Tokyo Dome 🐴🌸 (2022.11.13)

 

Hello, everyone!

 

 

 

I’m Sakurazaka46’s Kousaka Marino 🌸

 

 

 

 

 

We have finished the last performances of 2nd TOUR 2022 “As you know?”!

 

 

It’s been about two months, including the rehearsals, and it truly just flies by…

 

 

 

Thank you very much to the Buddies who followed us until the tour finale ☺️

 

 

And thank you very much for cooperating with us, such as turning off your penlight from the opening until the first MC session.

 

Thanks to the solidarity of the Buddies, the production has become better, and I was very moved by it 🫧

 

 

This costume is so cute, I like it ☁️

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At Tokyo Dome, there was a graduation ceremony for Sugai-san.

 

 

 

Sugai-san, who has been supporting Keyakizaka, Sakurazaka all this time

 

I loved Sugai-san who, even though she must have gone through a lot of hardships, always had the same smile on her face!

 

 

 

The first time us 2nd gens met with the 1st gens, my voice was trembling from anxiousness and nervousness, but she listened to me while nodding her head and calmed me down.

 

 

 

Since then, the words Sugai-san gave to me had a mysterious power

There is a sense of security, as if “If this person says this, then it’ll be okay”

 

 

 

To have such a big presence like her graduating from the group, even now I still cannot imagine Sakurazaka without Sugai-san…

 

 

However, I think that what I can do right now is to support the path Sugai-san has chosen with all I got, and I’d like to send her lots and lots of power so that I can reach her even when she’s far away!

 

 

 

Sugai-san, truly, thank you very much for everything up until now!

 

 

I love you 🐴🤍

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was able to perform Keyakizaka46’s songs in the encore of Tokyo Dome.

 

 

 

The group changed its name to Sakurazaka less than a year after I joined the group, so it doesn’t really feel like I have “worked as a part of Keyakizaka46,” and I was very scared of how the fans might react

 

 

But for the actual performance, I was dancing so frantically that there wasn’t time to think about that, and I was surprised I could dance with such a burst of emotion.

 

 

It made me think about many things, such as “So this is the power of Keyakizaka…”

 

 

 

And I think that each and every member needs to work harder so that people can know more about Sakurazaka, so I will work hard even harder at the things in front of me!

 

 

I am thankful to Keyakizaka for making me feel that way

 

 

I was able to wear the costume I longed for

 

I was very happy…!

 

 

 

Thank you very much to everyone who watched the shows

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matsuri-chan has been appointed as the new captain ✨

 

 

Matsuri-chan, who is always cheerful and lights up the group.

 

I think it’s truly amazing how no matter how busy she gets, she never looks tired 🥲

 

When I feel troubled about deciding what to say during MC, she gives me many suggestions and advice such as, “Maybe it’s good to end it with this!”…

 

She is always very kind, someone who is very reliable.

 

 

I may be unreliable, but I will always be Matsuri-chan’s ally, so I will give my best if there is anything that I can be of help for☺️💪🏼

 

 

 

You can do it, new captain~!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once again, I’m very happy to have been able to safely finish our 2nd Tour!

 

 

We could reach this far thanks to the staff members who thought of the cool production, the dancers who stayed with us until late at night to rehearse,

 

and all the Buddies who have watched by coming to the venue and by online stream!

 

 

I can’t thank you all enough… Truly, thank you very much.

 

 

 

I hope to visit many places again next year, and share memories again with you ☺️

 

 

I will continue to give it my best so that we can show you a more powerful Sakurazaka!

 

 

 

Thank you very much for all 12 shows!

 

 

 

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Thank you very much for reading until the end!

 

 

 

Kousaka Marino