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I’m Marika, a female member. This isn’t directly about the whole Type B issue, but after having some scary experiences on apps and then being rejected in my Universe interview, I felt something similar to what Papua-san described. Maybe any girl who can hold a normal, common-sense conversation and takes reasonable care with her appearance can pass the Universe interview—is that too optimistic? But if she’s rejected by Universe yet can still be active on an app, it’s not necessarily because she’s unattractive. So perhaps she’s the kind of girl whose fashion isn’t mainstream, whose way of thinking is a little unusual, or who’s just a bit quirky. That made me wonder whether Mac-san and Win-san have the generosity to accept girls like that. Normally, such girls might seem like a hassle—needy, inexperienced, and a little odd—but there’s a certain sense of superiority in having one of them become attached only to you. I think the girls are being saved by Mac-san and Win-san, too. I think both apps and Universe can be useful if you know how to use them appropriately. Win-san, please continue finding and helping those vulnerable girls who only use apps.

Maezawa from the President’s Office here, answering as well. Thank you for your question (“Reality?”). > Universe can’t save women who run into danger through apps. Universe isn’t a public institution, so you’re right about that. Even so, if we at least let them register, there are men like Win who will make them offers. So I can’t help thinking that perhaps we don’t need to reject everyone except those with truly terrible personalities. But then men start saying, “You need to register more beautiful women,” which makes it a very difficult issue. To begin with, standards for beauty change with the times, and they also vary from person to person. Is there really anyone who can quantify the placement of someone’s features by saying things like, “The distance between the eyes should be __ millimeters, and the eyes should be __ millimeters”? And if appearance were all that mattered, wouldn’t a doll be enough? Wouldn’t a doll with perfectly proportioned features satisfy people? But if dolls aren’t enough, then that means personality matters too, right? So I can’t help thinking: Why not try looking more closely at what’s on the inside? Huh? Somehow I’ve gone completely off topic… I should have written this as a blog post. (笑)

I’m Date◎Yume, a male member. > Universe can’t save women who get into dangerous situations through apps. > The reason is that women like that don’t pass the interview. > They fail the interview, barely manage to stay active on the fringes of the apps, run into trouble, and end up having to accept it because the apps have no way to trace anyone. Then the club uses their stories to say, “See? Apps are dangerous, so clubs are safer after all…” > Either way, they don’t get saved. I see! I’ve never used an app, so it’s practically the same as having no experience with them, and I don’t know much about it. But that may well be true. Also, I give one vote each to Paper Airplane’s and Mac’s answers to this post! I get it now! Everyone’s had such good experiences. I’m a little jealous… haha.

I’m Papillon, a male member. I’m looking forward to your next good question as well. Your extensive experience really comes through, which makes your posts interesting and rewarding to read. Although our types are different, I felt that we share the same instinct to seek vitality through women, so I enjoyed reading it—perhaps selfishly—with a sense of kinship. Apps have their own advantages. Clubs have their own advantages. Natural encounters have their own advantages. I think each option has its merits. Since everyone is looking for something different and places value on different things, people probably settle into whichever suits them best. Clubs are efficient, and because money is involved, they’re also well-run in terms of safety and trust. There’s really nothing to complain about. The trade-off is that the more organized something becomes, the more it settles into a stable, compact, predictable form—with neither extreme highs nor extreme lows. > I don’t think apps have women like Universe’s Super > Black type (my own name for them). > Actually, they do exist (＞＜) Mac, I really think you’re right about that. Clubs are reliable, but you don’t really find either the extreme worst or the extreme best. Apps seem to have both. The natural world definitely has both as well—and there are even women who would never use either clubs, apps, or papa-katsu (compensated dating in Japan), so anything goes. It seems that everyone has a different place they’re looking for. An older mentor I occasionally write about still has the energy, even at 70, to win over everyone from family-restaurant servers to flight attendants. He’s amazingly vigorous. By contrast, his younger brother has no interest in women at all, is serious-minded, and only recently retired from a career as a civil servant. Yet my mentor has better skin and looks younger than his brother. Seeing that really makes me realize how much of a source of vitality pursuing women can be. Being told you look young is certainly pleasing. Every time I see my mentor, I feel more strongly that pursuing women is essential for maintaining your youth. If I want to keep living energetically, I feel I need to keep investing more and more energy in women. > Universe’s A-type women can also be scary, because > they might be extremely innocent and inexperienced. Some women register as A-type knowing they’ll receive fewer offers, yet they’re such convincing actresses that you’d think they’d completely mastered the apps. Others come after being coached by friends who’ve had great experiences with papa-katsu. Some, knowing that offers are precious, prepare thoroughly—more so than women in other categories—and then use a one-shot strategy, leaving the app immediately after receiving an offer. Since they don’t rely on their bodies as a selling point like women in other categories, many of them seem even more determined and calculating. Choosing A-type deliberately instead of B (or C) to attract offers must take an incredible amount of resolve. They really seem to have guts.