Recently, one of the biggest events in the Japanese entertainment industry is the 10th Miss Teen Japan 2021 Finals, which has just come to an end.
As one of the world's three major beauty pageants, this contest is the first threshold for Japan to select Miss Universe, and many contestants who have come out of here have also represented Japan in overseas beauty contests. At the same time, this event is also seen by many people in the industry as a channel to the show business circle, and many potential female stars have appeared among the players born in the past.
For example, Yuai Shinkawa, who is known for her tall stature and generous temperament in today's drama industry, and Hira Yuna, who has bright facial features and is fashionable and cute, are the champions of the previous Miss Teen Japan.
From the appearance and temperament of the two, it can be seen that Miss Teen Japan's aesthetic of the contestants is more focused on gentle and sweet and transparent beauties.
But what is puzzling is that Miss Teen Japan, which has always taken the orthodox beauty pageant route, has repeatedly turned over the reputation of the champion in the past two years.
For example, in this year's preliminary round, the 13 candidates selected from the 5645 candidates collected in five major cities, including Sapporo, Tokyo and Nagoya, were immediately criticized by countless netizens as soon as they were announced. But from the headshots of these players, you can also understand the mood of netizens.
After a round of rigorous trials and talent competitions, the championship was won by the 13-year-old Suzuki Shuang. The runner-up runner-up and the special prize of the jury were also spent on the camp of junior high school girls.
As soon as the news came out, the dissatisfaction with the selection results among the networks was endless. In addition to being skeptical about the appearance of the winners, there are also many netizens who feel that the age of the contestants is showing a trend of younger age, and the blind "white skinny" aesthetic makes the Japanese beauty pageant champions younger and younger, and the appearance value is getting lower and lower.....
This kind of sound actually existed long before the birth of this year's champion. This is mainly because the formulas of the preliminary rounders are slightly ordinary, and the appearance of the champions in these two years is often not as good as before.
For example, at the 2018 Miss Teen Japan Trials, Sato Isako from Tokyo stood out from more than 6,500 contestants to win the championship.
Although the 16-year-old Sato Isako has a pair of beautiful legs, it is still a bit reluctant to win the championship only from the perspective of appearance. In particular, standing next to Yuai Shinkawa and Yukina Hei, this contrast makes people feel that the disparity is quite large.
The 2019 champion, Noriko Sakai, who is less than 16 years old, has been called "similar to Kentaro Ito" by the media.
Although Kentaro Ito has become a legal café because of hit-and-run, his appearance is indeed quite high in Haiyuri, Japan, but his facial features are not an advantage if they grow on the face of a girl. When commenting on Sakai Wakasa, the media would rather turn a corner and praise her with the appearance of a boy, but refuse to directly admit her beauty, which is enough to see that the beauty of the champion is not something that ordinary people can appreciate.
In addition to the increasingly young aesthetic of Miss Teen Japan, the appearance of the champion selected by the Junon Superboy Contest, which has given birth to countless Japanese male gods in the past two years, has also appeared to be young and mediocre.
Founded by the popular magazine JUNON, the 33-year-old competition is aimed at boys aged 12 to 22 who have no acting experience.
In previous tournaments, the Junon Superboy Contest has unearthed popular male stars such as Tetsuhei Koike, Takashi Kashiwara, Shinji Takeda, Indigo Fujioka, Junpei Mizobata, and Shoko Sugata.
Although the appearance of these male stars has its own characteristics, from the perspective of appearance, they are all beautiful male images that conform to the public's aesthetics.
But among the 11,758 players who registered this year, we saw more of the looks of passers-by. The final winner of the 14-year-old champion, Maekawa Yu, was even more spat at for being useless beyond his young age...........
In fact, in the past decade, the general decline in the Japanese entertainment industry has become a consensus, whether it is the selection of national beauty girls or Toho Cinderella, the final winner of the selection may not be able to win in the same class of players, and it is not necessary to say that they compete with their predecessors.
For example, the "All Japan National Beauty Girls Competition", which has a history of 33 years and is known as the most authoritative competition for cultivating stars, has won a number of actresses such as Ryoko Yonekura, Ueto Sai, and Takei Sakura, but also unearthed popular singers like Anliang Johiro.
The champions born in recent years, such as Hikari Takahashi and Saihana Inoue, are unanimously considered too mediocre.
This phenomenon is also reflected in another major star-making event in Japan, "Toho Cinderella".
The audition for the rookie show, hosted by Japan's largest film company Toho Pictures, has been scouting for actresses with excellent acting skills and appearances since the 1950s. From Yasuko Sawaguchi, who amazed a generation of movie fans in the Showa era, to yuki Saito, who is pure and lovely, to Masami Nagasawa, the goddess of today's drama industry.
The "Toho Cinderella", which has always been aesthetically online, has never been questioned by the public in terms of the appearance of the contestants. But cinderella, which has been elected in recent years, has been ridiculed by netizens one after another. The kami-shiraishi and Kami-Shiraishi sisters selected in 2011 alone have been on the Japanese hot search many times because they were crushed in the same frame as their predecessors.
However, when seeing that the Kami-Shiraishi sisters and Nagasawa Masami are in the same frame, the "tragic" scene in the comparison cannot be said to be slightly different, it is simply a world of difference! Can aesthetic cliff to such an extent, it is no wonder that netizens feel that Toho pills.
Compared with these few still barely worthy of being called cute champions, what is more unacceptable to the public is that the appearance of the Miss World Japan champion in recent years is also more puzzling than one.
On the Vietnamese Twitter a few days ago, on the 30th generation of Japanese entertainment actresses produced by a Vietnamese fan, we could see different styles of different types of beautiful women. It's hard to imagine what it will be like in another decade.
Therefore, some netizens have said that in the relaxed era, the Japanese beauty pageant circle may be difficult to produce a bright big star.