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Yuka Miyazaki, who served as the first-generation leader of Hello! Project group Juice=Juice, posted on her X (formerly Twitter) account praising her junior members by name, writing “Ebami and Reiruru are both great, so much fun 😆.” On the 5channel “Hello Pro” board, a thread citing a ranking of current members’ tenure (as of September 6, 2026, Akari Uemura leads with 4,127 days, followed by Ruru Danbara with 3,359 days, among others) sparked debate over whether the post was a genuine expression of affection for her juniors or a calculated move timed just before a promotional post for her calendar. Commenters also compared her stance to that of fellow former first-generation leaders Karin Miyamoto and Ayaka Wada.
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Ebami and Reiruru are both great, so much fun 😆
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What people said
4,127 days — Akari Uemura
3,359 days — Ruru Danbara (since 2017/06/26)
3,194 days — Tomoko Kanazawa
2,909 days — Sayuki Takagi
2,845 days — Karin Miyamoto
2,641 days — Yume Kudo / Ria Matsunaga (since 2019/06/14)
2,349 days — Reon Inoue (since 2020/04/01)
2,303 days — Yuka Miyazaki
1,887 days — Ichika Arisawa / Risa Irie / Hisaki Ebata (since 2021/07/07)
1,530 days — Sakura Ishiyama / Sakari Endo (since 2022/06/29)
1,447 days — Manaka Inaba
1,205 days — Mifu Kawashima (since 2023/05/23)
*,623 days — Nanami Yanagawa
*,440 days — Nia Hayashi (since 2025/06/23)
*,130 days — Aina Otsuka
she really does watch over her juniors warmly, just like a parent watching their own kids.
Total night-and-day difference compared to a certain other founding leader.
Tanuki collab (Miyazaki's fan nickname/mascot is "tanuki," the raccoon dog).
For her to even bring up a word like "kotodama" (the mystical power of words), things must not have been going her way at all.
Lately it's like she's venting years of pent-up grievances, repeatedly declaring victory with "I was right all along."
That's a different position from Miyamoto, who still carries the feelings of all five original Juice members on stage to this day.
She's coming back to radio though.
If she's calculating that these terms come up a lot in ego-searches, that's kind of scary.
And on top of that, she followed it up with a promotional post for her calendar.
There's no way she isn't calculating this.
Yuka-nyan is overflowing with love for her juniors, but that's separate from the fact that she's shrewd.
On the flip side, Miyazaki figures Ebata/Kawashima and Inoue/Danbara's appearances were one-offs, so their names come up easily.
She didn't react to Haramichan (a popular street pianist) because she thinks Arisawa's violin work with her is still ongoing.
Guess that means Arisawa is a threat to Miyazaki.
Real top-tier status is when Ebami and Reiruru get so much work that even Miyazaki can't keep up and starts ignoring them.
Ten years since then already, huh…
Even Miyamoto seems to have forgotten they're active together as "Yumeria."
Family: "Mama~💖"
Random newbie fans: "Aw, that troubled-face tanuki~💖"
Karin-chan: "JJ!"
Family: "Don't come crawling up to us 🙅"
Random newbie fans: "Don't come crawling up to us 🙅"
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Background and Discussion Points
The phrase “Ebami and Reiruru” in the quoted post is an abbreviation used among Hello! Project fans, apparently combining the nicknames of current members. In Hello! Project, the number of days since joining is often discussed as a marker of tenure, and the day-count comparisons shown in the thread — starting with Akari Uemura’s 4,127 days — are one example of this. Miyazaki has already stepped back from the front lines, but she continues to post about her juniors’ activities, a different situation from that of active members who carry the weight of the group’s fortunes. In the thread, opinions were split between those who saw the post as a pure expression of affection for her juniors and those who viewed it as a calculated message timed alongside a subsequent promotional post for her personal calendar; which is closer to the truth cannot be determined from the post alone. It should also be noted that evaluations of other former first-generation leaders vary from person to person, and the text does not make clear what standard those evaluations are based on.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (Hello Pro) thread “Juice=Juice’s founding leader Yuka Miyazaki: ‘Ebami and Reiruru are both great, so much fun 😆’.”
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