This wasn’t something I wanted to see:

本日19時ごろにお知らせがあります。 — DEEP GIRL (@deepgirlrock) January 16, 2017

It’s been a year since “I kill,” but the gods don’t like us enough to have sudden out-of-the-blue messages about important announcements be about new releases or tours or anything. And so it was:

Mashiro has withdrawn immediately; DEEP GIRL will keep doing what they do.

She posted a statement to Twitter, translated here in the DEEP GIRL Facebook group:

If anybody has more detail than that, feel free to share. You can go send her your farewell wishes; she’s already out, so if there were any real restrictions on DEEP GIRL members interacting with fans, they probably don’t apply anymore.

Is it inappropriate to pun here? I don’t think so. It’s not like her vocal cords are the cause, or another sudden illness.

Here goes. /deep breath

“I guess she’s not DEEP GIRL anymore.”

Does that scan?

Anyway, good luck to you, Mashiro, and good luck to DEEP GIRL. If more stuff about the future of either comes out, I’ll be sure to include/update as appropriate.

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