I'm living for the fact Akira pulled out his phone to film Esperanza's reaction when they were waiting for the winner to be announced. It just feels like such dad energy, to be like "If we win, I want this on camera"
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[video - Exile Akira recording the other members of LDH Esperanza as they wait to hear if they won Play 4 Victory. First, they huddle closer, saying "Ohhh", before falling silent while they wait for the announcement. Once it's announced that they win, they started jumping, yelling and celebrating]
We all know how much Takahiro ADORES Omi to the moon and back. (Get it??? Bc Omi's symbol is the crescent moon !!!!!!) TAKAPI!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE TAKE ALL THE SELFIES WITH OMI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLS SHOW US A 360 DEGREES VIEW OF OMI'S BEAUTY THAT YOU LOVE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE MAKE A LOT OF INSTASTORIES!!!!!! I KNOW WE CAN COUNT ON YOU TAKAPI!!!!!!!!!
And I think this will be the first time we see Takahiro with neo kids? I'm excited to see how he'll interact with them and vice versa, how they'll behave in front of Takahiro
I know all the neo groups are under the wings of exile members but Takahiro is on a different pedestal (personal opinion) so it'll be interesting to see their interactions
In the lead up to BOT2024, they are releasing profiles for each member and one question is "What Jr.Exile/Neo Exile group would you want to join for a week?" @banqanas suggested that someone make it into a chart and I am nothing if not a glutton for punishment, so.
There are more charts below, breaking it into smaller sections. Below the cut so no one kills me for flooding their dash with this 🤣 Comparisons by group and some extras I found amusing.
Quick note - I stuck with the officially assigned colors off of the profiles for most groups, except BBZ and LIL. Originally, BBZ was orange and LIL was a slightly different shade of red from WHH, but. No one got blue and they gave me two shades of red and I just refused 😂 So I changed BBZ to blue and LIL to orange.
First image is where the members of that group are choosing to go, second image is who is joining that group.
RAMPAGE
RMPG has the singlest large clump of 'members choosing the same group', with Riku, Shohei and Itsuki all choosing BBZ. Kaisei ignored the spirit of the question and answered RMPG, so there's a small 'lol' between his name and the arrow because it amuses me.
RMPG has the most members choosing RMPG, with 8 (including Kaisei 😂 He will never live that down, this is his Mongoose 😂)
FANTASTICS
FANTA has one of the smallest numbers for people wanting to join, with two 😅
BALLISTIK BOYZ
BBZ has the most clumps of members - 3 from RMPG, 2 from KP. Notably, no singles here, it's all groups of members choosing BBZ.
PSYCHIC FEVER
Not much to comment on here 😅 3 picked PsyFe.
LIL LEAGUE
The only people to elect to join LIL are Riki and Ryuta from BBZ. Damn, poor LIL 😂
WOLF HOWL HARMONY
More people want to join Wolf Howl Harmony than there are members of the group 🤣 There are 4 Wolfies and 5 people volunteering to join them for a week 😂
THE JET BOY BANGERZ
-double checks I didn't miss someone who wants to join TJBB- Nope, four people picked TJBB. I still love Nosuke's reason for wanting to join Kid Pheno.
KID PHENOMENON
Kid Pheno gets my love for wanting to join the two groups I placed adjacent. I also adore the fact that Matora picked KP because Kohaku's there and Kohaku went "Brotherly love? What's that" and chose BBZ 😂
KP also has the most varied collection of members choosing them - of the 5 members picking them, no two are from the same group.
EXTRAS I FOUND AMUSING
THE HOARDS
Every group where multiple members picked the same group. Just for funsies. RMPG and Kid Pheno almost making an entirely new BBZ between themselves.
EQUAL EXCHANGES
Uh, unsure how to describe beyond 'equal exchange'? 😅 The five pairs where two members essentially switch. Shogo chose KP, Kensuke chose RMPG. Hiroto chose RMPG, Makoto chose WHH. Ghee chose PSYFE, Ryushin chose WHH. Sota chose KP, Soma chose FANTA. Rui chose TJBB, Kota chose RMPG.
RMPG has the highest number of equal exchanges, with 3.
NOT A CHART, BUT...
I decided to look at how many members stayed within their subgroup - so how many Jr.Exile members chose other Jr.Exile groups, how many Neo Exile members chose other Neo Exile groups.
Of 20 Jr.Exile members so far, 8 chose to stay in Jr.Exile, so 40% stayed within their subgroup. (RMPG accounted for more than half of those - Riku, Itsuki, Shohei, Kaisei and Kenta all chose fellow Jr.Exile groups, with Masa, Ren and Jimmy rounding out the last 4 places. Notably, no one in FANTA chose a fellow Jr.Exile group)
Of 14 Neo Exile member so far, 4 chose to stay in Neo Exile, so 28.5% stayed within their subgroup. (TJBB accounts for 3 - Nosuke, Shigetora and Takumi - with Matora rounding out as the fourth)
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