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Former gravure idol Miyu Murashima (28), who retired from the entertainment industry at the end of July 2024, revealed on Instagram that within just two months she had climbed to the top tier of a cabaret club (a hostess bar), being honored as No. 1 in seven categories including “dohan” (pre-shift dinner dates with customers), number of customer requests, and sales. The report split opinion on 5ch, with some saying she’d “fallen” and others praising her for “being No. 1 at whatever she does.” Plenty of posts also weighed in on just how tough hostess work really is.
Her gravure idol days
Former gravure idol Miyu Murashima rises to top hostess in just 2 months — honored with 7 titles including dohan, customer requests, and sales
Former gravure idol Miyu Murashima (28), who retired from the entertainment industry at the end of July 2024, updated her Instagram by the 8th, revealing her current life working at a cabaret club.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
If anything it feels more like she's "fallen."
Being No. 1 at absolutely everything is impressive though.
Becoming a top hostess must've been a total breeze for her.
She's on a completely different level from all those plastic-surgery hostesses from the start.
How do people in that line of work show their faces in public so easily?
It might be easy in terms of making money, but you're drinking alcohol you don't even like, flashing cleavage to people you'd rather not,
smiling and flattering smelly old guys you'd never speak to in your private life, and working in a catty, backstabbing all-female workplace —
I really don't think it's easy at all.
If you think being a hostess or sex worker is a cakewalk, go try it yourself.
High-class Ginza hostesses get their hair styled at a salon and put on full makeup before every single shift, skim the news,
and even check that day's stock prices before coming in.
Their talking skills are next-level too — it's not a job you can coast through just by being pretty.
Re: #62
What is this? Are every single one of these replies from women, lol?
Just going by income, at this level she can rake in before getting tossed aside what it'd take an average worker generations of working until retirement to earn — so it's not bad at all.
Seriously, it's such a small, closed-off world with huge amounts of money flowing through it.
Genuinely baffling.
So was it her agency's fault that she never made it big as a gravure idol?
She was actually popular.
She torpedoed her own career with an affair scandal.
Nah, she doesn't really look like her, lol.
Maria Tani is way cuter.
Background and key points of this discussion
In the cabaret club industry, “dohan” (pre-shift dinner dates with customers), number of customer requests, and sales are the main performance metrics, so topping the rankings in all of them at once is considered an exceptional feat. On the thread, opinions split over whether to call her switch from gravure idol a “success” or a “fall,” with some praising the sheer scale of her income and others pointing to the psychological toll unique to hospitality work. Some posts speculated about the reasons behind her career change by bringing up her past, but it’s worth noting this is just conjecture from 5ch users, not an official explanation from Murashima or anyone associated with her.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou Sports Hayabusa+) thread “[Entertainment] Former gravure idol Miyu Murashima becomes top hostess in 2 months — honored with 7 titles including dohan, customer requests, and sales.”
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