Former popular idol， 42， goes independent， then gets into debt， receives welfare， “even my family has abandoned me” and talks about her current situation after filing for bankruptcy．
0001Shogun of the Expeditionary Forces★.Sep. 28, 2024 (Sat) 09:14:56.40ID:69XQt7Cq9
Daily 9/27 TV Tokyo’s “Jikkuri Kiite Taro” aired late at night on the 26th, with a 42-year-old former idol appearing. He revealed that after receiving welfare benefits, he filed for bankruptcy. On this day, the show featured “A special on female celebrities who were all the rage.” Masae Otani (42) appeared along with former popular gravure idol Kanako Kojima and others. Otani debuted as a member of the popular idol group Melon Kinenbi in 2000 at the age of 17. The group disbanded after about 10 years of activity. He left his agency and started anew as a freelancer. However, he was unable to pay his taxes the year after he was released and had to work part-time. While working part-time in a factory sorting products for Amazon and drugstores, she also pursued her talent activities despite being “unable to complain” about her extremely low pay. At the age of 36, he started a distribution app and began earning “an average of 300,000 yen (per month), and sometimes as much as 500,000 yen.” So he “quit all his part-time jobs” and focused on streaming, but with the COVID-19 pandemic causing a large influx of “night-workers (women)” entering the streaming world, his income from tips plummeted. “At its lowest, it was around 15,000 yen (per month),” he said. Money was spent on equipment and sets to “improve the quality (of the broadcasts),” and expenses also increased in an effort to make the broadcasts “Instagrammable.” As a result, his debt ballooned to 5 million yen. “I borrowed money from people I could rely on, but I reached my limit. I asked my family for help, but when I told them the figure of 5 million, they were shocked and pushed me away.” He started receiving welfare benefits in 2020, at the age of 38. He explained that the benefit was not used to repay his debts, and that he “rebuilt his life while receiving welfare benefits, and then filed for bankruptcy at the age of 39.” According to the program, she is currently not receiving welfare benefits, works as a nail artist, and continues to work in the entertainment industry as a singer.
>>3 If it’s just the broadcasting equipment, a few hundred thousand yen is enough, but if it’s a soundproof room or lighting, it’s probably in the millions. If you add in advertising costs, it might be around that amount.
>>3 It’s possible that they’re being taken advantage of because they don’t know about performance or the market price They’re being sold equipment worth about 500,000 for 5 million.
I liked Kojima Kanako. From Gokuaku Jooujo. I’m looking up the female pro wrestlers I used to watch, and Inoue Takako and Shimoda Mima have both turned into gorgeous mature women, it’s the best.
>>6 I could understand if it was something like an illness, but a failed stream and borrowing money to look good and then getting welfare is too lenient…
He quit his part-time job, focused on making money the easy way, and filed for bankruptcy. I think he’s out of the question, but people who try to do something with their own bodies are more sensible.
>>43 H!P pays them properly from the moment they become popular among talent agencies, they’re one of the white-collar ones and they take good care of them because at bad talent agencies, even if they’re popular they don’t make any money.
Even though his income has dropped to 10,000 yen a month, relying on new equipment and the main project to look good is too weak. Everyone else does all of that as a matter of course. If his family had to pay for it, he’d end up in even more debt.
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