At the end of the year and the beginning of the new year, besides a bunch of actresses retiring, many others are making a comeback!
This is a phenomenon that happens every year, but this year, with two high-quality actresses, Anzai Lala (formerly known as RION, Utsunomiya Shion) and Meguri (formerly Fujiwara Meguri), everyone feels that the resurrected actresses are particularly strong. Although seeing actresses return inevitably leads to some people mocking them for "running out of money," I've always been curious about how managers keep track of these retired actresses' situations and even persuade them to return to the industry so quickly?
I asked the manager of Company C today, and he laughed and said, "I'd better have that much time to manage all those retired actresses!"
This probably isn't a lie. The situation at Company C is this: this agency has about 70 actresses under its management, but only 3 managers. The manager we were chatting with has the agency's 15 most elite actresses under his control. For example, today (December 16th), two of the main actresses were filming, so he set two separate alarms for them to wake up. Call...
He's really busy, so I believe he doesn't have time to manage those retired actresses. It just so happens that his agency recently had a long-absent actress return, so I asked, "How did you know she was itchy again?"
The manager smiled and said that another actress reported this to him. Her friend and her agent were already friends. Upon learning that the long-retired actress intended to return to the industry, the agent helped her secure an exclusive contract with a major studio through her agency. She happily returned to the business.
So, to put it simply, this actress, who had been away from the industry for a long time, returned thanks to a friend's introduction. However, according to her agent, she wasn't actually short of money. Her friend, still in the industry, kept pushing her, telling her that the industry no longer forces actresses to do things they don't like, and that the money is easy to earn. She said she only needed to free up some time each month to make a lot of money—why not?
And so she came back. Actually, there are many similar examples in this industry. Sometimes actresses bring their best friends into the industry together, and sometimes actresses who are still working in this industry will desperately persuade retired actresses they still have contact with to return to the adult entertainment industry without authorization. There's no way around it. Whether it's because it's more reassuring to have someone to work with or because they genuinely think that being an AV actress is a promising career, sometimes I think it's no wonder that the AV industry in Japan is regarded as part of the sex industry, because many situations are quite similar to special business!
