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In a hotel room in Toshima Ward, Tokyo, actress Seika Abe (27), who had been working under the stage name “Shin Serina,” and Shota Sugawara (32), a senior member of a Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi-affiliated crime syndicate, were arrested on suspicion of possessing cocaine. On 5ch forums, users were stunned to learn that Abe was a former competitive swimmer with experience at the Junior Olympics, and that she had gone through a string of stage-name changes — “Serina Asahi,” then “Serina Tsutsumi” — since debuting in adult videos.
Tue, Aug 25, 7:17 PM
A man described as the top figure in a “tokuryu” (a loosely organized, ad-hoc crime network, as opposed to a traditional yakuza syndicate) and a woman working as an actress were arrested for possessing cocaine in a hotel room in Toshima Ward, Tokyo.
Arrested on suspicion of violating the Narcotics Control Act were Shota Sugawara (32), a senior member of a Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi-affiliated crime syndicate, and Seika Abe (27), who works as an actress under the name “Shin Serina.”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
After that she went freelance, switched agencies a couple times, changed her name to Serina Asahi and then Serina Tsutsumi, and now she's working under the name Shin Serina.
Turns out this "tokuryu" crowd isn't that impressive after all.
Once a guy gets money and power, all he really does is drink, eat, and chase women.
Maybe torture-murder as a hobby too (like Epstein).
Though they say the real top guys don't touch drugs.
This one's using, so he's probably just small fry.
Textbook combo right there lol
I thought "Shin Serina" meant that guy.
Kind of like the Kasei Taishu thing (a famous case of two people fighting over rights to the same stage name).
Maybe she doesn't want the "mainstream" label.
It'd have to be written in katakana as "SHIN Serina" for that (like the "Shin" in Shin Godzilla).
Gonna lay off it for a while.
Seriously, that's exactly what I thought too.
there's no escaping this lineup at this point, so maybe it's for the best she got caught?
lol a boxer snuck into that list somehow
Reality is setting in
This one's the real deal too.
Background and Key Points
Japan’s National Police Agency began using the term “tokuryu” (匿流, short for “anonymous and fluid criminal groups”) around 2023 to describe crime networks that recruit members ad hoc through social media and encrypted apps for one-off jobs — scams, robberies, drug deals — rather than through the lifelong hierarchical membership of a traditional yakuza syndicate like the Yamaguchi-gumi. The two categories are officially treated as distinct, which is what makes this case odd: Sugawara is described both as a senior figure in a Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi-linked syndicate and as a “tokuryu” leader, blurring a line police and media have worked hard to draw. No poster in the thread engages with that overlap; they treat “yakuza” and “tokuryu” as interchangeable punchlines, when the more interesting story is that old-guard organized crime appears to be operating through these looser, harder-to-prosecute networks.
The thread’s actual disagreement is narrower than it looks: most posts pile onto the word “actor” being used for an AV performer, and separately mock Sugawara as evidence that “tokuryu” bosses are less formidable than the label implies (one commenter arguing real bosses avoid drugs, so a user is by definition low-ranking). Abe’s repeated stage-name changes are presented as scandalous, but this is standard practice in Japan’s AV industry when performers switch agencies, since names are often owned by the agency rather than the performer, and the 2022 Act on Protection of Adult Video Performers now formally regulates this contractual churn — context the thread never raises.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geisoku Sokuho+) thread “Actor Shin Serina and Tokuryu Leader Suspected of Drug Possession — Used Cocaine Bag Found on Hotel Bed.”
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