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Angerme’s Suzuran Ise wrote on her blog about memories of walking through her hometown of Sapporo after a long time away, along with recollections of once aiming to enter the Takarazuka Music School. Since this came right after Juice=Juice had stirred up Takarazuka-related chatter just the day before, the Hello! Project board on 5ch filled with overanalysis — comments like “it’s suspicious she doesn’t say Juice’s name” and “masterful how she brings up Takarazuka while dodging any comparison.” Attention also gathered around the fact that only three members — Ise, Kawana, and Matsumoto — updated their blogs that day, with posts speculating about the group’s internal situation.
I walked through the streets of Sapporo again for the first time in a while.
The shops I used to know have changed little by little, the buildings have been rebuilt, and even our beloved ESTA 🫶 (lol) — the shopping complex by Sapporo Station — is gone now. It made me a bit sad, but the cold outside hasn’t changed one bit. That chill in the air brought back memories of my daily life back then, going to lessons and walking home from school, and it made me unexpectedly happy.
Back in those days, it was about the same amount as now,
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What people said
She must've seen Juice and told herself not to feel envious, resolving to keep doing her best with Angerme instead.
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She just happened to go back to her hometown and it reminded her of when she was aiming for Takarazuka, pure coincidence.
That's what she wants us to think, but if she claims Juice never crossed her mind while bringing up the word Takarazuka yesterday, that's definitely a lie, lol — so it's complicated.
This is the famous Ise who already learned that comparing yourself to others never leads anywhere good.
https://imgur.com/5SfdBUn.jpeg
Managing front-row seating for 'Tsubaki' (a Takarazuka star's fan nickname), huh, lol
She doesn't even need to go out of her way to watch it — just opening X (Twitter), it's flooding her timeline like crazy.
Since she ended up here instead, I guess the odds were pretty slim.
Even if she'd gotten her teeth fixed before applying, no telling if she'd have made it into the school anyway.
Everyone knows she's a Zuka-ota (Takarazuka superfan), so she's well aware she'd get weird attention either way, whether she brought up yesterday's Juice thing or not.
That's why she pulled off the masterstroke of deliberately mentioning Takarazuka, framing it to work in her own favor, while never once touching on Juice.
Seriously, did something happen?
Even right now, only Ise, Kawana, and Matsumoto have updated their blogs.
It's just normal that their turn to endure hard times has come around.
Next it'll be Juice's turn to sink.
'Two years from now, who's worse off, Angerme or Juice?'
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1: Anonymous Wanted…: 2023/12/22 (Fri) 17:27:15.64 0
Angerme: Ise, Hashisako, Tamenaga, Kawana, Matsumoto, Hirayama, Shimoi, Goto
Juice: Matsunaga, Kudo, Arisawa, Irie, Ebata, Ishiyama, Endo, Kawashima
Lol, it's already been three years.
Lol, still comparing to Juice.
Unfortunately Angerme's lineup keeps shrinking, but Juice still has Dambara and Inoue.
And this is a thread from 2023 anyway, lol
They'll probably run out of steam once it's down to Ringo and Nina.
That's exactly what's going to cause a huge mess later.
Hope it goes that way!
They just inherited a group that was doing fine but had already lost one capable person, then two, with results already slipping —
and now that it's gotten even worse, they're the one getting blamed for it. Kind of a sad situation.
And on top of that, the ones who already quit are the ones dragging things down.
She's really gotten twisted up over this.
Well, I get it, though.
I mean, from her own point of view, she probably also thinks saying 'we'll do our best!' too much, the way Juice does, isn't great either.
She's said before that they're in a phase of doing their best their own way, so please stop comparing them.
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Among her peers, Suzuran Ise is known as a “Zuka-ota” (a Takarazuka Revue superfan), and before joining the group she had once aimed to enter the Takarazuka Music School. This particular blog post is a reminiscence about walking through her hometown of Sapporo, but it came the day after Juice=Juice appears to have stirred up excitement over a Takarazuka-related topic, and the overlapping timing fueled speculation on 5ch over whether she brought it up on purpose or out of consideration to avoid comparisons. Opinions in the thread are split between those who read it as simple nostalgia and those who see it as a comment made with awareness of the mood between the two groups. There were also posts expressing concern about the group’s internal situation, prompted by the fact that only a few members updated their blogs that day — though it’s worth noting this is thinly-supported speculation, not confirmed fact.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “[Good News] Angerme’s Suzuran Ise Looks Back on Her Blog at the Time She Was Shining Toward Her Dream of Aiming for ‘Takarazuka’.”
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