Is Universe Club’s offer rate low because there are too many female members? Is it also because they don’t have enough male members?

I’m BB7, a male member. If there were twice as many male members as female members… three times as many… four times as many… even five times as many… There would be more men who couldn’t meet anyone even after making offers to popular women, since the women would have their pick and could turn them down. So I wondered whether that might eventually mean every woman would start receiving offers… but— Then I realized that if the men simply quit, women who weren’t getting offers probably still wouldn’t get any.

This is Saito, the column writer♪ At any dating club, there are women who receive no offers at all, as well as women who receive so many that they end up giving up on them. I don’t think it’s simply because it’s Universe. There are many female members, but there are also many male members, and it’s hard to find another organization with a nationwide presence. Even at Universe, there are plenty of women receiving more offers than they can handle. P.S. If you’re comparing it with dating apps, I feel the things being compared are a little different.

Maezawa from the Corporate Planning Office here as well. Universe Club’s offer rate is high… Wait, what? Low? Is it low? First, please tell us what you’re comparing it to. I’m not sure whether there are any other clubs that publish their offer rates properly, but the key point is: compared to what are you saying it’s low? I also wonder whether some of the more popular women actually feel that the offer rate is high. What do you think?

Man in his 30s, new member I think it comes down to the balance between supply and demand, but under the current circumstances, it seems somewhat unavoidable that offers will be concentrated on certain female members. This analogy may not come across perfectly, but in acting there are leading actors, supporting actors, and bit players. In pro wrestling, there’s an ace—the star of the show—as well as supporting players and jobbers—the ones whose role is to lose. In other words, not everyone can be the lead or the ace. In fact, it’s not that only the aces are popular. Fans understand this well, and supporting players and jobbers have their own fans and popularity too. For female members, I think “relationship type” plays a similar role, but for some reason, I get the impression that everyone is aiming to be the ace. I can certainly understand why they feel that way. There was one woman I was interested in who had already left after I failed to make an offer. She wasn’t my usual type looks-wise, but her profile gave off a strong submissive vibe. Since there’s only one ace when it comes to getting offers, rather than competing for that position, I feel that if more women promoted themselves by targeting niche, untapped demand, offers would become more evenly distributed.

I’m だて◎ゆめ, a male member. That’s a good question. It’s a fairly difficult issue. I do like the club for making an effort to support members on its homepage and elsewhere, trying to connect them with offers. However, if you look at it from the standpoint of actually putting up the money and making an offer, you still won’t make one unless you feel, “This is the woman I really like!” I don’t think simply having fewer female members would necessarily be a good thing, either. There are quite a few attractive women among the members, but there’s competition between them, so that makes it another difficult issue. Also, in my case, I can’t make offers one after another because of my dating budget—I can only maintain a limited number of arrangements. Once I start seeing someone, I don’t make offers to other women during that relationship. So although there are many women I like, that doesn’t necessarily lead to an offer. ↑ This part might improve if more male members joined, though… Membership fees, offer and date expenses, and so on can add up, so I think it really comes down to how much men can afford to spend and how many men actually need a club like this. When you think about it that way, does that mean it would be better if there were more unhappy men like me? That’s another difficult question, haha.