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The story
A thread went up on 5ch’s “Hello Project” board over a video of Hello Project idol Ebata Hisaki handing bread to an unfamiliar woman. The woman in the clip wasn’t identified by the original poster, and the thread kicked off with a chorus of “who is that?” Before long, posters pointed out that the woman was Matsumoto Karen, the “pink” member of idol group FruitsZipper, with some adding she’s “a genuine Ebata Hisaki fan.” What started as a guessing game over her identity quickly turned into a discussion about fandom crossing agency lines.
Who is that?
Source: video.twimg.com / Original article here
What people said
It's Matsukare from FruitsZipper (fan nickname for Matsumoto Karen)
A genuine Ebata Hisaki fan
Background and Talking Points
Hello Project and Stardust Promotion-affiliated FruitsZipper are entirely separate agencies with no shared lineage, but it’s not unusual for idols to be fans of each other or to cross paths, and this thread is really just another example of that. Posters describing Matsumoto Karen as “a genuine Ebata Hisaki fan” likely reflects the fact that it’s well known among fans that she regularly attends Ebata’s events. Also, as one early comment in the thread noted — “don’t post illegal clips when the paid stream is still for sale” — unauthorized reposting of paid livestream footage on social media is a recurring source of friction across the idol fan community in general, and it’s possible this particular video should have been watched through official channels rather than however it ended up online. One point worth clarifying for readers: Matsumoto Karen’s appearance here isn’t a “scandal” — it’s simply an episode of fans and idols mingling across group lines.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello Project) thread “Ebata Hisaki-chan gives bread to a mystery woman.”
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