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The story
Juice=Juice appeared on TV Asahi’s ‘Mitorizu Janai,’ and since Morning Musume itself wasn’t around that day, members ended up explaining the group’s current state and its generation numbering (i.e., who’s from which ‘ki’). On 5ch’s Hello! Project board, opinions split — some asked why Juice=Juice is the one talking about Morning Musume, while others countered that they were just answering a question, or thanked them for explaining on Musume’s behalf. The thread went on to cover members’ past audition rejections and their ties to non-Hello! Project groups like Dream5.
No Morning Musume in sight
It’s Mitorizu Janai
#TVer
Source: tver.jp / Original article here
What people said
It's on Musume for not being able to talk about their own group's history
They're just answering what they were asked — this is exactly why anti-fans are like this lol
Shouldn't it be 'thank you'? lol
They explained it on Musume's behalf
What, were they supposed to say 'never heard of it, dunno'?
It's not that well known though
They spent airtime promoting Musume and Tsunku stuff that has nothing to do with them
Matsunaga — failed 13th-gen audition
Ebata — failed 15th-gen audition
Ishiyama — failed 15th-gen audition
Kawashima — failed 15th-gen audition
Hayashi Hitomi — failed 16th-gen audition
Wait, did Ishiyama audition for more than just the Angerme audition — she tried the 15th-gen audition too?
Danbara → 'Sayashi (Riho)'
Kawashima → 'Reina'
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HSqqa04aoAAbjBn?format=jpg
Danbara → Sayashi Riho
Inoue → °C-ute
Kudo → Philosophy no Dance
Matsunaga → Matsuura Aya
Arisawa → S/mileage
Irie → S/mileage
Ebata → Matsuda Seiko
Ishiyama → Dream5
Endo → Kudo Yume
Kawashima → Tanaka Reina
Hayashi → Girls²
The first one she took was the 15th-gen audition
She joined as a trainee starting from the next audition, the 'Sanshoku Dango' one
Back then they took a girl who was a good singer from the 'TV Senshi' cast of Tensai TV-kun and made her main vocalist,
building a group of four girls and one boy recruited via auditions nationwide.
They became famous for a Yo-kai Watch theme song.
The group that had Ohara Yuno in it
The Yo-kai Watch one
The Dream that isn't Dream5
Ohara Yuno was a dance member in Dream5 and barely sang at all
Shouldn't Musume fans be thanking the show instead of complaining?
A real Musume fan would be thrilled to have the names brought up and even get the numbering explained
Background and Talking Points
Within Hello! Project, candidates who fail Morning Musume auditions are often later scouted into under-label groups like Juice=Juice — and the members named in this thread (Danbara, Matsunaga, Ebata, Ishiyama, Kawashima, and Hayashi Hitomi) all followed that path. That’s why a scene like this, where a Juice=Juice member ends up explaining Morning Musume’s history, isn’t actually unusual. Meanwhile, “Dream5,” which came up in the thread, is a live-in vocal-and-dance group known for its Yo-kai Watch theme song — a separate group from “Dream” — and a few posts in the thread mixed the two up. It’s also worth noting that the thread itself offers no explanation for why Morning Musume wasn’t present for the recording.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “I was watching Juice=Juice on ‘Mitorizu Janai’ (TV Asahi), and they ended up explaining Morning Musume’s current state (like the generation numbers).”
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