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YouTuber Chihiro Katsukura, head of the matchmaking agency “Naresome Yobiko” (lit. “Matchmaking Prep School”), weighed in on the backlash surrounding Netflix’s “Love, Bring It On,” arguing that women drawn to violent men are “just plain unintelligent.”
On 5channel, the discussion spread to cover the link between violence and popularity, the argument that “intelligence” and “reason” aren’t the same thing, and even firsthand accounts of abusive men who charm everyone around them.
August 22, 2026, 8:00 PM
On August 19, Chihiro Katsukura (20,000 subscribers), who runs the matchmaking agency “Naresome Yobiko,” posted a new video. Using the ongoing backlash against Netflix’s dating reality show “Love, Bring It On” as a springboard, she laid out her theory on the psychology behind women being drawn to violent men.
“Love, Bring It On” is a Netflix reality series following so-called “yankee” (delinquent-style) men and women living together as they navigate romance, with Season 2 streaming since August 4. In episode 5, Kazuma Shiota — known as “Kazu-kun,” a host club owner (host name: Kazuma Hisaki) — sparked a wave of criticism after describing, while recounting his upbringing, having once set someone on fire. The Ministry of Justice’s Rehabilitation Bureau, which had partnered with the show to promote “offender rehabilitation” awareness, also came under fire, and the controversy grew well beyond the show itself. On the 21st, the Ministry of Justice announced it was ending the partnership.
Source: yutura.net / Original article here
What people said
If you grow up believing 'my violent father was in the right,'
then yeah, you'd probably end up choosing that same type of guy as a boyfriend or husband.
Are they chasing some kind of thrill?
It's all explained right there in Re: #1.
You could also call it a sad type of person who can't swap things out in their imagination, level up, or fly off wherever they like — they can only picture things within a narrow frame or axis.
Like, the type who learns "substitution" in middle school math and doesn't go "whoa, that's handy!" The sad type who finds it too much hassle to understand.
But among the violent guys who dominate women, it's not always just brutishness. There's what you might call the Super Himo Theory! (a pun — "himo" means both "string" and slang for a man who lives off a woman)
He bleeds her dry financially and beats her — but when she finally makes a break for it, sprinting barefoot through a downpour with no umbrella, he chases her down and pulls her into a hug: "There's nobody else for me but you!" That's the Super Himo Theory, straight out of the Showa era! He's mastered physics at a world-class level — some even call it superstring theory! (another string/himo pun)
Well, there's also "fisherman mechanics," but that's about how guys on long ocean voyages carefully read the room to avoid getting preyed on — that's a story for another time.
Women just don't feel any allure toward soft, meek men.
Then why not just marry a hulking military meathead?
Men get violent to the point of domestic abuse,
and women get promiscuous to the point it causes social problems.
Measuring IQ by gender like that is probably considered unethical…
but there does seem to be some kind of trend.
In reality, you actually see cases that sound almost made up —
sensible, accomplished women who go for DQN-types (delinquent/lowlife guys).
Maybe it's better to treat "intellect" and "intelligence" as separate things?
Plenty of elite University of Tokyo-grad bureaucrats are total idiots as human beings, after all.
A handful of exceptions are still just exceptions.
It's less "low intelligence" and more "weak self-control," I'd say.
So to you, "quite a few" means "a small number"?
Your "quite a few" isn't backed by any real numbers — you don't even know the sample size. It's just a vague claim.
Shoujo manga really is nothing but this kind of crude wish-fulfillment garbage.
It's not fiction, it's just an illustrated fantasy diary.
Westland's Iguchi used that as material in his M-1 (Japan's top manzai comedy competition) set.
There's plenty of manga and AV (adult videos) aimed at men that's basically male fantasy made literal too —
does that mean men are just better at telling fantasy apart from reality?
Athletic strength is a form of violence in its own way. 👩
So pro musicians and actors being popular is about "violence" too?
