Polygamous Freeloader Ryuta Watanabe Wants to Surpass Tokugawa Ienari the 11th Shogun

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“I grew up in a single-parent household and moved around a lot, constantly changing schools. My mother was a nurse and also worked at a snack bar at night, so she was hardly ever home. In fourth grade, my teacher suspected I had dyed my hair, which led to me hating school and becoming a truant.”

However, things changed when he transferred to a new school in middle school. “I first became aware of being popular.”

“When I was in first year of middle school, girls came to see the new transfer student (me) and called me cute. Their excitement led to me writing a love letter, and that was when I got my first girlfriend. My first experience was at 16, with a girl one year younger. I used protection. My parents had taught me, ‘Always use protection when you do it.’

But at 19, I got married to my girlfriend in a shotgun marriage after she became pregnant. We were both too young and still wanted to enjoy our lives, so after two years of juggling work and childcare, we got divorced. She took the child.”

Although he started a family young, it ended in failure. Afterward, Watanabe pursued his dream of becoming a musician and moved to Tokyo, but life was difficult, and he ended up carving a new path as a live-in freeloader.

“When I moved to Tokyo, all I had was a guitar and 20,000 yen. I got a girlfriend and moved into her house. I lived off of her as a live-in freeloader, cooking meals, cleaning, and waiting for her to come home.”

However, this lifestyle didn’t last long. After breaking up with his girlfriend, Watanabe lost his place to live and had no one to turn to, so he turned to his mother.

“I asked my mom for help, and she sent me 150,000 yen, but I quickly spent it all on living expenses and unnecessary things, and I hit rock bottom and became depressed. I started receiving welfare, and then an 18-year-old girlfriend came into my life. At first, it was really fun, and I felt saved, but she started changing after interacting with wealthy clients at her night job. One day, she told me, ‘I can’t date anyone unless they make more than 40 million yen a year,’ and it ended. I couldn’t keep up, being on welfare.”

The frustration from being rejected gave Watanabe a new goal: “I want to be a popular guy.” He then became a traveling freeloader, flying around the country to meet women he met on dating apps, living with up to 16 women at once.