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The story
Juice=Juice’s Dambara Ruru and Inoue Rein posted a TikTok video of themselves dancing to Juice=Juice’s song “Kurakura☆Climax” together with ME:I’s Ebihara Tsuzumi (TSUZUMI). Since the two groups belong to different agencies — Hello! Project and the LAPONE Entertainment family — the crossover drew a wave of positive reactions on 5ch’s Hello! Project board. Posters were especially quick to praise Ebihara’s singing ability and personality, and the thread stayed friendly throughout as jokes flew about what would happen if she joined Hello! Project.
Juice=Juice
With #TSUZUMI
#KurakuraClimax 💞
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What people said
Or maybe Hello! Project's own "Fuuga & Raiga," Rei&Ruru
Is this just ME:I being pushed hard? Most "Korean-style" idol songs are basically written by American/European composers anyway
Though Takami was a letdown
She'd probably not want to join Angerme
Pair her with Hana and they could dominate (fan nickname combo)
Background and Key Points
ME:I is a group formed in 2024 under the lead of Nippon TV and LAPONE Entertainment following the “PRODUCE 101 JAPAN THE GIRLS” audition — a different management company and agency family from Hello! Project’s Juice=Juice. A dance collaboration on TikTok that crosses agency lines like this is unusual, which is part of why it drew attention. Even accounting for their different affiliations, the thread was dominated by positive comments like “she wouldn’t look out of place in Hello! Project” and “she’s a great singer,” with almost no contentious back-and-forth. The song they’re dancing to, “Kurakura☆Climax,” is a Juice=Juice track, meaning Inoue and Dambara essentially shared one of their own home-turf songs with Ebihara.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “[TikTok] Juice=Juice’s Dambara Ruru & Inoue Rein and ME:I’s Ebihara Tsuzumi dance to “Kurakura☆Climax” ｷﾀ━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━!!.”
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