How much do you like Yua Mikami?
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There is a reason why a girl in her late 20s choose to turn to porn after slogging it out for so long in a mega pop group with almost nothing to her name.
And the opening ticket sales to Honey Popcorn's debut had been delayed at the last minute with no explanations given. The wordings in the twitter announcement does not make it clear if the debut concert had been postpone as well. Possible backlash from the Korea side ?
And the opening ticket sales to Honey Popcorn's debut had been delayed at the last minute with no explanations given. The wordings in the twitter announcement does not make it clear if the debut concert had been postpone as well. Possible backlash from the Korea side ?
Miko Matsuda released 6 vids with S1 so far in her young career, but the most recent 2 out of 6 had her in a submissive role.
Now... this series had been performed by Kirara Asuka and Rion before, so it isn't by any means a signal of failure or weakness. But S1 doesn't do a lot of r***/bondage/sub vids, so two in a row by the same idol is a bit odd. And two out of 6 is extremely high for S1 contract girl, especially someone still so fresh (arguably)
By comparison, Yua Mikami only performed one sub vid in her whole career, that was with Muteki. After she transferred to S1, she never made a sub vid. I don't mean to make too much of it. Many top idols perform submissive vids too. But Miko's role/persona, other than idol, is something to watch in the future.
I am quite interested to see SSNI-149, as I mentioned before, I like a little variation in a recurring series, so -149 cover hints that it will be a little "extra" compared to SOP for the series. The girl group idol uniform is incorporated in the cover (and pre-release pix). So hopefully, this will work itself into the vid, especially the plot line.
As for delayed showcase... let's not assume the worst. I was lacking confidence in Yua Mikami going back to idol business, but still I won't be too happy to be proved right. It would be a bad mark on her (AV) career track if she get into this venture publicly and then it fizzles out before even one single live event and/or one single full MV on youtube.
Now... this series had been performed by Kirara Asuka and Rion before, so it isn't by any means a signal of failure or weakness. But S1 doesn't do a lot of r***/bondage/sub vids, so two in a row by the same idol is a bit odd. And two out of 6 is extremely high for S1 contract girl, especially someone still so fresh (arguably)
By comparison, Yua Mikami only performed one sub vid in her whole career, that was with Muteki. After she transferred to S1, she never made a sub vid. I don't mean to make too much of it. Many top idols perform submissive vids too. But Miko's role/persona, other than idol, is something to watch in the future.
I am quite interested to see SSNI-149, as I mentioned before, I like a little variation in a recurring series, so -149 cover hints that it will be a little "extra" compared to SOP for the series. The girl group idol uniform is incorporated in the cover (and pre-release pix). So hopefully, this will work itself into the vid, especially the plot line.
As for delayed showcase... let's not assume the worst. I was lacking confidence in Yua Mikami going back to idol business, but still I won't be too happy to be proved right. It would be a bad mark on her (AV) career track if she get into this venture publicly and then it fizzles out before even one single live event and/or one single full MV on youtube.
What timing! I've actually only gotten into her lately, stumbled onto SSNI-101.
Cute, perky boobs, personally think her face is quite different / both cute and sexy.
Definitely a fan, but hope her content gets a bit more interesting soon.
Any recommendations as to best titles from people who like her? I've only seen a few.
Cute, perky boobs, personally think her face is quite different / both cute and sexy.
Definitely a fan, but hope her content gets a bit more interesting soon.
Any recommendations as to best titles from people who like her? I've only seen a few.
@Restrepo welcome to the bandwagon. Personally I found all her vids to be plus-good. Meaning better than good, perhaps none of them are great. But "good" isn't enough to convey the point. If you find (some) S1 vids to be good, then Yua give it a bit "Plus". Let's say "メンズエステサロン" (Gentleman Beauty Salon) a series (like all soapland and brothel vids ) that I find quite boring, If Yua's in it, and compared to another JAV idol who's (for argument's sake, equal in hotness and skillz) performing in the same series, I think Yua bring something "plus" to it. As we all were watching the Oscar's I think best to describe that "plus" as Hollywood glam. Anyway... instead of recommending you my choice of her vids, based on above, I suggest you just pick her vids as if you are picking JAV in general, trust that she has sprinkled some Hollywood glam magic dust onto whatever you have chosen.
