Female members can send reverse offers to male respondents they like by emailing the administrator to express their interest. Male members can learn which female members are interested in them by answering questions and sharing their opinions.
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📅 Apr 1, 2019 10:54
I’m a female member. I believe Universe sends a LINE message the day before a date as a confirmation, but recently I’ve also started receiving messages on the day of the date. They ask me to message them once I leave home. While I appreciate their thoughtfulness, I’m worried that Universe may be concerned or keeping a closer eye on me for some reason. I’ve never been late or canceled after confirming a date, so I find it strange. Has th...
💬 Answer from 前澤（スタッフ）:
Maezawa here, answering as well.
Recently, in addition to confirming the day before, we’ve started contacting people again on the day of the meeting.
This is because some women oversleep and can’t make it, or don’t show up at the meeting place even though they replied the day before.
The staff would actually prefer to only confirm the day before, but the system was set up to send a message on the day as well.
So it doesn’t mean we’re doing this because we’re worried about…
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📅 Apr 1, 2019 01:26
Regarding men’s profiles for reverse offers, will there be income verification like on certain papa-katsu apps? I think members who submit proof of income should have a checkmark indicating that their income has been verified.
💬 Answer from 前澤（スタッフ）:
Maezawa here with an answer.
Income verification sounds like a good idea. For example, at the new club, income verification is required, and one of the conditions is an annual income of at least ¥40 million.
Until now, Universe had a system where income verification wasn’t required. So if not requiring it was one of the reasons Universe grew, introducing this system could potentially cause the business to decline.
Personally, I think it would be better to introduce income …
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📅 Mar 31, 2019 20:09
I’m a female member, and I have two questions about the “I Like You” feature. 1. I worked up the courage to send an “I Like You” to a very small number of male members I was interested in, but it didn’t lead to a reverse offer. After a while, I worried that I might come across as greedy, so I gave up and canceled the “I Like You.” If I cancel it, will it remain in the male member’s records as something from the past? I’d be embarrassed,...
💬 Answer from 前澤（スタッフ）:
Maezawa here with some answers.
> 1. If I cancel it, will it remain in the male member’s history, like a past record?
There’s no past-history feature, so it shouldn’t remain.
Only a list of the people who have liked you is displayed, so once you cancel it, it disappears.
(I’ll correct this on Monday if I’m mistaken.)
> 2. I assume that once a man has sent “You’re lovely,” it remains visible to him for 30 days. After those 30 days, will the fact that he once sent it als…
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📅 Mar 31, 2019 18:07
I’m a female member. I just noticed the “You’re lovely” feature today, so I’m thinking of using it right away. My question is: Can male members see how many people a female member has sent “You’re lovely” to? I’ve looked through the men’s profiles, and there are several I’d like to meet. But I also feel a little bad about sending “You’re lovely” to too many people.
💬 Answer from 前澤（スタッフ）:
Maezawa here with an answer.
Men can’t see how many women have tapped “Sounds great!” on their profiles.
Likewise, women can’t see how many “Sounds great!” reactions a man has received.
It’s thoughtful of you to feel bad about it, but I think that’s something to worry about only after you’ve started a long-term relationship.
The chances of a “Sounds great!” reaction leading to an offer are fairly low, so I think it’s fine to tap it freely on men you’re interested in.
You…
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📅 Mar 31, 2019 13:36
This isn’t a question but a request: I can currently only view one of my profile photos, and I’d like to be able to see what other photos are being used as well. Could you add a feature like that for women?…
💬 Answer from 前澤（スタッフ）:
Maezawa adding a follow-up.
I asked the person who created the program about it, and apparently women were originally able to view all of the photos of themselves that had been uploaded.
However, so many women started contacting them to ask for specific photos to be changed that handling those requests began taking time away from interviews and date arrangements. So they changed it to show only one photo.
Even with just one photo displayed, we still get requests asking us …
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📅 Mar 31, 2019 06:47
A man with a verified income on a dating app sent me a link to Universe Club and asked me to join. When I said I would sign up through a link I found myself, he told me I might not be able to join that way and should use his link instead. Is this okay?
💬 Answer from 前澤（スタッフ）:
Maezawa here.
