All comments of User Drk
It was a good one, sadly we don't get as many AIKA solo movies these days as we did in the past. I'll gladly take a plotless movie like this over one where the plot puts her at a disadvantage (any of the 'massage gone wrong' or 'ex-boyfriend re-union' genre that she does a bit too much for my liking).
I hope that R18 unstucks its head for the 1st of October. My current backlog of titles (released or announced since 1st of June) is 39 titles. (Only Aika, HibiHata, 4 from Hinata Marin and 1-2 others). What puzzles me is why they stopped added new movies and disabled purchases using DMM points. Leaving this backdoor open (toping up via main website - directly or giftcards via amazon IF you know how) sounds like a typical grey area solution that I'd expect corporations like DMM to love.
For what it's worth I think that Ai Uehara is still managed by Mine's, just a different set of activities. For her birthday last year you could buy stuff from Mine's official store and she hangs out a lot with Unpai (also managed by them). Yua Mikami is essentially in-house (like technically there's an agency but it has her, a girl or two from her former pop band and that's it).
In response to ZENRA's comment
JAV News Roundup - August Edition - Volume 4Sorry, to clarify. Not sure if the word got auto-edited or manually, but the 'stuff' is just a vacation (which she mentioned on stream, so no 'insider knowledge').
So according to AIKA's interviews from a few months back, she slowed her career down on purpose as at her commercial peak (2016/2017) it was just too much / too straining. I'm afraid that the photo with HibiHata is from when they were in Okinawa shooting calendars, not AV as such, but she is definitely co-staring with Hibiki in Abe Mikako's retirement video (whenever it comes out) and I think that Hatano also makes an appearance. Could you post a link to her 17LIVE - it's in zenra's list of social media profiles. That the easiest way to interact with her. She's on pretty much daily (well as of now 10 day hiatus - some xxxxxx stuff and tour de force for Tora no Ana's Osaka branch opening - she'll be back on the 23rd).