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The music video for Tsubaki Factory’s “Adrenaline Dame” has surpassed 5 million views on YouTube, making it the fourth Reiwa-era-debut Hello! Project group to hit that mark, following Morning Musume。’25, Juice=Juice, and BEYOOOOONDS. The thread lit up with praise for the group’s dancing and vocal performances, while also buzzing with comparisons to the view count of sister group ANGERME.
What people said
tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjEFHk_6nWA
This is the Promotion Edit for "Adrenaline Dame," from Tsubaki Factory's new single "Adrenaline Dame / Yowasa Janai yo, Koi wa / Idol Tenshoku Ondo," released June 29, 2022.
Nope, that's wrong.
If we're just going by MV views, it's actually the second-highest, right behind the 'flattering' one (fan slang for a video where the members look especially good).
It was ridiculously good.
140,000 views.
It's been over a month already, so it won't grow any more.
https://youtu.be/YDhrAdkYhes?si=7iu1HESDEhawjj0-
This one, right?
Really makes you feel what a waste it was with Ishiguri.
This, exactly this.
Made me realize just how good Nishizaki is at singing.
This one really shows off Kamiko's happy-go-lucky side.
As long as they keep performing songs like 'Oinaisa,' ANGERME's turn isn't coming anytime soon.
If ANGERME breaks up, they might form a new group out of the trainees, so people will keep talking about it until they actually disband.
Unpopular groups should just be dissolved.
Chiori, Chiori, Chiori (´༎ຶོρ༎ຶོ`)
"YOFUURUNO! YOFUURUNO!" (rendered in that garbled half-width katakana) just isn't quite it, you know?
As a Tsubaki fan who's watched Adrenaline more than anyone, I gotta say Kamiko's way of holding her notes and not overdoing the attitude is on another level.
Background and Key Points
Hello! Project is the umbrella idol organization behind Morning Musume。and its many sister acts; Tsubaki Factory is one of the newer units, promoted from trainee status in 2017 and now nine members deep into a discography built largely on YouTube exposure rather than physical single sales, which is why hitting a specific view-count threshold functions as a bragging right within the fandom. The “Reiwa era” framing (Reiwa began May 2019) matters because it separates newer-generation material from the catalog of decades-old Heisei-era hits that dominate H!P’s all-time view rankings — being one of only four videos from this newer stretch to clear 5 million is being read as a marker of the group’s current momentum rather than nostalgia-driven traffic.
The thread doesn’t really argue over the milestone itself; where it splits is in what the achievement gets used to prove. One thread of posts treats it as a moment to reassess individual performers — several posters singling out Nishizaki’s vocals and Kamiko’s restraint as underrated — while a much larger share pivots immediately into using the number as a stick to beat sister group ANGERME with, citing “Oinaisa” ‘s roughly 140,000 views as proof of decline.
What’s easy to miss is that the ANGERME comparison is lopsided: “Oinaisa” is a much newer release than “Adrenaline Dame,” which has had over three years to accumulate views, so raw totals aren’t really measuring the same thing. The thread also name-checks departed members (Kiki, Chiori) without explaining that Tsubaki’s current lineup reflects several graduations since 2022 — context a non-fan reader would need to make sense of those asides.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “[Breaking] Tsubaki Factory’s “Adrenaline Dame” MV Hits 5 Million Views! That Makes 4 Groups — Morning Musume, Juice=Juice, Tsubaki, and BEYOOOOONDS — With a Reiwa-Era MV at 5 Million.”
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