I have a question about the organizational restructuring starting in April.

Maezawa from the President’s Office here as well. Thank you for your question. > First, are there any advantages or disadvantages to taking this opportunity to move back to Tokyo? If you’re banned from Tokyo, I don’t think you can move back. But even if you can, I don’t understand why you would choose to cut off the relationships you’ve built with the staff at the local branch. If you don’t place much importance on your relationships with the staff, then it seems you’re the one who wants to make offers in a more systematic way. I think you should decide based on which of those matters more to you. > Second, will it become difficult to make an offer after learning the nuances beyond what’s listed in the profiles on the site? “Become difficult”? I think things will be just as they’ve always been. You could ask the staff before, and they would tell you. It’s the same thing now. Were you perhaps saying things like, “Put me in touch with the staff member who interviewed her”? If so, I think they’ve simply set things up so that you no longer need to do that. Besides, if you had already built a relationship with the staff at the local branch, you probably could have learned more than what was in the profile, even if that staff member hadn’t interviewed the woman in question. Is anything really changing? As for Black members, all that’s happened is that they’re now in a position to be shown women who haven’t registered yet on a priority basis. It’s simply an enhancement of something that was already being done. I don’t think the difference is that significant. For members who might say, “Being Black doesn’t really offer much, does it?” they’ve just made the benefit clearer: “No, actually, you can be introduced to women before they register.” That said, it’s a best-effort system, so we’ll have to see how it works in practice going forward.

I’m Kazu, a male member. As I understand it, the club is splitting its departments into FS, who come into the office to handle women’s interviews and black-listed male members, and remote CS staff, who handle everyone else. Platinum members can use “phone consultations” and receive “detailed introductions to women,” so they’ll be dealing with about half as many of the staff members as before, but it doesn’t seem like the actual services are changing. I believe that answers your second question. Here’s a comparison of the services available for each male membership level: https://universe-club.jp/men/join/ Isn’t saying, “Just trust the profiles on the site and make offers systematically,” a rather resentful way of looking at it? As I mentioned above, the services themselves aren’t changing, so Platinum members should still be able to contact the club for assistance. Gold and Standard members may have to continue making offers based solely on the site profiles, just as before. As for the campaign offering bonus points at regional branches, my understanding is that it was intended to distribute the workload more evenly among the branches. If you feel that you’ve built relationships with the staff at your local branch, and there are CS staff members you feel comfortable talking to according to the organizational chart in the “Notice Regarding Changes to the Universe Group’s Organizational Structure,” I think you should simply remain registered with that branch. If the staff member you’re close to has moved to FS, then switching to black status should solve the problem (lol). You’ve probably already seen this, but I’ll post the announcement link here for readers who were wondering what this is about: https://universe-club.jp/staffblog/58042/