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A thread on 5ch’s Hello!Project board is debating where fans of Angerme’s Hashisako Rin will go next. The central question: how many will choose “oshi-sotsu” — quitting fandom altogether — versus switching their support to other Angerme members like Matsumoto, Tamenaga, or Kawana. Posters also pointed to past examples, like fans of former members such as Takeuchi, Sasaki, Jokoryo, and Kawamura drifting to Juice=Juice or Beyooooonds, floating the rule of thumb that female fans tend to move to other groups or drop out entirely, while male fans tend to keep supporting the group itself.
What people said
Rin-chan was my last oshi.
Kawana and Tamenaga will probably vanish within two years too.
Hirayama's unlikely too, given her health issues and she's on the "retire after graduating college" track.
If it stays within Angerme, my bet's on Matsumoto, the frontrunner for next leader.
Where the male fans came from is a mystery though.
There's nobody quite like her in Hello!Project right now.
They're the junior members who adored Hashisako Rin.
The Three-Color Dango will carry on Hashisako Rin's spirit.
I want to make a prediction based on past trends.
Juice=Juice
Sasaki and Jokoryo went to Juice=Juice.
No idea about the rest.
Basically none of them switched at all.
But in the end they'll just drift to Juice or Beyo anyway.
I'm a Hashisako fan, but yeah, Kirara's great, I like her.
Still, I think I'm done with Hello!Project for now.
And that's exactly what happened.
They still keep showing up to solo events and shows, sometimes looking like ghosts of their former selves.
No idea at all.
I've never once seen anyone stan both.
Almost no fans switch oshi because of a graduation.
It's mostly current-member-to-current-member switching.
Come to think of it, do HaroColle rankings stay up even after you cancel your fan club membership?
I looked at a certain member's ranking and saw a few accounts near the top that looked dormant.
The ones dutifully still keeping watch are the middle-aged guy fans.
Quite a few went from Sasaki to Hirai.
Female fans are more likely to stick with stanning one individual.
Beyooooonds is doing well lately, so it feels like even more will drift that way.
Looking around, it doesn't feel like many are sticking with Angerme fandom.
If anything, maybe just the 🐸 (frog) crowd.
Rikako's fans moved to Yumeriai, and after that moved on to actual boyfriends lol
I guess in the end it's just painful to keep watching a group after your oshi is gone.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
“Oshi-hen” (switching who you stan) and “oshi-sotsu” (quitting fandom) are terms that come up constantly in Hello!Project fan culture, and what happens to the fans left behind after a member graduates is a recurring topic. The rules of thumb raised in this thread — that “fans drift to younger members but not older ones” or that “male fans tend to support the whole group while female fans tend to stan individuals” — are folk wisdom based purely on individual observation, not on any official statistics or survey, so they should be taken with a grain of salt. It’s also worth noting, as one poster pointed out about Kawamura — where an earlier “who will her fans switch to” thread predicted they “wouldn’t be able to leave the scene,” and that’s exactly what happened — that fans’ behavior after a graduation often continues far longer than they themselves expect. Nothing in the thread confirms Hashisako Rin’s own current activity status; this is all speculation based on how fans are processing the news.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hello!Project board) thread “Who will Hashisako Rin’s fans switch to?“
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