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Not really surprised by AIKA not doing well on the physical front. I think about a movie/month in 2023, various quality of studios, hardly any physical versions with at least signed chekis. I'd love to see a digital sales equivalent (even if only with 2023 releases to make it somewhat comparable to DVD ranking - remove the histori advantage of veteran actresses)

re: AIKA. I agree - what makes her is her charisma. Unlike Yui, I wouldn't say that she has many more years left in the tank, but who knows. (Also in her recent post on instagram she gave a bit of a life update - first year of her beauty salon was about breakeven (with referral only system); looking to expand to a second shop in the new year, got diagnosed with manic depression (bipolar?) at some point in the summer after an unspecified accident).

I've been a fan of Marin Hinata for 2 years and this point and I'm not sure that I can agree about her retirement being 'big news'. She did her 2-3 years at S1, 1 choppy year at Premium and that was that. Her body was great, but she's been a super middling performer. Nothing to write home about I think.

In response to ZENRA's comment

Curiously, looks like they were on DMM, but no more. ( I think we can guess the reason). Their likes on twitter show a Maria Nagai post linking to her movie from them on DMM (from end of Oct this year) and the link gives a 404 error (with/without VPN + not the same error code as shows for geofenced stuff). Checked for that tag on DMM, nothing shows.

A new paysite sprung up - favemode (twitter: favemode_japan). They launched in October, but have content that was shot way back in 2022 (an AIKA x Yuzu Sumeragi vid that I know for a fact was shot in Spring 2022 + some Yuu Shinoda stuff and she's been exclusive since spring 2023). On the face of it, a regular paysite with download option. I'll give it a go next week.