Truly impressive!
Look at this tweet from Matsumoto Ichika. Her meaning is simple: "Next time, I'll buy and watch it at FANZA (DMM)!" followed by a laughing-crying emoji. It's already garnered over 35,000 likes and nearly 20,000 retweets…
Such a single sentence has such a huge impact, which speaks volumes about this project's actress's influence. Of course, Matsumoto Ichika didn't write this without reason. Here's what happened: In Japan, a Vtuber (a YouTuber who creates virtual characters) encountered a problem during a live stream on February 27th. Two folders were found on his computer desktop in the video, and upon closer inspection, they looked like this:
(This is from the CaoLiu community; you know what I mean.)
What does this have to do with Matsumoto Ichika? If you are smart, you should have guessed that one of the folders "MIAA-452" is exactly the work performed by Matsumoto "すからベロキスで黙らせてやるからな! "(Co-starring with Momose Asuka)," another file, MVSD-469, is a collaboration between Matsumoto Ichika, Aoi Rena, and Kururugi Aoi. This incident not only forced the Vtuber "Roland Iros" to publicly apologize and announce a temporary halt to her activities, but it also gave Matsumoto Ichika an excellent opportunity to strike, and indeed, she struck a brilliant shot!
This is why I said "look at me with new eyes" at the beginning. We all know that Matsumoto Ichika is the most popular project actress in the past two years. She releases a huge number of films, has high sales, and the male actors she works with are always good and audiences never get tired of her. But frankly, when she graduated from SOD Group's Seishun Era, nobody had high hopes for her. When the TRE Taipei Adult Expo invited her, the agency quoted a very low price, and she didn't even have a manager with her when she came to shoot promotional photos.
I ended up watching her from afar, half asleep, using her phone to find her way on Google Maps. It was really pitiful. When I chatted with the manager who brought other actresses later, he also said that although she debuted exclusively with SOD Seishun Era, project actresses like Matsumoto Ichika... In an industry teeming with talent, her agency will do its best to find her work; the rest is up to fate…
As you can see, Matsumoto Ichika not only releases a constant stream of videos but also enjoys phenomenal sales. Even in the area of "interaction," which is often the weakest point for project-based actresses, she excels. If you leave a comment on Twitter, she will definitely try to reply. I once… I deliberately replied to her comment using a mix of English and Japanese, and to my surprise, she replied in the same way—her response was incredibly fast!
So don't let Matsumoto Ichika's small, thin, and flat appearance fool you; she's now a giant in the industry—over 200,000 Twitter followers, incredibly popular at her events (just look at the gifts!), and one of the first actresses in her agency to have NFTs created… This is the result of continuous evolution. From a sacrifice that few expected at the beginning to becoming the most powerful release machine in her agency and even the entire industry, Matsumoto Ichika is truly strong, truly fierce, and truly more worthy of respect than many prodigies who debut as top stars!
