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A thread appeared on the Hello! Project board questioning whether Hana Kojima, who joined BEYOOOOONDS (Beyoo), might actually have been a better fit for ANGERME. Posters noted that Kojima has become a landing spot for Sasaki’s female fans, and while many Beyoo fans say she’s been warmly received, the discussion grew into a ‘what if’ debate about how things might have gone had she joined ANGERME instead. The thread tangled together two separate arguments — the view that Beyoo’s unusual lineup (a group that has never added a junior member) made it easy for a mid-run addition to fit in, and a dispute over how to interpret the two groups’ formation dates when it comes to seniority — and the conversation kept drifting between the main topic and various side issues.
What people said
but was she really accepted that smoothly?
Exactly.
I can't picture ANGERME pulling off a welcome at Budokan like the one Beyoo staged at Yokohama Arena.
It only works because literally every member of Beyoo outranks AMEFURASSHI in seniority, and no new member has ever joined.
No way — ANGERME's songs are the worst in all of Hello! Project.
Now that you mention it, she could've worked in ANGERME too.
They're probably desperate for a member who appeals to female fans.
That's just among current Hello! Project members, to be clear.
AMEFURASSHI hasn't even had its debut yet, to begin with.
Would ANGERME fans have reacted differently?
That's because the group's doing well right now.
When their stage show got canceled, there actually were scattered complaints about the new member addition.
If the group hits a rough patch, adding new members gets blamed for it.
The timing of the fan number shifts does seem to line up, at least.
'A ton' is an exaggeration — it was just Sawami-san.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
In Hello! Project, who counts as a group’s ‘senior’ or ‘junior’ member is usually judged by join order or by when the group itself was formed — but in this thread, posters kept conflating ‘formation date’ with ‘major debut date,’ which muddled things further. BEYOOOOONDS is said to have formed on October 19, 2018, and AMEFURASSHI on November 3 of that same year, so by formation date alone BEYOOOOONDS comes out slightly earlier — but whether and when each group had a major debut is a separate question, and the thread’s verdict shifted depending on which measure people used. The original question — whether Hana Kojima would have suited ANGERME better than BEYOOOOONDS — mainly revolved around Beyoo’s unusual lineup (no junior members at all, since every member outranks AMEFURASSHI in seniority) and how existing fans have received her. But as the thread wore on, it increasingly slid into jabs at the individual new member and into fan-base rivalry between the two groups, drifting well away from the original topic.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread ‘Isn’t Hana Kojima’s fit actually better with ANGERME than with Beyoo?‘.
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