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The story
Some women on X criticized the edamame variety name “Yuagari Musume” (“Bath-Fresh Girl”) as creepy and sexually loaded, and the post blew up when it got picked up on 5ch. The thread pointed to developer Kaneko Seeds’ stated origin for the name (the rich aroma of freshly boiled beans likened to the smell of the developer’s own child fresh out of the bath), with some arguing the critics were reading way too much into it. Others raised the double standard of slamming this while giving sexualized depictions of men in BL (boys’ love) fiction a pass, and the thread eventually spiraled into a full-blown men-vs-women shouting match, leaving reactions split.
What people said
By the way, here are the tweets from the women calling "Yuagari Musume" creepy
Who are you to talk? Do you seriously think BL gets a free pass?
When it's this blatant I almost start to like it. What a lovely lady.
At the very least, you'll never be able to board a boat again either.
Re: #7
Wait, did they prep all this stuff before even making the thread…?
Both "Bath-Fresh Girl" and this guy are gross. Why does only one of them get to be the gross one?
This is 100x creepier than Bath-Fresh Girl lol
That's probably OP's own account.
Made it just so he could go "see, now bash women."
If OP's been setting stuff like that up for over 10 years, that's next-level dedication.
Unlike judging actual content, you can just pick based on the name before you buy.
Yeah, pretty much this.
There's plenty of other edamame varieties out there anyway.
Just quarantine them.
The women-bashing on X used to be people gleefully piling on over "dumb woman" posts, but now that all sorts of guys have jumped in too, it's starting to feel like both sides are just as bad.
Gender-bashing should stay confined to places like 5ch or Girls Channel, where the opposite sex isn't around — just in-group joking.
Do it on social media where everyone sees it, and of course you get backlash and just breed resentment.
If you want to hype yourselves up with your mutuals over inside jokes, just lock your account.
Posting it all publicly and then getting defensive the second outsiders reply is just lame.
What's the point of asking for agreement here?
Are you gonna go do it if people say yes?
Being an unpopular introvert who can only enjoy that stuff through fiction is the same for male and female otaku alike, but why go specifically for same-sex pairings? Would a regular male-female pairing not do?
Origin and anecdotes
• The developer's own parenting experience (official/insider background):
According to an account from someone at Kaneko Seeds, the company that developed the variety — said to come from the developer's own child — the rich, pleasant aroma of freshly boiled edamame was likened to "the sweet smell coming from a small child's skin and hair right after a bath." The hope was that the name would feel warm and endearing, and that the variety itself would turn out lovable.
• Imagery from summer dining scenes:
The word "yuagari" ("fresh out of the bath") was chosen to evoke the scene of "wanting to eat delicious edamame with a cold beer or drink after a bath on a hot summer day." The word "musume" ("girl/daughter") was meant to carry the sense of a variety raised with the care you'd give a beloved daughter, and the hope that it would be cherished by everyone for a long time.
It's you people's minds that are the filthy ones here.
You owe an apology.
> "the sweet smell coming from a small child's skin and hair right after a bath"
I get the beer angle, but honestly, this part of the reasoning is just creepy.
"The smell of a small child's skin right after a bath" — what, are you a pedophile?
I do think the logo's kind of lame.
A farmer who worked with Tsuyahime apparently saw a banner printed with the logo and said, "This isn't some Sengoku-era warlord," which cracked me up.
He was reportedly lamenting how it ended up looking like that.
That's way too conspiracy-brained, lol.
Honestly, I think even 5ch is taking that one too far.
It's funny how obvious it is.
I might get yelled at for saying this, but from NanJ's (the "Whatever's Live" sports/variety board) perspective, we're the ones "branching out" too, aren't we?
Objectively speaking, this thread does stick out compared to the others here.
Wait, people are actually flame-baiting here?
That's rough.
That stuff's delicious though.
Is that really the part that needs everyone's agreement?
Background and Key Points of This Debate
“Yuagari Musume” is an edamame variety from Kaneko Seeds. The company has never given any officially sexual explanation for the name — the stated backstory is simply that the aroma of freshly boiled beans was likened to the smell of a child fresh out of the bath. What really split the thread wasn’t so much whether the name itself feels “creepy,” but a question of consistency: whether the people criticizing it are equally tough on similar sexualized expression in fiction like BL (boys’ love) works. It’s also notable that because the discussion took off from reactions to one particular person’s post, its focus drifted from “is this name okay” into a full-blown men-vs-women shouting match — and even some posters on 5ch itself reflected that their own pile-on was just riding an anti-feminist wave rather than engaging with the actual question. Readers should note that the phrase “sexual assault” in the original post is simply the critic’s own subjective framing — no actual act of assault occurred.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (“Nandemo Jikkyou G” / Whatever’s Live) thread “[Sad News] Woman on X: “AAAAH! The edamame named ‘Bath-Fresh Girl’ is way too creepy!! Creepy, creepy, sexual assault!”“.
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