Nozomi Tsuji Reveals Massive Cockroach Infestation at Home — 5ch: “See One, Assume There Are 50”

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The story

Talent Nozomi Tsuji (39) revealed on her YouTube channel that her home has been overrun by cockroaches. The confession came right after she talked about her fifth child, little Yumeku, turning one year old, with Tsuji sighing that there are “an insane number of them.” On 5ch, threads lit up with theories about entry points — air conditioner drain hoses and the soil in potted plants — plus heated debates over which pest-control product works better, Black Cap or Mu-ender, with some posters even weighing in on the differences between German cockroaches and smoky-brown/black cockroaches.

Nozomi Tsuji wry-laughs over a “G” infestation at home: “There are so many of them… though thankfully not the huge kind” (“G” is a common Japanese euphemism for cockroach)

Talent Nozomi Tsuji (39) updated her YouTube channel by the 13th, with a segment where she griped about a cockroach infestation at her home.

That same day marked her fifth child, little Yumeku’s, first birthday. She expressed her surprise: “She’d been crying every single day for about the past week to ten days, but yesterday she didn’t cry! The moment she turned one, she just stopped crying!”

Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here

What people said

4AnonymousSep 14, 2026 01:10
In a modern house they shouldn't be showing up unless you're leaving doors and windows wide open.
15AnonymousSep 14, 2026 01:20
Maybe the place next door or upstairs/downstairs has turned into a hoarder house.
16AnonymousSep 14, 2026 01:21
Apparently they get in through the AC unit's drain hose.
17AnonymousSep 14, 2026 01:21
Black Cap is the best~ by the way, mine was left over from last year and it still worked fine this year.
21AnonymousSep 14, 2026 01:24
Isn't Black Cap the kind where the roaches actually come and eat it? I switched to Mu-ender and haven't seen a single one since.
22AnonymousSep 14, 2026 01:24
Got a pet lizard and it just eats them for me, lol
24AnonymousSep 14, 2026 01:30
Hoping for a Creepshow-style ending here (the horror anthology film with the infamous roach-swarm segment)
25AnonymousSep 14, 2026 01:30
Black Cap only works on the big ones.
The small ones don't even give it a second look.
27AnonymousSep 14, 2026 01:32
German cockroaches are no joke.
Once they build a nest somewhere out of sight, it's completely out of your hands.
29AnonymousSep 14, 2026 01:33
There really are a lot of big ones this year.
31AnonymousSep 14, 2026 01:34
Re: #29
Mine are all small ones.
I've got Black Cap traps everywhere and it's doing absolutely nothing.
30AnonymousSep 14, 2026 01:34
At my place, once my cat got old and stopped moving around much, they exploded in number.
32AnonymousSep 14, 2026 01:35
Re: #23
A roach that eats the Black Cap poison heads back to the nest and dies there.
Then the other roaches eat that poisoned corpse and die too — it's a chain reaction.
33AnonymousSep 14, 2026 01:37
They show up if you're not keeping things clean.
Eventually you'll get a masked palm civet wandering in too (a raccoon-like animal common in Japan).
34AnonymousSep 14, 2026 01:39
I've heard that eggs sometimes get mixed into the soil of potted plants or flowers.
35AnonymousSep 14, 2026 01:43
It was brutally hot this year, so the German cockroaches outside came indoors for the comfortable temperature — it's been rough.
I've dropped a ton of Black Cap but still haven't wiped them out.
37AnonymousSep 14, 2026 01:46
Lately that spray-type one with the two AKB members in the commercial seems to work well.
Also the one Koji Yamamoto advertises.
38AnonymousSep 14, 2026 01:47
> Nozomi Tsuji (39)
First time in my life I've ever heard that name. Stop starting self-promo threads for some talent.
39AnonymousSep 14, 2026 01:47
If you spot one G, you should assume there are 50 more hiding somewhere.
43AnonymousSep 14, 2026 01:51
Re: #39
I've caught over 100 with roach traps this year alone…
so does that mean there are over 5,000 of them?
40AnonymousSep 14, 2026 01:47
Put boric acid balls in every corner of the room and you'll stop seeing them.
Replacing them once every 3 years is plenty.
44AnonymousSep 14, 2026 01:54
If there's a baby in the house, they've probably already settled in for the long haul.
47AnonymousSep 14, 2026 01:59
Just scatter some Mu-ender around and they'll be gone in no time.
51AnonymousSep 14, 2026 02:05
The big black ones are actually the lesser evil.
German cockroaches are the ones that show up wherever there's food lying around or it's unsanitary.
52AnonymousSep 14, 2026 02:09
If they're not the big kind, you're done for.
Once German cockroaches take hold, that's it — there are hundreds of them.
Black cockroaches are basically solitary, so they look gross, but in most cases killing that one is the end of it.
53AnonymousSep 14, 2026 02:12
Re: #41
lol
Why are you doing that in a park?
55AnonymousSep 14, 2026 02:21
Mu-ender definitely works, but it feels hit-or-miss — like not every one of the 40 in the pack actually does the job.
56AnonymousSep 14, 2026 02:22
Re: #36
It's not even hot this year, is it?
64AnonymousSep 14, 2026 02:45
Re: #56
Don't underestimate how hot it gets south of the Tokai region.
60AnonymousSep 14, 2026 02:32
Re: #1
Just hire a renovation contractor and have them do a thorough extermination.
62AnonymousSep 14, 2026 02:38
Having pets limits your cockroach countermeasures, but there's probably something out there if you look.
63AnonymousSep 14, 2026 02:40
At my place too, three rice-grain-sized baby roaches showed up just yesterday.
Guess it's just that time of year.
70AnonymousSep 14, 2026 02:55
GACKT once said that after spotting a G in his room, he thought, "Ah, so this is your place," and moved out immediately.
71AnonymousSep 14, 2026 02:56
Re: #70
He says it all cool and collected, but he was probably scared out of his mind, lol
74AnonymousSep 14, 2026 03:02
Hasn't Black Cap stopped working as well since around last year?
Guess it's Mu-ender's time now.
78AnonymousSep 14, 2026 03:29
Re: #74
If you're using boric-acid-ball type products, try rotating between different manufacturers' versions, and if that still doesn't work, switch to Mu-ender…
79AnonymousSep 14, 2026 03:32
Does Mu-ender work on fruit flies too? Those things are the one bug I truly can't forgive.
80AnonymousSep 14, 2026 03:47
Re: #79
There's a product called Kobae Mu-ender made specifically for fruit flies.
81AnonymousSep 14, 2026 03:49
Re: #79
For fruit flies, those electric zapper things work pretty well.
Though they don't do anything against mosquitoes, lol

Background and Talking Points

Black Cap and Mu-ender are both bait-style products laced with insecticide: a roach that eats the bait returns to the nest and dies there, and other roaches that then feed on the poisoned corpse die too, letting the effect spread gradually through the colony — a mechanism some posters in the thread pointed out themselves. Opinions split over whether the products’ effectiveness is fading: some say they’ve used them for years and they still work, while others noted they’re effective on the larger black cockroaches but struggle against German cockroaches, which breed in large colonies. The disagreement over “it’s hot this year” versus “it’s not that hot” also came down to regional differences, like whether you live south of the Tokai region. Worth remembering: entry points like air conditioner drain hoses and the soil of potted plants are easy to overlook.

※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Entertainment/Sports News+) thread “[Celebrity] Nozomi Tsuji wry-laughs over a “G” infestation at home: “There are so many of them… though thankfully not the huge kind”.”

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