Talk:Ogata Haruna/@comment-1266850-20180405020008/@comment-73.212.187.162-20180422155450

Dude, H2O has been giving us warnings that she was aiming for college for a while. First by vague-blogging her desire whilst her classmates studied for theirs. Then, when she failed the exam. And now, when she finally passed. So it makes sense if you were already aware of her ambition.

However, what you're blaming her for is her desire to graduate on short notice - but that is (most likely) NOT her fault - for whatever reason, it appears that Morning Musume members can't attend college while still being a member. It was an understanding slowly accepted by the fandom as it was weird how MM Members in their twenties didn't bother going despite multiple college graduates (and one drop-out) started gathering in the other groups with even more currently attending.

And now, with H2O quite literally graduating at the end of the tour because she passed her college exam... there's no denying the strong likelihood it's how the group is managed. She was allowed to study for it the whole time she was in the group, and after the first time she failed, she would've more reasonably graduated for the sake of her studies. Now, as we dunno for fact that Momusu can't go to college and be in the group, we could also have other causes for this choice in graduation: 1) Kudou graduated in the MM Autumn tour, 2) She didn't expect to pass this time 'round, or 3) Management didn't want her to graduate at the end of the H!P Winter tour or at the New Years concert. Her choice to leave Up-Front as well is likely because she doesn't expect to return to showbiz (or they didn't ask her to).

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TL;DR: Her reasoning was hinted at for over a year so this makes sense - unless you doubted her ability to pass the exam. Also it's likely management not allowing Morning Musume members to attend college; we've yet to see any member of age go despite members in other groups going and graduating all the while.