A solo event for voice actress Hina Sakurai (nicknamed “Hiina”) was announced, and its pricing — ¥8,800 for a regular ticket, ¥14,000 for a farewell meet-and-greet package with bonus perks — became a hot topic on 5ch’s Love Live! board. The event came in response to fan requests to “drop the bundled events and just do a solo show,” but once the prices were revealed, many pointed out they were steep compared to other voice actors’ fan meetings. At the same time, some argued that limiting the advance lottery to a single round preemptively silenced complaints about wanting multiple chances to win tickets, sparking a mix of praise and criticism.
What people said
1AnonymousSep 22, 2026 22:37
Ticket price: ¥8,800!
Farewell meet-and-greet: ¥14,000!
Is this a concert or what?
5AnonymousSep 22, 2026 22:48
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Kind of like paying for front-row seats.
Still, that's pricey though.
6AnonymousSep 22, 2026 22:58
Sure there are various perks bundled in, but that's a bold price for a solo event.
7AnonymousSep 22, 2026 23:10
Who the hell is Jimmy Onishi supposed to be here? (random comedian/artist name-drop — seems to be a non sequitur)
8AnonymousSep 22, 2026 23:29
I'd think this is still the phase where you're supposed to be growing your fanbase, but she's already switched into cash-grab mode — no need to rush things like this.
14AnonymousSep 23, 2026 07:35
Re: #8
She's not exactly young anymore, and since she's signed to an agency, results are expected of her — so isn't this about right?
With a capacity under 800, it should fill up easily.
10AnonymousSep 23, 2026 01:08
Fan club and bar events with a farewell meet-and-greet included usually run around ¥9,000. ¥14,000 for front row + goods + farewell is pretty steep, even bundled together.
11AnonymousSep 23, 2026 01:42
So now it's not just Love Live! — even solo voice actor events are adopting the tiered upgrade pricing model.
Guess they're just ignoring the casual fans who'd go just because they're a little curious.
12AnonymousSep 23, 2026 01:51
Not worth it unless it's a full live show.
Also, if you're going to upgrade the front seats, you should downgrade the back seats to match.
I keep saying this: adjust it so total revenue balances out to what it normally would be.
13AnonymousSep 23, 2026 02:05
Arisa Komiya has always done her fan meetings for ¥10,000, including a handwritten autograph handed to you personally plus a farewell send-off, so this feels a bit pricey by comparison.
15AnonymousSep 23, 2026 07:46
If it's going to cost this much, they might as well bring in her fellow hometown celebrity Hideki Matsui as a guest. (Matsui: famous former NPB/MLB baseball player)
16AnonymousSep 23, 2026 08:55
Doesn't seem like anything but S-seats will sell out.
The back seats are gonna feel pretty lame at this rate.
18AnonymousSep 23, 2026 09:36
Since most applicants will go for the perk package, picking the regular ticket basically guarantees you the very back row.
And yet this'll probably sell out anyway.
21AnonymousSep 23, 2026 12:26
Everyone said, "Ditch the bundled events, just do a solo one"
And this is what we get when it actually happens.
25AnonymousSep 23, 2026 15:23
Re: #21
And on top of that, by limiting it to a single advance lottery round, they've shut down everyone who was complaining.
This'll probably fill up just fine, right?
22AnonymousSep 23, 2026 12:43
You people lack the humility to gratefully accept what you're given.
Go spend a year training at Eiheiji temple or something. (a famously strict Zen Buddhist monastery)
23AnonymousSep 23, 2026 13:15
Still way better than a bundled event.
If the high ticket price makes more people give up on applying, the odds improve for the rest of us — totally welcome.
24AnonymousSep 23, 2026 13:27
Even with other live shows and cast events happening around the same time, Hiina's fans ("Hi-ota") will still pay up, so the odds will probably stay tough. Even when Mītanu did hers at Nikkei Hall, it filled up just fine.
26AnonymousSep 23, 2026 15:29
Sorry, I'm just a random passerby who doesn't really know much about her, but what exactly does this event even involve?
27AnonymousSep 23, 2026 17:00
You just drink coffee.
28AnonymousSep 23, 2026 21:56
If every seat comes with earphones for live ASMR, then ¥14,000 would actually be worth it.
29AnonymousSep 23, 2026 23:20
Even after everyone said to ditch the bundling, the Non & Hina event costs less than half this even without a farewell meet-and-greet. It depends on perks and seating, but this one definitely lands on the pricier side.
30AnonymousSep 23, 2026 23:39
Between all the stacked seat upgrades, expenses are already brutal, and now even solo events are jumping on the high-priced-seat cash grab everywhere you look.
It'd be fine if regular seats still had a decent shot at winning, but some organizers only let goods-included applicants win during the paid early-access lottery — wonder how this one's going to handle it?
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
When it comes to pricing for solo voice actor events, a format known as the “upgrade system” — where the base admission fee stays the same but front-row or perk-included seats cost extra — has become increasingly common in recent years. Commenters compared the event to Arisa Komiya’s autograph session (¥10,000) and other voice actors’ fan meetings, and while the base ¥8,800 ticket price itself wasn’t seen as unusually high, many voices singled out the ¥14,000 premium plan with the farewell meet-and-greet as a bold move. At the same time, some speculated that limiting the advance lottery to a single round was a deliberate move to preempt complaints about wanting multiple chances to win tickets — suggesting reactions went beyond simple criticism of a price hike. It should also be noted that the event’s specific content (whether it centers on a talk show or a live performance, for example) hasn’t been clarified in the official announcement, so speculation in the thread remains just that — speculation.
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