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On the Hello! Project board, a joint appearance by Juice=Juice and former member Maria Makino became a hot topic. Rather than reacting to the collaboration itself, the thread quickly veered into rankings of Morning Musume and Juice=Juice membership tenure and comparisons of X (Twitter) follower counts, with posters expressing surprise that Makino’s numbers were “lower than expected.” The discussion also touched on the contrast between members who remain regulars on terrestrial TV and former members whose exposure has faded since graduating, splitting opinion among fans.
What people said
4,127 days — Akari Uemura
3,367 days — Ruru Danbara (since 2017/06/26)
3,194 days — Tomoko Kanazawa
2,909 days — Sayuki Takagi
2,845 days — Karin Miyamoto
2,649 days — Yua Kudo / Ria Matsunaga (since 2019/06/14)
2,357 days — Reon Inoue (since 2020/04/01)
2,303 days — Yuka Miyazaki
1,895 days — Ichika Arisawa / Risa Irie / Kisaki Ebata (since 2021/07/07)
1,538 days — Sakura Ishiyama / Sakari Endo (since 2022/06/29)
1,447 days — Manaka Inaba
1,210 days — Miifu Kawashima (since 2023/05/23)
*,623 days — Nanami Yanagawa
*,448 days — Nia Hayashi (since 2025/06/23)
*,130 days — Aina Otsuka
Your math is always off by one day.
Membership days should be calculated "inclusive of day one."
Elapsed days are calculated "exclusive of day one."
The membership-day figures listed on Wikipedia are calculated the "exclusive" way, so they're one day short.
You can't just copy the numbers as-is — you have to add one day to each.
X (Twitter) followers
Haruka Kudo — 124,000
Yuka Nihei — 79,000
Karin Miyamoto — 73,000
Ayaka Wada — 71,000
Mei Tamura — 69,000
Haruna Iikubo — 69,000
Miyabi Natsuyaki — 59,000
Manaka Inaba — 48,000
Masaki Sato — 47,000
Harumi Ogata — 37,000
Akari Takeuchi — 35,000
Kaede Kaga — 34,000
Makoto Ogawa — 34,000
Riho Sayashi — 28,000
Risa Kogata — 26,000
Kurumi Takase — 25,000
Rikako Sasaki — 21,000
Erina Ikuta — 21,000
Rika Shimakura — 19,000
Maria Makino — 19,000 ← this one
Ayumi Ishida — 16,000
Wait, Makino's numbers are this low? I figured she'd easily be pulling 200,000.
Is that missing a zero?
Up-Front's "first string" = a C-list celebrity everywhere else
Mizuki Fukumura, Erina Ikuta, and Ayumi Ishida vanished in an instant.
She's right on the edge of vanishing into the underground scene like her senpai did.
Everyone else got wiped out.
Background and Key Points
Within Hello! Project fandom, membership tenure and social media follower counts are frequently used as points of comparison. Wikipedia’s membership-day figures are calculated as elapsed days “not counting day one,” so simply subtracting dates produces a count that’s off by one from the actual number of days served — a common source of confusion. The “One-Four” crew mentioned in the thread is fan slang for an older generation of former Juice=Juice and Morning Musume members, and the contrast between those who’ve stayed active and those whose terrestrial TV exposure dropped off early became the thread’s main point of discussion. Some posters were surprised that Maria Makino’s follower count seemed “low,” but this is only relative to other former members, and the thread didn’t address that differences in current activity level and media opportunities could be behind the gap.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “[Great News] Juice=Juice and Maria Makino Appear Together Kita━━━━(°∀°)━━━━!!.”
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