A thread titled “This year’s Hello! Project individual MVP has to be Momoha Nagano, right?” popped up on 5channel’s Hello! Project board. Nagano is a newcomer who joined Juice=Juice only recently, but many praised her for winning a solo showcase festival just half a year after her debut. Others pushed back, arguing that “MVP is a title tied to team results too,” while some threw their support behind other Juice=Juice members, Angerme’s Tanimoto, and Morning Musume。’s Danbara. There was also back-and-forth correcting misunderstandings about how the solo festival’s voting results should be interpreted, and in the end no consensus was reached.
What people said
1AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:37
There's no way this is wrong, whether you go by fan votes or member votes
2AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:39
Isn't Momoha Nagano not even a Juice=Juice member? That doesn't seem right
3AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:39
Even in major sports it's a title heavily shaped by team results, so I'm not so sure…
Now Rookie of the Year, no argument there.
4AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:39
Momoha was just on a different level.
5AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:40
Rookie of the Year should easily go to Nia too
Being in Angerme means you get nothing anyway
6AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:40
A genius who wins a solo festival just half a year after her Hello! Project debut
7AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:41
Honestly, unless she transfers groups, her whole career could be in jeopardy
12AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:46
Just for the solo festival, sure — she was definitely the MVP of this year's solo festival.
14AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:47
Even at the solo festival, Niina (Nagano's nickname) was effectively the MVP anyway.
15AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:47
Angerme, where Murakoshi can become the ace
The decline just won't stop
16AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:47
No threads even get started over Nagano, she's not meme material either — so what exactly has she done?
18AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:48
Torn between her and Kamirena, but
yeah, no argument here
20AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:49
A genius who single-handedly produces the whole 'Angerme Gakuen' show, announcements included
She's simply on a different level from members who just sing and dance as they're told
22AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:50
Nishizaki played her trump card — 'resolve' — lol
Her contribution was strong enough to win over even other Hello! Project members
28AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:54
She's handling the job she's been given
As an individual, no complaints
but the team was too weak for it to translate into wins
30AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:55
If she'd been in a stronger group ('box'), she'd have gotten way more attention
31AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:55
The groups that couldn't even handle the jobs they were given and failed at their generational handover are the embarrassing ones
34AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:58
MVP has to be someone from Juice=Juice, however you slice it
If we're handing an award to someone outside Juice, then yeah, Kojima or Nagano might deserve something
38AnonymousSep 20, 2026 09:00
Trainee Kobushi, or Reirei, who clawed her way up out of a rough patch
40AnonymousSep 20, 2026 09:02
Tanimoto's great too — she made Tsubaki Factory a warm group full of colorful personalities
She revived Nishimura's career too
42AnonymousSep 20, 2026 09:04
The sheer scale of it — a rookie already in the running for the yearly MVP
48AnonymousSep 20, 2026 09:15
Honestly, if we're being serious, it's probably Danbara
51AnonymousSep 20, 2026 09:17
Re: #48
Well, of course
61AnonymousSep 20, 2026 09:55
So very Juice=Juice — strong as a group and in pairings, but weak individually
65AnonymousSep 20, 2026 10:03
Re: #61
Comparing Ebata's bar event to Angerme's tour, same agency
Ebata's bar event sells out faster
Background and Points of Contention
Hello! Project runs a major showcase where members compete individually through solo performances, and how they place there often fuels debate over the “individual MVP.” Within the thread, some posts noted that the audience-vote winner (MIP) was Sachie Tamenaga, while the member-vote MVP was Miki Nonaka — meaning the initial claims of “rigged voting” may have stemmed from confusing these two separate awards. Momoha Nagano is a relatively recent addition to Juice=Juice, and while many praised her for achieving this just half a year after her debut, plenty of others feel the MVP title can’t be separated from the group’s overall results. The disagreement reflects a broader split among fans over whether individual skill or group popularity and performance should carry more weight.
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