E.g. SNIS-786 her debut at S1 ("graduating" from Muteki) I got a huge kick out of the faux press conference as if she's really a legit celeb capable of drawing 20+ reporters. Is she hotter than other S1 debutantes? Maybe not. Are her sex scenes way better than S1 average? Objectively speaking, no. But the press conference (and similar intangibles ) makes a difference for me.
Another way for latecomer to get to know her is her latest compilation vid:
OFJE-139 三上悠亜初ベスト 最新12タイトルコンプリート神BEST
8 hours compilation of her 12 vids, only 4000 Yens if you want to go legit.
E.g. SNIS-786 her debut at S1 ("graduating" from Muteki) I got a huge kick out of the faux press conference as if she's really a legit celeb capable of drawing 20+ reporters. Is she hotter than other S1 debutantes? Maybe not. Are her sex scenes way better than S1 average? Objectively speaking, no. But the press conference (and similar intangibles ) makes a difference for me.
Another way for latecomer to get to know her is her latest compilation vid:
OFJE-139 三上悠亜初ベスト 最新12タイトルコンプリート神BEST
8 hours compilation of her 12 vids, only 4000 Yens if you want to go legit.
I don't know if I'm fully with you. Remember a short time ago, Jpop-turn-JAV was still extreme rarity. There were not enough of them to make up a category, so without a category can anyone be an "exception"?
Definitely Yua Mikami started a fad. But the difference between a fad and a wave is durability, now the fad is maybe 1 year old, and seems to me it's starting to die off. So let's say by this summer we might see a "winter" of celeb-turn-JAV, then the fad is really over. At the end, we might have only two survivors: Yua and Shoko.
Perhaps this H-PopcoRN shenanigan is JAV industry trying to revive the Jpop-JAV money tree (NOT as launch platform for the members to graduate from JAV). So I'm kinda holding my breath to see if the Seoul showcase (launch) work out in the end. No news is bad news.
I'm still on the fence for Miko. For the hotness factor she is definitely not up to my baseline requirement. Her skillz also not enough to stand out. But she still have some "magic dust" about her that's not nearly as glam as Yua and not as regal as Shoko, but it's still detectable after 6 months (?) so that's something. My hope for her is, if her two gang-r*** vids is not random coincidence, she might offer something Yua and Shoko can not: take the Jpop-to-JAV lowbrow niche. To start with, creampie, lesbian, group sex, orgy, all these Yua and Shoko cannot do even if they personally might accept. Because doing creampie etc would break the "National Idol" persona. But Miko can do the "National Idol for lowbrow sex scenes". After some of these, it would be awesome if she move on to even more hardcore stuffs like anal and enema.
But if she fails to keep that "idol" persona going... then she would be nothing to me, unless she go down all the way to anal sex. A below-30 years old girl doing anal AV semi-regularly still can keep my love.
Of course I didn't say Yua was the first J-pop-to-porn conversion. IIRC there was at least one ex-AKB who had a full length JAV career, I think one only retired recently. She formally retired instead of the usual fading/disappearing quietly. Yua's JAV career isn't even 2 full years yet so it's still too early to talk about longevity.
But she is the first to make it a blockbuster success. Before Yua, celeb-to-JAV was "look how low/pathetic she sank". Yua was the first one to make some big money for the studio (and presumably for herself) so after her studio/agency put out attractive offers and some current and former celeb tempted to JAV. Perhaps to say, before Yua from anything to JAV was a downgrade. After Yua, for the low-end and/or fading celebs JAV could be an upgrade and success path.
