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The story
Pre-orders have opened for solo calendars featuring all 68 current members of Hello! Project’s groups — Morning Musume。’27, ANGERME, Juice=Juice, Tsubaki Factory, BEYOOOOONDS, OCHA NORMA, and Rosy Chronicle. Each calendar costs 2,500 yen (tax included) and comes as a set of 12 sheets measuring 200mm x 100mm, with a note that Oda Sakura is not included in the lineup. On 5ch, fans whose favorites (‘oshi’) span multiple groups complained they’d “end up spending over 10,000 yen on calendars alone,” while the thread also buzzed with comparisons to other idols’ merch pricing and comments on just how many members wear glasses.
Nice that these are made-to-order — no worries about them selling out before you get yours.
Source: helloshop.info / Original article here
What people said
Morning Musume。'27 / ANGERME / Juice=Juice / Tsubaki Factory / BEYOOOOONDS / OCHA NORMA / Rosy Chronicle
One solo design per member, 68 total
2,500 yen each (tax included) ※Payment due at time of pre-order.
Size: approx. 200mm (H) x 100mm (W)
Set of 12 sheets
※Oda Sakura is not included in this lineup
I've got an oshi in every group, but there's no way I can spend that much on calendars — narrowing it down to two.
MLINE's calendar ran about 5,000 yen
I think it's overpriced for Hello! Project members' calendars since there's basically no extra production cost
they're just reusing photos from merch photoshoots
Sato's 'Ma-chan' calendar is a B5 desktop size, 26 sheets bound into 52 pages, for 3,850 yen
also it's way too small, damn agency's overcharging
why does my urge to buy drop when my oshi wears glasses
lately way too many Hello! Project members have been wearing 'passion glasses' (a trendy glasses style some members have adopted)
Buying one of every member comes to 170,000 yen (plus shipping on top if ordering online)
might actually be cheaper than you'd think lol
Lol OP dutifully posted all 12 months' worth of images for every single member
Just color-copy these and all the calendars are yours!
Even if I bought all 68, I wouldn't have the wall space to hang them lol
That's what you went to the trouble of samefagging (posting under a sock account) to say?
Glad I went with the JP Room member calendar instead lol. But since I don't know if this'll be an annual thing, I still want Hello! Project's per-group calendars to come back lol
Group-oshi (fans who support a whole group rather than one member) are already a minority, so they probably won't bother
As a group-oshi, I really wish they'd done one specifically for Morning Musume。…
not many would take it this far
maybe it's the makeup?
honestly I'd rather they made calendars out of live concert photos than this
a bit bigger than a postcard (15cm x 10cm)
could they just put out a single A1-size poster instead
I just want my oshi nice and huge
and for Nonaka, who wasn't even in that live show, even July is the same outfit
Background and Key Points of Debate
Hello! Project, through its operating agency Up-Front via “Hello Shop,” has continued the practice of selling calendars by individual member rather than by group every year. In the thread, opinions split over whether the 2,500 yen price is cheap or expensive compared to other idols’ solo calendars (typically in the 3,000-5,000 yen range). The view that “it’s overpriced since the photos are just reused merch-shoot data with no extra production cost” coexisted with praise that “being made-to-order is considerate, since there’s no risk of selling out” — the thread alone doesn’t settle which take wins. There was also a period when a combined all-groups calendar was sold, but in recent years individual-member sales have been the norm, with some commenters noting that group-focused (“hako-oshi”) merchandise has become a minority offering. The thread did not clarify why Oda Sakura was excluded from the lineup.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “Pre-Orders Open Today for Solo Calendars of All 68 Current Hello! Project Members.”
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