I was gonna write about the "withdrawal website" and/or the "two sides" (HOW RIDICULOUS) of the girls and the industry. But ... everyone is missing the (possible) shocker.
This might be the beginning of the end.
DMM has always been a legit business that also do adult, making adult on the same level as say Walmart or Barnes and Noble or HVM. Now if DMM splitting off adult business is some kind of social/moral angle (instead of say adult is losing money so sell the unit for pure finance) then it's signalling the society is really changing. Combine with all the minor news (e.g. eliminating mixed bathing onsen) from last year... Then what's the trend? Perhaps withing 1-2 years Amazon will also quit AV (but keep gravue?) then what? Yahoo Japan will also quit adult? What else, Twitter? Instagram? These are all important platform for promoting AV, especially AV idols (especially their non-porn video business).
IF it does really develop along this direction then the JAV Armageddon that I kinda mention before is closer to reality. We might have AV can not show the pussy and penis (even with mosaic), so basically you can have gravue/IV and pink films but nothing like AV we have now.
https://japan.cnet.com/article/35115056/
DMM will cease to carry adult material come March 1st to focus on other areas such as English coaching and 3D printing. A new sister company Digital Commerce will inherit all current adult contents of DMM.
Rumour is that this is the first step to legitimize the DMM name and get it listed but the PR person deny the claim.
This might be the beginning of the end.
DMM has always been a legit business that also do adult, making adult on the same level as say Walmart or Barnes and Noble or HVM. Now if DMM splitting off adult business is some kind of social/moral angle (instead of say adult is losing money so sell the unit for pure finance) then it's signalling the society is really changing. Combine with all the minor news (e.g. eliminating mixed bathing onsen) from last year... Then what's the trend? Perhaps withing 1-2 years Amazon will also quit AV (but keep gravue?) then what? Yahoo Japan will also quit adult? What else, Twitter? Instagram? These are all important platform for promoting AV, especially AV idols (especially their non-porn video business).
IF it does really develop along this direction then the JAV Armageddon that I kinda mention before is closer to reality. We might have AV can not show the pussy and penis (even with mosaic), so basically you can have gravue/IV and pink films but nothing like AV we have now.