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The story
A thread went up on 5ch’s Livejupiter board (a general “anything goes” discussion board) titled “Top 3 celebrities who seem accidentally saintly,” naming Yoiko’s Arino and Morimoto Leo. Posters swapped stories of Arino being kind even when the cameras weren’t rolling, and recalled comedian Mitsuura Yasuko once calling him “a good guy” — but others pushed back that Morimoto Leo isn’t quite the saint his narration work makes him sound like. The thread also drifted into gripes that hosts like Nakai Masahiro come off as domineering compared to Hamaguchi Masaru, splitting opinion on how much substance really sits behind celebrities’ polished “nice guy” TV image.
What people said
If anything, being an actual saint would be a bad look.
Arino was kind even when the camera wasn't rolling, so
I don't buy people talking bad about him.
Whoa, lucky you.
Mitsuura Yasuko said he was a good guy too.
Nah, that's been obvious for a while —
he's the Okamura type: high-strung, dead serious, moody, and hard on anyone who seems unmotivated.
Couldn't you say the same about TKO's Kinoshita?
Also, Okamura's really trashed his own image lately on the radio.
All I can think of is how catastrophically bad he was at Smash Bros — that was basically a broadcast disaster.
Same goes for Aritoshi and most hosts, honestly.
Right?
They're crazy condescending toward the staff.
Hamaguchi wandered off the moment the camera stopped rolling, but
Arino would still do a bit for us —
though it was so boring I don't remember a single thing about it.
Lol
Arino's funniest when he's ribbing Hamaguchi — though we probably won't see much of that anymore.
Background and Talking Points
“Gū-sei” (ぐう聖, literally “accidental saint”) is common 5ch slang for someone who comes across as saintly seemingly without trying, and threads like this one often dig into the gap between a celebrity’s polished TV persona and their off-camera reputation. Here too, posters offered several secondhand accounts — claims about behavior “when the cameras weren’t rolling,” or reputations relayed from other celebrities — but it’s worth noting these are all anonymous, unverified anecdotes and hearsay, not statements Arino or Morimoto Leo have made publicly themselves. It’s also worth flagging that the original thread drifted off-topic into posters accusing each other of samefagging (posting under multiple names to fake agreement); this article only excerpts the replies that stayed on the “saintly celebrities” theme.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and summaries of the 5ch (Livegalileo board) thread “Top 3 ‘Accidentally Saintly’ Celebrities: Yoiko’s Arino, Morimoto Leo.”
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