B-👩 Episode 0: 'I Seriously Calculated How Many of “That Beautiful Girl” in Every Class Exist in Japan'

*To all the ladies, please rest assured. This can also be applied directly to the “handsome guy rate.” In other words, it’s also the “Remember that upperclassman?” problem from our student days.

Me
Hey, Socra.
Back in our student days,
“There were like 2 or 3 super cute girls in our grade, right?”
Don't you think?

Socra
“Well now. You’ve suddenly started digging up memories of youth.”

Me
No, seriously!
When I asked an AI for statistics on the beauty rate, it told me, “The beauty rate cannot be turned into statistics.”
Well, I guess that’s true. Because there are individual differences.

But—

Don’t you want to know “roughly what percentage it is”?

Socra
“Well, humans have been ‘creatures that want to count things they are curious about’ since long ago.”

Me
Right!
So, it’s completely
my own theory, but
**based on my “felt experience” from my student days**,
I calculated it.

Socra
“I see. It’s ‘playing with math’.”

Me
Exactly (lol)

First, junior high school.
About 4 classes per grade.
(Including from the Showa to Heisei eras)
160 students total, boys and girls.
About 80 girls.

And then—
2 or 3 top-tier beauties in the grade.
Doesn't this feel kind of realistic?

Socra
“Well, it felt like that in our day too.”

Me
If we calculate using an average of 2.5 people...

Calculation formula

2.5 people ÷ 80 people = 0.03125
In other words—

About 3.1%

Socra
“I see. If there are 100 girls,
about 3 people.”

Me
Yes!

Doesn't this
feel strangely realistic?

“The perfect ratio of ‘someone out of reach, but who actually exists’.”

Sokra
"I see.
Not too many, not too few.
That's a number where youth can exist."

Me
And the interesting part starts here.

So,
if we think about it
nationwide in Japan,
what happens?
Currently,
the population of girls in one grade is about 450,000.If 3.1% of them are that—

Calculation formula

450,000 people × 3.125%

= about 14,000 people

Sokra
"Oh. About 14,000 people
at the same age."

Me
It feels like a lot.
But it is nationwide in Japan, after all.

Furthermore!
If we calculate for
8 grades from age 15 to 22—

Calculation formula
14,000 people × 8 grades

= about 112,000 people

Sokra
"Wow, when it becomes a number, it suddenly feels real."

Me
But, I thought here.
So,
is this limited to students?

What about 30-year-old beauties?
What about beauties in their 40s?

They exist normally, right?

Sokra
"Naturally."
"In the first place—
there is no 'retirement age' for beauty."

Me
Oh, a famous quote (lol).

Sokra
"In student days, you saw them in the narrow world of the 'classroom'.

When you become an adult,
the workplace, the city, cafes,
the places you meet them
just change."

Me
Indeed.
In your 30s,
it's not cute, but

A feeling that changes to
"pretty" or "refined."

Socra
"Well now.
Youth is a fleeting brilliance.
The beauty of an adult is
built up over time."

Me
By the way, for the 30-year-old
female population (approx. 500,000)

if we multiply by the same 3.1%...

Calculation formula

500,000 people × 3.125%

＝ approx. 15,600 people

In other words—
in all of Japan,

there are about 15,000 "striking 30-year-old beauties."

Socra
"I see.

Someone you pass on the street
might be someone else's "top of the class"
person."

Me
Somehow,
thinking that makes the world
look a little more interesting.

Socra
"Well now.
Numbers can sometimes destroy dreams,
but at times,
they also show us
romance."

Summary

This calculation is,
of course, a **"proprietary estimate based on personal experience."**
The definition of beauty varies from person to person.
Countries, eras, and values
are all different.

However—
the feeling I had in my student days of

"that special feeling of only a few people in the grade"

when turned into a number,
surprisingly became

"the top 3%"
—a
strangely realistic number.

And above all,
beauty is not just a
privilege of students.

In your 30s, in your 40s,
there is a radiance
unique to that age.
In your life, too,

someone who is "one in 1,100"might
have already
appeared.

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By the way—is being "beautiful"
a virtue?

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