Japanese netizens with beady eyes and dirty imaginations are speculating that former AKB48 idol Marie Watanabe and now dokusha model (“reader model”) had a career as an amateur porn star.
Such “shiroto” adult video releases are, of course, professional but they are filmed in such a way that they look like a woman is being picked up off the street. Performers are often inexperienced or first-timers.
Given the pedigree of Yua Mikami (formerly Momona Kito) and various others, Marie Watanabe would hardly be the first AKB or related music group idol to work in adult video. She actually joins a long and growing list.
You might be forgiven for forgetting who Marie Watanabe is, given that she is tied with Aya Ishibe for having made the fewest theater performances of any AKB member. She did only two, both of which for Team B’s 2nd Stage. She graduated way back in 2007, which is a lifetime in AKB terms.
So the 27-year-old is unlikely to tarnish the current reputation of Akihabara’s supergroup with her post-AKB career choices, but it’s still another embarrassment and a further sign that the idol music world and other, less savory ones are closer than some like to admit.
Officially Watanabe is now a “reader model” affiliated with Dokumo Cafe, having worked for the likes of CanCam, non-no, and other magazines.
Netizens allegedly identified Marie Watanabe in the porn release from her distinctive fingernail art.
