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The story
“For the dance during the instrumental break, they just moved the camera in time with my kick — I didn’t actually kick anything,” Juice=Juice’s Rurutan Danbara explained on her Ameba blog about the dance footage from her CDTV appearance. The camera work that had been buzzing on social media turned out to be the cameraman himself shaking the camera in sync with her kicking motion. On 5ch’s Hello! Project board, the thread ranged from admiration for the cameraman’s skill, to jokes about what would’ve happened if it had been a different member, to a broader debate over the recent trend of shaking the camera for effect.
CDTV, everyone! — Rurutan Danbara
2026-08-31 21:23:32
For the dance during the instrumental break, they moved the camera in time with my kick
Source: ameblo.jp / Original post here
What people said
Probably Korean influence, right?
You see similar moves in pro wrestling broadcasts too
that's next-level unhinged, dying laughing
That's just a variant of the "I feel like I gave birth to her" fan meme (a common idol-fandom expression of parental pride)
Stuff like "Gachoon!" (a classic Showa-era comedy catchphrase/pose) or the Densen Ondo dance number has been doing this since the Showa era
Background and Talking Points
In recent years, TV music programs including CDTV have increasingly used camera work that shakes or tilts in sync with choreography. Rurutan Danbara’s post reveals that the footage viewers had been buzzing about — wondering “did she really kick that?” — was in fact a deliberate directing choice by the production side. The thread was divided over where this technique originated. Against comments like “I’m not a fan of camera shaking that matches recent choreography,” some speculated it came from Korean productions, while others countered that it’s a technique going back to Showa-era variety shows, citing examples like the “Gachoon” gag and the Densen Ondo dance. Which claim is accurate can’t be determined from the source material alone. For context, Juice=Juice is a girl idol group whose members include Rurutan Danbara, and CDTV is a music program on Nippon TV. It’s worth noting that this story originated from her own Ameba blog post, and no official comment has been issued by the show or its production company.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “Rurutan Danbara-chan: “For the dance in the instrumental break, they just moved the camera to match my kick — I didn’t actually kick, lol, the cameraman is amazing”.”
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