i wonder how she really feels

this is Hongo Yuzuha

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she's an idol in the group nmb48. For over 5 years she struggled in relative obscurity. then last year she posted her first gravure

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then all of a sudden her popularity skyrocketed and she's all over the place. im not shocked and i get why media that focuses on the attributes she has would want her, but she made senbatsu for the first time too. Did showing off her breasts improve her performing abilities?

im sure overall she's happy for her success regardless of how she got it. From what i understand she's a really hard worker, but i wonder if there's the slightest bit of annoyance

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funny you posted this because recently i noticed this girl is everywhere, i visit a handful of websites to find news of Jpop and i believe that since the later part of 2021 is impossible to go to a Japanese site without finding dozens of articles about her but i had no idea she was an active idol

i don't follow NMB48 so i don't know anything about her but from what you posted it's very telling

unfortunately that's the case for many girls, there is another girl that is even more popular than her, she is called Aika Sawaguchi, she was a member of a small idol group called Dela

https://jpop.fandom.com/wiki/Dela

seems she took pictures in a swimsuit and became a superstar, she became so successful that she quit the group and became a full time model

they even call her "Reiwa's gravure queen" because iirc she is the most popular gravure model

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i wonder too, i mean there is nothing wrong with being a swimsuit model but it must suck working hard for half a decade and not get noticed until you take off your clothes, if she is smart she is going leverage her popularity to further her career

but gravure is tough, working there is probably harder than just being an idol, at the end of the day you can only hope they get properly compensated for their work / don't get exploited

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i know of Aika Sawaguchi if i remember right she won some sort of gravure contest a few years back and got so popular she left her idol group to do more gravure work in tokyo.