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The story
TV Tokyo’s street-interview program “Can I Follow You Home?” featured a fan of the Hello! Project group Juice=Juice as this episode’s subject. On 5ch’s Hello! Project board, viewers moved quickly to identify the fan, with many guessing “Isn’t that a Danbara oshi (a fan of member Ruru Danbara)?” — and some voiced surprise that the show’s staff seemed to recognize the group’s name without issue. Photos posted during the broadcast drew comments like “she looks so much better here” and “looks like a totally different person,” while the segment’s short runtime led others to suspect TV Tokyo had arranged the appearance in advance, questioning the show’s true intentions. Reactions were split.
What people said
Never forgetting to thank the fans.
Hello! Project could learn a thing or two.
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Mariya Takeuchi, mid-song: "Thank you soooo much for wearing the t-shirt!!!"
You'd need serious confidence to pull it off.
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There's a whole debate over the heavily-flattering 'Glow-Up' original shot
Guess I'll go back to the news then
Was that the 'Driver, take me to dinner' one?
No way they staged something like that lol
Background and Key Points on This Topic
“Can I Follow You Home?” is a long-running TV Tokyo street-interview show whose whole appeal is approaching people late at night and following them all the way back to their homes. This time, a fan of Juice=Juice became the subject, and reactions poured in on the Hello! Project board almost the moment the segment aired. Posters moved fast to identify whose fan the subject was, and some were surprised that not just the member’s name but the group name itself seemed to register with ordinary people. At the same time, some suspected the appearance had been arranged in advance — a suspicion informed by past claims that the show has occasionally handpicked fans of celebrities or otherwise buzzworthy figures for its segments. The fact that the aired footage felt short only fed that suspicion further. Neither the show’s producers nor those involved have commented on the actual intent behind the segment, so the truth of the matter remains unconfirmed.
*This article was compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “TV Tokyo’s Can I Follow You Home? — Juice=Juice Has Arrived ｷﾀ━━( ﾟ∀ﾟ )━( ﾟ∀)━( ﾟ)━( )━(ﾟ )━(∀ﾟ )━( ﾟ∀ﾟ )━━!!!!.”
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