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The story
Okinawa’s new theme park JUNGLIA Okinawa is reportedly sitting on roughly ¥17.3 billion in losses amid sluggish attendance since opening — and now comes word of a stage collaboration with the popular idol group ME:I. The original article framed this as something that has “some hoping for a comeback,” but on the 5ch Entertainment/Sports Flash+ board, posters piled on with structural complaints instead: many of the park’s star attractions require advance reservations, leaving same-day visitors unable to ride them, and several compared the situation to the Seibu Group’s past failures. Plenty of posts also doubted whether the “hopeful voices” the article cited even exist. Others weighed in with comparisons to Shima Spain Village and Ghibli Park.
Popular idols descend on JUNGLIA Okinawa, which is carrying roughly ¥17.3 billion in losses — could stage shows spark a “comeback”?
Late October has arrived, and the first real chill of autumn is setting in. “Summer leisure” season is well and truly over — but the buzzy theme park on Japan’s southern island seems to be entering a whole new chapter of its own…
JUNGLIA x ME:I Collaboration
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Lol, they're flailing.
Detective Knight Scoop (the TV show famous for touring abandoned "paradise" theme parks) is already on standby to film here.
Just bulldoze JUNGLIA flat and you can do whatever you want with the land after that.
JUNGLIA: She Laughed — Not a Trace Left
That's the fundamental difference from other theme parks that can process guests on a conveyor belt one after another — this is a structural flaw, and it runs deep.
>Right when it opened, Horiemon actually went and gave it a glowing review, and he got absolutely dogpiled for it
>but true to form he was all "what do you losers know, this is gonna be a huge success!"
That was a paid promo, lol.
Supposedly it's a huge hit with wealthy tourists from across Asia, right? Lol.
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Once JUNGLIA goes under, it'll make the perfect club to beat "Horie-mon" with (a mocking misspelling of Horiemon's name).
I don't know much about finance, but apparently even hitting their projected attendance wouldn't have saved it — the plan was broken from day one, so it's a guaranteed zombie company.
The repayment plan is already broken, so unless some new lender steps in, they'll have no choice but to sell for next to nothing. Their attendance projections were way too rosy to begin with.
That's so Mie Prefecture — such a Kansai/Kinki move.
Ghibli Park in Aichi is profitable, though.
It's Okinawa — venomous habu snakes alone should be plenty of wildlife.
That might buy a few more years. Rotating through themes one after another, like a pop-up store, could be one way to keep it on life support.
Women's weeklies, photo tabloids, sports papers — tabloid media's been like that since the print days.
Maybe get director Fukuda's crew (known for over-the-top comedy films) to shoot a movie out of this — starring the "hold on, hold on" shareholder guy as the lead.
Did anybody actually say that?
There's always somebody who overstates things — scroll through enough random social media posts and you might dig up the one person who said it.
Feels like throwing on a ghillie suit and hyping it up in the bushes would work faster… (a pun on "mosh" vs. "bush")
Background and Key Points of the Debate
JUNGLIA Okinawa was a theme park that drew heavy attention even before opening because of its massive investment, and this latest report highlighted roughly ¥17.3 billion in losses. The complaint raised again and again on the thread was operational: many of the park’s star attractions require advance reservations, leaving same-day visitors unable to ride them, with several posters comparing it to the Seibu Group’s past struggles. On the other hand, some pointed to Kintetsu Group’s Shima Spain Village, which rebounded after collaborating with NIJISANJI, and to Aichi’s still-profitable Ghibli Park, suggesting smart use of content tie-ins could still turn things around. Even so, posters also voiced skepticism about whether the “hopeful voices” cited in the original article actually exist, with broader doubts lingering about the report’s overall framing.
※This article excerpts and summarizes the 5ch (Entertainment/Sports Flash+) thread “[Entertainment] Popular idols descend on JUNGLIA Okinawa, which is carrying roughly ¥17.3 billion in losses! Could stage shows spark a “comeback”?“.
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