The Underrated or Severely Overrated Porn Stars Or Porn ANYTHING THREAD

[gregorsamsa]

So, I saw this recent thread here and replied, and mentioned our discussion here about Hamasaki Mao, and then I remembered Uehara Ai

She's probably been mentioned in this thread already, but how do you guys feel about her? I haven't seen a lot of her stuff, but my impression is that she's one of the pros, meaning that her fame might be well-earned. But, again, as someone who hasn't seen a lot of her work, it would be interesting to hear your opinions

Maybe share the movies with her that were surprisingly lame, i.e., you expected much more being that it's Uehara Ai? Is she underrated, fairly-rated, overrated?

I have only seen like three movies with her, and they all left me satisfied (just to remind you, I'm mostly interested in oral stuff, so...): REAL-535, XRW-149 and ASW-186

 

[BDrake]

So, I saw this recent thread here and replied, and mentioned our discussion here about Hamasaki Mao, and then I remembered Uehara Ai

She's probably been mentioned in this thread already, but how do you guys feel about her? I haven't seen a lot of her stuff, but my impression is that she's one of the pros, meaning that her fame might be well-earned. But, again, as someone who hasn't seen a lot of her work, it would be interesting to hear your opinions

Maybe share the movies with her that were surprisingly lame, i.e., you expected much more being that it's Uehara Ai? Is she underrated, fairly-rated, overrated?

I have only seen like three movies with her, and they all left me satisfied (just to remind you, I'm mostly interested in oral stuff, so...): REAL-535, XRW-149 and ASW-186

Ai Uehara is definitely a legend for a reason.

 

[Taako]

Aimi Yoshikawa. A beloved jav starlet. Adore by fans across the board.
Beautiful face. Knockout body. Big, naturals boobs! Gorgeous, shapely ass.
Very likable and sweet in her videos. Try hard to give you the best performances...

And yet, for me, she sits on the fence of underrated and overrated.

I like at her movies(if they pop in my feed) then I become curious again to see her.

BUT after, I'm left somewhat frustrated because I feel she has the potential for so much more.

She's not Julia who dodges, RION who worry more about her appearances,
or Mio the super, dead fish boring actress.

But Aimi just seem like she didn't want to be there... in porn I mean. Her performances while not bad
seemed like she was holding back in most of her movies. My personal opinion.

So... with that said. She is slightly overrated in her performances but underrated in her
beauty and gorgeous body. If she's into escorting, she will make more money there as a result.

She had way too much potential and was clearly there for the money only, moreso than the
experience of the industry. If that makes sense.

I don't know. But when she retired, I was not surprised.

 

[Taako]

So, I saw this recent thread here and replied, and mentioned our discussion here about Hamasaki Mao, and then I remembered Uehara Ai

She's probably been mentioned in this thread already, but how do you guys feel about her? I haven't seen a lot of her stuff, but my impression is that she's one of the pros, meaning that her fame might be well-earned. But, again, as someone who hasn't seen a lot of her work, it would be interesting to hear your opinions.

There is no question, Uehara Ai deserves all the praises.
She gave it her all to the industry and gave us solid roles even if they didn't matched her
energy. She was a solid actress. She loved her fans and was graceful for opportunities to be part
of the industry.
She was a role model for those coming to the industry. She had great energy and
if any was underrated about her was her body.

Uehara Ai had a nice, somewhat big butt and big breasts. She wasn't too skinny and she was a good
size gal that I figure that would give it to you as much as you give her.

Her bj scenes were great and she seemed to love performing her scenes with lots of energy.
Her pussy look very tasty and her butt was nice and fat.

She was/is a beautiful, natural looking woman. Very pretty.

Uehara Ai is not overrated. She is a legend and deserves that title.
She deserve endless retirement videos because to me, you just want more Ai.

 

[BDrake]

Aimi Yoshikawa. A beloved jav starlet. Adore by fans across the board.
Beautiful face. Knockout body. Big, naturals boobs! Gorgeous, shapely ass.
Very likable and sweet in her videos. Try hard to give you the best performances...

And yet, for me, she sits on the fence of underrated and overrated.

