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Actress Kitano Kii (35) revealed on the September 29 broadcast of Nippon TV’s “Ueda to Onna ga DEEP ni Hoeru Yoru” that she was raised by a single father. She shared an anecdote about how, too embarrassed to buy sanitary products and underwear, she would wait at convenience stores for the cashier to change to a woman. Following this confession, 5ch’s Entertainment/Sports News+ board lit up with a range of opinions — touching on the particular embarrassment of puberty, the shopping struggles of single-parent households, and real-world accounts that cashiers don’t actually pay attention to what customers are buying.
Kitano Kii, Raised by a Single Father, Struggled to Buy Sanitary Products and Underwear: ‘I’d Wait for the Cashier to Turn Into a Woman’ – Entertainment : Nikkan Sports
September 30, 2026, 9:41 AM
Actress Kitano Kii (35) appeared on the September 29 broadcast of Nippon TV’s “Ueda to Onna ga DEEP ni Hoeru Yoru” (Tuesdays, 11:59 PM). She revealed she was raised in a single-father household and looked back on moments she faced struggles unique to being a woman.
Source: nikkansports.com / Original article here
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Feels like a product of the era and her age at the time.
These days people might not even give it a second thought.
For a kid going through puberty, feeling embarrassed is just unavoidable.
No matter how you raise them, that feeling doesn't change with the times.
You'd feel at least a little embarrassed too buying hair-growth tonic or hemorrhoid cream if the clerk were a woman, right?
We're too busy.
It's less about being busy and more about whether the clerk's a pervert.
Though there are bored ones who'll sneak a peek at your credit card number.
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That's not the Kitano Kii I remember.
Is this even the same person?
Looked it up, she's 35 huh.
Still totally cute though.
This one's from 2017, but she hasn't changed much.
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I think she means drugstore clerks, not lingerie shop staff.
I'm a single dad myself — I went to the drugstore with my daughter like it was nothing, and we shopped for underwear together starting around 5th grade.
Once she hit high school, I'd wait outside and just hand her the money.
I bet you were raised all cozy by both mommy and daddy and are still holed up in your childhood bedroom, so of course you wouldn't understand what people raised by a single parent go through.
Probably true. Takei Sou got bashed for the same kind of thing — the ones trashing people who've had it hard are usually spoiled, sheltered single guys still living at home who've never struggled a day in their lives (kodo-oji, lit. "child's-room uncle").
Don't go peeking down there.
Honestly I wouldn't want to see it or smell it — pretty sure I'd throw up.
You made your daughter go out of her way for you.
Sounds like a good daughter.
All three of my kids were little, so only the oldest really remembers their mother at all.
Since I was treated as the "mom" from day one, there was no embarrassment or awkwardness about it.
If anything, I was the one who nudged things toward "other dads don't do this, so you two handle it yourselves" — it came naturally.
Except now the delivery staff get your address, name, and phone number attached to the order.
They might not see your face, but there's probably a photo of you somewhere online, and if you're in showbiz that info gets passed around easily.
Customers like that tend to assume they're the only one, but you learn there are tons of people just like them.
The world's full of weirdos.
At that point he's not a man anymore, he's a trained pet — ordered around at her beck and call.
Background and Talking Points
Nippon TV’s late-night show “Ueda to Onna ga DEEP ni Hoeru Yoru” often runs talk segments that dig into guests’ private lives, and this episode had Kitano Kii opening up about her own upbringing. How a child from a single-parent household navigates gender-specific purchases like sanitary products and underwear varies hugely from family to family, and it’s rarely discussed in any organized way. In the thread, the real-world claim that “cashiers don’t actually pay attention to what customers buy” clashed with the view that “the embarrassment unique to puberty never really goes away” — both grounded in personal experience, making it hard to call either one more valid. There were also accounts from fathers who themselves grew up in single-parent households and went shopping with their daughters without issue, showing the struggles described aren’t universal. Since family circumstances vary so much case by case, it’s worth being careful not to over-generalize.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Entertainment/Sports News+) thread “[TV] Kitano Kii, Raised by a Single Father, Struggled to Buy Sanitary Products and Underwear: ‘I’d Wait for the Cashier to Turn Into a Woman’.”
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