Category: News

A thread on 5ch’s Hello!Project board is debating where fans of Angerme’s Hashisako Rin will go next. The central question: how many will choose “oshi-sotsu” — quitting fandom altogether — versus switching their support to other Angerme members like Matsumoto, Tamenaga, or Kawana. Posters also pointed to past examples, like fans of former members such as Takeuchi, Sasaki, Jokoryo, and Kawamura drifting to Juice=Juice or Beyooooonds, floating the rule of thumb that female fans tend to move to other groups or drop out entirely, while male fans tend to keep supporting the group itself.

*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hello!Project board) thread “Who will Hashisako Rin’s fans switch to?“

A post arguing that “the government should build a zero-fee national payment app and wipe out credit cards and PayPay” went viral on 5ch’s Nanademo Jikkyo G (Live News general) board. The complaint stems from the fact that cashless payments come with fees paid to credit card companies and QR-code payment providers, a burden that falls on stores and consumers alike. In response to the view that “if the government ran it, there’d be no need for fees,” other posters pushed back with arguments like “someone still has to cover development and operating costs” and “without fees to collect, there’s no incentive for the government to bother,” and the thread spiraled into a detailed debate comparing the cost of electronic payments to the cost of minting physical cash.

※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Nanademo Jikkyo G) thread “Shouldn’t they build a national cashless system and wipe out credit cards and PayPay?“

A Yahoo News street interview reporting on elderly customers’ frustration with touchscreen ordering systems—now widespread at restaurants and chain stores—became a hot topic on 5ch’s “Whatever’s Live” board (Nanademo Jikkyo G). The article features comments from elderly people who want to order directly from staff but get told “please use the touchscreen,” which makes them angry. In the thread, sympathetic opinions—citing presbyopia (age-related farsightedness) making text hard to read, or difficulty keeping up with the interface—clashed with harsher takes dismissing it as simply a refusal to adapt. Many also pointed out that the tablets’ screens and navigation flow are just poorly designed to begin with.

(Person on the street, expressing opposition)

“With a big menu board you can just look and see it easily, right? That’s why I don’t like [tablets]. When I call out to the waitress, she just says ‘please use the tablet.’ That really ticks me off.”

“It’s such a hassle! Hard to use! It’s confusing. The screen keeps changing one after another. I just can’t keep up.”

Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here

*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nanademo Jikkyo G) thread “Elderly person: “Hey! Order!” Staff: “Please use the touchscreen.” Elderly person: “Like hell I’m doing something that much of a hassle!”.”

A post about M!LK’s Hayato Sano greeting an older male fan with a huge smile at a two-shot photo session held to celebrate the release of the new single “LOVE ENG!NE” became a hot topic on 5ch’s Hello! Project board. The fan reportedly hadn’t won a slot himself and ended up attending as a stand-in at his wife’s request. Commenters noted that many photos of young female fans taken at the same event showed a more restrained expression, pointing to an industry-specific dynamic where “idols get slammed if they treat female fans even slightly differently.” This sparked a stream of past examples from other groups — like Johnny’s talent and Dream5 — where idols reportedly let their guard down and showed more genuine expressions around male fans or staff. The thread also touched on opinions both for and against the whole business model of paid meet-and-greet events, and on the fairness of treating fans differently based on gender.

※This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “M!LK’s Hayato Sano Wins Huge Praise for Flashing a Big Smile at an Older Male Otaku Fan at a Two-Shot Photo Session Full of Young Women wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.”

Daisuke Hori’s ongoing endurance livestream became a hot topic after its concurrent viewer count topped 100,000. Comments questioning whether he’d dozed off piled up during the broadcast, with viewers debating “Is he really not sleeping?” and “Isn’t this bot activity — the viewer count swings look unnatural?” On the 5channel thread, reactions ranged from people simply enjoying the suspicions as a running joke, to dedicated haters throwing money at Super Chats just to keep investigating, all wrapped in wry commentary on how the stream’s numbers keep climbing precisely because of that controversy.

*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “[Good News] Daisuke Hori Becomes King of the Streaming World With Over 100,000 Peak Concurrent Viewers.”

On Sunday, September 13, when the Rose Stakes and the St Lite Kinen were run, the famous AA (ASCII-art) character “Exploding Bettor,” Mr. Chudoon, kicked off his regular horse-racing commentary thread on 5ch’s News VIP board. The thread’s signature move: whenever another regular AA character shows up, he brushes them off with his stock line “Take it to go,” all while keeping up a running commentary of his winning bets and his egg sandwich purchases. In Race 9 at Nakayama, his winning reports drew a round of congratulations, while in Race 10 at Hanshin his favorites came in 4th and 5th, narrowly missing a big payout — a day that saw wins and losses tangled together right to the end.

