sm to respect the decision of shinee members regarding upcoming dome concerts in japan

[byeolbyeol.livejournal.com]

SHINee Japanese homepage announcment says the status of SHINee’s ‘'SHINee WORLD THE BEST 2018~FROM NOW ON~’ concerts in February will be determined after discussions with the members and the staff.https://t.co/SxdobpmECN pic.twitter.com/uPmyjGlDnJ

— mes #TeamPinky (@OH_mes) December 24, 2017

for those unaware: shinee is slated to hold a small series of dome concerts in february. the concerts were set up in a way to visibly celebrate their past five tours and albums in japan, and possibly serve as their final dome concerts before onew's enlistment. shinee world japan, their japanese fan club, released a similar statement late on the 23rd and this seemed to be the follow up by sm. speculation is that the statement was released because registration for fan club lottery ticketing was meant to come to a close yesterday.

source(s): oh_mes (via naver)

this one is ... rough and i have some feelings on it that i'll save to post in an actual comment.

Comments

[nebulosa8.livejournal.com]

Like everyone else is saying, a concert that soon would probably be too much to handle, both emotionally and logistics-wise... tbh I feel like they might want to do one last concert together in Jonghyun's memory, but other than that I don't really see them doing concerts or activities as SHINee anymore (except maybe short performances once in a while e.g. at year end's ceremonies). Also, 2018 was going to be OT5's last year (in a while) anyway as the members will start enlisting one after another...
My shawol heart is hurting so much as I write this but through the years they made it clear that SHINee is not SHINee if they're not 5... if I have to be honest I wish they'd go on as a group, part of why I love them so much is their teamwork and bond and their precious little interactions, and to see them disband/completely drop group activities would be like bidding farewell to part of my youth. But of course this is something only the 4 of them (hopefully) get to decide, right now it seems unlikely to me but I'm not excluding they might be able to pull off a concert or even a comeback if they feel like they can make it work...