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Dark Water (Honogurai mizu no soko kara): This is a particularly exceptional Japanese production which shows bone chilling scenes of a little girl who all she ever wanted was to have a mother, even after death!
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In other words, the host club is not a product of a wider social need, but an auxiliary organization of the mizu shobai world — almost like a “company store.”
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Another example would be, the mob ties also makes much more opportunity and pressure for struggling actresses to work in the mizu shobai world.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Honda Kei Interview in Cyzo 2009
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The values of the gyaru subculture — in terms of sexuality, future hopes, and gender dynamics — are much more conducive to mizu shobai than any others.
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In short, one-fifth of young Japanese women aged 15 to 22 apparently hoped to work in the mizu shōbai industry.
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Miura claims that one of the reasons so many mizu shobai girls spend their hard-earned money on host clubs is that hosts are the only men in their lives who will promise to marry them.
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Forty years on, and the mizu shobai, or “water trade”, has come to evolve once more: catering exclusively for female clientele …
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Also, I believe the bars were chiefly not concentrated around Ikebukuro but were more widely distributed over the city of Tokyo - although of course likely predominantly situated in and around Kabuki-cho and Ni-chome gay district as part of the ‘water trade’ (mizu-shoubai) - so it not strictly true to say they were founded on “fujoshi turf” (sorry to quibble!)
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Everybody’s Fujoshi Girlfriend 2009
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Forty years on, and the mizu shobai, or “water trade”, has come to evolve once more: catering exclusively for female clientele …
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They are mostly a way to drain money out of the pockets of mizu shobai workers and act as a way to keep mizu shobai workers from losing their minds.
lampbane commented on the word mizu
"Water."
November 11, 2007