Better quality short Clip. People were praising them online like other con performers until some of them find out they're av idols. A lot are still fine with them, but clearly they're trying to gain recognitions as pop singers rather than their main occupation unlike av idols at avn. They're pretty decent in quality when compared to the other performers and some wonder why they done av,
Has anyone got SSNI-178, either legit or pirate? Just done checking out SSNI-174, not Miko Matsuda's best work. She (and studio) needs to be careful putting out a quality product every month. Most other top idols can afford to phone it in, not Miko. With Shunka Ayami joining S1, will there be more pressure on Miko? Her assets are weak compared to the S1 line-up. It would be better for everyone if she exits as S1 contract girl and either join some lower-prestige-but-more-interesting studios, or just boldly go freelance. But the risk is any kind of disturbance will topple the house of cards that is her J-pop cred. Suddenly her fans (do I count as a fan?) may decide her idol halo is gone then she won't just fell from idol to average. There's a serious risk she won't even survive as a low profile freelance planning performer.
Anyway seems a slow news/gossip month for Yua Mikami? I am not sure what, if anything, it says about her k-pop and AV career(s).
<smack head> you are right. For some reason my preferred website for AV data has become unreliable on release date. Also it's been weeks (3 weeks) since the last Mikami fix, and it's especially because -152 wasn't a re-watchable/re-fappable vid (rereading my own post). I must be suffering from Yuawithdrawal symptoms.
She's having a few v-cinema like pink films coming out soon too based on some doujin manga/Hentai plot or you can say typical blackmail/r*** av plot stretch in to a movie with minor softcore nudities.
Good for her! I think pink film is the happy in-between place for her. It's somewhat respectable that might satisfy her desire for fame, and it's low-demand for talent that wouldn't expose her lack of.
Re-reread my own post on -152, I think her exploring pink film career is showing the signs in SSNI-152. It's far more "realistic/melodramatic" than necessary for AV. Actually the drama is interfering with the fapping.
I only hope that if she have any success in pink films (or even K-pop??!) she won't drop her AV career (if she really feel AV is beneath her). I still have wish/faith she will run a full career (at least 3 more years as a top idol) and then go out with a bang in one or two uncensored creampie vids (probably pocketing 25 millions Yens for couple days of shooting).
I was never a fan but have been getting into her recently. Agreed that the "pop-star" status adds a bit, makes the "porn music videos" much easier to create.
People lose interest in her?
I've gotten more into her looks than ever, frankly. The 'she's sort of a K-pop star, but still takes dick on camera' thing is a turn on.
Unfortunately yes, her stardom is fading a bit, her sales and ranking have slipped. Which is not a big deal for me, I still follow her monthly releases. But I'm also following Shokotas who is kinda the same but different. So it's a monthly minigame (in my pants) for the two of them to fight it out who is the better idol-slut.
And this month, it's TKO for Shokotas her MIMK-055 is very good. Vs. Yua-cat's SSNI-254 is (dramatic pause) very bad.
Since Yua-cat is one of my monthly must-get, I didn't even bother to check out her title and over-analyze her cover and instead just watching the vid (with my pants down). Ehh... what am I watching. She's naked (kinda) have having her boobs molested and squeezed etc, so why is the little brother not amused? I ended up switching to another vid with a MILF who's downright ugly compared to Yua-cat but there's a plot, a setup and a foreplay that works and sex that rocks. So after, I check out the blurb for -254, (translation courtesy of Google):
In order to shake the best boobs of national idols, piston attacks from every angle! Milk with oil, with lotion! I can not resist irresistibly transforming breasts! Boobs that swim small, sometimes boldly rotate! Momochi 's chest bounces off with a brisk piston and crackling beeps! Regain yourself as much as you want, sandwiched! Encourage passion and sexual intercourse that pierces and rocks and does not stop!
Yeah, sleep inducing...
There's no reason why her K-pop debut could hurt her AV (or ...) but fact is she's not done a great vid since that event. Especially puzzling is -254 no longer play up her idol cred. The plot/theme has nothing to do with idols, (actually the scenes are set in an abandoned factory was a turn off), the cover and the title (text) doesn't mention "idol" or "national idol" any more. That's a huge mistake, Yua Mikami is a good AV performer. But only good, not great. There are girls who are more pretty, with better figure, younger and better at fucking than her. Yua can stand out from the field only for her idol cred and continue to play the part. I mean not just on some one-off events in Korea, she needs to exploit her idol persona on AV at least once in a couple months.
