 

The good of 2021:

• Nako came back!
• They got more for their 2nd album than they did for their 1st, even though there was no Sasshi, Haruppi, Mio, Sakura, Madoka...
• Madoka got all the Sotsugyou honors: last senbatsu, solo-grad song, concert, last Chou kai...
• The first Request Hour
• Watashi no Furusato was released officially

The bad of 2021:

• Sakura's show up and show out
• Releases still to far appart
• Doro no Metronome didn't rank in the RH AND Kibou no Kairyuu was in the bottom 3 ranks

Hopes for 2022:

• 3 singles, and more MVs released on youtube
• 6th gen as strong as gen 3 and gen 4
• A concert in a more mainstream/traditional venue (Yokohama Arena, SSA...)
• Mercury finally contacts Sasshi about the original stage
• Please let Team TII have a new stage. TwT has been on for 5 years now
• It'd love to see Amakuchi and Umakichihime units again but it's only members of gens 5, 6 and D3

Fears for 2022:

• Only one single and it is their only release
• Another year of TwT
• Mass grad of gens 3, 4 and 5 (I'm at peace with Gen 1 and Gen 2 graduating by now)

Predictions for 2022:

• It'll be a lot like 2021 and 2020
• 6th gen is slightly larger than 5th gen and they also get a KKS stage (my bet's on PajaDora, Sasihuu Bell ga Naru or Theater no Megami)