Spare a thought for Yui Imaizumi.
The former Keyakizaka46 cutie seemed to have found love and happiness with a man, albeit one who does not use condoms and presumes there are no consequences to ejaculating inside her.
After a tough time last year when she contracted the coronavirus, but also showed us how busty she is on Zoom, Imaizumi recently announced her marriage to 28-year-old YouTuber Mahoto Watanabe.
The 22-year-old, who left Keyakizaka46 in 2018, also announced that she was pregnant, so in other words — this is yet another celebrity shotgun wedding.
A moment for fans to congratulate Yui, right? (And for her managers to ruefully note that she may well not retire to the entertainment industry.)
But then people remembered Watanabe’s past, such as when was arrested in June 2019 for beating up his then girlfriend while drunk. He allegedly even stepped on her face. He was not charged, it should be noted, and he issued apology videos, but it effectively brought his YouTuber career to an end — after a peak of 2.8 million subscribers.
And then more news came out. Screenshots spread on social media showing an exchange between Watanabe and a 15-year-old schoolgirl, where he requests her to send him lewd photos of herself. He even asks her to send a selfie with her student ID so he can confirm her age.
He admits to being in a relationship with Yui Imaizumi but, because he “has lolicon,” she doesn’t do it for him sexually. (Clearly not quite the truth, since she is demonstrably beautiful and he managed to get her pregnant.)
Watanabe came clean to his management company, UUUM, that the messages are genuine and the agency announced they were cutting ties with him. (In Japan, talent management agencies employ the talent, not the other way around.) So he probably has no income anymore.
Imaizumi, who is also a lingerie model for Peach John, has not been active on her official social media channels since last autumn. Perhaps it was around then that she realized she was pregnant and had to make a big decision. Though according to media reports, Watanabe’s exchange with the schoolgirl asking her to send him explicit photos took place in November.
Yui-chan, sorry, but we think you picked a bad apple.