I watch other girls too. Maybe more than 20 (and some are freelancers, so there are more than 1 movie per month). As I watch in order of release date, I didn't see her last movies yet.
Been a long time... I was waiting for some development on Honey PopcORN, to continue the conversation but actually months passed....
So Playno1 finally have a report involving HP... turns out playno1 (more accurately the author's company) was offered a chance to organize/produce a concert in Taiwan for HP. Yua Mikami is hugely popular in Taiwan (and most Chinese communities) (meanwhile her stardom in homeland Japan is already sliding). So on the surface it's a no-brainer. But playno1 actually turn down the offer. He stated the reason that their company lacks the resource and experience to produce a decent concert. But that reason seems far too diplomatic to me. It may be true that a real pop concert isn't the company's core business. But you can also ask why Yua (and HP's agent) doesn't get a real Taiwan music outfit to do the job. The unspoken answer is that no real music outfit would take HP seriously. So a real music outfit won't take HP as a real music act. And a AV-media company wouldn't treat HP as a viable AV-related event. It's just my speculation, but it's a hint at HP's root problem, it's neither here (music) nor there (adult entertainment).
So playno1 further report on yet another AV-to-Pop transition. Turns out Moe Amatsuka is headlining another group called un panopticon girl (so far no youtube vid yet). The group also features a busty SOD girl Kiri Matsuri. While we wait for un_pan_girl do something beyond posting tweets. Playno1 mentions some gossips/factors around the AV-to-Pop phenom.
1. at least some AV performers are attracted by the glamour and fame of pop groups. To the extent that one member of Ebisu Muscat openly says that chance to be part of Muscat is the main reason she hasn't yet retired from AV.
2. both studio and performers are using pop group to generate buzz/promote/prolong the a girl's AV career and stardom
3. OTOH, even very active high ranking AV idols such as Moe Amatsuka can't guarantee a sold-out debut concert (this is the Asian subtle way to explain the real reason they "humbly" turned down HP's offer)
So back to Yua Mikami, having read playno1's story I went and check for independent news/vids by HP, very thin. Their youtube channel is pretty pathetic. I was a little skeptical of their debut and hoping that at worst it's a harmless distraction on her AV career. But the reality might have turned out far worse than I imagine possible. Has the group been judged a flop? and suddenly her celeb status-idol cred been shattered? So where is her AV career going then? IMHO, she's a very good porn star with added magic dust of idol cred. I think if studio keeps up investing into her productions (make-up, costumes, settings etc) she can make great AV for many years.
Well that's how the cover pitches the vid. But I find it a decent fap. I hardly even notice the saliva-play that's the supposed theme. Just watch the vid, it seems like a mild S&M (with Yua playing the S role, the top. Hmm I guess it's not even really S&M, just a plot-less sex vid with Yua being the top. And saliva may be just a way for the female to "violate" the male, by giving him her bodily fluid (instead of female ejaculation/squirt)
Anyway I don't find the saliva to be hugely distraction. It's fairly hot vid, especially scene two, she really rocks the vinyl suit. The vid seems to me totally plot-less which is disappointing. But in my head, I think the males came to a brothel and pay Yua to fuck and humiliate them.
I wouldn't say saliva is her fav thing. It's a kinky/fetish thing that she agrees to do, so it stands in for all the times that require some hardcore selling.
Well that's how the cover pitches the vid. But I find it a decent fap. I hardly even notice the saliva-play that's the supposed theme. Just watch the vid, it seems like a mild S&M (with Yua playing the S role, the top. Hmm I guess it's not even really S&M, just a plot-less sex vid with Yua being the top. And saliva may be just a way for the female to "violate" the male, by giving him her bodily fluid (instead of female ejaculation/squirt)
Anyway I don't find the saliva to be hugely distraction. It's fairly hot vid, especially scene two, she really rocks the vinyl suit. The vid seems to me totally plot-less which is disappointing. But in my head, I think the males came to a brothel and pay Yua to fuck and humiliate them.
I wouldn't say saliva is her fav thing. It's a kinky/fetish thing that she agrees to do, so it stands in for all the times that require some hardcore selling.
I found it neither hot nor distracting, so I don't really notice it. I was watching the vid without paying much attention to the title. Until you bring it up in the post.
I think of myself a fan too. She's pretty good when she play some kind of role, like a top in this case, or the "lucky nipples" vid a while ago. If the AV is purely plotless, then she isn't very special or unique compared to the many busty and un-shy AV performers out there. She is best when the role involves some kind of J-pop idol (back to her roots) or something glam. She's not the hottest in the business but she can rock glam.