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The story
TV Tokyo announcer Rio Kitagawa looked back on her life — including her time in Morning Musume — in a YouTube video, saying she’s “been through one miserable thing after another,” and revealed that she bought power stones purely out of a desire to escape her bad luck. The remarks were picked up on 5ch’s Hello! Project board, sparking a split reaction. Some sympathized, saying things like “that’s rough” and “there’s an imbalance between her own effort and what she’s gotten out of it,” while others were harsher, saying “blaming everyone around her is exactly why she keeps getting resented” and “same old blame-everyone-else mindset,” turning it into a debate over her way of talking about herself.
A Life of Nonstop Bad Luck [Rio Kitagawa]
Source: youtube.com / Original video here
What people said
there's a real imbalance between the potential and effort she's got, and what she's actually gotten out of it.
Not someone I'd want anything to do with.
Gross.
That's an old geezer thing (aimed at old folks).
It's from February 2024, so it's after she'd been going wild on Snapchat.
Yeah, fair point honestly
Ruining your life by joining an underground idol group — like Kitagawa says, that really is just bad luck.
Guess it never occurs to her that her own position might've had something to do with it
Seriously, never get behind the wheel of a car.
"I used to be such a pathetic person. But ever since I started wearing XX Stone,
I became the kind of success everyone envies."
Guess there really are people who fall for that stuff.
If people actually liked her, none of that would happen.
What goes around comes around
Bad seeds, bad fruit
Hoist by your own petard
Blame-everyone-else mentality
Your sins catch up with you
It's a mess of your own making
Yeah, Ikuta being in the wrong is fair.
but did she really have to be assigned specifically to the announcer department?
Announcers go through a separate hiring process specifically for that role.
Based on the timeline, she should've been.
That's probably right around when she got the job offer — it was 2 years ago.
Background and Points of Debate
Rio Kitagawa, a former Morning Musume member turned TV Tokyo announcer, has long been a frequent topic on 5ch’s entertainment and Hello! Project boards. This latest discussion was sparked by a YouTube video in which she looked back on her life as “one string of bad luck after another” and said she bought power stones purely out of a desire to break free from it. Opinions in the thread split between those who sympathized with what they saw as an honest confession, and those who took a harsher view, seeing it as “blaming her surroundings for trouble she brought on herself” — with the latter view slightly more dominant. Buying lucky charms like power stones isn’t unusual for celebrities, but framing it as an “escape from bad luck” seems to have sharpened the divide in how people judge her character. Note that comments drawing comparisons to real-world incidents, along with baseless personal attacks or remarks about her appearance, have been excluded from this article.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “[Sad News] TV Tokyo Announcer Rio Kitagawa: “Looking Back on My Life, I’ve Been Through One Miserable Thing After Another — I Bought Power Stones to Escape My Bad Luck”.”
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