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The story
It appears that Angerme’s Tamenaga Yukine will step down this September from the radio show she had been hosting as a fill-in for Juice=Juice’s Miyazaki Yuka during her maternity leave. In the thread, speculation spread that Kawana Rin, who filled in on TV, might be replaced in the same way, with posters raising questions like “this really feels like they’re just using her and tossing her aside” and “why was it Tamenaga instead of another Juice=Juice member?” Some pointed out this may simply be the nature of so-called “village work” (mura shigoto)—duties reverting to the original person once maternity leave ends—but plenty of speculation was exchanged over the reasoning behind the choice of substitute.
What people said
Guess that means Kero's out too then
Kawana's getting canned too then
Karin-chan too…
It finally happened
Wait, "graduating from Tamenaga"?
Hirayama and Gotou should be graduating first, honestly
Couldn't they have just had all three do it together?
If it were TV, she'd normally just end up sticking on the show permanently, and it'd feel like the lineup just gained a new member
whoever made that call is probably realizing now it was a mistake
That's just how it goes on terrestrial TV
But this is "village work"
Just mechanical shuffling within the agency
Best I can think of is her hometown being close to Ishikawa, or maybe it just worked with her schedule
It was originally Yukanya's solo show to begin with
It's a local FM Ishikawa show, so it probably kept going because of the local hometown connection
Suddenly throwing outside work at a 12-year-old is way too much
Echizenya Hyouta was on Hokuriku local shows for years too
and the moment he said he wanted to start voicing his own opinions, he got frozen out
Basically outsiders just get used while convenient and then discarded
now she's got a connection at TBS, hope they use her again
feels like the type of girl who doesn't get how guys work
she was only ever filling in for the maternity leave period to begin with
Momoha, go get 'em
when it comes to agency connections, unless you're grinding it out steadily like Matsubara
just being put in on name value alone won't get you accepted
TV → Kawana filling in
Radio → Tamenaga filling in
Because she doesn't seem like she'd flake
she's serious
What else could it be besides a push from the agency?
Background and Key Points
This all started with Juice=Juice’s Miyazaki Yuka (Yukanya) going on maternity leave, during which Angerme’s Tamenaga Yukine filled in on radio and Kawana Rin filled in on TV. As pointed out in the thread, having duties revert to the original person once maternity leave ends is standard personnel practice, not just within Hello! Project—this falls under what’s called “village work” (mura shigoto), the cross-group internal allocation of duties within the agency. One point readers may easily misread is that this “graduation” likely doesn’t refer to Tamenaga graduating from Angerme itself, but rather to the end of the radio slot she had been filling in for—something reflected in the differing tones across the thread, from “she got canned” to “she was just filling in, so it can’t be helped.” As for why Tamenaga and Kawana, both from a different group than Juice=Juice, were chosen instead of another Juice=Juice member, posters raised several theories—proximity of hometown, scheduling convenience—but the agency has offered no official explanation, so it all remains speculation.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “Angerme’s Tamenaga Yukine Will Be Graduating This September.”
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