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In an interview in the fall 2026 issue of CDJ magazine, Hello! Project trainees named the “senpai they admire,” and when thread posters tallied up the answers, Juice=Juice came out on top with 8 mentions — while Tsubaki Factory got zero votes from any trainee. The 5ch thread opened with a reminder that “the senpai you admire” and “the senpai you actually like” aren’t the same thing, then moved on to why Hattori Runa named Sato Masaki, and speculation over why Tsubaki Factory got shut out entirely. Talk also branched into predictions about the group’s future pecking order, factoring in members expected to graduate.
What people said
Yoshida Hikari = Miyazaki Yuka
Hattori Runa = Sato Masaki
Get that straight before anything else
I think she's still a Tsubaki fan as far as the group goes — Sato's just special to her since she's the only one who joined Sato's tour two years running
Probably stopped saying it out loud because of people like you saying stuff like this
Angerme: 4
Juice=Juice: 8
Tsubaki: 0
Beyoo: 3
Ocha Norma: 2
Rosy Chronicle: 0
Tsubaki got zero, huh
Makes sense — even Hattori and Nemoto, the resident Tsubaki otaku, don't name Tsubaki members when asked individually
Well, Tsubaki's leader is… kind of a lot…
If Kawanishi became leader, it'd actually be a group trainees looked up to
Tanimoto, Ono, and Onoda are all graduating within two years, and Kawanishi and Fukuda won't be around much longer either — so that's already 4 spots opening up, no?
Suzuki Kotomi and Tamura mentioned her in their intro videos too
Maybe she wants to join as the new resident diva to replace Oda
No way they're showing their real feelings when some dumb survey like this could end up being used as a reference for group placements
Kind of embarrassing watching Goto fans flex over a trainee survey, lol
There's no antis in this thread, we're just stating facts
Guess it stung, huh
Honestly I think it'll be those three plus one from the general course, or maybe four including Yoshida
"There are lots of senpai I admire, but among active members it's definitely Oda Sakura"
She also talked about liking Tsubaki songs for nostalgic reasons, so I'm guessing she actually wants Morning Musume
That sounds more like an oshi (personal favorite) than someone she admires
With Yamazaki, Shimakura, and Takase already gone, who knows what happens once Seasonings (the group's subunit) loses more members
Background and Talking Points
The source material is an interview in the fall 2026 issue of CDJ magazine, where each Hello! Project trainee named the “senpai they admire” — thread posters then apparently re-tallied those individual answers themselves. Worth noting: the “Juice=Juice: 8” and “Tsubaki Factory: 0” figures aren’t from an official poll — they’re an unofficial fan count of which names came up in the magazine. Early in the thread, someone pointed out that “the senpai you admire” and “the senpai you actually like” are two different things, and some argued it’s premature to judge groups purely by raw vote counts. As for Tsubaki Factory, the group has seen a string of member graduations that’s thinned its roster, and some posters are simply waiting to see how the lineup shifts going forward. Meanwhile, posts about specific members’ popularity or a leader’s qualifications are hard to verify and often amount to little more than speculation.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “[Latest] Master List: Hello! Project Trainees’ “Senpai I Admire”.”
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