Sakaki Miyu (CUCA) / 1st Generation

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If autotranslate is correct, her intention is to try more kinds of video so she can reach 15k, then 50k, then 200k subscribers.
Her most popular videos seems to be where she goes eating at restaurants, while the most popular this month are the dance video and morning routine.
The cooking videos don't have many views, unfortunately

She wants to do more make-up video, but her mom said nobody wants to watch it
https://twitter.com/CUCA_cheese0428/status/1265626499006095361

 

Make up for school

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She mentioned how STU's management told her to lose weight when she joined STU at 42kg. She's 151cm so that's a BMI of 18.4 – by no means overweight, even for Japanese standards

https://twitter.com/CUCA_cheese0428/status/1268504886443827200

もう、ガチでほんまのこと言うわ…
I'm just talking about it now...
STUを辞めてから話すって手もあったけど…
I had a chance to talk about it after quitting STU...
私、STU加入時、平均体重42kgでした。
I, at the time of joing STU, had an average weight of 42kg.
1年目、痩せろと言われて、加入後1年目の夏前から36kgまで落としました。
In the first year, I was told to lose weight and the summer after joining, I dropped to 36kg.
とにかく、ほぼ何も食べませんでした。
Anyway, I barely ate anything.

学校も仕事の移動も忙しく、休む暇の無かった時期に、1日に食べる量はお茶碗半分にも無いくらいの量でした。
I was busy juggling school and work, I had no time to rest, and I could barely eat more than 1 bowl of food a day.
お母さんからも絶対あとからおかしくなるから止めなさい、と言われたけど、やめませんでした。
My mother told me absolutely stop because it was wrong, but I didn't stop.
今思えば、異常でした。
When I think about it now, it was abnormal.
この間違ったダイエットが間違いなく私の心と身体を狂わせた原因です。
A wrong diet definitely upset my body and my mind.

 

Has she quit ?

 

No, but she talks her feelings

With DeepL, I get: "I could have told you after I left STU, but..."

 

I should have added that it was translated with google translate. I was confused myself as well because I couldn't see any info on her having quit STU

 

So far no indications of exit but obviously be following this with interest

Always felt that there is something like this behind the scenes, but it still hurts a lot when it comes out publicly
Learning to love them as they are and how they navigate this

 

Here is someone that translated most of her post: https://twitter.com/fryan_get/status/1268585549624999938

It's sad and probably not that uncommon.

 

Forgive me if this was already the case and I hadn't noticed, but the videos on Cuca's old channel are viewable again.

 

^Maybe it have something to do with her joining STUDIO, so more people know she's been dancing since she was little. She seems really happy about it, hope she stays for a long time.

Also appreciate the management not making a fuss over the eating problem thing, although it might be on their own interest to avoid backlash.

 

Oooops! someone forgot to wake up

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An older video she shot but never posted til now, and I have to say it's good to see her - sort of - out and about again. I think those are my favourite type of CUCA videos, where she's just travelling around and going to coffee shops and restaurants and being generally adorable. I feel like through her we see little corners of Japan we otherwise wouldn't.

 

Today's video is another such one which was shot in December, she travels by train to visit Shimonoseki and Kawatanaonsen which are at the far western end of Yamaguchi Prefecture (she eats blowfish which we can safely presume has been well prepared to remove the poison!):


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^ I was so surprised when I watched this. I've actually been to the same store in Shimonoseki a few years before!

 

Still in Shimonoseki.
Ever tried a noodle dish served on a tile ?

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