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The story
From 9:00 PM on September 29, 2026, Juice=Juice’s Sakura Ishiyama and Ayakari Endo appeared in a co-op game livestream titled “Two-Person Super Co-op Game SP” on Famitsu’s YouTube channel “Famitsu Game Livestream Ch” and the Niconico show “Haro Tsuu GAMES.” The stream became a hot topic on the 5ch Hello! Project board after its concurrent viewer count topped 3,000 — posters brought up past numbers like a solo stream by a popular Angerme member hitting 1,561 viewers and a Morning Musume Rhythm Heaven stream exceeding 5,000, sparking debate over whether “is that even an impressive number” and whether “the agency might be buying the concurrent-viewer count.”
What people said
At 9:00 PM on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, Famitsu's official "Famitsu Game Livestream Ch" (YouTube) and "Famitsu Channel" (Niconico) aired "Haro Tsuu GAMES," a game livestream show featuring Hello! Project members.
This time, Juice=Juice's Sakura Ishiyama and Ayakari Endo appeared. Under the title "Two-Person Super Co-op Game SP," they played two games where teamwork is key.
Morning Musume clears that easily
Here's the number for a popular Angerme member:
215 Anonymous 2026/08/24 (Mon) 21:38:40.61 0
1,561 viewers
Funny how that works, huh?
Ooooh, the Ookami live-chat thread lol
That's because trolls keep spam-flooding the Juice=Juice thread.
Fans stopped showing up on Ookami because of it.
Does that even matter?
Why not just chat on YouTube instead?
Morning Musume's Rhythm Heaven stream topped 5,000 concurrent viewers though
That's just the Rhythm Heaven buff talking, lol
They'd be embarrassed to lose even with that advantage, lol
Same with Rimi-Suta (another rhythm game) — Hello Project titles surprisingly pull good numbers
Really? First I'm hearing that
Yuhane totally bombed with it though
So Tsunku♂ (Hello Project's famed producer) — the guy you all hate — turns out to be the buff, huh?
It had just come out, so at the time it was the most talked-about game around
Background and Discussion Points
“Haro Tsuu GAMES” is a game livestream show produced by Famitsu featuring Hello! Project members, simulcast on YouTube and Niconico Douga. Concurrent viewer count is a metric showing how many people are watching a stream at once, and on 5ch it’s frequently used as a yardstick for comparing the popularity of groups or members. The figures cited in the thread — “1,561 for a popular Angerme member’s stream” and “over 5,000 for Morning Musume’s Rhythm Heaven stream” — were both numbers thread posters recalled from past broadcasts, not official statistics released by anyone, so they should be taken with a grain of salt. The claim that “the agency buys concurrent-viewer counts” is also a recurring assertion in Hello Project-related threads, but no concrete evidence has ever been presented, so its truth is unconfirmed. Ishiyama and Endo have historically ranked low in fan popularity polls, and the numbers from this stream were seized on as a point of comparison both within and outside the group.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “[Breaking] Juice=Juice’s unpopular members Sakura Ishiyama and Ayakari Endo’s minor-game livestream on “Haro Tsuu GAMES” tops 3,000 concurrent viewers!“
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