Kudo Yua Birthday Event Lottery Results Announced — Wave of “Part 1 Win, Part 2 Loss” Reports

Background and Key Points

Hello! Project birthday events are solo concerts UP-FRONT stages for each idol on or near her birthday, distinct from Juice=Juice’s regular group shows: the member performs largely alone, with a talk segment, and traditionally hands a small handmade gift — often origami — to every fan who gets in. Tickets are split between a lottery (抽選) open to fan-club members and a separate “points” system, where points accumulated through past attendance and purchases let members buy their way into shows that are hard to win outright; the two channels are treated as complementary strategies rather than one guaranteeing the other. Setagaya Egret Hall is a mid-sized Tokyo public hall, not a dedicated idol venue, and venue capacity for these events varies member to member depending on how UP-FRONT books them.

The thread’s actual disagreement wasn’t about whether the event would sell out — it clearly has — but about the specific and unusual pattern of losing the night show (Part 2) while winning the day show (Part 1), and a smaller number of posters even losing Part 1, normally the safer draw. That asymmetry, plus the observation that points-based seats “haven’t been great lately,” is what drove the comparison to Danbara Ruru’s larger KT Zepp Yokohama booking as a mismatched venue decision.

What outsiders likely miss is that the origami-gift custom is unpaid, physical labor stacked on top of an idol’s existing tour, release, and meet-and-greet schedule — several posters are worried less about tickets than about whether Kudo can sustain handmaking gifts for hundreds of winners across two shows on top of an already packed year.