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Gravure idol Jun Amaki (30) updated her Instagram on the 23rd to announce her marriage to keirin cyclist Yuki Sasaki. Amaki, who had already declared she’d retire from gravure work this summer, shared a two-shot photo with her husband, in a wedding dress, taken at a keirin velodrome. On 5ch, comments piled up both pointing out how hard the thread title was to parse and discussing the ongoing trend of gravure idols marrying athletes from public sports like keirin and kyotei (boat racing).
2026.08.23
Gravure idol Jun Amaki (30) updated her own Instagram on the 23rd, announcing her marriage to keirin cyclist Yuki Sasaki.
Having turned 30 and already declared she’d retire from gravure work this summer, Amaki gushed, “No matter what, he’s an incredibly warm presence who gently wraps me in kindness,” and added, “I want us to be a fun couple who can still hold hands even after we’ve become grandpa and grandma.” She posted several photos, including a two-shot with her husband, in a wedding dress, at a keirin velodrome. Below is Amaki’s full announcement.
Source: daily.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Thought it was a same-sex marriage for a second
There was a segment on ABEMA in some raunchy show that rounded up big-bust gravure idols, and she got into a trash-talk battle with Mina Shirakawa (now active in the US). She got genuinely riled up by Shirakawa's jabs and started clicking her tongue, going full "you wanna go?" — her real delinquent side came out hard, it was hilarious.
In the end she couldn't fire back at all and burst into tears, and Shirakawa piled on with lines like "that's a fake actress cry" and "don't try to cry your way into likability" — the whole thing worked as proper variety TV.
(Looking at that photo) Can't even tell which one's the guy
Read that way, it sounds like "the husband in the wedding dress"
Lately there are a lot of people writing sentences with zero regard for the reader
It's not about regard for the reader — they just can't write proper Japanese. They can't pick the right words to describe a situation, and they don't even notice something's off. There was even a thread title that used "guzutsuita" (a word for drizzly, unsettled weather) instead of "guzutta" (fussed/threw a tantrum) to describe a fussy kid. "Guzutsuita" is weather-forecast terminology for overcast, showery skies — not a word for a child's mood.
The guy who started the thread is the one who wrote the title, right?
Not just Daily Sports — sports-paper web articles in general are often terrible
That's Marina Nagasawa (30)
She's been in the industry for ages
If you really push it, almost until 60. Top-class riders usually decide to retire around their mid-40s. Keirin has this "line" concept — even though it's technically an individual sport, it works like a team sport too — so if you switch roles and find a good fit, your career can run pretty long. The class system is also clearly defined; these days even the bottom-tier "Challenge Class" can earn you 10 million yen.
Who's the kyotei example?
Probably just Goto Shoyuki's "Oshiri-zu" girl? (a nickname playing on "oshiri," meaning butt)
These days it's more like baseball players themselves have become the last refuge for idols and female celebrities who missed their window to settle down
Not sure if it was a hit or not, but back in 2019 there was an NHK drama written by Yoshiko Morishita and starring Yuki Sakurai called "Dakara Watashi wa Oshimashita" ("That's Why I Became Her Fan") — she was one of the idol group members the main character was a fan of.
Haven't got a clue what that is lol
Not a single part of that rang a bell lol
They're just on a completely different level lol
If anything, overlapping with them actually helped — she got featured alongside Riku-Ryu in the web news and stood out more.
Not that she's really the kind of talent who'd normally land a top news slot lol
If she were still popular and in demand, she'd probably keep working though
The two of them were in "Koe Girl" together (a talent/audition show)
Their thighs are thicker around than a woman's waist
Background and Key Points
Keirin is one of Japan’s four “kōei kyōgi” (publicly-operated gambling sports, alongside horse racing, motorboat racing/kyotei, and auto racing), created in 1948 under the JKA to fund local-government reconstruction budgets. Riders are licensed professionals ranked in a class system (S1/S2, A1–A3) that resets twice yearly based on results, and even the bottom “Challenge Class” now nets around ¥10 million a year, which is why commenters note career riders can keep racing into their 50s if they find a niche within the sport’s team-like “line” tactics. Gravure idol, meanwhile, is a distinct, non-nude swimsuit/lingerie modeling track in Japanese entertainment, generally a tier below mainstream actresses or idol-group members — Amaki’s biggest brush with fame was a minor role tied to a 2019 NHK drama most posters had never heard of.
The thread didn’t really argue over the marriage itself; the closest thing to a split was whether her news getting overshadowed by the Miura-Kihara figure-skating story was bad luck or actually useful exposure, with one camp saying they’re simply a different tier of celebrity and another arguing the overlap got her more web coverage than she’d normally receive. Otherwise the posts drifted into grammar-nerd territory, mocking the ambiguous headline phrasing and sports-tabloid writing standards generally.
What outside readers likely miss is the pattern behind “gravure idol marries keirin/kyotei racer”: these public-sport athletes offer unusually stable, well-documented incomes compared to entertainment work, making them a quietly common marriage target once idols age out of peak visibility — a dynamic the thread jokes about but never explains in economic terms.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “Gravure idol Jun Amaki (30), retiring this summer, marries keirin cyclist Yuki Sasaki — a two-shot with her husband in a wedding dress”.
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