> I was told to apply through his link because otherwise I might not be accepted.
That isn’t true.
You can join by applying directly. In fact, most people join after applying directly.
Some people do join through referrals, but being referred doesn’t change the admission criteria. Everyone is interviewed and evaluated in the same way, regardless of where they come from.
So whether you apply directly or through a referral, your chances of being accepted are …
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📅 Mar 31, 2019 01:18
About a man who recently made me an offer. With the men I had met before, we would discuss future plans at the end of dinner, and if our terms matched, we would continue seeing each other afterward. However, the man I met recently did not bring up any such discussion by the end of dinner, and then invited me to continue afterward. Since he seemed like a nice person, I decided to go along with it without saying anything, treating it as a...
💬 Answer from 前澤（スタッフ）:
Maezawa here.
> If the man doesn’t bring up these matters, when should the woman tell him?
Please make sure to tell him when he invites you to meet again.
For example, if you don’t discuss anything, you may end up receiving nothing.
Some men may play dumb afterward and say, “After dinner, it’s just free love—wasn’t this supposed to be a romantic relationship?”
That’s why, when he invites you out, you should clearly discuss what kind of relationship this will be.
If you …
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📅 Mar 30, 2019 15:18
I’ve met women ranging from Standard to Black, and I find it curious that some Gold members have looks comparable to Black, while some Black members look more like Gold. I’ve also heard that some staff rank women based mainly on appearance, while others place more emphasis on personality. Is the ranking system fairly loose and not governed by any particularly clear criteria?
💬 Answer from 前澤（スタッフ）:
Maezawa answering here.
As for women’s rankings, they’re decided by the staff member who conducts the interview, so there can be some variation.
It’s somewhat like how judges are expected to issue rulings without instructions or supervision from anyone, following only their conscience and the law.
Basically, if the staff member feels a certain rank is the best fit, that’s the rank assigned.
Occasionally, a supervisor may feel that a different rank would be more appropriat…
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📅 Mar 30, 2019 15:09
Thank you as always for your support. I’m a female member. I’d appreciate it if you could tell me what I need to do to raise my rating from three to five stars.
💬 Answer from 前澤（スタッフ）:
Maezawa here.
There used to be no particular criteria, so it was normal for women’s ratings to almost never go up.
(If someone’s rating did increase, it was usually because a staff member happened to think, “She responded quickly, so let’s raise it.”)
Recently, guidelines were established, and they now read as follows.
That said, since these are only guidelines, of the three factors that can raise a rating, the one that seems the most certain is:
3. When dates continue …
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📅 Mar 30, 2019 13:59
I’d like to know how many offers the top women receive during their first three months after signing up. Please tell me the top three, ranked from most to fewest.
💬 Answer from Responder:
This is Mochizuki from system administration.
I ran the numbers for female members who joined in 2018.
The two women with the most dates have each gone on 20 dates.
Second place is 19 dates, and third place is 18 dates.
I also broke down the number of women by date count:
20 dates: 2 women
19 dates: 3 women
18 dates: 1 woman
17 dates: 4 women
16 dates: 3 women
15 dates: 6 women
14 dates: 1 woman
13 dates: 9 women
12 dates: 7 women
11 dates: 17 women
1…
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📅 Mar 30, 2019 12:30
I always enjoy reading the Q&A box. Since the reverse-offer feature started the other day, how many offers has the woman with the most received?
💬 Answer from 前澤（スタッフ）:
Maezawa here with an answer.
I took a quick look through the offer emails and counted the names that appeared most often. So it’s possible I missed some women who actually received more offers.
The woman with the most offers resulting from reverse offers had received six.
Quite a few women do seem to be turning reverse offers into actual offers.
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📅 Mar 29, 2019 20:13
Are there male members who never make an offer from the time they join until they leave? Do most of the men who make offers belong to the Black rank? Would it be possible to tell me the percentages by rank?
💬 Answer from Responder:
Mochizuki from Systems Management here with the answer.
For these figures, we narrowed the data down to male members who joined between January 1 and December 31, 2018.
