Kakizaki Memi: "I'll spend the winter doing as much burikko as I want"

Lots of good reaction to the new talkative Memi in last weekend's Hiragana Oshi. She and Manamo were "seeded" top burikkos and the other members took their turn trying to do burikko (pleadingly seductive) gestures, to hilarious effect.

While the others were trying their hand, Memi was next to Kasuga doing commentary. She said she was surprised how much potential Miho showed as a burikko. Lol. Me, too.

The line that got the most reaction -- almost to the point of becoming a meme -- was that this winter she would "do [burikko] as much as I want" (やり放題 yarihoudai). She thought that girls were cutest in winter, with mufflers and gloves, etc. All this she explained with a nice mix of cute, direct, and ironic.

"I'll do it as much as I want"

"I think girls are cutest in the winter"

Teachings of Kakizaki Pro: "Girls are cutest in winter"

It's do as much as you want, you know

Teachings of Kakizaki Pro: "At Christmas, be as burikko as you like"

I'm not sure if Memi or the writers came up with "yarihoudai," but it has a nice similarity to one of the tag-lines used by Mechakari fashion rentals, which the group promotes: karihoudai ("borrow as much as you want"). It could certainly have been Memi herself who thought of it, from what I know of her.

Featuring Memi like this, and calling her "pro," is a sure sign management is pushing her, as well as trying to keep her confidence growing.

By the way, is having the hosts sit there with the members part of trying to reduce the distance between them? Distance or not, Audrey are terrific hosts. The whole group is learning comedy from them.

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Someone has already matched the new saying up with an old pic of Memi at home in Nagano last winter:

"Winter in Nagano.... Do it to your heart's content."