Misono to Retire in 2014

[happiholic★]

From Arama:

29-year-old singer misono announced on the NTV program Konya Kurabete Mimashita on Tuesday that she will be retiring from the entertainment industry next year. She said that she had planned from the start to work in the industry until she was 30. She remarked that she "wanted to be number one," but could not accomplish this in entertainment. She added that she now "wants to work at a hostess club," an area where she might be able to become "number one."


The singer performed theme songs for multiple game, anime, and live-action projects, including Tales of the Tempest, Tales of Symphonia the Animation: The United World Episode and Love*Com the Movie.

My thoughts are only what has been said many times before: LOL @ the fact that at one point she was "beating" her sister but now she's floptastic her music is boring she's fat her voice is annoying thank god there will not be another Its All Love wtf why is she gonna be a hostess she won't be number one at that either good riddance


...Okay, I like that Cinderella song. Actually, I don't dislike her, per se, I just only see her as the little sister of my favorite singer.

[emi♡]

But she's not model petite or cute :/ how is she gonna be a hostess lol And she's almost 30.

Her tale is so sad.



I actually like It's all Love lol

[visionfactory]

She's not pretty either, and she is famous, is she gonna be a vip hostess? this girl is going nowhere

[Bigtop]

Well, she said it was time to leave, too bad she wasn't as successful as her older sister Kuu...

Any memories before she says goodbye?

[YUKARI]

what? a hostess club?!

[Kouyou]

Uh... what? A hostess? Why?

I don't understand why artists choose to say they are "retiring" other than for the publicity it might generate. Just fade away. No one cares. It's stupid to say you are retiring from something when you are only 29 years old. She could come back in the future and do something for fun... I don't know.

[Surreal17]

I don't know any of her songs but it's kind of sad actually...but to retire at 29, it's kind of weird..I remember reading somewhere about a famous japanese female singer (Momoe Yamaguchi) who retired at 21 ..hahaha

Why is she so obsessed to be no. 1..I mean,look at KOKIA for example..she never had any no. 1 album but she is so appreciated and even had small concerts in Europe.

[AyuGAME]

I thought she already retired since a long time ago

[ImpactBreaker]

I thought she had stopped a long time ago...

I don't think it's that bad to announce you are retiring than to just fade away, mostly because if she happens to still have any fans, at least they won't be waiting for any more stuff from her. However, I do agree it's weird to announce retirement at 29yo. Sounds like a lazy bum lol

Was she ever more famous than kuu at any point though? I have my doubts. I liked her day after tomorrow songs days but they were regular JPOP, not sure if she was very famous those days because I was so hardcore into JPOP that I would listen to every single band/group/artist avex would pop up with lol The music video with the tranvestites was quite shocking and audacious for me back then though lol maybe she's gonna host that kind of club lol I think I liked day after tomorrow songs more than kuu's songs back then, but then I wasn't really into RnB, so kuu was too experimental for me, but my tastes matured as kuu got to release more and more stuff.

[Delicious n Bold]

Aww
Goodbye misono

[ImpactBreaker]

Tsunderera became pumpkin

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by ImpactBreaker

I thought she had stopped a long time ago...

I don't think it's that bad to announce you are retiring than to just fade away, mostly because if she happens to still have any fans, at least they won't be waiting for any more stuff from her. However, I do agree it's weird to announce retirement at 29yo. Sounds like a lazy bum lol

Was she ever more famous than kuu at any point though? I have my doubts. I liked her day after tomorrow songs days but they were regular JPOP, not sure if she was very famous those days because I was so hardcore into JPOP that I would listen to every single band/group/artist avex would pop up with lol The music video with the tranvestites was quite shocking and audacios for me back then though lol maybe she's gonna host that kind of club lol I think I liked day after tomorrow songs more than kuu's songs back then, but then I wasn't really into RnB, so kuu was too experimental for me, but my tastes matured as kuu got to release more and more stuff.

I believe she was a 2nd tier star for a while before Koda was big, so, she wasn't big, but at least she was selling music, while her sister wasn't...

And jpop female stars are kind of expected to retire early, aren't they? Hikki said more than once she had no intention to be a musician once she hit 30, and a lot of idols from girlgroups and even some solo singers like Rins Aiuchi retired after 10 years on the business or so... Even Ayu fans over here are always looking for reasons to point how old she is and wishing she should just retire.

[adantatu2]

I remember when she was fighting with a Morning Musume's girl. OMG it was hilarious, XD

[Mr. Goto]

It's not like her career was a constant downward spiral she used to be a regular on three highly rated variety tv shows. She was arguably more relevant than kumi during some of the later years lol. and yeah that didn't translate into sales but she didn't need them cause she was on tv multiple times every week.

anyway this is a dumb/bizarre move. i thought things were enough of a mess when she started releasing things under the name "me" but like... i can't see this hostess thing lasting long maybe 2 years max.

[ExodusUK]

Koda Kumi will probably follow her footsteps next year.

[R_Hikki]

The entire topic is so "wtf" to me. All I can do is laugh.

I do like "pinkies" though...

[NintendoHTF1242]

Good for her. She was never able to make another VS, unfortunately. I love that song.

[emi♡]

Originally Posted by ExodusUK

Koda Kumi will probably follow her footsteps next year.

She's a mom, she no longer fills any complex.

[YUKARI]

Originally Posted by Surreal17

I don't know any of her songs but it's kind of sad actually...but to retire at 29, it's kind of weird..I remember reading somewhere about a famous japanese female singer (Momoe Yamaguchi) who retired at 21 ..hahaha

Why is she so obsessed to be no. 1..I mean,look at KOKIA for example..she never had any no. 1 album but she is so appreciated and even had small concerts in Europe.

You can't compare misono to Yamaguchi Momoe ~.~ Momoe-chan is a legendary idol. They call it "graduation" not "retirement". She was a super-star. She was in the show-business since like 13 I guess. And then she met a guy and decided to devote her life to her family and made a big graduation concert. I think it was a hot topic back then. Once she graduated she never came back nor did she make any appearances in the media. And now Japan remembers her as a young beautiful girl. I think majority of people there respect and admire her decision. She gained a legend like status.

One of my Japanese friends once said that ayu should have done the same in her peak or near post-peak time.

But yeah, I think misono just gave up on her career. Though may be she'll make a come back and be someone like Kahala Tomomi, but I'm not sure if misono was ever popular like Kahala at her best times.

[UHPlus]

Almost all or no female singers can recover from a popularity downfall...

Retiring or not, she will just fade out and nobody will care what she's doing...