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The story
In a freewheeling chat thread on 5ch’s “Nandemo Jikkyo G” (anything-goes live-commentary board), someone dropped a breaking-news link announcing the breakup of the idol group WEST. Replies rattled off updates on all seven members — Junta Nakama, Takahiro Hamada, and the rest — covering new romances, marriages, and departures, but the original poster admitted honestly, “I don’t recognize a single one of them, lol.” The thread quickly moved on, with users posting hometown-pride photos from Kagawa and Kyoto Prefectures, cryptic game screenshots, and cat pictures, treating the breakup news as just one more topic passing through. The result was a thread with all the scattershot, context-free energy typical of the live-commentary board.
What people said
Buzz buzz buzz! 🐧
Baaanchoo!
Knock knock-knock, knock, knock-knock-knock ✊
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[BREAKING] WEST. disbands
https://nova.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/livegalileo/1790222821/
Junta Nakama (38) — new romance revealed
Takahiro Hamada (37) — married
Akifumi Kiriyama (37) — married (to volleyball player Maiko Kano), side hustle (apparel)
Daiki Shigeoka (34) — married, first child born
Tomohiro Kamiyama (33) — married, solo activities
Ryusei Fujii (33) — left the group
Nozomu Kotaki (30) — left the group
Don't recognize a single one of them, lol
Can't even write it in kanji, lol
You think you can write something as complicated as kanji in wet sand? Think it through a little.
That's so lame (lol)
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Why does it start on Awaji Island?
Is living in Kagawa really that embarrassing?
?????
Wait, how do you even know this guy lives in Kagawa?
He said so himself
Someone's a poser 😅 (a "niwaka," i.e. a fake/newbie fan)
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Is this an eroge (adult game)?
This cat's still got some energy left, huh
Would've been perfect if it were 2:22:22 😏
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Can't you read? It says no unauthorized reposting.
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Background and Talking Points
“Nandemo Jikkyo G” is a board where users post live commentary in sync with broadcasts and events, with topics shifting every few seconds — that’s its defining feature. In this thread too, the breaking-news link about WEST.’s breakup scrolled past within a handful of replies, after which unrelated posts — hometown-pride photos, game screenshots, cat pictures — took over as the main content. The updates listed in the replies — “new romance,” “marriage,” “departure” — aren’t exaggerated embellishment; they simply reflect how the group’s members have each gone on to live their own lives in the years since debuting. Still, the fact that so many commenters couldn’t match names to faces shows that the live-commentary crowd and idol-fan crowd don’t necessarily overlap. The seemingly disjointed parade of topics running side by side is simply the atmosphere unique to “Nandemo Jikkyo,” and this article captures just one cross-section of it.
※This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (“Nandemo Jikkyo G”) thread “A memorial service for the poor little 🏡 that collapsed right before it was finished, nanora~.”
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