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The story
Recent photos of former Hello! Project member Rio Kitagawa became a hot topic on 5ch, with commenters flooding in with reactions like “what even is this level of cute?” The thread also featured a ranking of graduated members by workload, with Kitagawa placing near the top thanks to her frequent TV appearances. Some noted she had once aspired to be a TV announcer, ironically ending up with heavy television exposure anyway. Others sympathized with the fact that, despite being a rookie, she’s already pulling late-night shifts, and attention turned to how she seems to be based right in the heart of Tokyo.
What people said
Post-graduation workload ranking
Kasahara
Kudo
Tamura
Sayashi
Makino
Iikubo
Miyamoto
Wada
Ikuta
Fukumura
Takeuchi
Morito
Inaba
Yamagishi
Ogata
Hamaura
Kitagawa ← this one
Sasaki
Uemura
Miyazaki
Sato
Katsuta
Koseki
Murota
Kogata
Fukuda Hana
Ishida
Hirose
Niinuma
Kaga
Kishimoto
Yamazaki Yume
Ichioka
Nakanishi
Takagi
Asakura
Kamikokuryo
Shimakura
Aikawa
Takase
Suzuki, Fujii, Nomura, Tashiro, Yagi,
So much for not being able to become an announcer, huh
Kitagawa's always right in the heart of Tokyo
Morning Musume's always out in the sticks
LOL that's so true wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww ("w" = laughter, like "lol")
Kitagawa's always right in the heart of Tokyo
Morning Musume and Makino are always out in the sticks
LOL that's so true wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Her workplace is in Akasaka
Brutal, TV Tokyo
Rookies and staff ADs actually make bank
Rookies at the major networks can clear 10 million yen a year just from overtime
Slightly thick eyebrows are cute though
Background and key points of this topic
Rio Kitagawa is a former idol who graduated from a Hello! Project group and is now appearing frequently on TV Tokyo programming. The “workload ranking” posted in the thread is just one poster’s personal impression, not an official statistic or agency announcement, so it should be taken with a grain of salt. The claim that she once aspired to be a TV announcer is also only hearsay from within the thread, and it hasn’t been confirmed whether she has ever said this herself. Note that the thread later devolved into an argument between posters over whether her workplace is in Roppongi or Akasaka, complete with “country bumpkin” insults being traded back and forth — this article has been trimmed to focus only on the discussion about Kitagawa.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “The latest photos of Rio Kitagawa in Akasaka are unbearably cute🩵.”
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