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The story
After idol Suzuki Airi (formerly of ℃-ute and Buono!)’s official manager posted a form on her official X account calling for “Suzuki Airi’s famous quotes,” fans on 5ch’s Hello! Project board piled on with a flood of replies. Rather than genuine quotes, the thread filled up mostly with parody-style “legendary lines” written in her voice, alongside nostalgic callbacks to her Buono! and ℃-ute days — though some posts also brought up unconfirmed rumors, like the smoking allegations swirling around Sakamichi groups, prompting another user to step in and correct them: “That’s a fabrication that came out of the Wolf board.” Talk of a day-by-day calendar marking her 25th anniversary in the industry added to the buzz as well.
Suzuki Airi Manager 【Official】
@airimania_staff
＼📢 Calling for your favorite #SuzukiAiri quotes!／
Source: docs.google.com / Original post here
What people said
Suzuki Airi: "It gave me all warm and fuzzy feels!"
Suzuki Airi: "I get cheated on so easily."
– I know about the insane scenery
– I want people going 'Wait, Suzuki Airi missed Kohaku?! Seriously?!'
– I want to be on music shows too, y'know! I'm not a god!
Suzuki Airi: "Being with Reikurei makes my life feel full."
Even thinking hard about it, I can't come up with a single one.
2nd place: "Fugaffuga"
3rd place: "Fugaa-fuga"
"Nakano, nn, Nakano~, Nakano Sun Plaza~"
lol they just recycled the same rhythm for both
You know you're gonna publish it, right?
Things started going downhill right around when she started saying that.
Sure, the sound's nice, but pay more attention to the lyrics — the whole vibe just isn't coming through, y'know?
https://kizuna.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/morningcoffee/1788754465/
https://kizuna.5ch.net/test/read.cgi/morningcoffee/1744254847/ (a cutesy-sounding word that comically hides a crude term inside it)
all of these are pretty lame.
Something like 'We're comrades who came here for the same beef bowl.'
食す (to eat) mispronounced as "kusu"
備蓄 (stockpile) → 貯蓄 ("savings")
MUSIC FAIR → MUSIL FAIR (her verbal slip-ups)
Background and Discussion Points
Suzuki Airi is a veteran idol singer with 25 years in the industry, having come up through ℃-ute and Buono!, and as the thread notes, a 365-day tear-off calendar has been announced as a commemorative item. The quote-collecting campaign itself is official fan service run by her manager, but on the 5ch side, the dominant mood leaned less toward actual recorded quotes and more toward playful phrases mimicking her speaking style, plus references to old songs posted as “famous quotes.” Where opinions split was over posts that resurfaced old, unsourced rumors — like the smoking allegations surrounding Sakamichi groups — as though they were established fact; another user pushed back, pointing out it was “a fabrication that originated on 5ch’s ‘Wolf’ board,” and the claim got corrected. It’s worth noting for readers that unverified information that’s circulated online for years tends to resurface and spread again in piling-on threads like this one.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “Calling for Suzuki Airi’s Famous Quotes! Tell Us the “Suzuki Airi Words” That Have Stuck With You!.”
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