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
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
※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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