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On the Hello! Project subforum, a thread listing out the “pros and cons” of ANGERME disbanding got lively. Against arguments for the upside — saving on personnel costs, less wasted hall space — came a steady stream of replies naming the downside: other members like Tamenaga and Shimoinoya transferring into different groups. The conversation eventually drifted into comparing 2026 attendance figures, lining up every group from Nogizaka46’s 500,000 down to ANGERME’s 90,000, sparking a side debate over which groups actually sell out their shows. An unconfirmed claim that the group is “apparently disbanding next year” was also dropped into the thread.
What people said
① All of ANGERME's personnel costs go away entirely
② No more wasted hall bookings, so every group can tour at an appropriate number of dates and venue size
Tamenaga and Shimoinoya transferring into other groups
The unpopular ones would just retire outright, wouldn't they
Wouldn't everyone except Nagano just retire?
Nogizaka46 2026 attendance → 500,000
Equal Love 2026 attendance → 360,000
FRUITS ZIPPER 2026 attendance → 200,000
CUTIE STREET 2026 attendance → 180,000
Morning Musume. 2026 attendance → 150,000
Juice=Juice 2026 attendance → 100,000
ANGERME 2026 attendance → 90,000 ←←←←←←← RIGHT HERE
Morning Musume. and ANGERME have zero sold-out shows between them, so that number's pretty weak
Hey, come on
It's obvious you're actually hyping ANGERME up while pretending to knock them down
They don't even belong on that list
They're out of their league, you troll — out of that 90,000 capacity, how many tickets did they actually move?
Probably like 50,000, right?
⑥ It would save Hirayama, Gotou, and Nagano
Might actually work out nicely if they built a new group centered on those three and pitted it against Juice=Juice
Maybe it came down to which group they were slotted into — would it have gone differently if they'd been folded into Momusu instead?
Dumb troll
Wrong thread, buddy
Rather than keep patching things up by working sick members past their limits, wouldn't it be better for everyone to scrap the group once and transfer the healthy members out individually?
So it'd be the healthy ones, Tamenaga and Shimoinoya, transferring in…
Everyone's completely sick of them
Juice=Juice, who actually sell out, should get some venue capacity carved off from Morning Musume. and ANGERME, who never sell out at all
Juice's in the red anyway
Counting on you, Kagawa's REGZAM Hall (a regional arena — likely a jab about a low-capacity tour stop)
Juice=Juice and Morning Musume. haven't sold out
The fewest shows and smallest total capacity of any autumn tour ever
The fewest shows and smallest total capacity of any graduation tour ever, too
And on top of that, it's the new members' first time joining the lineup
LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
If you can't read Japanese, just admit it already
Knew it, you really can't read it
The "Moremi went viral" theory just collapsed completely LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
https://kizuna.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/morningcoffee/1790488371/
Guess you didn't go to school much, huh
Posting off-topic stuff doesn't do any damage to the other person, you know
6 billion views — FRUITS ZIPPER: the veteran members keep adding to the total
5 billion views — CANDY TUNE: the sheer destructive power of their "Baibai Fight" viral hit
8.7 billion views — Chotokimeki Sendenbu: thanks to having multiple viral songs
700 million views — Juice=Juice: and this is supposed to get them on Kohaku? LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
Background and key points of this discussion
Comparing groups’ momentum using “attendance figures” is a long-running style of debate among Hello! Project and underground idol fans — worth noting is that these aren’t official numbers from management, but self-reported or estimated figures fans bring to the table themselves. The attendance and “sold out” claims for each group in this thread are 5ch users’ own tallies, not official agency announcements. Likewise, the line claiming the group is “apparently disbanding next year” is just an anonymous post claiming insider knowledge — no official announcement has been confirmed. What makes this thread stand out from typical idol-disbandment coverage isn’t whether the disbandment itself is warranted, but a more personnel-reshuffle-minded question: if it happened, which group would each member move to, and would that transfer be a win or a loss for the group receiving them.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “ANGERME disbanding would apparently be nothing but upside.”
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