91AnonymousSep 13, 2026 11:16

(´🔎ω･`) My usual egg sandwich was sold out…
つ✒📰と so tuna mayo egg it is 🥪

94AnonymousSep 13, 2026 11:18

Re: #91
(◍•ᴗ•◍) Following your 2nd win, that's a lucky food to make it three-for-three!

132AnonymousSep 13, 2026 14:31

Re: #130
Genuinely thrilled right now
I actually mixed up a Wide bet with an Umaren bet while half-asleep, but it worked out anyway (both are two-horse combination bet types in Japanese racing)
That woke me right up

135AnonymousSep 13, 2026 14:32

Re: #132
(´🔎ω･`) Nakayama Race 9? That's a big one, ain't it — Jamaica! (a pun: "isn't it" in Japanese sounds like "Jamaica")
つ✒📰と

137AnonymousSep 13, 2026 14:37

Re: #134
Thanks!

Re: #135
That's right
Not quite a big payout, but it lets me take a few more risks now

139AnonymousSep 13, 2026 14:37

Re: #137
(´･ω･`) What were the odds?

143AnonymousSep 13, 2026 14:44

Re: #137
(´🔎ω･`) I'm gonna keep the streak going too!
つ✒📰と

※This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (News VIP) thread “(´🔍ω･`) A Day Off for “Exploding Bettor” Mr. Chudoon.”

A thread titled “Successful creators have been succeeding since childhood” has been gaining traction on 5ch’s “Nandemo Jikkyo G” (anything-goes live board). Starting from the premise that only a tiny fraction of creators ever make it big, posters are divided over how talent relates to age. Against the anecdotal claim that “your sensibility declines once you’re past 30,” a string of rebuttals followed, arguing that people are just “covering for lost sensibility with technical skill” and that “even people who look like late bloomers had already accomplished something in their 20s.” The discussion also raised a distinction between the “genius type,” judged purely on their own sensibility, and the “logic type,” who work to meet a client’s requests — turning it into a debate that simple talent-based arguments can’t fully settle.

*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “Successful creators have been succeeding since childhood.”

A post on 5ch’s Newsspeed VIP board described how, three days after putting one medaka (a small Japanese rice fish) and one white cloud mountain minnow (a small hardy minnow, called akahire in Japanese) into a tiny 3-liter tank, the water started to smell. The tank doubled as a plastic case normally used for keeping insects, with no filter or aeration installed. White cloud mountain minnows naturally prefer to swim in groups of three or more and are generally said to need at least 10–12 liters even in a small setup, so the thread argued over how much water was actually needed, how much waste the tank could handle, and whether a filter was necessary. In the end, the poster decided to move the fish into a 24-liter tank.

*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Newsspeed VIP) thread “Results of Putting One Medaka and One White Cloud Mountain Minnow into a Tiny 3-Liter Tank lmaooo“.

A thread titled “I don’t have shoes for rainy days,” posted on 5ch’s Hello! Project board, sparked a wide-ranging discussion about what to wear on wet-weather days. Solutions varied widely: some just spray waterproofing on their everyday sneakers, others keep stylish rain boots or Gore-Tex-equipped boots on standby, and still others simply don’t mind sandals getting wet. The question of how office workers handle rainy days also stirred debate, pitting those who say people still commute in leather shoes against those who insist sneaker commuting, even with a suit, is now the norm — highlighting just how varied people’s approaches to rainy-day footwear really are.

*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “I Don’t Have Shoes for Rainy Days lol.”

A preview clip for the next episode of TV Tokyo’s cooking show “Peko Mogu Kitchen” showed Morning Musume。’25 member Sakura Ishiyama, sparking discussion on 5ch’s Hello! Project board. Rio Kitagawa has been serving as assistant on the September 13 broadcast, and the thread’s main focus became whether Kitagawa would continue next week or be swapped out for Ishiyama. Talk also touched on the show’s history as “Danshi Gohan,” hosted by Taichi Kokubun and Shimpei Kurihara, the fact that Kurihara is the son of cooking expert Harumi Kurihara, and past appearances by Ai Kago and Maki Goto — all framed around the topic of Hello! Project members’ outside work.

8AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:19

25AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:25

Re: #8
Her face just keeps getting more intense

※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Pro board) thread “Looks like Sakura Ishiyama-chan is appearing on Peko Mogu Kitchen next week.”