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The story
Singer-songwriter Kohmi Hirose remarked in a YouTube interview-style video that Hello! Project’s Juice=Juice “do such proper, thorough greetings despite being top idols — it’s amazing,” a comment that sparked discussion on 5ch’s Hello! Project board. The thread saw sarcasm (“greetings are the only thing worth praising”) clash with defenders (“getting the basics right is admirable”), and the talk expanded into comparisons of other groups’ airport behavior.
What people said
(said during a YouTube interview video)
don't slack off on the internet shilling now (a jab implying paid astroturfers promote the group)
Greetings are the most important thing in this industry
Wait… are you a shut-in (hikikomori)?
She praised more than just the greetings though. Hello.
So, does your oshi (favorite idol) have anything praiseworthy at all?
Hearing "XX is amazing"
and jumping to "so YY must NOT be amazing!"
is just plain illiterate and dumb, so you should stop doing that
Philosophy no Dance isn't even remotely "top" though
If she worked with them, maybe she just assumed they were polite because they're underground idols?
Whether someone can nail basics like greetings really shows their attitude
Sorry to break it to you, but she praised their singing and dancing on TV too
Praise them or not, you'll complain either way. Ahh, jealousy really is ugly lol
Where exactly are they "top idols"?
That's a brutal jab
Hello! Project fans really take social pleasantries at face value, huh lol
Seems like they really train them well on that front
Exactly this
If it were Morning Musume or Angerme, it'd be so obvious nobody would bother bringing it up
It's a good example to follow
really comes down to not forgetting the basics like that
Not just Juice=Juice — it's true for every group
There are groups that can't even manage a greeting in the morning though
There's also a group whose leader won't even pick up a dropped pen
That's Equal Love, who she collaborated with before
There's already footage up from Hong Kong and Taiwan airports
What kind of theory is that
Never heard of it
Background and Key Points of This Topic
This story started when Kohmi Hirose, in a YouTube interview-style video, praised Juice=Juice for how properly they greet people. Hello! Project is said to have long emphasized greeting and manner training for its trainees, and the thread repeatedly echoed that view, as seen in comments 21 and 38 (“the agency’s training is solid”). Opinions split, however, between a sarcastic camp (comments 4, 11, 22) arguing that “if greetings are the compliment, there must be nothing else to praise,” and a defensive camp (comments 6, 9, 29) countering that “nailing the basics is exactly what deserves credit” — a recurring point of friction among Hello! Project fans. Several comments also drew comparisons to other groups’ airport behavior, such as Equal Love (=LOVE) and Philosophy no Dance, but these were all secondhand, eyewitness-level accounts rather than officially verified facts, which readers should keep in mind. The thread’s information doesn’t specify which video or program Hirose’s comment actually came from, and this article only covers what can be confirmed within that scope.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “Kohmi Hirose: ‘Juice=Juice Are Top Idols, Yet Their Greetings Are Impeccable — Amazing’.”
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