Hitomi Tanaka's Last Fan Event?

As you probably know, Hitomi Tanaka, one of the most well known JAV actresses in Japan and certainly around the world, retired this year with her retirement JAV released on April 19th. Her last in person fan event was in January 2020, with precaution for health reasons likely stopping her for having more in person fan events afterward. So it was a surprise to see Hitomi announce she would be attending an event in person and she would meet fans there too! The event itself was not focused on Hitomi, rather it was held as a celebration and meet the fans event for the movie "Yariman Hunter" which stars Hitomi's friend and former JAV star Sasa Handa. Hitomi would be there as a guest. Before the event started Hitomi mentioned on Twitter that it might be her last event which she attends in person to meet with fans.

Here's a trailer for Yariman Hunter.

Fans across Japan took this as an oppurtunity to meet Hitomi once again, possibly for the last time, according to Hitomi. While she did not remember everyone's name, she did come across fans who have met her numerous times whom she had recognized. It must have been wonderful for fans to see her again as they might not seen her in person for a couple years now and perhaps never again? It's hard to say if Hitomi will be at another fan event? She said it herself that this event might be her last.

Hitomi had actually planned to retire in the summer of 2020 but kept going for the sake of her fans. With the pandemic spreading quickly around the world in 2020, one of the areas affected included the JAV industry where actresses met fans in person. Hitomi's last mention of having a fan event before being a guest at Sasa's event was back in January 2020. So she didn't even have the normal JAV retirement event to meet fans and celebrate her retirement JAV release. It's something of a ritual to have a final goodbye with a retirement event and it probably left many fans dissapointed that they couldn't meet Hitomi for one last time. I can gurantee fans around the world would have flown halfway around the world to see her at her retirement event, including yours truly.

The announcement that Hitomi was going to be a guest didn't leave much time for many to even go to the event to participate, not just for fans around the world but in Japan as well. With only one weeks notice I bet many fans of Hitomi scrambled to find time off or change plans to meet her briefly again for that one night. Although brief, meeting her again will likely stay with them forever.

Hopefully she'll have a proper fan event in the future to meet with fans one last "last" time, with much more than one weeks notice for fans around the world to fly to Japan to meet her now that Japan is open to tourists. If she does she does, if she doesn't she doesn't, but at least we can still enjoy watching the JAV she made and in our dreams.