Talk:Episode 176 - Queen of Roses/@comment-24848025-20160321121012

I thought about putting this in as Trivia, but decided it wasn't important or relevant enough to be put in. So, here's a comment about it instead:

You may have noticed in the original airing of the show on TV Tokyo (the Mezashite english subs use the original airing) - there's some writing in Japanese right before Sumire fails the appeal. The writing is the news that a former Japanese baseball player, Kazuhiro Kiyohara, was just released from jail after posting bond for using Meth. Many Japanese Aikatsu fans immediately blamed the ex-ballplayer for Sumire failing the special appeal in the aftermath of the show on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/dominass/status/710406761472139264

There was even mention of it by Director Ryuichi Kimura  on twitter before posting the post-episode tweet with the Aikatsu Aphorism.

https://twitter.com/Ryuichi_Kimura/status/710406129625346049