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The thin turnout at a release event held by Hello! Project’s new group Rosy Chronicle at Kobe Harborland has become a hot topic on 5ch’s Hello! Project board. Photos showing the back of the venue nearly empty were posted one after another in the thread, sparking comparisons with the packed crowd at a same-day event held by senior group Juice=Juice. Some criticized the agency’s decision to rush the group’s debut, while others pointed out that drawing a crowd at a distant venue is inherently difficult, complicating any simple popularity comparison.
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291 Anonymous Recruiting… 2026/09/27 (Sun) 11:04:01.29 0
Here's about how many people showed up to yesterday's third Harborland session
everything past the halfway mark was empty
Why are you lying?
Seibuen (☂) — spacious and comfortable
Kobe (☂) — spacious and super comfortable
And next up, Shiodome
Shiodome's gonna be hell, other fandoms' otaku show up there too
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HEjYS2taAAAATJq.jpg
Looks the same to me
The members haven't come out yet
https://stat.ameba.jp/user_images/20260329/20/juicejuice-official/12/91/j/o1080069115765717468.jpg
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2038119911059488768/vid/avc1/1920×1080/0ROAl9P4D8u0AwKt.mp4
Yeah, that's impressive lol
This reminds me of when Wink came to Suma Patio (a local shopping mall)
Took Juice=Juice 13 years to get here. If Rosy keeps at it, they'll surely get there too
Wow, that's impressive — there's more people here than at Juice=Juice's
Nah come on, there's a ton of people there
If it'd been in Osaka they'd have drawn twice as many
Since the free 2F area has a better view of the stage than the priority section here at Tenmi, I bet the priority section's turnout looks even more brutal
This is on the agency for debuting you with no gimmicks or push behind it
They hadn't even hit debut-level quality in the first place, but once they said 'within the year,' they had no choice but to debut them lol
but building a fanbase from scratch is rough
I think they're quite a bit worse honestly
Maybe like 150 people buying 40 copies each? That's some effort
Both the members and the handful of otaku wear themselves out, and all that's left in the end is emptiness
Apparently if you grind through 220 shows on the road, you get to play the Budokan
If they follow Juice=Juice's example and push through a 220-show death road, the Budokan reward awaits
As a group, they're actually better than ANGERME
Funny joke lol
Quit posting AI-generated images
So you don't 'always' go, huh
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Rosy Chronicle is a new Hello! Project group that just debuted in 2026, and this Kobe Harborland performance was part of a release event tour running from September 20 to November 7. The thread’s comparison point, Juice=Juice, is a group that — as one post put it — “took 13 years to finally get here,” having formed more than a decade ago, so the gap in drawing power partly reflects the gap in how long each group has been active. That said, turnout is also heavily shaped by whether a venue is indoor or outdoor, the weather, and how close the location is to Osaka or Tokyo — posts in the thread pointed to geographic factors like “it’s far from here” and “Harborland itself is a ghost town” as reasons to be cautious about treating turnout as a simple measure of popularity. The remark that “220 shows on the road gets you the Budokan” refers to the long regional tour Juice=Juice ground through before reaching their Budokan performance, and reads as a call for the new group to walk that same path.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “[Sad News] Look at the Turnout for Rosy Chronicle’s Release Event at Kobe Harborlandlolololololololololololololololol.”
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