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The story
Reiruru, the unit within Hello!Project’s Juice=Juice made up of Dambara Ruru and Inoue Rein, appeared on the music special “Hamada Music Festival” and won favorable reactions across social media, including TikTok. On the other hand, harsher comments reportedly turned up in the TV broadcast’s live viewer comments, and this split in reception became a hot topic on the Hello!Pro board of 5ch as well. In the thread, negative opinions like “she’s just a pretty face” and “her singing is bad” mixed with favorable takes like “their high notes complement each other well” and “this is just reality,” while posts comparing the vocal ability of other members besides Dambara and Inoue also piled up.
What people said
The girls of Juice=Juice sing way too well… they're so good it's actually funny. Typical Hello!Pro.
【I want to always be wherever SixTONES ftr is】
Public attention on her is just on another level
She's just a pretty face
There are people who rate her highly — what's the point of arguing by your own standard alone?
Thanks for the ruling that a "national treasure face" (a slang term praising someone's looks as treasure-tier) isn't overrated
Reirei's the one who can't hit high notes though
That's because they want to hide that she was actually getting bashed lol
Especially since it got exposed that Inoue can't really sing
Plenty of singers out there can sing well but aren't cute
Plenty are cute but can't sing at all
So it's true that regular people are more easily fooled by "acme" singing (a fan-slang term mocking breathy, forced high notes)?
You old geezers are just twisted
That's exactly why ratings from Ookami (the old-school Hello!Project fan forum) or 5ch can't be trusted
Go watch the video with Harami-chan first, then come talk to me
It's frustrating, but there's no helping that it's getting good reviews
Reiruru is the cream of the crop even within the "village" (fan slang for the insular Hello!Project world)
Reirei's high notes are strong enough that she gets trusted with Takagi's fake/falsetto part on "Kono Sekai wa"
They're just forcing it out with breath power, which is why it's bad and gets called "acme"
By the way, where is that actually being said?
Arisawa's the one who really nails the high notes, right?
So it's a good fit
The fact that people are still calling Dambara "acme" really shows how bad her singing is
Hirose Kohmi too
Well, good that they finally got noticed this time
Praise from young Johnny's fangirls carries way more weight
I mean, that level is just normal for a Hello!Pro fan
Both Dambara and Inoue haven't changed since before "Moreme"
They did similar "acme" singing on a choir show too, and it wasn't well received
Nobody's actually listening to the singing
Funny that you think a choir show and the Hamada Music Festival have the same kind of profile or attention
Reiruru's singing is the same thing
Everyone's free to like or dislike it, but it being bad singing is just a fact
Blowing hard into it doesn't actually produce a high note though
It's not really about whether Dambara and Inoue are good or bad — it's that the idol industry is so far gone (thanks to =LOVE, Kawara Lab, and the Sakamichi groups) that they end up looking like good singers by comparison
So bashing Juice=Juice over this is missing the point
By the way, for low notes it's probably Endo and Kawashima
Arisawa's strong on low notes too
She's about the only one who can hit the lowest note in "Noctiluca"
"Body&Soul" got split between two of them and ended up like this
Background and Points of Discussion
The word “acme,” which came up repeatedly in the thread, is slang used among Hello!Project fans, often used mockingly to describe a singing style built on forcing out high notes with sheer breath power. The split in how people rated Dambara and Inoue largely comes down to a difference in taste over how that style lands on the ear. Another point of debate was the gap between the harsh reactions in the TV’s live comments and the warmer reception on social media like TikTok. Live-broadcast comments tend to be swayed by split-second impressions, and it’s common for perception to shift once clipped highlight videos start circulating afterward. This gap in temperature is also thought to reflect a difference between longtime fans and new viewers in how they interpret the word “acme” itself. It’s also worth noting that “Reiruru” is not a name for Juice=Juice as a whole, but the name of a unit formed by just two members, Dambara Ruru and Inoue Rein — a point that’s easy to misread, and it’s precisely because the unit’s makeup is so simple that the thread’s discussion expanded into comparing the singing ability of individual members.
※This article is compiled as an excerpt/summary from the 5ch (Hello!Pro) thread “[Good News] Reiruru, who appeared at the Hamada Music Festival, ends up winning rave reviews just as expected.”
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