Buzzy Juice=Juice’s sparse crowd photos from Lucky Fes spark reactions

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The story

The audience turnout at the outdoor event “Lucky Fes,” where Juice=Juice performed, became a hot topic on 5ch after being buzzed about on social media. Photos posted online showed sparse seating stretching back through the venue, prompting a wave of comments comparing it unfavorably to fellow Hello! Project group ANGERME (“ANGERME drew a bigger crowd”). Meanwhile, some pointed out that photos taken from a low angle made the crowd look bigger, while shots from the stage made it look empty, splitting opinion on how packed the venue really was.

What people said

1AnonymousSep 6, 2026 21:06
tps://i.imgur.com/HgFNcT0.jpeg
3AnonymousSep 6, 2026 21:07
ANGERME battled through brutal winds and pulled it off
Tsubaki was just… the usual Tsubaki lol
6AnonymousSep 6, 2026 21:08
RUKINA IS HEEERE━━━━(゚∀゚)━━━━!! (crowd-hype AA text)
7AnonymousSep 6, 2026 21:09
Juice=Juice's fans ("shiru-kasu," a mocking nickname) trying to get lifts going, worrying about the anisong acts behind them… it's just kind of sad
8AnonymousSep 6, 2026 21:10
Way too empty
And they were making fun of other groups for this?? lol
10AnonymousSep 6, 2026 21:10
Thought it was a joke but
ANGERME seriously had more people there than this…
12AnonymousSep 6, 2026 21:11
"Shiru-kasu" fans don't have the guts to trek out to places like Hitachinaka
13AnonymousSep 6, 2026 21:11
Might've been better if the stage faced the other way, no?
14AnonymousSep 6, 2026 21:11
People were saying ANGERME's crowd looked empty in the show photos, but wasn't that from the back too?
15AnonymousSep 6, 2026 21:12
Re: #14
Like, really far in the back
16AnonymousSep 6, 2026 21:12


17AnonymousSep 6, 2026 21:12
Well, Tsubaki was the biggest letdown honestly
No change from last year lol
18AnonymousSep 6, 2026 21:14
I was actually there
tps://i.imgur.com/O0qXLFf.jpeg
22AnonymousSep 6, 2026 21:16
Yeah, figured — even from a distance it looked pretty thin
23AnonymousSep 6, 2026 21:17
Being on during the first half of the show didn't help either
Felt kind of out of place
25AnonymousSep 6, 2026 21:23
Re: #1
Delete it delete it delete it delete iiiiit!!
27AnonymousSep 6, 2026 21:25
Even a veteran act ends up like this
Never forget to thank your fans
Hello! Project should take notes



Mariya Takeuchi: "Thank you so much for wearing the T-shirt!"

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28AnonymousSep 6, 2026 21:26
There were normal female fans just there to watch, but some were showboating doing lifts and stuff
42AnonymousSep 6, 2026 22:02
They're too busy celebrating over in the tabloid gossip thread
so this one's getting left alone
59AnonymousSep 6, 2026 22:45
Juice's empty crowd got totally exposed lol
61AnonymousSep 6, 2026 22:46
Did they lose it because Juice's crowd was so empty?
65AnonymousSep 6, 2026 22:52
With a low camera angle it looks like a lot of people
https://imgur.com/bVV1kVC.jpeg

But from a camera on the stage it's just a field of grass
https://tadaup.jp/9tA9gVMY.png

If you look at the left side
it actually lines up with
Re: #1's tps://i.imgur.com/HgFNcT0.jpeg

Background and points of debate

“Lucky Fes” appears to be an outdoor event tied to the independent-station music program “Venue101,” held in the area around Hitachinaka. The point of contention in the thread was simple: was the crowd really that sparse? The posted photos suggested that shots taken from a low camera angle made the audience look larger, while angles shot from the stage made the seating area look thin. It’s worth noting that the impression of crowd size can shift dramatically depending on the camera angle at any outdoor event, so it’s premature to draw firm conclusions about actual attendance from a single photo circulating on social media. It’s also worth reading this thread with the awareness that it’s colored by fan rivalry between Hello! Project groups — Juice=Juice versus ANGERME — and that no official attendance figures were cited.

※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “Juice=Juice, supposedly on a hot streak, predictably drew an empty crowd at Lucky Fes too wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.”

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