No more Magic Dragon for the Year of the Dragon?

Juicy Peppah 

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You're quite a cute one, baby. But someone told me you're bad... Are you?

TODAY’S Year of the Dragon is believed to be a bad one, and I believe even for the Dragon fans, it’s going to be quite a bad year not having Ryutaro Morimoto back contrary to the desperate wishes of some huge mass of fans [issue’s taken from Kamichan.com by the way].

To give a quick recap of what happened, he has been suspended from all Hey Say JUMP activities last year due to underage smoking. This year, the flame of the dragon is gradually dying.

Yet I feel there's no need to join the 'waiting' bandwagon anymore. Honestly, I don’t care whether Ryutaro returns to JUMP or not, but if I were to be asked, I’d rather he stays in school and pursues whatever career he wants besides entertainment industry. At least he has a future there, no matter how many cigarettes he’d smoke in a day.

Thank you, little fellow. Thank you anyway.

Before, I used to believe JUMP would not be JUMP without Ryutaro— a belief I shared with about a million Ryutaro Morimoto and Hey Say JUMP fans combined, feeling it was like a hand lacking a finger. However, the group has been successful even without him in the scene, having waves and waves of projects, concerts, tours, photo shoots—making lots of money. The fans never stopped loving them despite him losing his spot [question, has there ever been one for him?] in the entertainment scene.

The show went on even without the dragon.

Now who still claims Ten JUMP is forever?

Let me recount the members: Yabu Kota, Takaki Yuya, Arioka Daiki, Yaotome Hikaru, Inoo Kei, Yamada Ryosuke, Chinen Yuri, Okamoto Keito, Nakajima Yuto. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. NINE.

There are only nine of them, and God knows if Johnny-san would still like to get Ryutaro back to the spotlight. Would you actually want some member back to the company of people whom he hardly knows anymore because the rest of them have already grown up career-wise and he appears to be left out?

Kamichan is right, maybe we just have to… let it go. Thank you, Ryutaro for hanging around for some time. Thank you anyway.