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The story
After several members of a Hello! Project group updated their blogs, a thread sprang up on 5ch’s Hallo Pro (“Hello! Project”) board with fans combing through the posts for clues about where the members currently are and what they’re up to that day. Theories piled up from scattered details — Danbara’s blog hinted she might be in Tokyo, while Arisawa’s appearance on a Kantele (Kansai regional TV) program suggested she could be in Osaka. The discussion eventually widened into speculation that the lineup for the Kohaku Uta Gassen (NHK’s New Year’s Eve song contest) might be announced the following day, with opinions splitting over how to read the fact that some members had added a Tokyo encore date while no Osaka encore date was added.
What people said
Danbara → had a nice job today, finished early so got mala tang (spicy Sichuan hot pot) with Kawashima.
Kawashima → same as above.
Jealous~ ( ´-ω-)y‐┛~~ (the emoticon's a little sigh-and-a-smoke gesture)
Can't tell anything from just this.
Ria and Ichika might have gone back to their hometowns.
No Instagram or photos from today or something?
Isn't that ramen just catering from Best Hit (the Best Hit Song Festival)?
I'm pretty sure I saw somewhere that the 13th was the expected date.
The sheer number of comments on it is wild, though.
She's only ever opened her comments for birthdays before, so opening them now at this timing has to mean something.
So the fact that they didn't add an Osaka encore date for tomorrow means…
Same story at the National Stadium, same at the Best Hit Song Festival.
There's always a chance people warm up to them on first sight.
Context and Talking Points
The lineup for the Kohaku Uta Gassen (NHK’s New Year’s Eve song contest) is typically announced sometime between mid- and late November, and among Hello! Project fans it has become a seasonal pastime to pore over the timing of members’ blog updates, whether their comment sections are open or closed, and any hints about hotel stays, trying to read between the lines for clues about who’s appearing and what each member is doing on a given day. What split opinion in this particular thread wasn’t just the simple geography-guessing game of Tokyo versus Osaka, but the validity of trying to reverse-engineer a verdict on the group’s Kohaku chances from how their tour schedule was arranged — theories ranging from “they skipped an Osaka encore date because they got passed over” to “no, she’s in Tokyo because of the press conference.” All of this is strictly fan speculation, not an official statement from the members or the group. Readers should bear that in mind and enjoy the thread’s content as a bit of collective fan guesswork rather than confirmed fact.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hallo Pro) thread “[Speculation] Thread Guessing Juice= Members’ Current Whereabouts From Their Blogs.”
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