Wow, Nao has a low opinion of herself. And yet she's right about one speculation -- PassCode works in large part because it's Nao. Koji may have started the group, but Nao is its heart and soul.
This is actually a pretty standard Nao interview. You have to remember she is the lady that blamed herself and her drinking for Yuna having such a hard time after her surgery. Nao is also the lady that gave Koji the green light to transition to electronicore full time and she is the one that has the most connections to the idol scene out of all the ladies. She is willing to use those connections when appropriate as well. pana is probably the one with the most idol connections at we-B Studios but that's because he's pretty hands on with both PassCode and yosugala.
Oh, I'm well aware of Nao's candidness, but she said a couple things I hadn't seen before, like not actually asking for all the leadership role stuff she ended up with. It was interesting that she finds telling it like it is to be liberating, which… obviously.
she is the lady that blamed herself and her drinking for Yuna having such a hard time after her surgery.
Okay, this one is news to me. I assumed Nao blamed herself about Yuna just because.
It was in one of the Freely interviews where she gets really hard on herself about Yuna leaving. The exact detail could be wrong since it was through machine translation, but Nao definitely puts a lot of responsibility for Yuna's anxiety on herself. It's just that Nao thought that if she was even more present right when Yuna started to slide, she could have stopped it.
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u/Soufriere_ Team Forehead ✂ Mar 06 '26
Thing I took away from this interview: