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On the night of September 13, Gentosha editor Kōsuke Minowa posted on his X (formerly Twitter) account: “The way hosts act all high-and-mighty, spouting life lessons — it makes me sick to begin with.” It was a personal take on the host club industry, but the reaction on 5ch didn’t stop at simple agreement. Since Minowa himself was previously reported to have had an affair, a wave of pushback picked apart his own past instead, with comments like “You’re no different” and “Don’t go lecturing people while ignoring your own affair.” Rather than debating the host industry itself, the thread ended up centering on “who’s doing the talking.”
Kōsuke Minowa shares his opinion on some hosts: “The way they act all high-and-mighty, spouting life lessons, makes me sick to begin with”
Gentosha editor Kōsuke Minowa updated his X account on the night of the 13th, sharing his personal thoughts on hosts.
Minowa opened with: “The way hosts act all high-and-mighty, spouting life lessons — it makes me sick to begin with.”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Makes sense.
but you're no different yourself.
is basically the same as a host, if you ask me.
Sure, everyone's entitled to their own likes, dislikes, and impressions, that's fine. But I think there's a line a grown adult ought to draw.
Playing it exactly by the 'this is how you make it sell' playbook.
Well played.
I get sick too watching some shady editor act all high-and-mighty.
Apparently over 80% of their customers are sex workers.
Is he talking about guys like Roland?
Did a host steal Ikechan away from him?
well, nothing compared to the world-renowned editor, the great Professor Minowa, of course.
and honestly, I think all he's doing is going out of his way to make himself a laughingstock to the public.
This trend of praising ex-gangsters for 'going straight' is childish,
and it makes me sick when those guys get a taste of a normal life and suddenly get full of themselves, lecturing everyone about right and wrong.
Though some of them are actually wrongly convicted people
that the media railroaded into looking like criminals
by piling up lies.
some of them are the good kind who look out for their neighborhood.
but for some reason hostesses get glorified too,
and that's pretty messed up as well —
they're cut from the same cloth.
Even at the hostess-club level, they don't bother with broke young guys.
Though you do get idiot kids committing crimes to earn money so they can play at a hostess club.
Background and Key Points of This Story
Kōsuke Minowa is a Gentosha editor known for bestsellers like Tadōryoku (“The Power of Action”) and for launching numerous celebrities’ books into the world; in 2020, a weekly tabloid reported that he’d had an affair. The backlash to this latest post centered less on the substance of his criticism of the host industry than on the fact that he was lecturing others while glossing over his own past. At the same time, some in the thread also pointed to real issues in the industry — exorbitant billing at host clubs, hosts steering customers into sex work — so a fair number of posters did agree with what Minowa actually said. Note: comments mocking real individuals’ appearance or private lives, and inappropriate posts referencing actual criminal or suicide cases, have been excluded from this article as unverifiable slander or otherwise lacking in consideration.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Geinou/Sports Breaking News+) thread “Kōsuke Minowa shares his opinion on some hosts: “The way hosts act all high-and-mighty, spouting life lessons, makes me sick to begin with”.”
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