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Former TBS announcer and actress Mina Tanaka (39) reportedly reflected on her radio show about the change in her environment when she moved from Otsuma Women’s High School to Aoyama Gakuin University, saying, “Being popular is such a hassle.” In stark contrast to her all-girls high school days, she reportedly hit a popularity peak in college — getting fawned over by those around her and even entering a beauty pageant. Following the report, a 5channel thread filled up with posts sharing personal experiences about the jealousy from other women and relationship troubles that come with being popular, as well as rumors that spread after turning down a confession — sparking a mix of sympathy and pushback.
Mina Tanaka: “Being popular is such a hassle” — from all-girls high school to Aoyama Gakuin, popularity peak arrives: “Everyone fawned over me. I entered a beauty pageant.”
Former TBS announcer and actress Mina Tanaka (39) appeared on the 29th on TBS Radio’s “Gas One Presents: Mina Tanaka’s Warm Time” (Saturdays at 6:30 PM), which she hosts.
She revealed the change in environment that came with moving from Otsuma Women’s High School to Aoyama Gakuin University.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
For guys, it's not really like women just flock to you
Other people's partners come after you, so relationship drama happens a lot
I think it's hard for a beautiful woman to grow up without getting a bit twisted by it
It really depends on what a parent with real-life experience tells you
I was super popular too, but my parents just left me to my own devices, so I stayed passive and made the wrong choices
Unless you're sharp and level-headed about it, being popular doesn't guarantee happiness
Being good-looking is a pain because people you have zero interest in fall for you, and the jealousy is exhausting
Delinquent types (yankī) especially — if the person they like falls for someone else, they get jealous of that other person and start harassing or bullying them
Probably just bad at turning people down.
Realistically, if you reject someone bluntly, you come off as cold.
Well, she'd just started as a freshman and was probably fed up with being targeted all the time.
That's just "sour grapes" (the fox-and-grapes fable), I'd say
Well, the grapes don't care no matter how much the fox badmouths them, but
with people, once it turns into a rumor, that's when it gets annoying
I had a friend who was insanely popular, and there are types who go "I liked him first, who does she think she is flirting with him?"
She's married and living happily now, but she had very few friends for a long time… which is probably why she still hangs out with someone like me
I know someone who was her classmate in high school, and apparently she had a great personality, was funny, smart, and considerate — a real popular kid
Since it was an all-girls school, she wasn't a target of weird jealousy
But if she was popular with guys in college, jealousy must have made things rough
Women can get unbelievably aggressive toward someone who's popular with men, and the gossip — true or not — gets brutal
Yeah, she'd have been popular alright
But personally, of the runner-up Miss Aoyama Gakuin contestants, I'm more into Ai Eto
https://stat.ameba.jp/user_images/20130704/09/takoyakipurin/c0/d4/j/o0240040012597906141.jpg
https://ameblo.jp/minamitanaka/entry-10043924870.html
If she's only 152cm on top of that, of course she'd be popular
And at Aoyama Gakuin no less
That's the youth of that era for you
Different from the "yutori" generation, and different from kids now too
There was this kind of gloominess back then
It's an era we've already forgotten about
I ended up reading through several pages of that
I wonder how grandpa's doing
Just the right look
Seems like she could pass for an announcer
The one on the left looks like a young Aya Hirano
This kind of face is insanely popular with guys
Same person, lol?
Youth, makeup, hairstyle, clothes, gaining or losing weight —
those really can turn you into a different person
Lowering the corners of your mouth really works wonders, huh
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Mina Tanaka is a former TBS announcer who went from Otsuma Women’s High School to Aoyama Gakuin University. Her comment this time, “Being popular is such a hassle,” is a primary statement made on her own radio show, reflecting on her sense of hitting a popularity peak amid the shift from an all-girls school to a coed university. In the thread, comments split between those sympathizing with the “struggles of being popular” and those who felt it came across as bragging, with opinions divided over whether to view her popularity as a matter of her own qualities or as a matter of jealousy from those around her. Regarding her high school relationships, the thread also contains contradictory claims side by side — one from someone claiming to know a former classmate who says she was popular, and another rumor claiming she was actually isolated — both of which are unconfirmed, secondhand information that readers should keep in mind. While the radio comment itself is a primary source, the posts about her school-days episodes should be read with the understanding that they are unverified hearsay.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5channel (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Entertainment] Mina Tanaka: “Being popular is such a hassle” — from all-girls high school to Aoyama Gakuin, popularity peak arrives: “Everyone fawned over me. I entered a beauty pageant.”.”
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