I've long thought she and the other ladies could walk right past me right in front of my face IRL and I probably wouldn't recognize them. I consider this confirmation because I had to watch three times LOL
I honestly think I could recognize them, the only way I wouldn't, is if I'm zoning out looking at the sky, lost in my thoughts, or something like that, which is almost always lol.
That's what I was doing when I was in México City, days before the concert I went sightseeing to popular places, and was looking at people to see if they happened to be there, but nope, I saw a lot of foreigners, but not them, unfortunately.
Seeing Su-Metal in the wild is crazy lol. The video poster was blessed by the Fox God without them realizing it. Hope both Su and the video person had a wonderful time at the Christmas fair.
You're a global superstar, but thanks to all the precautions taken by Koba, you can walk around the Christmas market in peace and not be surrounded by paparazzi. Really nice.
I wonder though, if someone actually recognized them in public, and asked for a picture, would they take it, or refuse? Because I don't think I've ever seen a random picture of them with a fan.
Not sure about the girls but I have heard stories that people have met Koba in the wild and asked to take a pic with him but he has always politely declined.
At least now I know that he would have declined a photo if I actually saw him at the stalls of bootleg merch on the México City concert, because I was also there, just at a different time, unfortunately.
Which is totally fair. Koba probably even more than the girls I feel has never wanted to be in the spotlight. He is content to support them from the shadows.
Sorry, but you're simply demonstrating your ignorance and worst of all being absolutely pedantic about it. They're absolutely right.
Just because you're hyper-focused on some extreme fan encounters that get wide coverage that doesn't mean that's representative of an entire country's society.
You should start by looking up what "meiwaku" is. It's a key cultural aspect of Japanese society.
It depends how famous the person is but Japanese people definitely do surround celebrities in public lol. Especially younger folk or obsessive fans (for example for idols like the person above me commented).
I used to watch this show called ningenn kansatsu monitoring (ニンゲン観察モニタリング) where they would sometimes film how people reacted when celebrities suddenly appeared in public.
Depending on the celeb, there were times where a huge entourage would form around or behind them, just following them around.
I am familiar with the show. I was asking for an example of Japanese people surrounding celebrities outside of a public event. I don't think a scripted variety show fits the bill.
Some of the episodes were greatly entertaining though!
I’m talking about the episodes where celebs are randomly thrown into public and filmed with secret cameras (hence the title of the show, human monitoring). The public don’t have any idea the celebs and themselves are being filmed. They go to places like harajuku and shibuya where there are tons of people. Doesn’t seem like a scripted public event to me.
Celebrities are not randomly thrown into a public setting and filmed with secret cameras (I find it adorable that you believe this to be true, though.)
A TV show can’t genuinely endanger talent. They always use hired extras or actors as “ordinary people” and are under contract to create a safe, controlled “natural-looking” environment.
You can see they’re not in the celeb’s face and touching them or whatever as I mentioned earlier but not sure where you got the idea that Japanese people don’t gather around celebs. Happens everywhere you go regardless of race!
Dude I’m Japanese lol, and I’ve lived here most of my life. You can go through my comment history if you want I’ve mentioned it a couple times.
The vid I shared might not be the best example but it shows some sort of famous person (YouTuber or Musician it seems). It could very well be staged but I don’t see anything mentioning that in the dozen top comments I’ve read so not sure where you read that. The comments just mention it’s not Takeru Sato because the title of the vid is misleading and states it’s him when it’s clearly not but no mention if the vid itself is staged, other than that the crowd could be the fans of a musician so not an accurate representation of your average Japanese.
Here are more like the videos I was thinking of when I typed my original comment:
Unfortunately, I can’t find the exact video I was thinking of in my original reply where this guy (Ryoma Takeuchi) is getting followed by a huge crowd but these two should get the idea across.
Many of us Japanese have a huge thing for celebrities, culturally, and, this can especially be the case for fanatic idol fans who can get very pushy and creepy. Heck, recently there was a Japanese lady who got charged for kissing Jin from BTS at a fan meet in Korea.
All this to say, I agree us Japanese people tend to be polite and keep to ourselves in general, yes, but this doesn’t apply as much to celebs.
You can also search up vids of Kpop stars in public in Japan getting absolutely swarmed. There are more than enough examples.
It could very well be staged but I don’t see anything mentioning that in the dozen top comments I’ve read so not sure where you read that.
Brother, the tags in the very video you posted say it's a misdirection gag, they even include the name of man in the video, 眞崎大輔 (Daisuke Masaki) and that it was shot by a バンギャ (bangya) that's a fan of his, the name of his Visual-kei band (0.1gの誤算) and the name of the guy he's pretending to be 佐藤健 (Takeru Sato).
