Kato Kagura

## Kato Kagura加藤(かとう) 神楽(かぐら)

Kato Kagura promoting PRODUCE 101 JAPAN THE GIRLS

**Kato Kagura** (加藤神楽) was a Japanese trainee who participated in PRODUCE 101 JAPAN THE GIRLS. She was eliminated in the finals, placing 14th.

## Biography

### Early Life

Kato Kagura was born on March 8, 2005 in Osaka, Japan.

### 2023

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

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

## PRODUCE 101 JAPAN Participation

### Teams

* **Audition Team:** MYDO GIRLS
* **Group Battle Team:** Noborizaka6 (center/sub vocalist 5)
* **Position Battle Team:** Shines (sub vocalist)
* **Concept Battle Team:** Tokimekkii (sub vocalist 2)
* **Debut Evaluation Team:** CHOPPY CHOPPY (sub vocalist 1)

### Rankings

Online votes
* **Week 2:** 10th place
* **Week 3:** 16th place (-6)
* **First Ranking Announcement:** 24th place (-8)
* **Week 6:** 37th place (-13)
* **Second Ranking Announcement:** 32nd place (+5)
* **Third Ranking Announcement:** 20th place (+12)
* **Final Ranking Announcement:** 14th place (+6)

On-site votes
* **Group Battle:** 2nd place in team, 51st place overall (tied)
* **Position Battle:** 3rd place in team, 37th place overall
* **Concept Battle:** 4th place in team, 20th place overall

### First Voting Period

Kato is introduced in MYDO GIRLS in episode 1, having been ranked by the other trainees as 94th place. She is evaluated at a **F** by the trainers, staying in that class after the level reevaluations, as well.

In episode 3, Kato is among one out of five trainees not to be picked by any other trainees when groups were being decided for the group battle. She feels discouraged during practice, but she still tries her best. She places 51st overall.

Despite being in the debut range at the beginning, Kato ranks 24th in the first ranking announcement. She received a total of 484,925 votes.

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### Second Voting Period

In episode 6, Kato chooses to perform "Shine A Light" for the position battle. During the position battle camp, she wants to improve substantially, so she takes many notes. In episode 7, she places 37th overall.

In episode 8, she is assigned to perform "Atoz" in the concept battle. The national producers were impressed by her effort, and she is one out of two trainees not in the top 35 trainees in week 6 to make past the second ranking announcement, placing 32nd. She has a total of 454,416 votes.

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### Third Voting Period

In episode 9, Kagura practices diligently and places 20th overall in the concept battle.

She also ranks 20th place in the third ranking announcement, having received 164,123 votes. In tears from being saved for a second time and from being able to perform in the finals, she thanks her supporters. As 20th place, Kato gets to choose her position first. Boldly, she chooses the main vocalist position in "CHOPPY CHOPPY", however Ebihara Tsuzumi takes it and places her as sub vocalist 1.

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### Final Voting Period

In episode 11, Kato performs "CHOPPY CHOPPY" 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

Kato is close with her audition teammate Sakuraba Haruka. Both are **F**-class trainees who were on the verge of elimination two times.

## Trivia

* Her hobby is to play with her two pet mice.
	+ Their names are Alen and Geb, both having names of Ancient Egyptian gods. Her TikTok handle is also named after Aten. (Dobunezumi is the Japanese word for the brown rat.)
* Her special skills are being able to hold her breath for a long time and playing the drums.
* Her favorite prefecture is Okinawa because she loves to eat taco rice.
* In her PR videos, she used the catchphrase "今日もあなたのかわいいのガールフレンド" (Today too, I'm your cute girlfriend).
* Her pledge for debuting in the top 11 was making takoyaki for the fans.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "PRODUCE 101 JAPAN THE GIRLS Profile" PRODUCE 101 JAPAN. 2023-09-04.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "1分PR┊✧ 加藤神楽（KATO KAGURA）✧┊ PRODUCE 101 JAPAN THE GIRLS" YouTube. 2023-09-04.
3. ↑ "LEAP HIGHアイコンタクト┊✧ 加藤神楽（KATO KAGURA）✧┊ PRODUCE 101 JAPAN THE GIRLS" YouTube. 2023-09-28.

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