A circle of friends connected by gootouchi! The “FIST BUMP” corner of the radio program “GRAND MARQUEE” features people who live and enjoy Tokyo in a relay format.
On November 1, illustrator Man Doope Suzuki introduces model Sakura Yokose. We asked her about how she became a model, how she got into her hobby of horse racing, and her favorite chocolate.
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A favorite artist’s live show inspired me to become a model.
Celeina (MC): First of all, let me introduce your profile. Koymyo was born in 1995 and hails from Osaka. With her fashionable, neutral face, style, and unpretentious personality, she has been selected as a model in various genres and has appeared in many music videos and TV commercials. She enjoys karaoke, yoga, visiting coffee shops, horse racing, manga, anime, chocolate, and horoscopes, and is a certified personal colorist, skeletal structure diagnosis advisor, chocolate expert, and aromatherapy expert.
Takano (MC): By the way, do you have a bass guitar certification? I don’t know if there is one (haha).
Yokose: I don’t have a a bass guitar certification.
Celeina: First of all, I would like to ask you how you became a model.
Yokose: I really liked bands, and I started modeling at a beauty salon after a hairdresser approached me on the way home from a concert of an artist I liked at the time. From there, I started working as a fashion model, moved from Osaka to Tokyo, and am currently working as a freelancer.
Celeina：Have you been doing freelance work for a long time?
Yokose: Yes, that’s right.
Celeina：We are also doing this work in a similar way to freelancing, so we are colleagues.
Takano: I would like to ask you about your freelance activities, but I like the fact that you became a model because of music.
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I got into horse racing from the “Uma Musume” anime.
Celeina: I’m really curious about your many hobbies and qualifications. What got you hooked on horse racing?
Yokose: At first, I was really into the “Uma Musume Pretty Derby” anime, and I wanted to watch real horse races as well. There are actual horses that are used as models for “Uma Musume”, and I started watching their races, and I got hooked because real horses are beautiful and cool too.
Takano: Do you have your own way of enjoying horse racing?
Yokose: I think people have the impression that horse racing is hard to get into because of the strong image of gambling, but rather than gambling, you can trace the horses’ pedigree and history, and the horses themselves are beautiful to begin with, so I really enjoy just looking at them.
Celeina：I see. I have ridden horses before.
Takano: That’s unusual too, isn’t it?
Celeina：Is it? I like to interact with horses, but I have never seen a racehorse before, so I am very interested.
Yokose: With racehorses, the way the muscles are built is completely different, so I think it would be interesting to see them with that in mind.
Takano: Do you have a favorite horse?
Yokose: I haven’t decided on my favorite horse yet. However, I think the horse Equinox is indispensable when talking about this year’s horse races.