Well, even among actors, tall guys with a good build and looks are more popular than short ones.
What about Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi, then?
But it's true that violent men, "moral harassment" types (emotionally abusive men), really are popular.
People probably mistake being pushy and aggressive toward others for reliability — but once you marry him, you become his next victim.
I don't get where the confidence comes from that a violent husband just won't abuse them too.
A man with low intellect tends to use violence and intimidation to look bigger than he really is — deep down he's actually a coward.
It's the difference between an elite at a major corporation and a middle-school-dropout yankee running his own one-man contracting outfit.
But there are plenty of power-harassment types among highly educated corporate elites, executives, and senior bureaucrats too who are violent or intimidating, right?
so why do women fall for pushy, aggressive "ora-ora" (tough-guy) types anyway?
Probably something like "MY guy is the exception."
Most of these guys don't actually raise a hand to their spouse or kids —
they relieve stress by targeting people in society it's "safe" to bully.
It's the low-functioning ones who can't make that distinction who end up committing domestic abuse.
Ah, so it's "won't hit HIS OWN women and children," got it.
I'll work on reading between the lines.
it makes me wonder what my whole life of playing it straight was even for.
If being ordinary and average were something wonderful, geniuses would never emerge.
Your way of thinking is a menace to society.
If you admire the delinquent crowd, it's not too late to become one yourself.
Falling off society's rails is surprisingly easy,
and staying on the rails without falling off is actually the harder path in life.
Living a perfectly average, unremarkable life is tougher than it looks.
At my workplace too, when a former delinquent yells and intimidates someone, then follows it up with a smile and a handshake, everyone falls in line.
They probably pull the same move in dating, working as a team — I've seen it happen at group mixers (godokon).
Classic codependent-abuser technique.
I'd think anyone reasonably sharp, men and women alike, would recognize that kind of move — the sort of thing straight out of a pop-psychology book — and see right through it.
Guess that's not always true?
No no no, lol.
My old workplace had a leader just like that and everyone was sick of it.
Getting dragged into his emotionally unstable BS drama every single time was the worst.
Background and Key Points
“Love, Bring It On” belongs to Japan’s long-running “yankee” genre — reality and scripted content built around delinquent-style youth culture that traces back to 1980s biker-gang (bosozoku) and school-delinquent subcultures, since softened into a stylized, often romanticized aesthetic in manga and dorama. That the Ministry of Justice’s Rehabilitation Bureau had attached its name to Season 2 reflects a real government practice: Japan leans on volunteer probation officers (hogoshi) and public-facing media tie-ins to promote offender reintegration, since the country has no parole system in the Western sense and relies heavily on community-based rehabilitation. A host-club owner’s on-camera admission to having set someone on fire made that partnership untenable, forcing the ministry to withdraw days later — a detail that explains why a dating show controversy became a government story. Katsukura herself runs a “konkatsu” (marriage-hunting) coaching business, a niche where YouTubers build followings on blunt, clickbait-y verdicts about women’s dating choices.
The thread didn’t really argue over whether women are drawn to tough men — that was taken as given — but over Katsukura’s causal claim that this attraction reflects low “intelligence.” Posters kept splitting hairs between chi (intellect) and chino (reasoning/self-control), with several citing counterexamples of accomplished, educated women who still fall for delinquent-type partners, and others flatly rejecting gendered IQ comparisons as unscientific.
What the thread never quite lands on is that “yankee” romance is a commercially manufactured trope, not a spontaneous psychological pattern — shoujo manga, host-club marketing, and now reality TV all monetize the “he’s only gentle with me” fantasy, meaning the show itself is a product engineered to elicit exactly the reaction posters are trying to psychoanalyze.
*This article is compiled as an excerpted summary of the 5channel (Geisports Sokuho+) thread “Matchmaking agency CEO and YouTuber says women drawn to violent men are ‘just plain unintelligent,’ shares theory amid ‘Love, Bring It On’ backlash.”
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