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The story
On the November 11 broadcast of Nippon TV’s “Best Hit Kayousai 2026,” Takarazuka Revue’s Yukigumi Troupe (朝美絢, 音彩唯, 瀬央ゆりあ, 縣千) joined Hello! Project’s Juice=Juice for a collaborative performance of “盛れ！ミ・アモーレ” (lit. “Glam Up! Mi Amore”). On 5ch’s live-thread board, after seeing the Takarazuka members in their male-role (otokoyaku) costumes, fans wrote things like “Funny, they’re cooler than the boy idols who performed earlier,” and several more replies asked for the performers’ names. Some also posted ratings data showing the show topped its time slot, making both the quality of the collab and the show’s strong viewership the main topics of the thread.
What people said
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Laughed because they're cooler than the boy idols who performed in the first half
Hey, any Takarazuka otaku here? What's that woman's name?
ハーバードまい
Her nickname is ばまい
Totally worth watching.
At this point they're idols who can go head-to-head with real artists and not lose.
Takarazuka, as expected — incredible.
Probably are.
Though it's probably already a lock for =LOVE.
I wish they'd swap in Juice=Juice instead, even now.
@besthitskayosai
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Best Hit Kayousai 2026 now on air📺
Juice=Juice up next!
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🎤Performing
『盛れ！ミ・アモーレ』 (lit. "Glam Up! Mi Amore")
Takarazuka Revue Yukigumi Troupe
朝美絢・音彩唯・瀬央ゆりあ・縣千
in a collab performance✨
Share your thoughts with #ベストヒット歌謡祭 (#BestHitKayousai) 💬
#juicejuice
@JuiceJuice_uf
#宝塚歌劇団雪組 (#TakarazukaYukigumi)
The idol groups that performed earlier got trashed way worse.
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NTV's network pulls solid numbers.
れいれい wins on visuals again this time lol
Didn't see the double-whistle move coming.
What the heck, lol
Background and Key Points of This Topic
It’s worth noting that the Takarazuka Revue is an all-female troupe in which women perform both the male (otokoyaku) and female (musumeyaku) roles. So when commenters in the thread praised 朝美絢 and the others as “cooler than the boy idols,” they were in fact praising female performers playing male-role stars — a point easy to misread as a straightforward comparison to male idols if you don’t know this background. The thread’s references to “NHK” and “=LOVE” are just posters’ personal speculation about the selection process for NHK’s year-end Kōhaku Uta Gassen, not any official announcement, so that should be read with caution too. “Best Hit Kayousai” is a long-running Nippon TV music special that’s often scheduled in a time slot where it competes for ratings with other networks’ music shows, and the ratings chart posted in the thread showing it “topped its time slot” should be understood in that context. The biggest takeaway from this thread is simply that a crossover between two very different genres — Takarazuka and Hello! Project — was met with genuine, widespread approval.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “■ Juice=Juice ■ Nippon TV’s “Best Hit Kayousai 2026【Takarazuka Revue Yukigumi × Juice=Juice Collab & Inoue Reon LOVE Namida-iro】” ■ 19:00-21:54 ■3“.
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