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Let's start with an old piece of news.
Some time ago, Sega held a second screening event for the new "Like a Dragon" series of "Minato Girls' Auditions", which was open to amateurs who were over 20 years old and wanted to play "Minato Girls" in the new film.
After passing, you will not only have the opportunity to appear in the game and CG, but also have the opportunity to participate in a series of official events.
At that time, I mentioned it in newspaper B, and there was a final audition in early July or August, and the results were about to come out.
Speaking of which, in recent years, the concept of "Minato Girl" has become very popular on the Japanese Internet, and it has become so popular that various TV dramas, games, and even dark adult films have begun to appear related words. Let's talk about it this time.
There was even a young lady at the audition site to demonstrate wrestling skills:
A quick explanation.
"Minato Ward women" refers to a group of young girls in their 20s who travel around the Minato Ward area (Roppongi, Nogizaka, Azabu, Akasaka, Takanawa, etc.), where Tokyo's wealthy people gather, participate in various social gatherings, and live a glamorous life every day.
There are 23 wards in Tokyo, and Minato is neither the political center nor the oldest of the wealthy. But as a place where IT entrepreneurs, doctors and other emerging wealthy classes run everywhere, there has always been a legend of grassroots struggle to turn over.
It also has a variety of high-end apartments, high-end restaurants, and high-end entertainment facilities, and the best night view of Tokyo Bay. It is also the headquarters of the TV station, and you can see Tokyo Tower, the spiritual totem of the Japanese people.
You may not believe it when you say it, but the first time I knew about "Minato Girl" was still in the live broadcast of female voice actors. I remember that in early April last year, Ayane Sakura's agent opened an official account on Instagram and arranged a live broadcast.
At that time, Sakura mentioned that he actually had an account dedicated to INS, and he usually paid attention to vanessa (a beauty blogger with a good relationship), favorite clothing brands, and the INS dynamics of some women in Minato.
"I've mentioned it on the radio program before, and the oversized women of the Oupai port area (laughs). After paying attention, the recommendations to me are all European pies, and there will be all kinds of things, nail art photos and the like. ”
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Later, several live broadcasts, Sakura Ayane talked about a "European super-large port woman" who has recently paid attention, and the young lady got a motorcycle and a conditioning certificate, and is ready to travel around Japan, with some envy in her words.
When my best friend Vanessa watched the live broadcast, she also posted a barrage to complain, what's going on with this woman Sakura, she keeps saying the story of a super-large port woman in Europe, and it makes "oversized in Europe" look like the surname of a woman in Hong Kong!
The speech was a little explosive, thanks to the fact that Sakura is also a woman. In fact, the "Minato women" who follow the Internet are more female fans. You can simply substitute the usage scenario of Xiaohongshu in China.
(↑↑↑ INS Minato-ku "Happongi" label contents.) Of course, there are a lot of club girls, which are still slightly different from the "Minato girls" we talked about today)
As urban cattle and horses, they often have to face two ultimate questions: one is "what to eat during the day", and the other is "where to go at night". Two questions, one about survival and the other about life.
But the women in Minato are different. They are keen to amplify their lives and post them online to gain the envy of their peers. Share life during the day, drink champagne as water, share the nightlife at night, and party and party at night.
The beautiful women of Minato Ward, wearing black and white plain sleeveless sweaters like the cover of the magazine "Tokyo Calendar (東京カレンダー)", convey an elitist and upper-class atmosphere, which is very popular with Sakura girls on the Internet.
(It is said that the concept of "Minato Girl" was also hyped up from this magazine.)
Sakura girls, in particular, who are around 19 years old, often have a strong desire to become famous, and yearn for the metropolis that is drunk in the media - and the women in Minato are simply the "ideal image" that they yearn for in their melancholy school days.
Earlier, there was a Japanese buzzword called "sparkling woman" (キラキラ女)", which was used to describe fashionable women who were active on social media, but now the ecological niche has been replaced by "Minato women".
(In the Japanese drama "Tokyo Women's Illustrated", a man from Minato who socialized with the heroine,
The original work was originally a manga serialized in Tokyo Calendar magazine.)
When many Hong Kong women's accounts become bigger, they will even set up LINE (equivalent to WeChat in Japan) groups to maintain their female networks and introduce them to offline networking parties.
Then he turned his head and sold his value to the rich guys around him: "I know a lot of lovely female friends", so as to receive more invitations, step by step to be taken to other circles, and make more partners and spare tire wallets.
In fact, it is to regard "friend relationships" as a sexual resource to please others. There is a vivid example recently - "Yua Mikami" teacher should know everything, right? Don't pretend to be a decent gentleman with BB, you know.
Japan's TV Asahi has a variety show called "Bad Teacher, Don't Be Like Me!! (しくじり先生 俺みたいになるな!! ）。 As the name suggests, the show will invite celebrities to teach by example, talk about their past failures, and expose some industry secrets.
From the 229th issue on June 7th, the production team invited Yua Mikami, who has retired from the industry, to do two episodes of the program in a row. Mikami tells the story of when his career was booming, he got lost in the nightlife of Minato-ku, Tokyo, was forced to retreat from the rapids due to a scandal, and went to the sea to become an A0 actress.
She said that she was a small transparent bottom in the second phase of SKE48, and finally accumulated a little popularity by taking swimsuit photos, and began to get a little carried away. At that time, a male friend of a friend invited her to a party in Minato-ku, Tokyo—like a "devil's invitation".
