Here are the best moments of AKB48 Kawaei Rina to celebrate. Feel free to chime with yours 🙂

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These Kawaei Rina moments bring tears to your eyes

  • So long, ANRIRE!

  • “Kawaei is the sweetest, funniest member, loved by everyone.”

  • Team 4 ‘Boku no Taiyo

    From “Kimi no Daini Sho (Your Second Chapter)” MV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByHZ3hTyopM

  • Kawari left a massive void in our hearts


  • Yokoyama Yui patted Kawaei on her head in Majisuka 4, which wasn’t in the original script

  • Shimazaki Haruka and Kawaei Rina: “We’re having freaking fun!”

  • During her birthday show speech in Feburuary 2015, Kawaei confessed that she’s not mentally tough

  • Yokoyama Yui was there at Kawaei’s comeback stage and was almost in tears

  • Yokoyama Yui and Kawaei Rina are BFF, like they are real BFF!

  • Final performance by the original Anrire members

  • They’re nicknamed ‘YokoEi’

  • Yokoyama Yui reveals she has lied to Kawaei that she support Kawaei’s decision to guraduate

    That having Kawaei leave the group is like a kick in the gut for her, but seeing how serious Kawaei is in acting, she couldn’t tell Kawaei how she feels. “The other day, I called her and met up with her. We went to cafe, watched a movie, and after that, we took a walk from Roppongi to Shibuya. Remember we spend 40 minutes on the footbridge in Shibuya, talking about our past? I couldn’t say back then, but talking about our memories, I suddenly felt your graduation is real, and that I was scared, unable to say anything, unable to say ‘Let’s go home’
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  • Yokoyama Yui is excited to finally see the moment when Kawaei meets Ei (En: Swingray) in person

  • We all know they will remain BFFs even after leaving AKB48, but cry nonetheless

  • I just want to hug this moment and don’t wanna let it go
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  • Yuihan’s passionate kiss!

  • Kawaei breaks is seen wiping face onstage after her graduation announcement

  • Official photographer Pancho’s heartfelt photo collage of Kawaei Rina

  • BKA sisters

  • A massive, massive void


  • Kawaei Rina giving a speech to the arena full of fans at her graduation concert

  • Kawaei escorted by her besties and 10th generation peers

  • Costume team gave Kawaei a cute costume for Halloween Night which she isn’t a part of its original Senbatsu

    And she was Center for the performance!

  • Takahashi Juri told Kawaei that Kawaei has always been her constant

    And that she learned from Kawaei that the most important thing in life, the one thing that resonates in people’s hearts the most is your warmth as a person.

  • She was ILLUMINATING in this costume and we could only get to see this one time

  • Kawaei Rina meets Disney in the animation film ‘Wreck It Ralph’