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The story
A post noting that hardly any “calls” (the coordinated chants fans shout at live shows) could be heard at Juice=Juice’s “Room Tour 2026” sparked discussion on 5ch’s Hello! Project board. Following a message from the group’s official X account, opinions split between “it’s nicer to actually hear the singing when it’s quiet” and “don’t lean on the crowd — get us fired up.” The thread also touched on the growing number of new fans who don’t know the calls, plus complaints about the setlist and stage direction. Posters were divided over whether to blame the audience or the management/production side.
What people said
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Juice=Juice Room Tour 2026
Tako's position is that fans should be free to shout or not, so this take is wrong.
The crowd's full of new fans, so of course they don't know the calls for the old songs — "Moreme" aside.
Sounds fun lol
And it comes as a package with grinding your teeth when it never goes the way you hoped
Haters never change even after a year lol
Hope so
But in reality it's Ankasu that broke up lol
For other songs too, apparently you're fine as long as you throw an "oi" in after the "woo."
Don't lean on the crowd — entertain us.
Kudo's not looking in the same direction as everyone else.
Just leave it be — people pick it up naturally and it gets loud again eventually.
That's exactly why people call them fakes.
But this is low turnout AND low energy — no upside anywhere.
Though it is a minus if some guy next to me does horrifically loud, off-key calls.
A moderate amount of calling is plenty.
Exactly that.
And what's with that box platform and the illusion-style door-swap gimmick — feels cheap.
The seated singing scene itself is fine, but at least bring out sturdier chairs.
JUNGO, get it together.
The call itself is fine in general, but that one's a no.
Background and Key Points of the Discussion
“Calls” are a deeply rooted chant culture at Japanese idol shows, with a fixed pattern for each song — the newer a fan is, the fewer chances they’ve had to learn them. In Hello! Project, the crowd at any given venue tends to turn over quickly, so call volume is easily swayed by the ratio of new fans to veterans and by how many attendees are “at-home” (online-only) fans. The thread mixed pro-and-con takes — “it’s nicer to hear the singing when it’s quiet” versus “fans should raise their voices to match the members” — with comparisons to other groups that release call tutorial videos, plus complaints about the setlist and stage direction. Opinions split over whether to blame the audience or management/production. It’s also worth noting that only part of the original official-account post could be confirmed within the thread itself, so the sense that it was “provocative” owes a lot to individual fans’ interpretation.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “Juice=Juice’s official X account starts fretting that fans’ calls are almost nonexistent on the autumn tour, ends up goading them to “raise your voices” wwwwwwwww“.
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