Miko's still a newbie, so her direction isn't set yet. She still has her J-pop persona going so I am kinda wishy speculating where she could go, perhaps a whole new niche that no one has ever created before. Actually her SSNI-123 is way too rapey for me. I really really don't like r*** vids, I guess we are on the same page for that. I do like S&M vids, either dom or sub. (shouldn't need to explain the difference between sub and victim, but ... sadly JAV producers may not know the difference) I especially love idols who play dom roles in some vids and sub roles in other vids. E.g. Mao Hamasaki and Aimi Yoshikawa. Esp. after seeing Aimi in some dom roles, it makes it tolerable, actually very kinky to watch her r*** vids. Anyway Miko doesn't have to go to the S&M bottom, there's a range of mid-level themes that for some stupid reasons top idols (Yua, Shoko, Rion etc) wouldn't do. Ahh... good comparison would be Sora Shiina, or Atomi Shuri, imagine Miko do same kind of vids as them but apply her persona as minor celeb. Miko isn't nearly as pretty as Atomi Shuri, and mayne not even as young (looking) as Sora Shiina, but the magic dust...
But she is the first to make it a blockbuster success. Before Yua, celeb-to-JAV was "look how low/pathetic she sank". Yua was the first one to make some big money for the studio (and presumably for herself) so after her studio/agency put out attractive offers and some current and former celeb tempted to JAV. Perhaps to say, before Yua from anything to JAV was a downgrade. After Yua, for the low-end and/or fading celebs JAV could be an upgrade and success path.
Miko's still a newbie, so her direction isn't set yet. She still has her J-pop persona going so I am kinda wishy speculating where she could go, perhaps a whole new niche that no one has ever created before. Actually her SSNI-123 is way too rapey for me. I really really don't like r*** vids, I guess we are on the same page for that. I do like S&M vids, either dom or sub. (shouldn't need to explain the difference between sub and victim, but ... sadly JAV producers may not know the difference) I especially love idols who play dom roles in some vids and sub roles in other vids. E.g. Mao Hamasaki and Aimi Yoshikawa. Esp. after seeing Aimi in some dom roles, it makes it tolerable, actually very kinky to watch her r*** vids. Anyway Miko doesn't have to go to the S&M bottom, there's a range of mid-level themes that for some stupid reasons top idols (Yua, Shoko, Rion etc) wouldn't do. Ahh... good comparison would be Sora Shiina, or Atomi Shuri, imagine Miko do same kind of vids as them but apply her persona as minor celeb. Miko isn't nearly as pretty as Atomi Shuri, and mayne not even as young (looking) as Sora Shiina, but the magic dust...
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https://twitter.com/HONEYPOPCORN1/status/972094591447924737?s=19
https://twitter.com/HONEYPOPCORN1/status/972094738990968832?s=19
The debut showcase had been canned.
Are the Koreans adverse to sex or something ? Some big shot actor just offed himself because he was under investigation for sexual misdeed due to the #metoo movement in Korea :-
http://variety.com/2018/film/asia/k...es-dead-after-sex-accusations-1202722522/amp/
https://twitter.com/HONEYPOPCORN1/status/972094738990968832?s=19
The debut showcase had been canned.
Are the Koreans adverse to sex or something ? Some big shot actor just offed himself because he was under investigation for sexual misdeed due to the #metoo movement in Korea :-
http://variety.com/2018/film/asia/k...es-dead-after-sex-accusations-1202722522/amp/
Rico Yamaguchi the first AKB girl to Jav was also a smashing success in the year she was around, and would've been a Yua Mikami level star if she decided to stay, but her and her sister only did JAV to pay off family debts, and when the debts got cleared they bounced, she was a legit star girl in AKB during her time there, and if another former AKB girl came in that was similar to Rico Yamaguchi level would probably smash Yuas success. Risa Tachibana was also doing very well but then abandoned jav early into her contract. Haruna Aisaka is the one with the long career, but she never really got too popular because she had a very big Diva attitude so she stopped getting work
Rico Yamaguchi やまぐち りこ, aka 中西里菜 for AKB48 (2005-2008). 14 vids lasting just over one year in 2011-2012, first 5 with Alice Japan, rest of them with SOD Star, last two (including retirement vid) with her sister.(with correction by @paparoach408 )
Risa Tachibana 橘梨紗 (not to be confused with the 80s singer and actor 立花 理佐) , aka 高松恵理 AKB48 trainee. A backstory I read claims she joined as trainee for about a year and she failed to promote (2010). Her JAV career lasted 6 vids for 7 months in 2013 plus a one-off comeback vid 6 months later. All under SOD Star.
