Female member Potassium here.
I don’t want to become a gravure idol anymore.
A long time ago, I did try pursuing entertainment-related work because I wanted to make money and be admired. I had a friend who was doing well, so I thought maybe I could do it too, lol.
(I auditioned and was approached about joining an agency, but I turned them down and used the whole experience as material for my job hunting. I only tried because, for a brief moment, I thought I might have some kind of talent. Looking back, I don’t think I really did.)
The reasons I came to that conclusion are that my motivation in the first place was too impure, and that it’s an unstable career where you may not be able to support yourself in the future.
(Unless you happen to have an incredible amount of luck and talent.)
I feel like you won’t get very far if you simply want to enter that world, no matter what the job is.....
When I read, “If I can’t become an entertainer, I’ll become a gravure idol,” I thought, “Wait, so anything is fine for you, then!?” lol
This may sound a bit blunt, but when it comes to work that involves sex or the opposite sex to some extent, being a woman may give you a certain amount of potential.
You need to carefully determine whether that potential comes from your own talent or simply from the fact that you were born female. Otherwise, you may choose the wrong path and end up lost.
Based on what you wrote, it sounds to me like you just want a title—“entertainer,” “gravure idol,” or anything else.
Sorry if I’m wrong, though...
Also, these days, I personally think it’s better to start by building a presence online, learn what your talents and level are, and then try entering that world.
Even then, if you show off your more sexual side, you might think, “Maybe I really do have talent.” But, well... do you really?
It might become clearer if you create both an adult-oriented account and a regular activity account and give it a try.
Incidentally, even online, I think you’ll need a period of building yourself up on your activity account. Personally, I feel you’d need at least one to five years. (This isn’t based on my experience of selling my looks, but I’m one of the people who gave up, lol.)
If you’re already active online, have a large following, and believe you have talent, you might want to approach an agency and market yourself.
However, even if you have an unusually large number of followers and no one contacts you, well... I think that tells you what you need to know.
So, to answer the question: I don’t want to become a gravure idol myself. If my child wanted to become one for a genuine reason, and truly had the talent, I would support them. However, since it’s much more likely that they won’t become successful, I would support them in developing their talents so they could succeed, while also helping them build skills that would allow them to earn money through a regular job.
Anyway, that’s just my personal opinion, lol.
At the club, I avoid making offers to celebrities because they seem like they’d be expensive.
Personally, I enjoy watching gravure idols on YouTube and elsewhere. I’m only watching them for entertainment, of course. Lately, I’ve been into 01familia because I find them sexy.
I hope you can work hard and get into 01familia too. Then maybe you could be introduced to a papa by a celebrity and start doing papa-katsu (compensated dating in Japan).
I don’t want to date them.
I’ve been intimate with a few women because I figured I might as well experience it at least once.
A certain dating club—not Universe—sends me a gravure idol’s profile at least once a week, and I’m honestly sick of it.
A friend of mine who worked at a hostess club and dated me when I was in my twenties became the mistress of a man in the underworld, then debuted as a gravure idol a little over a year later.
Apparently, her monthly allowance was in the high six figures, almost seven figures, and she agreed to some pretty intense arrangements. But it seems she was discarded about a year after her debut, and then she disappeared from sight.
I suppose he was the kind of man who enjoyed getting women to the point of debuting.
Having witnessed that kind of reality firsthand, if a woman I knew came to me for advice, I’d probably tell her not to do it.
I’d advise against gravure modeling or becoming an idol—you generally can’t make a living from it. Only a tiny, tiny handful earn well.
If you’ve appeared in the media, you might be able to use that as a credential in papa-katsu (compensated dating in Japan) and raise your allowance somewhat.
There are various kinds of promotional work, but being a hostess who has to put up with sexual harassment is basically just a part-time job. As for the adult entertainment industry, I suppose it takes the resolve to keep things strictly transactional.
If my daughter could make money through papa-katsu (compensated dating in Japan) or working at a hostess club, I’d support her.
