Double Plus Good: Yume Takeda's JAV titles have been undelisted
Today's hot gossip is kinda light weight, a little bit of hot intel discovered by my dear colleague JWL. In my Yume Takeda 竹田ゆめ being erased from JAV history I report the curious case that a recently retired idol had her JAV titles delisted leaving only the grand orgy title SODstar 11 SEX BUBBLE PARTY 2019 and her (no sex) Image Videos (which are not subject to delisting rule), see the left image for a screen cap of DMM:
But JWL discovered yesterday that her JAV catalog has came back to DMM (see banner image at top) and even R18 (screen cap at the moment of writing in above right). Well it's getting curiouser and curiouser isn't it. There were many old questions: Who wanted to delist her JAV? Herself? What's the purpose? To start a clean new life? Those were safe assumptions, but maybe not? What's the delisting mechanism? The five year rule was bended? Or a special arrangement made after or during her retirement? Or even arrangement during or before her debut, as part of her conditions to perform in JAV? Instead of getting any answers, we are getting new questions: Who decided to undelist her? For what purpose? And what's the mechanism or process?
Let's think about a couple scenarios: (A) Yume Takeda retired in a messy situation regarding the filming arrangement of STARS-120 (see the story in my report), either she was really upset, or (and???) the industry (mainly SOD) felt guilty, so when she asked to be delisted, the industry accpeted without applying any existing formality. But now after a couple months (not even) the situation has changed, perhaps industry and ex-idol has reconciled? Or some kind of gifts or pressure was applied? As mentioned some of her JAV had be on shelf for less than a year so there is still some profits margin left in them. Anyway Yume Takeda reversed her request to delist her titles and now we can legally obtain them again.
Scenarios (B): however it started, the delisting was not by the books. The industry preemptively (or temporarily) delisted her titles to avoid liability. Now the formal procedure has ran its course and the final decision is: denial. So the affected titles are put back on shelves.
Scenarios (C): Occam's razor, there was never any request, never any process. Yume retired amid some confusions and the industry panicked (again that guilty look) and delisted her titles as a precaution. Now the crisis has blown over, either she has completely disappeared or she has responded to industry message cordially, and there's no more need to delist, and we are quietly back to square one.
Scenarios (D): it's all just a totally innocent, a little ridiculous and storm in teacup: the titles were missing from shelves just for some clerical error or technical glitch, and either some person has corrected it, or even a purely automatic process (scheduled database rebuilding) have undone the error. Yes maybe we just made up a whole crisis out of some tech glitch, it's that kind of year.
I can come up with a hundred other scenarios between totally boring and totally wild. All of them are baseless speculations for now, I can only say it's looking a lot more ad hoc and random than formal and procedural.
And consider this: having been delisted for 6 weeks, and with no guarantee that her catalog will stay available for any length of time, would fans be purchasing her videos to the extend that over-compensates for the lost sales for this period of delistment? In the year that face mask, toliet papers, canned food and coins are in shortage, panic buy is the word.
Comments
Is there a list of everyone that has been delisted?
VIPD-386 looks like it was made by MediaBank. While they aren't out of business, all their new releases appear like older movies just being re-released again and again. It's possible Rio requested a delisting, but most likely it's gone more due to clerical error than anything else.
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