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After Juice=Juice appeared on CDTV, only two members — Dambara and Ebata — mentioned it on their blogs, sparking discussion on 5ch’s Hello! Project board. The thread’s main focus was that while every member used to excitedly report every appearance, it seems to have become old hat now that the group’s TV exposure has increased.
They’re proper stars now, huh
Is CDTV basically a semi-regular gig for them at this point?
Source: ameblo.jp / Original article here
What people said
for Juice, it's about as routine
as an afternoon coffee break now.
Back in April last year they'd have been thrilled to blog about it.
There's likely more lined up after this too.
Isn't that just their post-appearance thoughts?
Back then they'd get thrilled over even some nobody show with 1% ratings.
Now even when an appearance gets confirmed, nobody seems to write about it.
The anti's Japanese is a total mess lol
This is just piling shame on top of shame.
Going to their tour is about the only chance I get to see them.
That's what they've always been to me, then and now.
Take care of yourselves~
Back then they were probably genuinely thinking "whoa, my life might actually be changing" and running on pure adrenaline.
but I haven't watched anything since the Pia Arena show, so I couldn't explain what's going on with them.
This is just how it goes eventually.
Though if they were still going all-out reacting to Music Station while ignoring CDTV, that'd be rude to CDTV.
which is likely why the Juice=Juice members are reacting this way now.
they thought getting on one show would change everything.
Turns out it wasn't quite like that.
A year-end TBS Record Award's Excellent Music Award might even be in play.
Though just getting to see them at all is something to be grateful for.
Back when they had free time they were doing crazy stuff like back-to-back matinee and evening shows with completely different setlists.
For today's Juice, just running a normal concert should be a breeze.
It's fine because the photos are cute.
Background and Key Points
Juice=Juice is Hello! Project’s flagship idol group, currently managed under an agency umbrella (Up-Front) that also runs Morning Musume and the rest of the Hello! Project roster. CDTV (Count Down TV) is a long-running TBS terrestrial music countdown show that airs weekly; for a Japanese idol act, a slot on it is a real marker of mainstream reach, since terrestrial music-show bookings are scarcer and more competitive than YouTube or streaming appearances, and are generally treated by fans as evidence a group is “breaking through” beyond the dedicated idol-fan bubble. Member blogs on Ameba (ameblo.jp) are the primary channel through which idol groups in this scene report on their own activities directly to fans, so what does or doesn’t get blogged is scrutinized as a signal of the members’ own mindset, not just PR strategy.
The thread doesn’t dispute that TV bookings have increased — everyone agrees Juice=Juice is visibly busier than a year ago. Where it splits is on how to read the silence: some posters treat the lack of blog enthusiasm as members getting “tengu” (full of themselves) now that TV appearances are old hat, while others push back that it’s simply logistics — too many upcoming bookings still under embargo to write about safely, or plain busyness leaving no time to blog at all. A smaller thread of comments reframes it structurally, arguing CDTV specifically may just not “move the needle” for this group compared to other slots, which is a different claim from either full-of-themselves or too-busy.
What outside readers are likely to miss: nothing in the thread quantifies how much TV exposure has actually grown, so the “half a year” comparison rests entirely on posters’ subjective memory of April’s blog tone, not on any tally of bookings. Readers should also know embargo culture around unannounced TV appearances is a mundane, universal constraint in Japanese entertainment, not evidence of anything unusual with this group.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “[Getting Full of Themselves] The Fact That Only Dambara and Ebata Blog About Their CDTV Appearances.”
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