to know more

• SPECIAL WEB MOVIE: 46 questions
• interview with memi

pre-debut

• did ballet
• played piano
• played basketball

details

• nicknames are techi, techiko, otter
• not interested or good at studies and school
• caught kfans' eyes at debut
• quick learner (singing/dancing)
• pretty much the second best singer (yuipon 1st, zuumin was 1st)
• a top dancer (2nd? after suzumoto)
• great actress. won Japan Academy Award for Hibiki.
• the anti-idol that doesn't do handshakes or blog anymore
• distrusts adults
• Takahashi Minami -- "Hirate Yurina seems different from any member I've seen before. I compared her to Maeda and Ooshima, but her aura is extremely, shockingly different.

friendships

• Initially was very close to Neru but Neru wanted to be more fair and hung out with others. Techi is close to Memi, Uemura and Fuuchan now. Still friends with Yonesan and Zuumin.

bad history, eccentric history

• 2016: speculations from OH: stalker, home invasion; from stage48. lost trust/care for fans, likely.
• june 2017: flare incident in handshake lane from 4th single thread from geneeral thread
• 2017: overworked and struggled during summer tour. but shida and her got close. hiraishin was written about them
• 2018: basically MIA. causing K46 cancelled Budokan and replaced with Hiragana. Yuichanzu wcenter PR for Glass wo Ware. transferred Friday radio show to Neru. opted out 2nd anniversary live concert (obviously other members had to cover her)
• broken arm
• joint/back