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The story
Singer Kohmi Hirose’s post about Juice=Juice’s release event in Ikebukuro sparked suspicion on 5ch’s Hello! Project board that she may not actually have been there in person. Some pointed out the story had already been picked up by web news outlets, fueling speculation that she simply jumped on the bandwagon after seeing the buzz on X (formerly Twitter). Thread posters piled up circumstantial evidence — “if she’d really been there, she’d have greeted the members backstage or mentioned it on her blog” — but with no clear explanation from Hirose herself, the truth remains unconfirmed.
What people said
4,127 days — Akari Uemura
3,355 days — Ruru Danbara (since 6/26/2017)
3,194 days — Tomoko Kanazawa
2,909 days — Sayuki Takagi
2,845 days — Karin Miyamoto
2,637 days — Yume Kudo / Ria Matsunaga (since 6/14/2019)
2,345 days — Reon Inoue (since 4/1/2020)
2,303 days — Yuka Miyazaki
1,883 days — Ichika Arisawa / Risa Irie / Hisaki Ebata (since 7/7/2021)
1,526 days — Sakura Ishiyama / Sakari Endo (since 6/29/2022)
1,447 days — Manaka Inaba
1,198 days — Mifu Kawashima (since 5/23/2023)
*,623 days — Nanami Yanagawa
*,436 days — Nial Hayashi (since 6/23/2025)
*,130 days — Aina Otsuka
"3600 Seconds (1/15, Yokohama Arena)" → postponed and rolled into the 13th anniversary concert
"13th Anniversary Concert (5/16, Makuhari Messe)" → postponed to fall
Dates/venue still TBD ← we're here now
With this many postponements and cancellations, there's no way this shambles of a management team is handling ticket transfers and refunds smoothly lol
Wait, but if she was standing near whoever shot that video, she'd have had to be standing there well before the event even started — and if Kohmi Hirose had really been standing around that whole time, surely even the wota (fans) would've noticed and it'd be a much bigger story.
I was in the free standing area too, for what it's worth.
The fact that it's just an "I spotted her on X" situation kind of says it all.
Stuff like this just doesn't get any buzz or eyeballs.
They don't need to force laughs, but you'd think they could at least come prepared with a decent little blooper story.
Background and Key Points of This Story
Juice=Juice is an idol group under Hello! Project, and the thread behind this article centers on the group’s release event in Ikebukuro. After singer Kohmi Hirose posted about the event, speculation spread on X that she hadn’t actually been there in person, with replies noting the story had already been picked up by web news outlets. Opinions in the thread split over whether she’d genuinely been mistaken for someone else or was simply jumping on the bandwagon — attendees offered circumstantial evidence like “if she were really there, she’d have greeted members backstage or mentioned it on her blog,” but no definitive statement from Hirose herself has surfaced. It’s worth noting for readers that the claims on 5ch are speculation based on circumstantial evidence alone, not an official comment from Hirose — an easy point to misread.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “[Sad News] Kohmi Hirose didn’t actually go to Juice=Juice’s Ikebukuro release event — “Saw it blowing up on X and thought, ‘wouldn’t it be fun to jump in here…’”“
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