I like at her movies(if they pop in my feed) then I become curious again to see her.

BUT after, I'm left somewhat frustrated because I feel she has the potential for so much more.

She's not Julia who dodges, RION who worry more about her appearances,
or Mio the super, dead fish boring actress.

But Aimi just seem like she didn't want to be there... in porn I mean. Her performances while not bad
seemed like she was holding back in most of her movies. My personal opinion.

So... with that said. She is slightly overrated in her performances but underrated in her
beauty and gorgeous body. If she's into escorting, she will make more money there as a result.

She had way too much potential and was clearly there for the money only, moreso than the
experience of the industry. If that makes sense.

I don't know. But when she retired, I was not surprised.

I agree. Her performances were boring, despite her beauty and body.

 

[gaijin2006]

Taako went berserk answering vesania999
I was like


I don't know if my perception is correct but I feel that Madonna is very much a vanilla studio betting a lot on big (both in terms of popularity and curves) actresses like Julia
I might be totally wrong, but that's the kind of perception I have for some reason

So, they will naturally be... too bland for most of here? Writing that, I assume, of course, that the majority of users here have gone past vanilla in their preferences. And I would say that in the West, this might be true. But I don't have any proof, Taako-san

Like, if you ask me to name some of the other studios I know (by memory, so no looking anywhere except for checking if I'm correct about the studio name and not mixing up the studio and one of its labels) and give a short impression of each... Note beforehand that I'm mostly interested in oral stuff in JAV, so...

• Natural HIgh — lots of creativity, quality filming, but nothing "too extreme"
• Hunter — possibly the best choice for those who don't want "plain vanilla" but something like "vanilla with topping"; I feel that it says a lot
• DANDY — possibly one of the top studios, with quite creative works in different situations, from household stuff, to hospitals, to flight cabins (I personally feel that they focus a lot on the nursing stuff, which I love — or maybe I just watch the nursing stuff mostly, hence the distorted perception; also, I would say that if SOD and DANDY weren't different studios, I would not be surprised: I mean, their stuff feels very similar to me)
• Radix (NEO and GUN labels among others) — now this one might be not that creative in terms of "large-scale projects" (compared to Rockets etc.) but they are definitely not vanilla; they're more like hardcore gonzo in the West; niche stuff
• Rocket — lots of creativity, gave me a lot of "that's-Japan-they're-mad boners"; possibly a big studio, big budgets and projects
• SOD — possibly one of the giants, lots of creativity as well, big budgets, top actresses, huge projects
• Real Works — possibly one of the best studios in terms of overall "quality feel" of their titles; clearly more on the fetish side but doesn't feel "too extreme"
• Office K's — possibly a bigger studio as well, has a lot of long-running series in lots of labels, lots of quality oral stuff
• SPC (aka asfur) — a niche studio for all of those who love gokkun and oral in general
• Sex Agent — specializes in oral as well, I feel; lots of titles, but very many of them might just be compilations as the study in my thread linked below shows; even if they're just compiling stuff, they are also quite creative
• Fitch — the "glamorous" one, high-quality works but not much niche stuff, more like gonzo but with style
• Waap — more like niche, quality oral stuff
• Janesu — same, kinda niche, lots of oral stuff as well

I'm sure that I missed a lot of big names, but these are the ones I was able to remember without looking at any lists. I would say that if we're talking about creativity and really high quality, I would nominate the following to the top 5, not in any particular order: SOD, Rocket, Real Works, Office K's, Natural High. And if we're talking about the niche stuff, clearly, the top 3 would be: Radix, SPC, Sex Agent (the last one I would call niche simply because of the number of themes it covers, from armpit licking to cumming on all kinds of clothes)

Obviously, nominating based on an incomplete list is also outrageous, but I feel that it's still interesting to share our views on that

P.S. I noticed that I wanted to write something more about the DANDY studio, that's why there was a "hanging" comma there; so, I have now filled that "gap"

Pretty spot-on. I find Hunter to be my personal favorite. I like Dandy and Rocket quite a bit, and Natural High is sorta hit/miss. Sometimes I feel like SOD is coasting on their past success.