Haruna Aisaka 逢坂はるな, aka 成瀬理沙 AKB48 trainee for 10 months, promoted to Team K, graduated due to injury after about a year (2009). Debut with Muteki late 2013, transfer to IdeaPockets in 2014, transfer to SOD Star in 2015, somewhat disappeared after Sept 2016. Made AVs irregularly with WANZ and Oppai as late as Sept 2017.
I wonder why these three didn't start the wave(fad) like Yua and Shoko did. Perhaps a big factor is JAV was in a slump (still is?) in 2016/2017. When above girls' AV career launched there were more big stars in JAV so relatively Rico and Haruna were never the biggest stars and didn't trigger a wave of celeb-JAV debutantes?
Risa Tachibana 橘梨紗 (not to be confused with the 80s singer and actor 立花 理佐) , aka 高松恵理 AKB48 trainee. A backstory I read claims she joined as trainee for about a year and she failed to promote (2010). Her JAV career lasted 6 vids for 7 months in 2013 plus a one-off comeback vid 6 months later. All under SOD Star.
Haruna Aisaka 逢坂はるな, aka 成瀬理沙 AKB48 trainee for 10 months, promoted to Team K, graduated due to injury after about a year (2009). Debut with Muteki late 2013, transfer to IdeaPockets in 2014, transfer to SOD Star in 2015, somewhat disappeared after Sept 2016. Made AVs irregularly with WANZ and Oppai as late as Sept 2017.
I wonder why these three didn't start the wave(fad) like Yua and Shoko did. Perhaps a big factor is JAV was in a slump (still is?) in 2016/2017. When above girls' AV career launched there were more big stars in JAV so relatively Rico and Haruna were never the biggest stars and didn't trigger a wave of celeb-JAV debutantes?
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If you must know, there had always been B Grade celebrities going into porn. Things are just more visible now due to social media and smart devices becoming a thing in Japan since 2012.
The Yamaguchi sisters are the biggest name ever at current to go into porn. What are the chances today that a founding member of a successful mainstream group go into porn and drag her younger sister along for the ride ?
The reason why Mikami is so hyped is because of the way she is managed by her manager and her willingness to be paraded around despite her day job. Nobody at current is all over the place like she is, not even Takahashi. Her manager is the true mastermind behind her success with him paving the way for all her jobs.
Rico started with alice Japan, 5 there then went to sod bringing her sister along. Rico could've been big but she was only in it to pay off debt, and at the time when she did debut why it didn't take off, it was still pretty taboo then, and she got blacklisted/blackballed/erased from AKB lexicon/history/whatever hard at that time, I don't think any in the idol industry wanted to risk that same happening to them. Haruna there where rumors of her big diva attitude and that's caused her to not get much work.
when it comes to Yua's hype, i'm unsure how the hype formed, the year before Muteki did debut two other AKB universe girls(one of them was even bigger in the akb universe then her) I see why it's stayed because she exumes that star power, nobody else does that like her without it feeling fake. I don't agree with Jwlim80s belief that's all her managers will, she's always wanted to be an idol and in the public, and a lot of jav girls are out there "being paraded despite there day job" A lot of girls have different wants and needs, and it's not like the Ebisu Muscats don't exist, it's not all her manager
Mikami may have the raw potential but does she have the logistical means and contacts to exploit that potential to the fullest ? And the smarts to know which assignment reaps the most benefit ?
