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The story
UP-FRONT Channel has released a dance practice video for DECA!BEAT’s “Wacha☆Future.” On 5ch’s Hello! Project board, members’ formation positions and choreography became a hot topic, with opinions split over Ebata getting “buried” in the background and how Goto Hana was used.
There was also some sarcastic back-and-forth about the video that was originally only supposed to be released once a mission was completed.
What people said
DECA!BEAT "Wacha☆Future" DANCE PRACTICE ver.
youtu.be/daXwOUr6bBs
https://kizuna.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/morningcoffee/1787699254/
were they seriously not going to release it after going through all the trouble of filming it?
They'll show us this, then act like a video that "doesn't exist" was never something they failed to release.
I'm watching Hello! Lab on TVer right now, I'll check it out next.
Even more buried than she was in Juice=Juice.
Though her look in the MV turned out amazing.
If it were Kawashima, it wouldn't have turned out like this.
Huh? Kawashima wasn't picked, though?
The one who got picked was Ebata.
In DECA!BEAT, it's not that Ebata is background filler — it's that everyone else just has an unusually strong presence.
Maybe it's because she's got such a strong image of squealing around with the younger members.
But if she wants a long career, she'll also need to build a solid fanbase within the Hello! Project scene.
This is probably a transitional phase where there's a lot to figure out.
Yumigeta stands out more than you'd expect.
and that's not a bad thing to picture.
Didn't notice it in person.
Yumigeta, who loves Decarbo, is gonna cry.
https://i.imgur.com/nFWKa8k.mp4
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Wacha☆Future／DECA!BEAT Intro ver. – Hello! Project
They've pretty blatantly lined up the next generation's main players, so she's probably feeling good about it.
Plus she got to team up with Eba.
Not just that Ebata's in it — compared to her own group, there are simply more members close to her age here to begin with.
so why can't ANGERME make good use of her?
Because it's the "Ise hell" (fan shorthand for ANGERME's Ise-dominated dynamic).
Background and Key Points
DECA!BEAT is one of Hello! Project’s periodic “all-star” cross-unit projects, assembling members pulled from across the agency’s various groups — Morning Musume, ANGERME, Juice=Juice, BEYOOOOONDS, and the trainee ranks — rather than being a standing group with its own roster. UP-FRONT Channel is the official Hello! Project YouTube outlet that drops these choreography and MV clips, and “dance practice ver.” releases are a routine promotional format used to show off formation and choreography separately from the polished music video. Ebata, singled out here, belongs to Juice=Juice; Goto Hana belongs to ANGERME, a group fans jokingly call dominated by “Ise hell” — shorthand for member Ise Layla’s outsized presence within that group, which posters use to explain why Goto isn’t showcased more at home despite her ability.
The thread didn’t split over whether Ebata was in the back — everyone agrees on her positioning — but over why: some blame the choreography for genuinely sidelining her, others argue it’s simply that this particular lineup is unusually stacked with strong performers, making her look diminished only by comparison.
What’s easy to miss is that DECA!BEAT’s centers and formations say nothing about a member’s standing in her actual group; a strong showing here doesn’t equal popularity at home, and vice versa. The “mission-gated” video the posters mock was a marketing conceit — content teased as unlockable only if a fan-engagement goal was met — and the sarcasm stems from suspecting it would have surfaced eventually regardless of whether the mission succeeded.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “DECA!BEAT “Wacha☆Future” DANCE PRACTICE ver..”
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