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The story
A post on 5ch about a Hokkaido performance by Hello! Project group ANGERME — part of their “Fūrinkazan Ni” tour — became a hot topic after claiming the venue was nearly full despite it being a weekday show. The venue was the Sapporo Education and Culture Hall, which holds around 1,100 people. Around the same time, fellow Hello! Project act BEYOOOOONDS had a roughly 9,000-capacity show scheduled at Nippon Budokan, raising the risk that fans would be split between the two events. The thread was divided: some questioned the claim, noting “the second floor was practically empty,” while others praised the turnout, saying “filling it up this much on a weekday is impressive.”
What people said
There were other options too, like Budokan or TV music shows
But this was a weekday show
Wonder how BEYOOOOONDS' live-viewing screening went, eh (that's Hokkaido dialect from the poster)
The day's rotating tickets for Goto and Hirayama sold out first, but Ise's batch surely got a bigger restock too
The Education and Culture Hall
Are they gonna report how full the venue is every single time from now on?
It's the middle of nowhere in Hokkaido, man
Nope
Second floor was empty
Nov 10 & Nov 11
Zepp Sapporo — both days completely sold out (capacity: 2,009)
then with favorable conditions, Pia Arena selling out is basically guaranteed
Isn't the content — and the Japanese itself — kind of off?
No way the official account would post something like this lol
Have you ever even seen them report exactly how many rows were empty?
It's only some seats
Both ends
If this were the usual weekend show, fine, but it's a weekday
They did well
If you just want to bash them, go ahead I guess
But with ANGERME in Sapporo versus BEYOOOOONDS at Budokan, looks like Hello! Project fans are prioritizing Budokan
Don't lump Juice, who went viral, in with ANGERME, who didn't
You can't really compare it to the OCHA/viral-Juice case
Given the location and number of shows, prioritizing BEYOOOOONDS' Budokan date is only natural
The Budokan show was announced after ANGERME's Sapporo fan-club tickets went on sale, so ANGERME fans were already free to prioritize Sapporo
Don't go blaming BEYOOOOONDS for this
07/14 (Mon) Juice=Juice Autumn Tour
07/15 (Tue) OCHA NORMA at Nippon Budokan
Background and Key Points of the Debate
Hello! Project doesn’t officially release seat-occupancy figures, so fans have developed a culture of reporting venue conditions on social media and treating it as an informal gauge of a group’s drawing power. The post that sparked this thread wasn’t official either — it was based on one fan’s observation, and there’s little way to verify it. The thread split over what counts as “nearly sold out”: some argued that if most seats are filled, a few empty ones shouldn’t matter, while others insisted any empty seat means it wasn’t a sellout. The fact that BEYOOOOONDS had a Nippon Budokan show on the same day only fed the comparisons of drawing power.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “ANGERME’s Hokkaido show apparently nearly sold out despite being on a weekday.”
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