<figure id="attachment_417108" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-417108" style="width: 4000px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="54e3e67a"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/03/a1c80f55b52f010f7c1ffe4061a476cc.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-417108" class="wp-caption-text">Chinatsu Wakatsuki is active in variety shows beyond the boundaries of &#8220;mamatare</figcaption></figure>
<h2> The Meaning of &#8220;Suspended&#8221; Instead of &#8220;Retired</h2>
<p> Chinatsu Wakatsuki (40) has been a star on variety shows.</p>
<p> On March 4, she appeared on &#8220;Odoru!　Sanma Goten‼&#8221; (Nippon Television Network Corporation) aired on March 4. The themes of the day were &#8220;Neo Saitama-kenmin vs. old Saitama-kenmin&#8221; and &#8220;Saitama vs. Chiba vs. Mitama.&#8221; Wakatsuki, who is from Saitama Prefecture, was one of many &#8220;skilled&#8221; talkers and comedians who were active as MCs and commentators. In the midst of many &#8220;skilled&#8221; talkers and &#8220;tongue-in-cheek&#8221; comedians who are active as MC and commentators, Yatsuki has shown her overwhelming presence by making people laugh with a single word.</p>
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<p> Although Wakatsuki has been gaining more and more exposure, it is not well known to younger people that she had taken a break from performing for a while.</p>
<p> Wakatsuki, who turns 41 this year, made her debut in the entertainment industry 24 years ago when she was 17. Initially, she was active as a gravure talent, appearing in gravure magazines. Two years later, when she made her debut on TV and radio, she showed her natural &#8220;talent&#8221;. In no time at all, she became popular and began appearing on a succession of variety shows.</p>
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<p> She was also selected as a reporter for an information program, and in 2004, she made her debut as an actress in her first starring role in the movie &#8220;Jurei the Movie: Black Spirits. Wakatsuki was active on all fronts, but in November 2006, she fell ill and cancelled all regular programs and year-end and New Year&#8217;s shows after being diagnosed with &#8220;neurogenic gastritis and ulcerative colitis. She returned to work the following December, but in order to prevent a recurrence of her illness, she dropped out of regular programs, effectively putting her entertainment career on hold. This led to reports of her &#8220;retiring from show business,&#8221; &#8220;turning into a creator,&#8221; and &#8220;moving overseas,&#8221; all of which she denied.</p>
<p> Wakatsuki disappeared from the entertainment world for about 10 years, but she was still registered at her office.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> At the time, a source at Wakatsuki&#8217;s office said, &#8220;We let her do whatever she wanted because she is the first talent and a leading figure who has supported the office. I heard that she was paid even during her hiatus.</span></p>
<p> Wakatsuki talked about the circumstances leading up to her suspension of her entertainment activities on the official YouTube channel &#8220;Higashino VS&#8221; of Koji Higashino (57), with whom she appeared as a guest the year before last. According to her, since she had no talent other than herself, she decided to have a new talent found before going on a full-fledged hiatus, which is why she took about a year to go on hiatus. As for his decision to take a leave of absence rather than retire, he said that he wanted to quit, but the president of the office at the time told him, &#8220;If you quit, it will be hard to come back,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> He said, &#8220;If you quit, it is hard to come back. The environment in which it is easier to return is not &#8220;retirement&#8221; but &#8220;absence from work.</span></p>
<p> He said he was advised to &#8220;take a leave of absence&#8221; instead of &#8220;retire&#8221; to make it easier for him to return. As for why he moved to the U.S. after that, he says, &#8220;I was told, &#8216;I&#8217;m gone,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I thought that Chinatsu Wakatsuki would be pulled out if I didn&#8217;t make it so that she was no longer with us. So I took a chance and said, &#8220;I&#8217;m going abroad! I&#8217;m going abroad!</span></p>
<p> I&#8217;m going abroad! At that time, there was a report on the Internet that Wakatsuki had established a company selling second-hand clothes she bought abroad, but in fact she established her own brand &#8220;W♡C&#8221;. That was in &#8217;09.&#8217; In January 2012, she announced on her blog that she married a regular guy. Most people thought that Wakatsuki would no longer return to the entertainment industry.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent">In 2003, she made a full-fledged return to show business by appearing on &#8220;Sanma no Mamma&#8221; (Kansai Television). With that, she began to appear on more and more TV programs, and she has become a popular TV personality who now has regular TV programs. She has been known for her sharp talk and quick wittedness. Looking at Ms. Wakatsuki recently, I get the sense that she has polished and upgraded her skills.</span></p>
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<p> However, there are also reports like this: &#8230;&#8230;. When she left her agency last year, it was reported that she had had 30 different managers in the 23 years she was with the agency. The director of the production company mentioned above had this to say on the matter: &#8220;It is true that she used to be young.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> It is true that in the past, perhaps because she was young, she was a bit of a hothead with a sharp tongue and a bit of a toadie. But now that she has a family and is a mother of two, I get the impression that she has become much more rounded. That said, she does not seem to have any intention to fit into the so-called &#8220;mamatare&#8221; category (laugh).</span><span class="strongInContent"> Mamatare, who often work as commentators, tend to speak in an honorary manner because they don&#8217;t want to leave their current position, but I don&#8217;t sense any sign of that in her.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I feel like she is still on the offensive.&#8217; In 19 years, she launched a new apparel brand, which seems to be doing well. Her family is happy, and she is not clinging to the entertainment industry. He probably knows where he stands in the variety show business, so he has nothing to be afraid of.</span></p>
<p> I have the impression that his tongue, which is on the edge of compliance, has become even more powerful since he became independent. Wakatsuki is expected to be in demand as a &#8220;sounding board,&#8221; and it seems likely that her unrivaled power will continue.</p>


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