She said that she was from a regional city, and that she had never seen the glittering nightlife of Tokyo, and that she couldn't resist the temptation to see the world. After I went, I really saw a new world, and there were handsome male stars who can only be seen on TV, and I drank too much and was obsessed with Kiss with male stars.
(Local city: A city that exists outside of a large city or agglomeration area, and the Internet in Japan generally counts all cities outside of Tokyo by default.) Kyoto Lord is an exception, no one looks down on it)
(The "national" idol was once burned for the scandal)
The girl group has strict rules of "no love", "no communication with fans" and "no use of social media", after all, something happens that will affect the basic market of fans. At that time, she felt that these rules were too troublesome, anyway, she was not a member of the center, so it was no big deal to violate them!
However, the man who invited her to the party was secretly filming the whole time, and he turned around and sold the photos to Gossip Weekly. Then he was caught up by fans because of the scandal, his scheduled personal job was gone, and the stage occupancy was gradually marginalized, so he could only retire from the idol in a hurry.
(Occupy the very edge of the place, and there is no cheering for the part where it is your turn to perform)
Just when Mikami's acting career fell into a trough and he didn't know what to do, Rigan (Trumpet) was also exposed by a trusted friend. It was a private personal account that she applied for before her idol activities, and she usually used it to spit black mud, and only 17 friends who had a good relationship knew about it.
"Girlfriend" screenshotted all the content of the trumpet for three years, and fell into the well before the graduation performance (she still doesn't know who did it). Mikami realized that he was riddled with black materials, and it was no longer possible to take the route of the entertainment industry "cleanly", so he simply agreed to the earlier invitation of Company A0.
(Trumpet exposed!) Idol debuted as a sexy actress by Da Yanshang)
After his debut in the dark world, Mikami moved to Tokyo, but after a year or two, he began to get tired of life in Minato Ward and felt that it was not suitable for work. In an interview with Wenchun, she revealed that the original purpose was not to make money.
Her dream has always been to be an actress, to be famous, to enter this world just to use it as a springboard and then do something else. Unexpectedly, her debut was unexpectedly popular, and she was probably able to buy a second-hand 2LDK (two-bedroom apartment) apartment, and even DMM people came to persuade her to continue working.
Everyone knows the rest of the story. You see, Ms. Mikami is now too famous, and she can be regarded as living the life of a stereotypical "Minato Girl". usually shares makeup and runs trendy brands, and in the show, she said that the ratio of male and female fans at offline meetings is about 7:3.
Indeed, there are quite a few people who are attracted to this style of life.
If you search for "Minato Girls" on Google Trends, you'll find that the term gradually emerged around 2015, exploded in 2017-2018, and has continued to increase since then. It coincides with the trajectory of Mikami's rise.
Using the thinking of "archery around the target" to explain indiscriminately is probably taking advantage of the east wind of the information age. In the past, social media was not developed, and everyone made a fortune behind closed doors, and they didn't know what kind of life each other was doing.
Now it's different, with the wireless network, the lives of men and women in the port area break into your mobile phones. It is said that most of the Japanese Internet celebrities who are now a little famous, especially the YouTube owners in the fashion and lifestyle category, live in Minato Ward.
Internet villagers also like to satirize the nouveau riche who squeeze their heads to go to the port area, as if only by living there is to say goodbye to the local taste and become one of the upper class. Including the "Minato Girl" itself, it has become an abstract online concept.
(Even a woman from Minato Ward is beginning to resent being called a "Minato Woman")
Say a digression that doesn't count as off-topic.
When I watch TV dramas and anime, I often come across a self-deprecating saying that "everything except Tokyo is rural" – not that other places are really countryside.
However, Tokyo is a megacity with a lot of culture and entertainment, and you can find it no matter what kind of niche activities you like, such as art exhibitions, concerts, clubs and bars.
However, when young people in the "countryside" turn off their mobile phone screens and look up at the reality that the shops are almost closed at 7 or 8 o'clock and there is no nightlife, they feel a little sorry for themselves.
It is probably the "life" in metaphysics. Ordinary people who realize the bottom of their fate have only two choices instinctively: one is to admit their fate, and the other is to be unwilling. It's like a little match girl, lying on the window and drooling, and she can have anything in her dreams.
Even before they had a driver's license, many people felt that they couldn't go anywhere, couldn't take a long detour after school, and felt that the whole person was incomplete — a symptom that lasted until they had their own car, or "went to Beijing".
("Honda Wolf and I", a 16-year-old in Japan can take a driver's license for light motorcycles)
The women in the port area of "Shangjing" meet all the imaginations of celebrities in the past, they are rich, idle, and glorious, but at the same time they come from the bottom.
Throwing everything from the past, he turned around and ran to the metropolis, thinking that it would be the Eden paradise where love and romance were intertwined, but it was nothing more than a mottled fantasy.
Hardly a single Minato girl was born in Minato. Their superficial identities are often OLs, fashion magazine readers, models, yoga instructors, or high-end pastry chefs, etc., but the actual source of income will always be a mystery.
The mystery represents uncertainty and possibility, this is the cyber Cinderella story of the new era, and I don't know how the new work of "Like a Dragon" will interpret this interpersonal ecology.
Of course, any hot topic on the Internet will eventually become a stereotype, abstracted into a kind of fictional artistic image - the source of life, and finally higher than life.
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