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News that Juice=Juice will make a guest appearance in the halftime show of a soccer match at National Stadium has stirred up discussion on 5ch’s Hello! Project board. Comments said to show soccer fans’ criticism were posted, fueling the view that it’s a “total away game,” while others pushed back, claiming those comments were actually copy-pasted from Yahoo! News comments and planted by anti-fans. The thread saw a split between posters arguing “this wouldn’t happen if they had the name recognition of Morning Musume or ANGERME” and those defending the group with “Juice=Juice is all Hello! Project has left right now,” turning into a broader debate about the group’s standing.
What people said
The halftime show at the World Cup final just recently got that much hate from soccer fans, and yet the organizers still want to do this — no sense of judgment at all. Well, I guess the idea is to bring in new fans, but idols are playing in a completely different field.
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Nope, don't want to.
Soccer and golf are the only two sports where I just don't get the appeal.
lol
Well, whoever they sent would get bashed anyway, so if even 1% of people end up getting interested, that's a win.
The members have performed in all kinds of hostile venues before, so even if they get booed, they'll probably bounce back after a good night's sleep.
Wait, this is from Yahoo! comments?
Whoaaaa
The dedication on this one
That's way too creepy, lol
I'm sick of hearing that take already, drop it.
If you're not a group everyone genuinely loves, this kind of gig is rough.
If these people's logic held up, even Furuppa (a hugely popular Hello! Project member's nickname) would get bashed.
They act blind to the flood of praise from other fandoms whenever the group's on a music show, but go out of their way to dig up Yahoo! comments for this — that's some anti-level dedication.
They must have really hated seeing them get National Stadium, so bad they went "gotta find criticism, gotta find criticism!"
Pathetic.
Only the lowest of the low trawl through Mond (a Japanese Q&A site) and Yahoo! comments like that.
Mond or Yahoo! comments, fine, whatever
But they even copy-paste from Sukikirai.com (a "who do you like/hate" gossip ranking site) sometimes.
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Isn't Urawa weak right now?
Urawa supporters are a bunch of jerks whether the team's strong or weak, lol
Rub them the wrong way and you'll just get booed, plain and simple.
Juice (nickname for Juice=Juice) is done for.
Singing and dancing amid a wall of boos.
Well, given everything Juice has pulled before, call it divine punishment.
If they get booed nonstop, the members might end up with PTSD or something.
Ugh.
Aren't they less known than even BEYOOOOONDS, let alone Morning Musume or ANGERME?
Like I said, I'm tired of hearing that.
Face reality.
To the average person,
Morning Musume. has already disbanded,
and ANGERME and BEYOOOOONDS aren't even known to exist.
It's hard to accept, but that's reality.
Right now, Juice=Juice is all Hello! Project has.
Between Urawa and Kashima, which fanbase is worse?
Urawa, obviously, lol
They're clearly not thinking about any of that, and it's kind of appalling.
For the fans it's probably just "I get to see them at Osaka-jo Hall!" "I get to see them at National Stadium!" and nothing more.
They're not thinking about the members at all — they always put themselves at the center of it.
Exactly.
ANGERME fans and Morning Musume. fans are genuinely worried about this,
and yet Juice=Juice's own fans are using it to taunt fans of other groups — unbelievable.
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Serious answer: even back before Furuppa got as popular as now, Urawa supporters didn't really boo — they either left their seats or just listened quietly, so it wasn't a big problem.
That's because they have name recognition.
For a group with no name recognition, they'll go all out.
If Urawa's already conceded by halftime, it'll be hell.
Reds supporters get trashed way too much, it's kind of an odd feeling, but honestly they've gotten a lot better since 2023.
Kobe only drew with the Tokyo team that beat Urawa 0-3, so it's a tough matchup, but nobody cares about the halftime show enough to boo.
Well, even something like this is good first-thing-in-the-morning bait for the antis, so just let them have their "Juice is finished lol" moment.
People who don't give a thought to the members' mental health are running their mouths again.
To sum up this thread: "I'm so jealous they got National Stadium!!!"
That's exactly it.
The answer is that anti copy-pasta is desperately trying to flood the National Stadium thread and sink it.
October was the Osaka-jo Hall festival.
November is the soccer halftime gig at National Stadium.
The tough away-game bookings just keep coming.
And yet the fans still go "They've made it!" "That's our Juice!" — these people are out of their minds.
I wonder how they really feel about this.
If it were Morning Musume or ANGERME, a gig like this would surely be a no-go.
Calm down — focusing on cheering for your own favorite would be more constructive.
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So if they don't get booed, we can just say they've got name recognition, right?
Suit yourself.
Though groups with real name recognition don't get this kind of pre-emptive bashing online in the first place.
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Having idols handle a halftime show at an official soccer match tends to create friction given the different audience base, and the thread cited the halftime show at the World Cup final — featuring Keisuke Honda and others — as an example that went over poorly. At the same time, some posters in the thread pointed out that the critical comments were copy-pasted from Yahoo! News comments, so it’s impossible to tell from the thread content alone whether the criticism reflects general soccer fan sentiment or was stirred up by anti-fans. The opposing team and tournament name are also only guesses drawn from the replies, with no details confirmed by any official announcement, which is worth keeping in mind. The debate over name recognition compared to Morning Musume. and ANGERME also stems from an emotional rivalry over the pecking order among Hello! Project groups, creating a mixed picture where criticism aimed at soccer fans overlaps with infighting among Hello! Project fans themselves.
※This article is an excerpt and summary based on the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “[Bad News] Juice=Juice’s Guest Spot at National Stadium Draws a Flood of Criticism from Soccer Fans — Total Away Game, lol“.
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