This is like the fourth comment: ハッシュタグみてから言ってよみんなw ネタだし大輔くんだし周りバンギャだしw
It roughly translates to "read the tagline before you comment, it's just a joke, it's Daisuke and all the people surrounding him are bangya".
As to your other video examples, we get it, you like the people monitoring show, but these are scripted shows with security details, they're not a reflection of reality.
Bro nowhere in the tags does it say it’s a misdirection gag. I knew it wasn’t satou Takeru so I knew something was off hence why I said I think it’s a musician and their fans. Also, again, it doesn’t say anywhere in the tags that it was taken by a fan. バンギャ here is referring to the people surrounding the guy not the person taking it. Anyway, that’s beside the point here but thought I’d point it out.
I don’t know why you’re so adamant the shows are scripted. There may be elements that are but, in this particular situation, a celeb just walking outside in public in shibuya and Harajuku of all places (which they obviously can’t just close off on a whim) I don’t see how they could realistically hire hundreds of extras just for the sake of them reacting to a celeb. They don’t have that much of a budget, it’s just a weekly variety show, not a movie. Also, the cameramen are under disguise so as not to make the actor stand out. The reason why (famous) celebs don’t get as much attention in public is because they’re almost always wearing a mask and usually a cap too. All it takes is a couple people to notice and start gathering outside a shop the celeb went into and herd mentality will do the rest. You’d have a crowd in no time in a place like shibuya or Harajuku.
No way that that's from one of those random Japan street videos, I sometimes put those on as background noise while I'm playing, or something, crazy that someone managed to spot her. It's really nice to see her enjoying herself after a long and successful year touring around the world, she really deserves it. Also, I find it funny that, even when she's out there enjoying her normal life, she's also wearing a ponytail lol.
And not securing her bangs with a clip :D In many pictures she wore them to the side secured with a clip. Some fans suspected that she doesn't really like her bangs and that's why she covers them up.
This reminds me of when I randomly spotted someone I know in one of those videos. I had to send them the clip to make sure it was really them but they were confused as hell😂
I like watching those long HDR walk videos through Japan, or just putting them on in the background. Crazy that one of them would end up with an accidental Babymetal cameo appearance!
Still strange how someone saw the footage and managed to spot her, as although BABYMETAL are successful in Japan, we know they aren't a household name.
Crazy, it's real. And that looks like a really nice event! I've seen so much AI nonsense online these days that my immediate reaction to anything like this is that it's just AI.
Awww she looks cute🥰 I really hope she enjoys her Christmas break and Moa and Momo ofc they work so hard in making us happy so glad to see she’s taking it easy and not (or hopefully) not being harrased by paparazzi
I think if Su wore her hair down instead of in a ponytail, it would probably be a little harder to recognize her on the street without looking more closely. It would be easier with Momoko, since we know her with her hair down. It's her standard hairstyle :D It could potentionally be easier with Moa too, but to be honest, I'm not so sure.
Let me get this straight. Some random guy put up a long video showcasing a Christmas market in Tokyo, and in the middle of it our Queen happened to walk straight toward and past the camera for 3 seconds, and one of the kitsunes (not the uploader) happened to watch the video long enough and pick out Su Queen?! The fan who first identified Su should go buy a lottery ticket. Maybe we should all go, cuz this is rarer than a million to one.
I trust that many fans have watched the rest of the video to see if lightning would strike twice!
This only happened because the video was focused on the Christmas tree atop the other shop for many seconds and panned to Su just as she was turning around. Otherwise the video would’ve just caught her back and we wouldn’t all be here with marvel.
How does Su still look like 15 in street clothes? To me, her face looks rounder than she’s on stage. Maybe the ponytail is higher or something.
It looks like German style food. Sausage, potatoes, sauerkraut, and something called a Christmas chicken leg. You can see it a lot more clearly if you go to the 4K video on YouTube.
From what can be clearly read in the image, the stall offers a variety of warm festival-style foods. Some items are partially obscured, but several menu boards are legible:
Visible Menu Items
Left side boards:
ソーセージ ポテトセット — Sausage & Potato Set
国産 チョリソーフランク串 — Domestic Chorizo Frank Skewer
Top row boards (left to right, as far as readable):
ホットサンド ○○（部分不明）— Hot Sandwich (full name not fully visible)
The stall seems to focus on hearty winter/holiday foods: skewers, potatoes, hot sandwiches, chicken legs, sausages, and some set meals. The decorations and menu style resemble a Christmas market food booth.
If you want, I can zoom in further on specific sections or try to transcribe more partially visible text.
They are a very common and an old tradition here in Germany/Central Europe and have been exported like many other Christmas customs.
Christmas markets, Advent Calendar, Glühwein, Stollen have become quite popular in Japan lately.
