I saw a couple of docus too and it screams of materialism, objectification, and loneliness. Lots of manga has had the host industry seen in rose-tinted lenses, maybe because it’s probably a wish fulfilment of sorts. After all, fiction (or at least some of them) serves as a temporary replacement to what is absent or missing in our reality.
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Every time I see a host-club related manga, I always think of the documentary I saw. Although I can enjoy the story despite that, they're so far off from what a host club actually is that it's shocking. Definitely romanticized for the reader. But, in the same sense that managa seems to think Americans go around kissing each other, we think hosts are genuinely nice. You won't make it if you're nice. You have to lie, manipulate and (sometimes) cheat. And they do it in groups. It's quite awful. Now, not all hosts are bad people, but I'm betting if they stay long enough they turn so jaded they lose whatever morality they had when they started. Such a shame.
True. The typical host club business model is faulty, exploitative tbh (or at least what was inferred in the interviews) which forces the hosts to skew their sense of morality to climb the ladder. But thinking about it further, the host club business is both gross and genius at the same time. Despite being (generally) questionable, people still willingly pay (and millions of yen at that) and patronise them in the end.
Btw off topic, Rui reminds me of Taizo here: https://youtu.be/tV8OhAc3Zyc
But ofc Rui is more good looking though lololol
Omg. Hahaha. I completely agree on both counts! So funny.
Wouldn't it be interesting if someone took that and made it wholesome? I know a lot of people that would pay for that kind of service in the states.
Same! but i think it would be like a more relaxed, less weeb nightlife version of a butler cafe (and with alcohol!)
Would be pretty cool, I have to say. Would probably be an easy business to keep open too. Although bitches be crazy so there would more than likely be a lot of drama. Lol
I take it no one saw that documentary on host clubs in Japan. That shit is seedy as hell. The customers are creepy and the hosts are sleezy. Should everyone be treated human? Of course, but either the customers are delusional/crazy or they know what they're getting into and the hosts don't survive if they aren't money-hungry and manipulative.
I still feel bad for him, because everyone should get paid for the job they do. I probably would want to give up too.