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The story
It’s been announced that at “Pom Fes,” an event featuring the idol group Juice=Juice, the free viewing area for some of the stages will switch to an advance-ticket lottery system. On 5ch’s Hello!Project board, some fans expressed surprise that the group is popular enough that even the free area now needs a lottery, while others argued over whether reports that the lottery allotment had already sold out were actually true.
Pom Fes [Official]
@pomfes_info
[Notice: The free viewing area for some stages will switch to an advance-ticket (lottery) system]
Source: t.pia.jp / Read the original article here
What people said
Apparently people think Monaki (nickname for another act on the bill) can handle the crowd without needing advance tickets
https://pompompurin30th.sanrio.co.jp/pomfes/img/top/schedule.jpg
Are a lot of people waiting around for WILD BLUE?
That's exactly the right way to put it.
No matter how many times people write them off, both the fall tour and the fan club events keep turning into lottery bloodbaths.
You can still see it if you don't mind watching from a distance
That's exactly what the ticket is for.
These days with Juice, even 'free' doesn't mean you can watch without one.
Juice has real history — even just counting from when Danbara became leader, that's already 3 years.
a flood of resale tickets everywhere
Old guys shouldn't even bother showing up
Guess they got more ticket applications than Monaki did?
Everything else is sold out
so are the people talking about 'buying' or 'sold out' even reading the same thread?
Where is that?
Stuff besides Juice is sold out too!
It's not like Juice is the only popular one!
There's some old guy in here who's convinced this is about the paid area
Wait, so you can't even buy it anymore?
That's right
You can actually get in without applying, so don't bother applying
Tell me where I can actually apply for that free one, then
All that's been announced is that it'll become a lottery.
Who told you there's already somewhere to apply?
https://va.pia.jp/index.jsp?slcd=VQ853&n=1527260608
Thanks
I feel like I'm gonna get rejected because of my age lol
so people probably don't have the best impression of Pia
Not allowing resale/scalping seems like a good impression to me
Background and Key Points
Their Pom Fes has been running for years as a broader Sanrio-adjacent event around Pompompurin’s anniversary, and Juice=Juice has been a recurring live act on it — the 2026 edition is drawing enough demand that even the ordinarily free, walk-up viewing area for some stages is being converted to a paid advance-ticket lottery through Pia. That matters because Japanese idol events routinely stratify audiences into paid reserved seating, paid standing/lottery areas, and a free overflow zone for people who just want a glimpse; collapsing that last free tier into a lottery is a visible signal of demand outstripping venue capacity, not a marketing gimmick. Juice=Juice itself is a mid-tier Hello! Project group (under the “Tamaya Band”/Up-Front umbrella referenced in the thread) whose leader Danbara has now held that position for about three years, per one poster — used in the thread as shorthand for the group’s relative institutional stability compared to newer acts.
The thread’s actual disagreement wasn’t about whether Juice=Juice is popular — nobody contested that — but whether the free-area lottery slots had *already* sold out, as some posters claimed, versus the lottery having merely been announced with no application window open yet. Multiple posters directly called out others for reading past each other, and pushed back on what they framed as deliberately misleading “sold out” claims possibly spread by overzealous fans.
What outside readers will likely miss: the free area going lottery-only doesn’t necessarily reflect only Juice=Juice’s draw — the thread notes Monaki (another act on the same bill) reportedly still has unsold slots, meaning the lottery requirement is being applied venue/stage-wide rather than because every act is equally oversubscribed. Readers may also not realize Pia’s no-resale lottery system exists partly as a direct response to prior scalping of this same event’s tickets in Toyosu.
*This article is composed of excerpts and a summary from the 5ch (Hello!Project) thread “[SHOCKING] Juice=Juice So Popular That Pom Fes’s Free Viewing Area Is Becoming an Advance-Ticket Lottery System wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.”
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