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The story
A thread on 5ch’s Hello! Project board lit up over the news that actress Yuki Uchida had turned 50. Commenters who saw the posted photos were floored, with reactions like “She looks 29, tops” and “Is it even allowed for a 50-year-old to be this cute?” The discussion soon spread to her relationship with her husband, actor Takashi Kashiwabara, comparisons with fellow celebrities born in 1975 like Ryoko Yonekura, Michiko Kichise, and Vivian Hsu, and eventually a broader look back at the shifting eras of idol history — from Yuki Uchida to Ryoko Hirosue, and on to Morning Musume and SPEED.
What people said
50 years old!
Yuki Uchida
29 years old
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HNLXKTRaYAA4iAQ.jpg:orig#.jpg
Might not have turned out this way if it were 'Jun'
Bit too late for that now.
A man can pull that off, but once a woman hits 50 that's pretty much off the table.
She's probably doing serious anti-aging stuff, but still, impressive.
Honestly she's cuter now lol
Ryoko Yonekura
Yuki Uchida
Michiko Kichise
Vivian Hsu
Nanase Aikawa
Thanks to how far editing software has come, people like Maki Horikita look way cuter by today's standards too.
Thought you were that guy who shows up in every thread dropping exactly 3 pics, but guess not lol
Thanks though!
Wish Gettar (nickname for another celebrity) would put on a swimsuit and be this lively too
It went Yuki Uchida → Ryoko Hirosue, but nobody carried the torch after that.
It carried on to SPEED and Morning Musume.
After Hirosue is when the group-idol era kicked in.
lolololololol
She could pass for 16
lolololololol
but short hair really is her best look.
https://imgur.com/wkPopIo.jpg
Akane-chin, what's this connection about
Background and Talking Points
Yuki Uchida, born in 1975, was one of the defining actresses and idols of the 1990s. She married actor Takashi Kashiwabara in 2001, and commenters spent plenty of time discussing their marriage. This round of photo comparisons picked up steam partly because several other female celebrities also born in 1975 are hitting 50 around the same time — though it’s worth noting that these “youthfulness” comparisons don’t really account for differences in photo editing or shooting conditions. The later discussion about the idol lineage moving from “Uchida Yuki to Hirosue Ryoko” and then into the group-idol era also tracks with the real history of the industry, as SPEED and Morning Musume rose to prominence in the late 1990s — so it’s more than just nostalgic chatter.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “Yuki Uchida (50) wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.”
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