Gon has graduated from JKT! She announced in April~ so I’ve been waiting for her official grad for a while.
Honestly I’m proud of Gon like she’s my daughter (lol). She’s one of 48G’s success stories imo. One of the frontgirls of ori B/3rd gen, even manged to get voted to senbatsu in SSK. Transferred to Team A, and even as a junior member she managed to befriend the top senbatsu of Team A, to the point of practically living with Acchan, and was one of Mariko’s favourites. She maintained management interest and never fell below UG-level in group popularity.
Then despite her close ties to the group/members/management, when she felt her place in AKB was slipping, she volunteered to transfer to JKT. And when she did, she through herself into everying 110%. Just the effort she put in learn Indonesian… This fandom, I’m sure there are many who have tried to learn JP/KR/CH, and we all know how hard, just how much effort is required, to become half-way decent. Being multi-lingual is such a ‘real-world’ skill that pays off in so many ways…
On top of that, the friendships she’s developed with the JKT members, especially Melody. Totally breaking the idea of the overseas sister groups having nothing to do the the JP groups in terms of interest or culture.
And still managed to not alienate the JP fans, managing the two fan groups at once, tweeting in JP & Indo, following 48JP events, keeping contact with the JP members, all while juggling her career in Jakarta… She’s a superstar istg.
She clearly joined JKT with the knowledge that if she put 100% into JKT, it would be hard to remain a JP celebrity, but she went ahead despite that, leaving her family. friends and career behind. Akicha struggled with the culture, didn’t know the language well so couldn’t make real friendships with the JKT members, and most importantly she wanted to one day return to Japan. JKT was just a detour for her, although in the end she lost her way.
Gon is the absolute success of the transfer system. I feel for the transfer system to work, the member must basically ‘cut ties’ with the old group and put the new group first. This is why Sasshi is such a success in HKT. (and why the kennin system is such a joke.)
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