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Among Hello! Project groups Juice=Juice and Tsubaki Factory, the number of times members updated their official blogs in September became a hot topic on 5ch. Specific figures like “Ebata: 28, Hayashi: 29” set the thread off — some posters sniped, “And people still want them headlining Budokan after this?” while others pushed back with “Tsubaki Factory doesn’t get announcements or hint-dropping gigs, so there’s nothing to blog about.” Opinion split between those who read the gap as a difference in personal motivation and those who saw it as a structural issue of workload and treatment, and the back half of the thread spiraled into comparing Instagram follower counts.
What people said
Ebata: 28
Hayashi: 29
when you think no one is, you lose the will to write
every single one of them knows exactly what it takes to make it big
it's that she doesn't even post on event or live-show days
if she's got no motivation, just quit
What, is she Seikima-II or something? (legendary metal band famous for never once missing a show)
No way an Angerme fan would say that — the ones saying it are just bragging about their own blog update counts
Their fall tour's over, so they don't even have regular events anymore.
What are Yokaze's stay-at-home fans even enjoying at this point?
Stay-at-home fans have no real value anyway, so no content is no problem
a good leader doesn't block her members' escape routes
Dambara: 30
Tanimoto: 9
Without knowing other groups' numbers, you can't tell if Tanimoto's trash or Dambara's just amazing
Nishimura's clearly taking notes from her
I don't even remember her taking a day off
Apparently she's updating Instagram like crazy —
that's why she's not getting bashed
She's still getting bashed though lol
sell well, motivation goes up
don't sell, motivation goes down
There are 'Wolf board' regulars (posters from a rival idol-fan forum) who seem proud their favorite group outsells Juice=Juice in CDs — is that actually true or just bluster?
Juice=Juice
Dambara: 131,000
Inoue: 165,000
Kudo: 62,000
Matsunaga: 57,000
Arisawa: 41,000
Irie: 53,000
Ebata: 114,000
Ishiyama: 58,000
Endo: 49,000
Kawashima: 94,000
Tsubaki Factory
Tanimoto 60,000
Ono 38,000
Onoda 41,000
Akiyama 33,000
Kasai 44,000
Fukuda 38,000
Yokaze 21,000
Back in their trainee days, Yokaze was way more popular than anyone else — quite the gap that's opened up since
but then don't demand the same workload
Juice=Juice was like this even before they made it big
they get preferential venue treatment and still don't even try, just keep bleeding money
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Official blogs for Hello! Project groups are a key channel for members to share personal updates and glimpses of their work, and update frequency often gets read by fans as a gauge of popularity or motivation. This time, specific September update counts (Ebata with 28, Hayashi with 29, and so on) sparked the debate, with views split between tying the gap to personal motivation or to differences in agency treatment, versus a structural explanation — that Tsubaki Factory simply has less promotional material to blog about in the first place. The Instagram follower comparisons raised later in the thread were also cited as a popularity gauge, but follower counts don’t necessarily track directly with real popularity or sales, so these social-media metrics should be read with some caution. Note that posts amounting to unfounded personal attacks on specific members have been excluded from this article.
※This article is adapted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “Shocking Blog Update Numbers 【Juice=Juice】【Tsubaki Factory】.”
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