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The story
On 5ch’s Hello! Project board, the venue for Mizuki Fukumura’s commemorative bar event — held following her graduation from Morning Musume. — became a hot topic. The venue is Kita-topia Sakura Hall, with a capacity of about 1,300 seats. According to data posted in the thread, her past events had capacities of 1,497 seats for her 2024 comeback event and 750 seats for her 2025 show at Tower Hall Funabori, which made the scale of this new venue stand out. Opinions were divided, though, over whether the seats would actually sell out, and over where the gap in drawing power compared to other graduated members comes from.
What people said
Kita-topia Sakura Hall (1,300 seats)
Fukumura
Ishida had a ton of unsold same-day tickets, so it'll probably drop.
Post-graduation workload, ranked
Kasahara
Kudo
Tamura
Sayashi
Makino
Iikubo
Miyamoto
Wada
Ikuta
Fukumura ← this one
Takeuchi
Morito
Inaba
Yamagishi
Ogata
Hamaura
Kitagawa
Sasaki
Uemura
Miyazaki
Sato
Katsuta
Koseki
Murota
Kogata
Fukuda Hana
Ishida
Hirose
Niinuma
Kaga
Kishimoto
Yamazaki Yume
Ichioka
Nakanishi
Takagi
Asakura
Jokokuryo
Shimakura
Aikawa
Takase
Suzuki, Fujii, Nomura, Tashiro, Yagi,
Miyazaki
Sato
Fukumura
Ishida
Morito
Miyamoto*
Inaba*
Koseki
Takeuchi
Asakura*
Uemura
Sasaki*
*Solo calendars sold separately
Married women are OP!! ("TUEEEEEE" = internet slang for "overpowered/strong")
Is nobody doing a send-off (post-show meet-and-greet)?
Airi and the Musume members don't have one.
They went out of their way to write it in different colors, but…
*There will be no send-off meet-and-greet after the show. Thank you for your understanding.
Well, some members do have send-offs then.
Re: #1
Here's a summary of who does and doesn't have a send-off:
Only Ishida and Sato have one.
The Musume members don't have one.
You mean one person could take up 2 seats?
Oh really
That's impressive.
Don't you know Miyamoto's was practically empty?
Of course a legend's caliber is just different.
2025/10/31 — Tower Hall Funabori Main Hall: 750 seats
2026/10/28 — Kita-topia Sakura Hall: 1,310 seats
Last year was a lottery-rejection fest, so they probably scaled it back up because of that.
Background and Talking Points
The term “M-line” used in the thread refers to the small-scale fan events (commonly called “bar events”) that individual members hold after graduating from Morning Musume. Venue capacity is decided by organizers based on factors like advance reservation numbers, so it isn’t simply a straightforward measure of a popularity ranking. In the thread, posters pointed to cases like Ishida’s most recent show having leftover same-day tickets, and Miyamoto’s show having noticeably empty seats, contrasting these with the expanded capacity chosen for Fukumura’s venue. Some questioned the fairness of how venues get selected, but it’s a difficult subject to judge actual drawing power from comparisons like these alone.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “Mizuki Fukumura’s Bar Event Rockets to the Top of M-line Capacity Rankings on Overwhelming Drawing Power!!“
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