Many blogs and forums have already reported this, I knew about it since it was reported when it occured on Jphip and over at the Tokunaga Chinami thread on H!O, but I didn’t post it, mainly because it was just a slight incident with no long term effects. I decided to post it now mainly to inform those people who do not know, or do not know exactly what happened and because she is my favorite member after Niigaki and Sayumi. I wasn’t present at the concert, I am mainly guiding myself from forum posts from gordokaba over at H!O who has details on the incident, so if you have questions I probably won’t be able to answer them.
The incident occured at the Hachioji concert this past Sunday, according to gordokaba:
“From what I could see she realized that she became dizzy or something and tried get off stage by herself. Then the staff ran up and caught her right before she was falling down. I’m pretty sure that she didnt hurt herself then. And with passed out -> fainting. She was lying on the side of the stage for like a second before they carried her away and we couldn’t see anymore of her.”
“Afterwards Momoko came back on stage and said something in the line of that “she got exhausted by having a bit too much fun, but now she’s feeling okey”.
Source: gordokaba @ H!O
It’s a slight incident and I’m sure we can take Momoko’s word that she is fine and just suffered energy loss. She will probably be ready for the next concert with a big smile and just wave the accident off like it was nothing, but she will hopefully be allowed to rest a bit and take it easy for some time. It is understandable that she would suffer some exhaustion, Yaguchi for example used to run around and jump all around the concert stage while singing, but because of years of practice and more energy. Chinami is somewhat like her (from the few performances I’ve seen) but compared to Yaguchi she is younger, combined with the overwhelming work Berryz Koubou it was understandable that it resulted in some exhaustion.
Berryz Koubou has lately suffered a lot of incidents, sickness being one of the bigger one’s, probably caused by the overall strain of an upcoming single, the Alo-Hello DVD coming out soon, and the concert tour. Hopefully the girls can get some rest sometime soon because compared to the other 2 groups they are being overworked a bit more than usual (as a group, not as separate members).
Chinami, please continue to light up the stage like you always do, but take it easy for a while and get better.
