Melon Kinenbi To Disband

Melon Kinenbi have announced that they will disband after their Spring concert tour.

H!O has translated the announcements (Credit to epifanes for the translation)

News on the important matter regarding Melon Kinenbi

As always, thank you for supporting Melon Kinenbi.

Today, during the stage of Melon Kinenbi’s 10th ANNIVERSARY LIVE ‘3654 days since birth’ which was held at SHIBUYA-AX’, the members announced that Melon Kinenbi is going to disband.

Keeping their idol status for 10 years, the members gave their united statement, “We would like to end Melon Kinenbi’s activity at this 10-year milestone”, and after numerous discussions and assistance from the staff, it was decided we would be announcing it publicly today.

This March’s stage performance, “Melon Kinenbi Story” (12 performances at the Ikebukuro Theater Green, all tickets SOLD OUT) and the final tour in April~May are the group’s final activities until official disbanding.

Furthermore, February 21st (Sunday) the Osaka performances which were planned (Nanba HATCH noon performance 15:00 START/night performance 19:00 START) will be held without any changes.

Please keep supporting them until the end.

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Comment from members

Thank you, as always, for your warm support!

On February 19th, 2010, we’ve reached Melon Kinenbi’s 10-year anniversary of existence!!
The Melon road had both mountains and valleys to cross, but together with our wotamodachi [wotamodachi = wota (fan)+tomodachi (friend)], the staff, and our families who have supported us during good times and bad, we were able to build up a 10-year history. And all that without a member change!!

Before we reached the 10-year point, the four of us talked thoroughly about the future. The result was, “10 years is a good turning point, where we should get new challenges in our real life”, so we firmly decided to disband the group.

We think that there will people who will be shocked, thinking, “Oh no, so it’s really happened now…” , but we promise we will keep running in Melon-style until the very end. Everyone! Please keep running with us with all your energy!!

February 19th, 2010
Melon Members

Source: Hello! Online

To be honest I’m surprised to see them celebrate their 10th anniversary, but I’m glad they managed to be one of the most stable groups H!P has ever had since they had no lineup changes from their beginning right until their end 10 years later.

The future of the four members of Melon Kinenbi (Saito Hitomi, Murata Megumi, Ohtani Masae, and Shibata Ayumi) is somewhat uncertain but hopefully we find out soon what they will do.

I wish the best of luck for the 4 members with their future careers whether in the music industry or in any other.

Melon Kinenbi will disband on 5/3, after their Nakano Sun Plaza performance which starts at 19:00 (JST).

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