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The story
A casual exchange backstage at the summer festival LuckyFes between Ebata and Tsubaki Factory’s Yokaze became a hot topic on 5ch’s Hello! Project board. When Yokaze noticed a camera nearby and asked, ‘What’s that camera for?’, Ebata explained, ‘Apparently it’s an NHK crew doing a close-up feature.’ Yokaze just replied, ‘Huh…’ While many in the thread expressed surprise that an NHK camera crew had made it onto such a packed main stage, the conversation gradually shifted into a debate about the perceived gap in treatment between Juice=Juice and Tsubaki Factory, and the history behind it.
What people said
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Ebata: 'Oh, our stage is over that way, so we'd better get going.'
Yokaze: 'Yeah…'
It's honestly a miracle everyone was treated equally until now.
Exactly this.
Blaming Sanfura (a Hello! Project group) or Juice=Juice is completely misdirected — after Takagi left, Juice=Juice was clearly getting the cold shoulder from Nishiguchi too.
They already killed off Kobushi Factory in that ugly way — if they let another 'Factory' group go under too, they'd have no face left.
Seriously, this.
They've been getting the full push ever since the Enoshima thing, ever since Kohira, ever since the gay bar incident — if they still can't break through, that's on them.
Because if a group gets popular without the chairman's say-so, he throws a tantrum.
So it's a headache for the execs and higher-ups too when a group blows up on its own.
They're basically praying, 'Please, for the love of god, don't get popular without permission.'
Got a source for that?
Just a
Normally, the group would've been finished the moment the Kohira thing happened.
Little Camellia is single-handedly keeping an entire group alive, so they're pulling as much weight as Danbara or Inaba.
Unlike Goto, Yokaze's got the resolve to carry Tsubaki Factory on her back — she's already settled into that role.
That's exactly why seeing Eba right now feels kind of bittersweet.
Runo wanted anything other than Juice=Juice — that's kind of rough for her.
Eba wanted Juice=Juice.
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that's honestly impressive.
That's literally the role Takagi used to fill.
Such a shame.
Do they not get along or something?
Tsubaki fans have a history of using 'Little Camellia' as a club to beat up Sanfura fans with — this is just payback now.
Background and Points of Debate
The ‘NHK close-up feature’ Ebata mentioned appears, based on the link at the top of the thread, to refer to filming for the music program Venue101 — more likely a segment shot for the show than a standalone documentary. What divided opinion in the thread was the broader topic of a ‘gap in treatment between members’ that this one moment sparked, with fans of Juice=Juice and Tsubaki Factory clashing over how past group reshuffles and departures have shaped each group’s current level of media exposure. That said, most of the posts speculating about the agency’s intentions or executives’ decisions are unsubstantiated guesswork, not confirmed fact, and should be read with that caveat in mind.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread ‘A moment at LuckyFes → Yokaze: ‘What’s that camera?’ Ebata: ‘Apparently it’s an NHK crew.’ Yokaze: ‘Huh…’‘.
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