Mashiro/Trivia

## Pre-Debut

* Due to her long trainee life in Korea, she is fluent in Korean and knows a lot about Korean Pop Culture.
* Unlike many current or former Japanese trainees of JYP Entertainment, she came second in her audition in Korea, meaning that she flew to Korea to audition, rather than entering Global auditions in Japan.
* She was a former JYP trainee and part of ITZY's pre-debut lineup.
* She briefly returned to Japan after she left JYP Entertainment and worked in a BBQ shop in Japan, but returned to Korea after ITZY made their debut.
* She appeared on the JYP reality show STRAY KIDS as a trainee.

## Girls Planet 999

* According to her Girls Planet 999 Profile:
	+ Her Girls Planet 999 motto was "Charming marshmallow from overseas."
	+ Her hobbies are playing with cats and walking.
	+ She specializes in cooking, dancing, and staying still without doing or thinking about anything.
* She was in a cell with fellow member Yeseo and Huang Xingqiao after the cell reformation.
* She was undefeated in any team competition she was a part of during Girls Planet 999, including teams in which she was the leader.
* She was in the Western cookery team.

## General Trivia

* Mashiro is knowledgeable in Seoul geography because she has lived there for so long.
* Her Chinese nickname and representative number is 500 because her name Kanji sounds like 500 in Mandarin.
* She is very articulate and tends to write long letters.
* Despite her nickname, she dislikes aegyo.
* She tends to spin clockwise as a right-handed person; hence she spun in the opposite direction on Weekly Idol when she was dancing How You Like That with the same team from Girl's Planet 999.
* She is terrible at regaining balance after spinning.
* She worked part time in a BBQ restaurant.
* She is considered the best cook in the group, hence her nickname is "Chef."
* She considers herself being an empath is both an advantage and a disadvantage.
* Her MBTI changes from INFP to ISFP.
* Her favorite fruit is green grapes.
* She finds it awkward to speak in informal speech during Yaja time (using informal speech on older members or seniors).
* She caught COVID twice almost exactly a year apart despite being vaccinated, which partly caused Kep1er to miss MAMA in both 2021 and 2022.
* She is the most motherly member of the group, but needs others to take care of her when she is in high places because of all members, she is the most petrified of heights.
* She finds it awkward to speak in plain speech to seniors, just like she'd kindly remind Yeseo to speak in honorifics towards her.

## Kep1er ZIP

* According to her Fancafé 20 Questions Self-Profile:
	+ Her favorite colors are purple and blue.
	+ Her favorite items are ring beads, bracelets, and pillows.
	+ Her favorite animal is a cat.
	+ Her favorite season is winter.
	+ Her favorite weather is good walking weather.
	+ She prefers dipping sauce to pouring sauce.
	+ She prefers to call rather than text.
	+ She prefers the sea to the mountains.
	+ She prefers fried chicken to seasoned chicken.
	+ The first thing she does when she wakes up is turn off her alarm.
	+ Before bed, she sets up her alarm.
	+ When cooking ramen, she boils the noodles first.
	+ Her stress reliever is sleeping.
	+ Her three favorite foods are omelettes, fish cutlets, and sandwiches.
	+ Her least favorite foods are roe of sea urchin, acorn jelly salad, and coriandrum.

## Kep1er View

* Episode 1:
	+ She likes drinking instant coffee, so she recieved a coffee mug from her favorite movie - Big Hero 6.
	+ She received her apron from her mother.
	+ She can make gratin.
	+ She has two cats named are Choco and Pooh.
	+ She collects her cats' whiskers.
	+ She managed to join the Party Team, thus avoiding Bungee Jumping.
	+ She is petrified of heights.
* Episode 2:
	+ She is better at making sauces than she is with using knives. She isn't known for quick knife skills.

## Kep1er DEBUT SHOW

* **Other members' first impression of her:** An orange with dimples
* **Current impression:** Very mature unnie
* **Key talents:** Cooking, Do Random Dance while keeping a stern face, Dimples
* **Legendary videos:** ITZY - Mafia, O.O.O.
* **Animal Resemblance:** White Raccoon 🦝
* **Common Phrase:** Mom, Kang Yeseo, We should do it like this.
* **Common Emoji:** Smiling face, shocked face
* **Pentagon ratings (out of 100):**
	+ **Physical Endurance:** 40
	+ **Selfie Ability:** 70
	+ **Easy to Laugh:** 0
	+ **Playfulness:** 0
	+ **Sense of Humor:** 70
	+ **Total (out of 500):** 180

## Weekly Idol

* When the entire group covered The Boys by Girls Generation, she covered Seohyun's parts. Both started out quiet, but becomes more talkative over time.

## Kep1er Zone

* Episode 4
	+ She never got any touches with the ball in Pinhole Mini Soccer
* Episode 5
	+ She barely defeated Hikaru in the tape jelly eating competition, but because they were the last two, they ended up sleeing in the living room with Youngeun.

* Episode 7
	+ She and Hikaru won the Silent Speech game on a tiebreaker.
	+ She managed to recall G(I)-dle's Dumdi Dumdi, the song she did for her first evaluation on Girls Planet 999, but she defeated Yujin, where G(I)-dle is her labelmate.

## Kep-chup

* Episodes 3 & 4
	+ She was the MC and referee for the second activities - Sports Day.

## Queendom 2

* She was the only member rested for the first part of round 3, having not been in vocal or dance teams.

## Notes & References

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAVkeghuiPI