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Juice=Juice’s Pia Arena concert live viewing was confirmed for 85 theaters, sparking buzz on the 5ch Hello! Project board. Since even recent graduation-concert-level broadcasts usually topped out in the 70s, a newcomer fan’s astonished post — “Wait, is something incredibly huge happening!?” — set off a wave of reactions about the sheer scale and the sales method. Tickets aren’t first-come-first-served but a lottery pre-order, with applications opening October 24, 2026. The thread split between people laughing in disbelief at the numbers, others calmly noting it’s “not that different from a no-graduation Budokan show,” and more disagreement over the lottery system itself.
What people said
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Wait, is something incredibly huge happening!?
Fall 2026
85 theaters — Juice=Juice Pia Arena MM
54 theaters — Tsubaki Factory Budokan (Akiyama graduation)
73 theaters — BEYOOOOONDS Budokan
Spring 2026
81 theaters — Morning Musume. Budokan (Makino graduation)
53 theaters — ANGERME Budokan
68 theaters — Juice=Juice Pia Arena MM
68 theaters — BEYOOOOONDS Yokohama Arena (Takase graduation)
That's way too many, lol
And it's not even a graduation concert
This is gonna rake in the cash~
Fall 2025 had way fewer theaters than this, right?
It's not that different from BEYOOOOONDS' Budokan show (no graduation), so it's not really that amazing
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What's embarrassing about getting more new fans?
Does your favorite group even have someone like Re: #1?
If you're talking about the number of screenings, there's nothing embarrassing about that, lol
It's great that new fans are showing up, lol
Their Blu-rays/DVDs sell really well too — they've become Hello! Project's top earner
◆How to purchase:
【Advance Ticket Lottery (Pre-order)】
<Application period> October 24 (Sat), 2026, 12:00 – November 8 (Sun), 23:59
<Application URL> https://eplus.jp/juicejuice2026/lv/
Nah, even the live viewings for Sato's and Kanazawa's graduation concerts during the pandemic were pre-order lottery too
What's wrong with just doing first-come-first-served?
24/226 Shinjuku Wald 9
22/122 T-Joy PRINCE Shinagawa
0/294 Kino Cinema Shinjuku
19/129 Yokohama Blitz 13
63/207 T-Joy Umeda
54/80 TOHO Cinemas Namba
65/296 Midland Square Cinema 2
Is this really Hype-mi Newbie?
No, I've never seen a lottery for a regular concert
Only for graduation concerts of members that popular
I went last time because you could pick your seat, but I don't like not being able to choose
If seats go unsold, you can pick and buy through the theater's own system, so just bet on it not selling out
They've casually announced live viewings as little as a week before the show in the past, after all
Based on past years, it'll probably be tough in Tokyo, especially Shinjuku
Though somewhere like Kagawa should be fine
So people flow over to the live viewing instead
I guess the odds are tougher for people in Nagoya/Osaka/western Japan trying to avoid traveling
Kansai's getting more theaters again, so it probably won't turn into a rejection bloodbath?
There are more theaters than even for °C-ute's disbandment or Kudo Haruka's graduation
Thanks to whoever made it
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Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Hello! Project’s live viewings let fans watch the main concert via live broadcast in movie theaters, with tickets sold theater by theater. As the table in post 5 shows, the usual recent count hovers around 80 theaters, and Juice=Juice’s 85 theaters matches the scale of past graduation-concert-level events. The thread split over how to read the high theater count: posts like 13 and 34 reacted with surprise — “way too many, this’ll make bank,” “and it’s not even a graduation concert” — while others calmly countered that it’s “not that different from a no-graduation Budokan show.” The other sticking point was the sales method: posts 25, 27, and 33 objected that “a lottery is weird” and “you don’t see that for a normal concert,” but as post 29 points out, past graduation-concert live viewings have also used a pre-order lottery system before, so this isn’t actually unprecedented. The rise and fall in theater counts is also tied to the pattern where fans rejected in the venue’s own ticket lottery flow over to the live viewing instead (post 56), meaning the theater count alone can be a misleading popularity gauge.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “New fan overjoyed at live viewing announcement: “Wait, is something incredibly huge happening!?”“.
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