And so now we have Mikami endorsing products outside of Japan, doing YouTube interviews, appearing in magazines in Taiwan and Hong Kong and jetting from place to place around East Asia. Logically do you think she could done all these all on her own ?
never said she did it all on her own, i'm saying she wants to do all that and because of her star power she gets those opportunities,you made it seem like all of her success is 100% her manager which is bs, that manager couldn't do the same with any old random idol. it's 80% her(her star power, name and willingness to do a lot of outside projects), and 10% her manager, and 10% her agency who allows her to do all those outside projects for her success
I have reasons to believe you have no idea who Mikami's manager and agency are. The guy is 青木亮 who is a big shot and have lots of contact in the industry :-
http://4travel.blog.jp/archives/8314510.html
Amongst the names he had previously managed are Hoshino Asuka, Tatsumi Yui and Okita Anri. So it's more like 40% raw talent and 60% management.
I think today idol industry look on Yua Mikami with just as much fear and disgust as they did with Rico Yamaguchi. Anyone who still have some hope with mainstream idol-ing should know AV is essentially a one-way street.
But I think for each and every girl mentioned so far, actually for every celeb-to-AV girls in recent memory, all of them have not make a mistake with their JAV decision. Sure, several of them, we can stand here from a distance and criticize them for some of their life choice, but for their JAV decision, I don't think we can say, hey you gave up something precious in the idol world.
Say you mention AKB48 erased 中西里菜 after she became AV's Rico Yamaguchi, I don't think Rico regretted that. Memory of 中西里菜 maybe worth something to 48-industry, but I highly doubt there's any value left for her.
What was she doing in the 3-ish years between graduation from AKB48 to AV debut? No news in the gossip pages? Accumulating debt? What if... now this is pure 100% speculation on my part. WHAT IF... she was trying to re-start her own post-48 idol career. What if she was paying way too much introduction/agency fees, cosmetics, fashion, dance/singing lessons, studio rent etc etc. She had a few good years with AKB48, went dark for 3 years then make some money with AV paying off family debt and never heard of since (except I think she announced she was going to get married?). What family debt? Suddenly her father developed a gambling/addiction habit only for those 3 years? If all those were flimsy I tend to suspect that the "debt" came from she trying and failing to continue in idol industry.
But I think for each and every girl mentioned so far, actually for every celeb-to-AV girls in recent memory, all of them have not make a mistake with their JAV decision. Sure, several of them, we can stand here from a distance and criticize them for some of their life choice, but for their JAV decision, I don't think we can say, hey you gave up something precious in the idol world.
Say you mention AKB48 erased 中西里菜 after she became AV's Rico Yamaguchi, I don't think Rico regretted that. Memory of 中西里菜 maybe worth something to 48-industry, but I highly doubt there's any value left for her.
What was she doing in the 3-ish years between graduation from AKB48 to AV debut? No news in the gossip pages? Accumulating debt? What if... now this is pure 100% speculation on my part. WHAT IF... she was trying to re-start her own post-48 idol career. What if she was paying way too much introduction/agency fees, cosmetics, fashion, dance/singing lessons, studio rent etc etc. She had a few good years with AKB48, went dark for 3 years then make some money with AV paying off family debt and never heard of since (except I think she announced she was going to get married?). What family debt? Suddenly her father developed a gambling/addiction habit only for those 3 years? If all those were flimsy I tend to suspect that the "debt" came from she trying and failing to continue in idol industry.
https://www.akiba-online.com/posts/3573803/
https://www.akiba-online.com/posts/3532959/
https://www.akiba-online.com/posts/3530063/
Some correction, She spent 5 years in the group but she opts out in June 2010 before her porn debut in October in the same year. So no 3 years blank.
As I said, girls in such mega group gets paid lowly individually and only gets fat bonuses only if they are popular enough to stand out. AKB48 arn't really that big in 2010 too and she needs some fast cash, so....
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https://www.koreaboo.com/buzz/forme...-cancels-showcase-because-of-korean-netizens/
17,000 Koreans aganist them debutting citing moral decay amongst #metoo wave. Ouch.
17,000 Koreans aganist them debutting citing moral decay amongst #metoo wave. Ouch.