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With idol group Tsubaki Factory gearing up for a Nippon Budokan concert, a thread titled “Day-of ideas to pack Budokan for Tsubaki” popped up on 5ch’s Hello! Project board. Posters pointed out that even past graduation concerts held at the same venue failed to fill every seat, and fans piled in with idea after idea — from bringing in Juice=Juice as the opening act to inviting Asakura Kizuki and Ogata Risa as special guests. Serious proposals mixed with joke posts, and the thread took off.
What people said
Handing out flyers
Daily Instagram Live
Graduation concerts
All OGs reunited
New song reveal
Performing every single
Live band
Get the Hina-zu (fan nickname for a member called "Hina") into this outfit
Yamagishi's graduation + Kishimoto's graduation
Niinuma's graduation + all OGs reunited
Yagi's graduation + 10th anniversary
Every single one of these Budokan shows was half-empty
Or better yet, make the whole arena floor the stage
That one was rough to watch
Made me feel down too
If that couldn't fill the place, I don't know what could
That'd definitely fill the place
No clue what happens after that though lol
Or flip it — a musical chairs game where the number of seats exactly matches the number of members
Guests: Asakura & Ogata
Kisora's graduation concert was great too — though the balloon segment was surprisingly serious
Just cancel the show that day
And they didn't even come on as the opener — they showed up in the middle of the show
That works too
Have Juice=Juice guest in the middle of the show
Background and Talking Points
Nippon Budokan holds roughly 14,000 people, making it a venue that’s tough to sell out unless you’re one of Hello! Project’s top-tier acts. Tsubaki Factory has held member graduation concerts there before, and posters in the thread pointed out that even those past shows didn’t fill every seat. This thread wasn’t sparked by any official announcement — it was simply fans joking around about their ticket-sales anxiety and trading ideas, with posts competing more on creativity than realism, from suggestions to book other groups to proposals for guest appearances. Since the thread mixes genuine analysis with jokes, the posts shouldn’t be taken as statements of fact.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “[URGENT] Ideas Needed to Fill Budokan for Tsubaki Factory’s Show.”
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