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When Hello! Project’s Juice=Juice held a triumphant homecoming concert in the regions, fans reported that the usual “encore” chant barely happened at the end of the show, sparking discussion on 5ch’s Hello! Project (“Haropro”) board. Posters were split on the cause: newer fans not knowing venue etiquette, new-fan-priority seating skewing the crowd for the size of the hako (venue), or a shift in audience makeup from fans who crossed over from sister group ANGERME. At the same time, good news was reported alongside it — the group’s appearance on TBS’s “Yoru no Branch” ranked 3rd overall in first-half-of-the-year streaming numbers — highlighting a gap between the group’s rising popularity and the muted atmosphere at the actual shows.
What people said
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Also, women don't tend to shout much to begin with anyway.
Real old-timers are the ones who nurture the newbies.
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I don't want to hear gross old guys chanting anyway.
The OP isn't even blaming the newbies.
Twisting it into a convenient stick to beat people with is exactly what a "problem old-timer fan" does.
Old geezer.
It's just calling out a name — there's no way you wouldn't get that.
Just do the encore chant already.
maybe it's people who used to get told to chant at ANGERME shows who've crossed over.
but lately everyone's so naggy about it.
Or go with the "Vita Sweet" style.
What about the time they need to change into T-shirts?
King Gnu already does that.
Lol, that's even more of a tailwind.
The old-timers are like the first stage of a rocket — the part that gets jettisoned — while Juice=Juice soars high into the sky.
Yeah, they're basically uninterested in any other group that doesn't have that "flattering-shot" (moreru) appeal.
It reeks of old-man thinking.
I go to Johnny's and LDH shows too, and I've never once sat down, old man.
It's got nothing to do with gender.
If anything it's harder on old men.
I wonder how the silent crowd feels
hearing the members say "thanks for the encore."
If it's not an EBiDAN act, it's not a fair comparison.
No, even there people don't sit and they shout plenty loud.
People said the same thing back in the DA PUMP days too —
"we're the booster rocket."
If it gets them flying high, fine by me.
That feels a bit different from declaring yourself a fly-by-night fan with no intention of supporting long-term, but whatever, fine.
all while blasting ten times my usual gum-disease breath, body odor, damp-musty T-shirt funk, rotting-sneaker stench, and vagrant-piss smell onto everyone around me…
You're the biggest flop on the Wolf board today.
You'd have landed the joke better if you'd kept it shorter.
I mean, you're an Ebichu (Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku) otaku, aren't you.
Isn't it because they couldn't get tickets for the family seats, so they ended up in general seating?
No, even in the family seats, if you want to see the encore, you've gotta do the chant.
You've never actually been, have you?
EBiDAN fans sit quietly without shouting, you know.
That's exactly why Juice=Juice is meant to become the superstar act that inevitably pulls the whole Hello! Project lineup up with it — Up-Front is already moving in that direction.
Background and Key Points of the Discussion
The “encore chant” at Hello! Project shows — where the audience calls out members’ names or “encore” in unison — is a fan-cheering custom built up by longtime fans (the “old guard”) over many years. When attendance grows and the share of new fans rises, more attendees don’t know the custom, and the chant naturally gets quieter; this pattern has repeated with other groups too, so it would be premature to read the group’s rising or falling popularity purely from whether the chant happens. As the thread itself notes, Juice=Juice’s name recognition is, if anything, climbing — around the same time, their appearance on TBS’s “Yoru no Branch” placed 3rd in the first-half streaming rankings. In other words, a “quiet crowd” and “growing popularity” can coexist, and changes in a show’s atmosphere need to be weighed alongside other metrics like attendance figures and media exposure. The back-and-forth between new and veteran fans seen in the thread is itself one example of the etiquette friction that keeps recurring at venues with rapidly expanding audiences — but even among fans, there’s no settled answer on which custom is “correct.”
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “[Sad News] Juice=Juice’s Member Homecoming Show Sees Almost No Encore Chant Anymore…“.
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