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The story
The dinner Juice=Juice’s Yua Kudo (nicknamed Tako-chan) shared on her blog — a simple bowl of microwaved udon made with white dashi and water, topped with a single egg — became a hot topic on 5ch. Alongside comments worried about her diet, like “Relieved she’s probably never had a boyfriend” and “I feel like cooking for herself would give her more stable, glowing skin,” plenty of positive reactions stood out too, such as “Never thought about it before, but I’m starting to like her more for this” and “I actually like that she’s kind of a clumsy, lazy-around-the-house type.” The thread lit up with recipe suggestions and personal anecdotes.
Tonight’s dinner was udon!
White dashi and water,
microwaved udon with a whole egg!
Source: ameblo.jp / Original post here
What people said
Like 97% of the time, women only learn to cook once they've got a boyfriend.
Yagishiori's got that other 3% covered, then. (fellow idol known for being good at cooking)
Egg's fine, but she should at least toss in some green onion.
Her room gets so messy there's no floor space left, to the point her mom comes up to Tokyo just to clean it for her.
Still, Tako-chan updating her blog anyway makes her an angel.
hope her kitchen and bathroom aren't in just as rough shape.
Not that I'd know, though.
Women living alone bring a boyfriend home before you know it.
I nearly cried reading that one.
I think a thread did get made for it — you mean it just didn't get much traction?
Cracked an egg in.
Not exactly good for you.
plus a chunk of curry roux and frozen udon — curry udon.
she's gotten kind of cute~
No idea if it's actually good, though.
Guess sponsors other than Nissin need not apply?
Makes sense, using the stove makes it hot.
Background and Key Points
Tonight’s dinner was udon! White dashi and water, microwaved udon with a whole egg!
Kudo Yua (“Tako-chan”) is a member of Juice=Juice, one of the flagship groups under Hello! Project (Up-Front’s idol management umbrella, home to Morning Musume, Angerme, and others). H!P idols are contractually expected to project a wholesome, disciplined image, and their personal blogs — hosted on Ameba (Ameblo), the dominant Japanese blogging platform for celebrities and idols — are one of the few unfiltered windows fans get into their daily lives outside of scripted media appearances. A post as mundane as a microwaved bowl of udon topped with an egg only becomes newsworthy because of that gap between the polished public image and the reality of a busy 20-something living alone, and because 5ch’s Hello! Project subforum treats even trivial blog updates as material worth dissecting in depth.
The thread wasn’t really split on whether the meal was healthy — nearly everyone agreed it was a lazy, carb-heavy, nutritionally thin dinner. The actual divide was over what that says about her as a person: one camp read the sloppy cooking and reportedly messy room (post >>10, requiring her mother to come clean it) as evidence of a “single, unattached” domestic ineptitude they found endearing or even reassuring from a fan-possessiveness standpoint; the other camp saw it as a minor red flag for her health and skin, or even mildly disappointing for an idol.
What outside readers likely miss is that comments like “she’s probably never had a boyfriend” aren’t really about her cooking skill at all — they reflect a genre-specific anxiety among devoted H!P fans (“wolves,” per post 35) who parse any sign of domestic self-sufficiency or independence as a proxy for relationship status, since dating scandals have historically ended idol careers or fandoms overnight.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “Kudo Tako-chan’s Diet Is Basically That of a Single Middle-Aged Man wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.”
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