Love Jōtō Season 2 Sets August Premiere, Awich Replaces AK-69 as MC
The addition of Awich, an Okinawa-born rapper with a personal history of hardship, signals a shift toward a female perspective in the show's commentary on the participants' lives.
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Netflix's love reality show Love Jōtō returns for a second season on August 4, streaming 10 episodes over three weeks. Rapper Awich joins as a new MC alongside returning hosts MEGUMI and Nagano, replacing AK-69. The season moves to an Okinawa marine academy setting with nine participants.
The second season of Love Jōtō moves its setting to Okinawa, where nine former delinquents will cohabitate at the Rabu Jōtō Marine Academy. The show's MC lineup sees a change: rapper Awich joins MEGUMI and Nagano, replacing AK-69. Awich, a member of the hip-hop crew YENTOWN and a solo artist who released an album produced by Wu-Tang Clan's RZA in 2025, brings a background that MEGUMI described as surpassing the show's own stories. MEGUMI said Awich can analyze human psychology and will speak from a woman's perspective about the strong female characters this season. Nagano encouraged viewers to see Season 2 as distinct from the first, calling it a work that prompts deep thought about life.
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