<figure id="attachment_401068" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 782px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-401068"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="e58e291f"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/11/b5b4342ad83801226adb2f00f7969c04.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-401068" class="wp-caption-text">Yuu Shirota&#8217;s full presence as he walks through a train station</figcaption></figure>
<h2>If only I could use my love energy elsewhere.</h2>
<p>It was around 3:00 p.m. in late October when Masaru Shirota, 38, emerged from the Shinkansen ticket gate at Shinagawa Station in Tokyo.</p>
<p>He was 190 cm tall with a large bag slung over both shoulders and a carry-on case in tow, and even though he was wearing a cap and mask, his flamboyant cardigan was indeed conspicuous.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> In a guest appearance on the talk variety show &#8220;Talkies&#8221; (Fuji TV) broadcast in February of this year, Shirota said, &#8220;Since around &#8217;20, I have acquired the ability to look at life from a bird&#8217;s eye view. To put it simply without choosing words, I became enlightened. In terms of love, he said, &#8220;I have graduated from the idea of love in the first place. I&#8217;ve lost all interest in the opposite sex,'&#8221; said a TV magazine writer.</span></p>
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<p>True to his words, he has been extremely busy this year. Especially in the latter half of the year, he was active in his musical endeavors, releasing a digital single of his original music, &#8220;Dream Seeds &#8211; I&#8217;ll be by your side. His first orchestra concert, &#8220;Yu Shirota 25th Anniversary Orchestra Concert &#8211; featuring Naoya Iwaki,&#8221; was held on October 7 in Tokyo to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his performing career. At the press interview, when asked about the true meaning of his declaration of graduation from romance, he replied, &#8220;I&#8217;ve vowed not to do anything like so-called romance,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I haven&#8217;t had a so-called love affair for three or four years,&#8221; she said.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> &#8220;I wish I could use the energy and effort of love for something else.</span></p>
<p>In December, the Snoopy Christmas concert &#8220;billboard classics×SNOOPY &#8216;Magical Christmas Night 2024&#8242;&#8221;, which Shirota has directed since 2011, will be held in three cities including Tokyo. In the &#8220;2024 FNS Song Festival&#8221; (Fuji TV) scheduled to be broadcast, he will perform &#8220;Dance of Vampire,&#8221; a musical in which he will star starting next May.</p>
<p>It seems that she is in the midst of pouring all the energy of her love life into her artistic activities.</p>
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<div data-friday-nextpage-lead="Yuu Shirota's aura-filled figure coming out of the station ticket gate"></div>
<figure id="attachment_401070" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 761px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-401070"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="01ac9965"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/11/bd4364552f734a09f55f06c7714effa4.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-401070" class="wp-caption-text">&#8217;24 was very busy with musical-related performances and live shows.</figcaption></figure>
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 In late October, we spotted Yuu Shirota walking in Shinagawa Station. Walking with three large bags, his lanky 190cm figure stood out. Shirota, who professes to have "outgrown romance," appears to be content with his work-intensive days.

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