Juice=Juice’s remaining unaccomplished tasks down to just 4 — 5ch: “Size is justice”

Background and Key Points of This Topic

Juice=Juice is an idol group under the Hello! Project umbrella. CD sales reaching “million-seller” status is no longer realistic in this era, with streaming and subscription playback counts now more commonly cited as the relevant metric — and comments like “million sellers just don’t happen anymore these days” stood out in the thread. On venue prestige, K Arena Yokohama, a new roughly 20,000-capacity venue, was presented as ranking above Yokohama Arena (about 17,000 capacity) and Nippon Budokan (about 14,000 capacity), both of which Hello! Project has traditionally used to confer status — making “size is justice” one of the thread’s central viewpoints. Meanwhile, one post included an image of a TVer show as evidence the group has already landed its own terrestrial TV program, creating a disconnect over whether one of the four listed conditions has in fact already been met. On the question of a Kohaku Uta Gassen appearance, some were optimistic, pointing to junior group M!LK’s appearance on Kohaku with a comparable audience draw and saying “it’s doable,” while others noted that expectations have risen to the point where NHK would look like it “failed to read the room” if the group isn’t selected. One point readers may easily misread is that these “tasks” aren’t official goals set by Hello! Project itself, but benchmarks that 5ch users devised on their own.