The idol in Japan now, can do anything
Easy to become idol
I have a friend who is a bone marrow transplant idol
My father is...
Hey guys and girls
This is Cathy Cat, and -I'm Purin-chan
She's actually an idol but she's going to quit idol soon
I'll ask some questions about her life and
and being an idol in Japan
On that note
What is your name as an idol?
Hayasaka Oka a.k.a Purin
Real name
Real name idol
What's your age?
Nine--ty
That was too much
19
What's your favorite type of food?
Pudding
So it's Purin -Yes
I like pudding too much and up till now
I may have eaten 300 kinds
What is the best one? -Sesame pudding
I like the sesame more than the custard
On the contrary, what food do you not like
I don't have any
I love all
-We made a video a while ago -I hate bugs.No insects, no insects
I can't eat those
There is a movie in which we actually eat insects
that is in the links, be sure to check that out
becasue that was the hardest movie I had to take in this channel, ever
What do you generally like? -Clothes
I like clothes, I like to dance
Talking about clothes, please explain your style
-Style? -Some people may be interested
Harajuku fashion
This is called decora fashion
Decora is a person who has many things like this on the forehead
There aren't many with this
Like, Only one
True. Even with pins, you can make similar but can't make that -Yes
I buy it in many placese
What is decora short for?
It's probably decorative
Decoration or decorative, it comes from decorating yourself
They started calling it Decora from there
Where do you genrally go to? -Harajuku
I love it
Without anything to do, I will walk Takeshita Street of Harajuku
and just go into a random store is what I like
Any place you would recommend going to in Harajuku?
Place to go? Thank You Mart
All 390 yen with tax
You can buy anything
So useful
I want to ask you about your idol life
Why did you become and idol?
When I was in junior high school
I became fond of idols
I really liked Denpagumi.inc
I was mentally ill
and what made me smile were the idols
so I wanted to make many people happy
and got into high school
and was able to work
and since my parents couldn't say anything, I became an idol
Went to audition
So you got the inspiration from Denpagumi and became an idol yourself
Audition? -Yes
-What is in audition? -Interview
Did they ask you to dance? -No
My audition didn't have any
In a room, around 30 girls were packed and sitting
and the staff will ask one by one
"Have you ever been an idol?"
"Are you good at anything?"
I really liked to dance back then
I went there with 2 songs I mastered
I told them I can dance to this and this
-At the end did you dance? -No
No dance? -No dance and
the result was
I failed
Rejected
but you became idol later?
It took a while from there
The agency was quite strange
Even though I failed
but decided to give me another chance
I did net activities
In the agency site, there was a place you vote for girls you like
If the vote was more than so and so, I was to enter the agency
So for the next 9months
I sent out info on Twitter
and mastered more than 30songs
I was working really hard
With out hard work, I guess you can't get to places
You just don't become an idol because you want to,
so you had to dance, sing and do SNS
I was working so hard
but the Japanese idol now can do anything
You can become an idol easily
If you decide to become an idol, you're an idol from today
Idol is like a YouTuber
I heard the idol range is pretty narrow in Japan
I heard the main idol group is in the teens. How is it?
If you want to become an idol, what criterias are important? Age? Looks?
Who becomes a hit is young girls
and has good looks
cute girls
16 to 18 is the most sellable generation
But there actually is no age limit
It starts from 1 year old to up to any age
There are people who appeal themselves as around 30 year old idols
Idol most closest to heaven and be 70 does exist
It's all about the need
What's good about being an idol?
What's bad about being an idol?
The good about being an idol is, you get on stage
and the view you see from there is, everyone is happy
Most people coming are middle aged men
People who has lost the good times
Business man coming in suits
There are men who came straight from work
but when live starts, they forget everything
and get excited with a smile
Having that opportunity makes me really happy
Giving energy to people?
It was a really small live house
but there were so many people there to come and see me
The heat was so high
There was no gap between and being everywhere was so good
-I see -Everyone was happy and excited
I could not forget that
What the hardship of being an idol was
when I couldn't gather any people
When there were hardly any people and quiet, while I am excited
I question why I am here
It's sad when people aren't there? -Sad
The lowest number was
I was doing solo, and the guest was two
And when I'm doing collaboration with different idols
The idol before me was very popular
and I had to go do my best and went out
everyone was gone
It started with 20 but only 3 remained
That was shocking
Please look at me
That was hard
Do you have hardship in daily life being an idol?
Mastering songs, dance or rules to follow?
Idols always does Twitter
You have to send out something new every day
I have to make stories
I have to say something, and also blogs
Even though I'm Japanese, I'm not good at writing
Not very good at expressing
So not good at blogs
Since you are quitting, I wanted to ask why you are quitting
I dropped out of high school
I quit high school in October last year
but I wanted to attend high school again from april this year
I wanted to go full time
but doing idol will spread my time out
To go back to school, I'm quitting idol
How can the current fans support you from now on?
-Instagram -I'm sure people abroad likes Instagram as well
Links are down below
There may be someone who wants to become an idol
Give us hint
Can you give us a hint for girls who liked to become an idol
Find something different from others
What do you mean?
To many idols out there that you won't be noticed
So many in Japan
If for a classical idol like AKB
There are so many of them
You don't want to be, "This idol is the same as the one before"
Add a different concept than others
For me, it would be train idols,
or colorful idol
Your own special skills
Hobby
Have your own character
Being unique is important
Funny genre idols. There are so many of them
There are twins, and there are real sisters doing it
So many train idols as well
There is a bone marrow band idol as well
If something happens,
I can donate mine
or support type of idol
Idol who says we should help each other out
Famous one is having "curse" as her theme
Kind of scary
but really cute
Also cockroach idol as well
She was a pole dancer
She had cockroaches hanging from here
Have the antenna of the cockroaches
There are so many -Anything is possible
To find your uniqueness people use very strange uniquness
How did your parents react when you wanted to become an idol?
At first
they were really against it
I wanted to entertainment since very little
I wanted to join an agency or become a child actress since 5 years old
but was denied
My parents don't like standing out
Still to this day, they tell me to be a normal girl
Since they are thinking about me
so they tell me I'll be hurt if this happens or,
you hear that men might slash me
so they were very against it
Within that much objection,
-how did you get their permission? -I registered without consent
Around 3 minutes after a fight
I was sending to an audition
I made a situation I had no choice but to do it
I try to go over their opinion often
My parents have given up
but there are times when my parents actually support me
My father is a bit willing to support now
and he seems to have liked idols now
He is an idol mania now
He's gone to someone else's live now
He said, "I'll go to a live"
and my mother thinks it's gross
From the daughter, the father became a mania? -Yes
There was a time my father bought 120 CDs
The atmosphere that time was really bad
From the mother? -Yes
She was really angry
The problem was, the CD didn't go away
Once there was a huge pile of CDs in the room
creating a tower
It wasn't the same one CD, but like 4 types
Since I have 3 siblings
My sister, my brother and I had to give out 5 CDs each at school
Then it was gone
So you didn't persuade your parents but just worked hard on yourself
and you started doing it
and somehow persuaded them at the end? -Yes
I was permitted at the end
That was Purin-chan
Thank you
If you want to support Purin, where should they go?
I'm usually tweeting on Twitter
and I have Instagram
Please check it
Link is here, here and here
Please find the link -It's somewhere
Thank you very much
See you
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