In the ongoing “double affair” scandal involving former BE:FIRST member Ryoki Miyama and former Takarazuka top musume-yaku Maria Kano, new reports allege that Miyama sent Kano over 100 LINE messages and DMs a day — fueling “stalker” accusations. Miyama’s side reportedly insists there were “no romantic feelings” involved, but the tabloid also published excerpts of passionate LINE exchanges between the two, prompting a wave of skepticism on 5ch, with users saying “claiming she was forced to write that is a stretch.”
It wasn’t simply a case of mutual attraction
The “double affair” scandal involving former BE:FIRST member and actor Ryoki Miyama (27) and former Takarazuka Revue top musume-yaku Maria Kano (33) first surfaced after the two co-starred in the musical “Crash Landing on You.” The story sparked a huge reaction, but as reporting continued,
“This wasn’t just an affair — could there have been stalker-like behavior on Miyama’s part?”
Source: friday.kodansha.co.jp / Read the original article here
Come to think of it, there's no proof they were real either.
So this was harassment-driven stalking then?
More like a kept man — a gigolo, really
He spent it on his old man
Well, since Weekly Gendai ran this and Kano hasn't denied a word of it,
let me lay out the messages Kano sent as carefully as possible so there's no misunderstanding
"What are you going to do with me?" "I'm turning into a maiden~ is that okay?"
(We were happy, weren't we) "Yeah"
"Feels like I just got hit with a lethal dose of sweetness lol" "I'm melting"
"Glad it wasn't just me who melted lol"
"I could just die" "Feel you"
(Deciding on a spot to secretly meet →) "The most dangerous and the safest place. lol"
(I want to hold you till you break) "What kind of pickup line is that…"
"Going out of your way to book a place to meet on your day off — that's really terminal-stage lol"
"My lips actually came off lol" "Way too much of a kissing fiend lol"
(about the home-cooked meal she packed for his work) "I'll just say my wife made it, I guess"
They're totally smitten with each other…
Kind of makes me a little jealous, honestly
If the woman's husband ever saw exchanges like these, that'd be game over
If this data is genuinely real, they're both finished
Yeah, it's over
That's the end of things with the Mizutani family
"You be the sacrifice~" lmaooo
Something like that, huh, lol
That's so sleazy it's funny
Like, who's supposed to believe that?
Even giving every possible benefit of the doubt, there's no way she was purely a victim
Countered with an "uncle attack"! (an older man pursuing a younger woman)
So Miyama's into older women, huh?
She's apparently the hostess-bar type, so she'll probably just push a weak excuse through anyway
Jiro Sato's scandal was bar-related too, come to think of it
Background and Key Points
“No Romantic Feelings,” Says Ryoki Miyama — Stalking Allegations Surface Over 100+ Daily LINE/DM Messages
For readers unfamiliar with the Japanese entertainment ecosystem here: BE:FIRST is a major boy band from the SKY-HI-produced audition project “THE FIRST,” and Ryoki Miyama left the group in 2023 to pursue acting. Takarazuka Revue is the all-female musical theater troupe where performers are trained to play either male (otoko-yaku) or female (musume-yaku) roles for their entire career; a “top musume-yaku” like Maria Kano occupies one of the company’s most senior, publicly recognizable positions, making her departure and any scandal involving her unusually high-profile. Japanese tabloid culture (here, Weekly Gendai via FRIDAY) frequently drives these “story” scandals with leaked private message logs, which then get relitigated on 5ch — Japan’s largest anonymous forum network, descended from 2channel, where entertainment-news threads like this one function as a running public jury.
The thread’s actual fault line isn’t whether an affair happened — posters broadly accept that it did — but whether Miyama’s “no romantic feelings, this was one-sided” defense is credible given that the leaked LINE messages appear to show Kano reciprocating enthusiastically. Posts #8, #9, and #125 explicitly mock the idea that she was “forced” to write flirtatious texts, which is the crux of the disagreement: is this a mutual affair with a stalking angle grafted on to protect one party, or genuine one-sided stalking despite the messages?
What’s easy to miss: no one in the thread addresses whether either party was married at the time (the “wife” reference in #50 is Miyama’s own deflection line, not confirmed fact), nor is there any independent verification that the leaked texts are authentic — the “fabricated” theory in #8 is raised and then dropped without scrutiny.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Entertainment/Sports News+) thread ““No Romantic Feelings,” Says Ryoki Miyama Amid “Stalking Allegations” — Maria Kano’s Own Shocking Confession Reveals Miyama Sent Over 100 LINE/DM Messages a Day [Ailuropoda melanoleuca★].”
