Yes, I think that her experience help her perform professionally. A Pop Idol can be a harsh environment too. It's just up to her to learn how the things work in porn industry. Beside, I'm wondering about her priority, is it her former popularity to boost her AV career or her AV career to boost her Pop Idol popularity.
I think she knows how things in the AV industry work, she got paid big for her first TEK released, and leveraged that one video into "Stardom" and eventually a move to S1S1, I don't think she's had to deal with the harsh AV environment and if things stay how they are for her she won't ever Do you see how fast she got to the top?
Also she doesn't really have the talent to be a successful pop Idol, at best she can hope to do a Sora Aoi type thing, where she could eventually make a living off of Music, and B-movies but never hits mainstream stardom
I agree with most if not all your saying. But I think and hope that she will stay in the industry for the long haul, because despite her attempt to try to break out into the mainstream. She hasn't seem to have to much success. I think that in order for her to stay in the industry for a long time maybe 10+ years. with our wasting way and save her self for a post AV career. I Think that she should save her more risky and crazy videos genres for one or two times a years. Ideally once a year. So basically do your standard safe and classic jav genres vidoes that S1 and other major studios are accustom to making with their eyes closes. But once a year do a really big and out there jav movies that will her fans and the whole jav industry a buzz. This way she doesn't grow tire of the av industry and quit/retire because she doesn't feel she has to do more and extreme av genres to stay on top. Lucky for her she has the looks and this strange weird it factor about her that unfortunately hasn't translate to huge success but has and will seem to allow her to constantly get well paying work from every av studio.
Eh who needs 10 years from AV idols anyway, 2-4 years and a solid supply is all I need. Acky has been in over 10 years and besides aging she hasn't really done anything unique in that time, Yui Kazami has also been around a long time, and has done a lot but she's stayed in the same spot her whole career.
I completely agree. Minami Kojima is crazy cute and beautiful. but her last couple of releases have been lack luster. Which is a huge wast given her looks, past performances and general talent.
personally I don't think her performances have changed at all, she's just gotten older.
she need to work with other studios
most of the themes from S1 now are boring
I really think she's best where she is, Personally i would like her at SOD to do videos with her Bestie Sakura Mana, but I think she would fade much quicker if she did work for other studios, but she's gotten passed by quite a bit and changing up studios would hurt her more then help her.
I really like S1 when they where brought us jav idols like Sora Aoi, Maria Ozawa, Risa Kasumi, Yuma Asami, Yua Aida and Kirara Asuka. but they never seem to grow past the movie themes that these idols help make popular in their hail day. S1 still has a lot of beautiful idols with nice bodies and cute face, but the problem is that every studio has hot and beautiful girls now. It's not like back then when only a few major studios had a sizeable lineup of beautiful idols. This fact given with the fact that they produce the same movie genres over and over again with each girl doesn't help their case to create buzz around new idols. it like " another beautiful/hot girl in another soapland/school sex movie.
I mean why change and risk hurting your audience? they are still a top 3 studio, plus are backed by Hokuto they don't really have anything to lose doing what they've always done. Like Attackers is r*** genre, if they went and did some Vanilla stuff they would rapidly fall.
totally agree with you, compare to other studios S1 is lack of creativity, lack of special videos, now they started to collect the most famous and pretty girls again, but it doesn't help if they still keep their boring themes
I mean they don't seem to be hurting doing what they always do, and keep getting the prettiest and best girls people will still keep coming if they like those actresses.
Here's my read/biased view of YM.
Personally I would be happy if she just settle down as a regular S-class career idol. To take a objective look at it (see her filmography so far), she wouldn't deserve S-class but I agree she has that rare it factor. So S-class she is. But I'm not sure the various perks of S-class AV idol is enough to satisfy her. Seems she craves more...
I don't think she's satisfied with the jav industry, she was one and done originally but her release made so much money Muteki offered her money she couldn't refuse so she came back and just kept growing and growing, She would probably prefer mainstream so she's going to stick as a top class type girl, until she thinks she's big enough to try and go mainstream she could pull a Sora Aoi and make a steady living with music, and B-Movies but never a star, she has the it factor, but not the talent to be mainstream star.
