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The story
Tabloid magazine FRIDAY reported a scoop on a birthday date between a “popular voice actor and a beautiful voice actress,” publishing photos of the pair. Since the names weren’t revealed, a thread on the Love Live! board of 5ch kicked off a guessing game over who the actress could be. Posters kept narrowing down the likely birthday window based on the height difference and the man’s clothing in the photo, while debate broke out over whether a Love Live! voice actress could really be called “popular.” Toward the end of the thread, Kenshō Ono — who recently divorced Kana Hanazawa — was floated as a possible reason the story was deemed newsworthy.
Ah well, that’s the end of that
FRIDAY@FRIDAY_twit
📸Breaking Scoop📸
Source: x.com / Original post here
What people said
09/17 Haruna Sakurai
09/19 Ria Seko
09/20 Maria Sashide
09/25 Kanako Takatsuki
09/27 Yuina
09/30 Sayuri Date
10/04 Rina Endo
10/06 Chiemi Tanaka
10/08 Kana Asahi
10/13 Yuki Okumura
10/16 Akari Kito
Out of that list, Yuina's probably the only one who's actually pretty…
I need to go lie down for a sec…
Pointless if it was the guy's birthday
She's likely just good-looking and genuinely a nobody
The guy's the famous one here
To the general public, Love Live! voice actresses get treated as unknowns anyway
it's unlikely to be a Love Live! voice actress
Height-wise it can't be Rina Endo
Since they're billing it as "breaking" with the full reveal tomorrow, it's gotta be someone whose birthday falls in the last few days
My money's on a birthday somewhere between Oct 19 and Oct 24
It might be the popular voice actor's birthday instead, though
Seko, Sashide, Endo, Tanaka, Okumura, and Kito are all fair game to call beautiful
That's about the bar a tabloid's "beautiful" rating clears anyway
In that case, thread's over!
Before that — if it's Sayu, wouldn't the headline lead with "niece of that nationally famous comedian" instead?
Shorter girls are ruled out given the height difference
Going by the framing, the guy is clearly the real target of the scoop. The woman is probably a no-name rookie with no real roles to her name — "beautiful" is about all there is to say about her. Rule out anyone already appearing in a decent number of anime
Since she's supposed to be a beautiful voice actress, Agu's the only one of those that fits
If she's that much of a rookie, even the reporter would have a hard time recognizing her as a voice actress in the first place — so a Love Live! actress is actually plausible
That's why if it were Agu, they'd write "the voice actress who went viral last year"
She's not someone where "beautiful" is all you can say about her
Rikyako, Komiari
Pei, Nagi, Ree, Yu
Agu, Chun, Tanaka, Miyu, Pi
Ui, Kotoko
Enrina
That's about the lineup if we're talking the "beautiful" type
If it's Agupon, then "super" would have to go in front
"Seriously Gorgeous Voice Actress"
The one from "More Than Chocolate Mint, It's You"? (an idol-group song title)
If it's Furi, the guy ends up being ridiculously short lol
Looking at follower counts and event draw, she genuinely is popular — she just doesn't get other voice acting work
Strictly speaking it'd be more like a "popular franchise cast member" than a "popular voice actress," though
The "popular voice actor" is the guy
The woman is just the "beautiful voice actress"
Genjitsu no Yohane: Sunshine in the Mirror — she plays the main character, Kohaku
It's not even marriage, divorce, or cheating
It's probably seen as newsworthy because it's Kenshō Ono, who just divorced Kana Hanazawa
Background and Key Points of the Debate
Tabloids like FRIDAY often withhold the real names of people in dating scoops, instead generating buzz through vague descriptors like “popular” or “beautiful” while preserving anonymity. This article is a textbook example, setting up a situation where readers try to deduce the subjects’ identities from titles and photographic clues. The thread’s main disagreement was over whether a Love Live! voice actress can really be called a “popular voice actor,” highlighting the gap between popularity within the franchise and general public recognition. It’s also worth noting that being described as “beautiful” doesn’t necessarily mean someone is unknown — yet the thread’s speculation proceeded on the assumption that “beautiful” equals “not well-known,” which is a bit misleading. Finally, while Kenshō Ono and Kana Hanazawa’s divorce has already been publicly reported, whether they’re actually the pair in this scoop remains pure speculation — FRIDAY never confirmed it.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (Love Live!) thread “[FRIDAY] Catches a ‘Secret Birthday Date’ Between a Popular Voice Actor and a Beautiful Voice Actress.”
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