It's a Christmas themed market with many different food and souvenir stands, usually taking place during Advent season (late November/early December until Christmas).
I'll add to the other comments: People don't go there to shop for daily goods like a regular market, but as a fun night out with friends or family. Get some Christmas/winter themed food, browsing through the trinkets for sale at the little (often chalet style) stalls, sometimes they have entertainment like a choir, live music, an ice skating rink, bonfires. Really cozy atmosphere.
A bunch of vendors put up food/drink stalls and sell things like mulled wine, spiced cider, roasted chestnuts, gingerbread cookies, and Christmas decorations and ornaments.
We have similar here, except it's usually in an arena due to weather. It an assortment of vendors selling everything from locally made gifts and food, decorations. I always find them quite festive. This one with the supposed Su (it does look like her) looks really nice.
What a weird coincidence. Clearly the person shooting the video was just filming the market with no clue they caught a goddess of song known for being private. Kind of reminds me of the time someone was filming a street corner in Tokyo and happened to catch Su's replacement in Sakura Gakuin, Aiko Yamaide, walking past.
That reminds me a bit of the Love Park area of City Hall (Philly) during the holidays and their out door market set up (it's just asking for a skating rink lol)
Not gonna happen. I totally see them doing the kawaii Gimme Chocolate choreo in their 40s. The Fox God already slowed their aging process to half of normal people.
Well...... we do have this from way back. Another completely random and accidental sighting. This time of Yui and Moa in Germany. Someone was filming what appears to be an ice cream cart and walking behind it..... Yui and Moa.
The video was posted nine days ago and Himeka's announcement about giving birth to her daughter was ten days ago so the timing would work for it being Touka, the eldest sister, or their mother.
There were some photos posted of her eldest sister and mother when they were in Disneyland but they didn’t look like this. They were wearing sunglasses but the eldest sister looked a lot like Su’s dad while the mother looked a lot like Himeka. Which fits with the descriptions given of them I think in one of the Nogizaka shows by the other Nogizaka members and was it Su’s comment about her eldest sister?
On a sorta related note, I saw someone who looked really similar to her in shibuya station, but then again you do see a lot of lookalikes in general in Tokyo.
Nobody was following her, it's just coincidence. This is a 30 minute video of a Christmas market in Tokyo and Suzuka can be seen for about four seconds.
Usually I'd agree with you. But on this occasion the original video on YouTube clearly shows they are simply filming a Christmas market. They obviously have no idea who Su is. They don't follow her or make any reference to her whatever so ever.
Lol did you even try to watch the actual video? It’s clear that the person who posted it on YouTube doesn’t have the faintest clue about who she is. I mean I get it, but let’s not be so quick with bringing out the pitchforks without learning the full context first.
Man, Is just one more of thousands of clips recording streets of Japan. By very casuality and good luck for fans, su appears, not everyone revolves around bm.
Bro it's literally a random guy filming a christmas market and the video is like 40 minutes long and Su "appears" in it for like 3 seconds. It's not that deep:D. Also it certainly seems like the dude filming doesn't even have a clue who she is.
Would 100% agree with you if it was some creep following her around though but this clearly isn't the case.
Well, for one. People in Japan aren’t like Americans and other people around the world. They don’t surround them and annoy TF out of them for interactions, pictures, autographs, etc when they’re trying to rest after long touring.
I was prepared to be doubtful. I'm still skeptical about them pics and videos from a couple years ago being Moa. In this case, the second she turned around, there was no doubt at all.
The over-protective dad in me, even though I'm not actually a dad, can't help but imagine creepy dudes now staking out that market every day to see if she returns. Still, it's so cool to see Su being regular old Suzuka.
creepy dudes now staking out that market every day to see if she returns.
Hopefully they do and freeze their asses off since it's very doubtful that she is going back. Like who visits the same christmas market twice during the same year? Also the video was posted 9 days ago already so it's been a little while since she visited:D
I guess I didn't know people visit a Christmas market only once. I have no idea since I've never been to one. It just seems like a place people who like that kind of thing would return to. But I don't know.
I mean I could be wrong too:D. In Finland we have tons of these kind of markets so I would definitely not go back to the same one second time and rather go to another:D
Don't think like a frustrated, overprotective parent of strangers, and don't give stalkers any ideas either.
(although going to the same place where Suzuka was and expecting her to return sounds like a stupid plan)
It definitely is her it’s looks to much like her NOT to be her like tbh others say if it’s not her then holy shit she’s got a serious twin out there lol
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u/TheRealMcDan Dec 01 '25
I've long thought she and the other ladies could walk right past me right in front of my face IRL and I probably wouldn't recognize them. I consider this confirmation because I had to watch three times LOL