First, regarding “Are there any male members who never make an offer from the time they join until they leave?”:
| | Male members | Members who went on dates | Percentage |
|--------------|--------------|---------------------------|------------|
| Standard | 95 | 35 …
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📅 Mar 29, 2019 19:17
I’m a male member who has received “You’re Wonderful.” I’ve noticed that the display for some women who sent it has changed from red to pink. Does that mean anything?
💬 Answer from 前澤（スタッフ）:
Maezawa here with the answer.
The person who created the program actually got in touch with me first. (Haha)
They said:
“‘That’s lovely’ disappears 30 days after it’s received, so to make it easy to tell at a glance, we gradually lighten its color every 10 days.”
That’s the reason.
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📅 Mar 29, 2019 01:10
I’m a female member. If a selfie posted on a female member’s profile receives a ♡ like, is there no way to find out which male member liked it? If we could see who it was and female members could also view his profile and give it a “You seem wonderful♡” like, I thought it might lead to more offers.
💬 Answer from 前澤（スタッフ）:
Maezawa here.
I asked someone who works on the site’s programming.
They said that a male member who likes a selfie isn’t necessarily making his profile public. Male members can also make their profiles private at any time, whenever they choose.
Given these two points, even if we added that feature, it probably wouldn’t do much to increase activity.
The same apparently applies to Favorites.
Come to think of it, even if you knew who liked you, it wouldn’t mean much if the …
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📅 Mar 29, 2019 00:47
I’m a woman in my 40s and a member. I always enjoy reading the anonymous Q&A box. Regarding reshooting, I believe you used to contact us after a certain period of time to ask whether we’d like to have new photos taken. What is the current policy? It’s been almost a year since my last photo session, so I’ve been thinking that I should probably ask about it soon… However, no contact could also be taken to mean that a reshoot isn’t necessa...
💬 Answer from 前澤（スタッフ）:
Maezawa here.
Our policy on reshoots hasn’t particularly changed. I believe it’s basically the same as before.
In principle, we always confirm whether a woman wants to continue every six months. Each branch then decides whether to bring up the subject of a reshoot at that time.
If you were previously asked about a reshoot but aren’t anymore, they may assume that, since some time has passed, you’ve become familiar enough with the club to know about reshoots and will bring i…
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📅 Mar 29, 2019 00:34
I have a question about reverse offers. Can women see which men have added them to their favorites? If we could send a “You seem great!” message to men who have added us to their favorites, then at least we’d already know we’re mutually interested, which might make it easier to match. What do you think?
💬 Answer from 前澤（スタッフ）:
Maezawa here.
I don’t think women can see which men have added them to their favorites—unless that feature was added without my noticing.
> If women could send a “You seem wonderful!” message to men they’ve added to their favorites,
> at least they’d both know from the start that they’re interested, which might make matching easier.
In that case, though, it seems like it would make more sense to let men send women a “Like” as well. I don’t think women necessarily need to…
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📅 Mar 28, 2019 23:59
I’m a woman. Thanks to the staff, I’ve continued seeing five of the six men the club introduced me to over the four months since I registered. Some give me an allowance of ¥100,000, while others give me ¥40,000. Managing several people at once is difficult, so I’d like to cut it down to about two. I’d appreciate your answers to the following two questions. ① Is the allowance the main factor in deciding whether to continue seeing someone...
💬 Answer from 前澤（スタッフ）:
Maezawa here—I’ll answer as well.
> “I’m still seeing five out of the six.”
That’s pretty impressive.
You must be quite an attractive person.
> “Seeing several people at the same time is tough, so I’d like to reduce it to about two.”
In many cases, the frequency of seeing each other naturally decreases over time, so I think things may work themselves out without you having to cut anyone off.
However, if it’s already becoming difficult, rather than ending things, you co…
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📅 Mar 27, 2019 14:11
Could you please tell me the current number of members by gender, from Standard through Black?
💬 Answer from Responder:
Mochizuki from System Administration here.
● Male members
Standard: 137
Gold: 804
Platinum: 1,432
Black: 550
● Female members
(Excluding secret female members)
Standard: 2,588
Gold: 3,341
Platinum: 1,162
Black: 263
Those are the current figures. Please note that we’re unable to calculate the number of secret female members separately.
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📅 Mar 27, 2019 00:06
Are you hiring new graduates this year?
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📅 Mar 26, 2019 21:45