Ryuchell: Japanese TV personality found dead at agent's office

Japanese TV property Ryuchell has been recovered dormant by their manager astatine the agency's bureau successful Tokyo.

The 27-year-old's origin of decease has not yet been confirmed, but constabulary said they are investigating if they died by suicide.

Ryuchell joined a chap model, Peco successful 2016 and the brace had a son.

In August 2022, the mates divorced aft Ryuchell announced they nary longer identified arsenic male, attracting overmuch disapproval online.

In the station shared to Instagram, Ryuchell said they would inactive unrecorded with Peco and their son.

But galore accused the personage of being an absent begetter and criticised their determination to travel out. In February, the exemplary appeared successful a YouTube video alongside Peco, wherever she defended her ex-husband and said she supported them arsenic they worked retired their sexuality.

Ryuchell became an influential LGBT fig successful Japan and was well-known for their genderless benignant of dressing. As they became much famous, they were taxable to galore online societal harassment campaigns which mostly criticised their idiosyncratic beingness and sex non-conformity.

Shortly aft their death, presumption similar "Ryuchell" and "character assassination" started trending connected Twitter successful Japan.

Peco and their lad are overseas - connected Tuesday she posted a representation of a barroom for his 5th birthday. The household are yet to remark connected quality of Ryuchell's death.

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