Sakaguchi Rino

## Sakaguchi Rino坂口(さかぐち) 梨乃(りの)

Sakaguchi Rino promoting PRODUCE 101 JAPAN THE GIRLS

**Sakaguchi Rino** (坂口梨乃) was a Japanese trainee who participated in PRODUCE 101 JAPAN THE GIRLS. She was eliminated in the finals, placing 12th. Prior to the show, she participated in iCON Z ~Dreams For Children~.

## Biography

### Early Life

Sakaguchi Rino was born on September 1, 2003 in Kanagawa, Japan.

### 2021-2022

In 2021, Sakaguchi auditioned in iCON Z ~Dreams For Children~ in the girls division. She made it to the third screening, being one of thirty contestants to do so. She was a part of Team B along with Sasaki Tsukushi.

On July 19, 2022, it was revealed that Sakaguchi passed the third screening, making it to the fourth screening. She also made it to the fifth screening, where she was eliminated after not making the top 10.

### 2023

On September 3, Sakaguchi was revealed to be a contestant of PRODUCE 101 JAPAN THE GIRLS.

On December 16, Sakaguchi was eliminated from PRODUCE 101 JAPAN THE GIRLS.

## PRODUCE 101 JAPAN Participation

### Teams

* **Audition Team:** Remember me?
* **Group Battle Team:** BLACK CATS (sub vocalist 3)
* **Position Battle Team:** Final Love (leader/sub vocalist)
* **Concept Battle Team:** CLAW-me (main vocalist)
* **Debut Evaluation Team:** Souzou Ijou (rapper 2)

### Rankings

Online votes
* **Week 2:** 25th place
* **Week 3:** 17th place (+8)
* **First Ranking Announcement:** 14th place (+3)
* **Week 6:** 17th place (-3)
* **Second Ranking Announcement:** 18th place (-1)
* **Third Ranking Announcement:** 12th place (+6)
* **Final Ranking Announcement:** 12th place (=)

On-site votes
* **Group Battle:** 3rd place in team, 23rd place overall
* **Position Battle:** 1st place in team, 4th place overall
* **Concept Battle:** 5th place in team, 23rd place overall (tied)

### First Voting Period

In episode 1, Sakaguchi is introduced in Remember me? with her former co-auditionee Sasaki Tsukushi. She is evaluated by the other trainers as 12th place. The group is the first to perform in episode 2, where she is evaluated by the trainers at **B** class. Frustrated, she practices the theme song and is promoted up to **A** class.

In episode 3, Saksguchi is voted by the other trainees to sing a solo line in the show's theme song. Later on, Sakaguchi is originally chosen to be in Kurihara Kano's team for the group battle, but Ando Yui steals her later on. She places 24th overall.

In the first ranking announcement, she obtains a total of 705,321 votes, which makes her 14th place.

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### Second Voting Period

In episode 6, Sakaguchi chooses to perform "First Love" for the position battle. In episode 7, she places 1st in her team, 2nd in the vocal position, and 4th overall.

She is voted by the national producres to perform "Koakuma (Baddie)" in the concept battle, and she is chosen as the main vocalist. In the second ranking announcement, she ranks 18th place after receiving 98,4747 votes.

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### Third Voting Period

In episode 9, Sakaguchi performs "Koakuma (Baddie)" and places 23rd overall.

In episode 10, Sakaguchi ranks 12th place, almost in the debut range. She received 256,286 votes. When choosing her position in the debut evaluation afterwards, she chooses to be sub vocalist 2 in "Souzou Ijou", but Aita Rin takes it and makes her rapper 2 instead. Slightly upset by this, Sakaguchi says she will still do her best.

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### Final Voting Period

In episode 11, Sakaguchi performs "Souzou Ijou" and "FLY UP SO HIGH" on the final stage. Unfortunately, she does not place in the debut range, and is thus eliminated.

## Personal Life

* Friendships

On the show, Sakaguchi is close with Sasaki Tsukushi, who was also in iCON Z ~Dreams For Children~ with her.

## Trivia

* Her hobbies are to watch anime and movies, to go on her PC, and to study makeup and fashion.
* Her special skill is singing.
* "First Love" was a song that she had to sing in the iCON Z ~Dreams For Children~ audition, so she already had experience with performing it before the position battle.
* Her pledge for debuting in the top 11 was going on a food tour (食べ歩き) around Myeongdong (in neighborhood in Seoul, South Korea).

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "PRODUCE 101 JAPAN THE GIRLS Profile" PRODUCE 101 JAPAN. 2023-09-04.

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