I Spent a Day with a REAL Japanese Idol | Exposing The DARK TRUTH

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She was born in Germany Mother is Korean Father is Russian Lives in Japan Speaks English Had an interview with an Australian/Japanese She's the Ms. Worldwide Idol at this point.

Thank you so much for having me! it was really fun meeting you 💗

Idol manager: "Stop being so negative! 😡" Also idol manager: Makes idols' life as miserable as possible

Hearing Takanashi Kiara as the one person who 'made it big' from the agency threw me for a loop. Hearing her stories from her time as an underground idol were absolutely terrifying, and this interview confirms that maybe, maybe this company is one of the sketchier ones to be scouted by.

Su-metal (Suzuka Nakamoto), vocalist for the kawaii metal band Babymetal has an older sister Himeka who quit being an idol for Nogizaka46 because of her own mental health and after being diagnosed as bipolar. She went on to get a certification as a mental health therapist to help other idols in the industry.

I figured Idol culture was toxic, but never did I expect that it was THIS toxic. Thank you for shedding light on this Jessica and Joey!

I was a translator for a bit at a smaller anime convention in Switzerland, where they invited one Japanese band (male members, rock, leaning into visual kei). The ones who organized the band to come looked after them, housed them and drove them around to show them one two places in Switzerland, before the event started. Their manager didn't come, due to budget and time schedule. They had fun, felt really well taken care off and I was wondering why they were so happy, since they did have their bigger fanbase in Japan and almost no one knew them here. But now, I see similarities to her stories, with the polaroids selling, the constant touring, having to perform and leave immediately again. No wonder they always said we should invite them again. Man.

People were furious at One Directions management for how they treated the boys and yet a decade latter with the rise of idols, management and organisations have been working these idols to the grave and treating them way worse yet we are doing nothing about it. I find that quite infuriating because these people deserve to have a life.

50 minutes of pure interview? Joey really stepping up his interview game. 🔥

Speaking from my own experiences as someone who has and is still working in the South Korean entertainment industry alongside other foreigners and Korean idols for close to 10 years now, I can vouch for everything she said. The industry out here is toxic and a major scam. Too many young naïve people, mostly girls, get scammed into it under this flowery image projected by kpop and kdramas. It goes even higher than these criminal agencies, because the government is more than happy to keep projecting this flowery image to the world as well, cause money. If being an idol, actor, or professional entertainer is your passion, then the person making the most money off your name and image should be you. You don't need an agency, or a plane tocket to Japan or Korea. With modern social media and platforms like Youtube, Twitch, Tiktok, Instagram, etc., you can make a name for yourself. That's what we all try and do eventually once the honeymoon phase is over and we, as foreign entertainers realize how shit our situation is. Get ahead of the curve, and good luck. Always take care of yourself.

coincidentally Kiara spoke about idols like a few days ago and about her life as one from time to time and is exactly how jessica describe it

Okay, but am I the only one who's kinda scared for Jess? Her 'image' is still owned by this company for at least 1,5 years, like Joey said, would this video cause troubles for her? What if some of her former fans see this and go complain to the company? Or the company sees this and goes after her? 😟

Bruh, that idol interaction skit makes me wanna die just from second hand embarrassment... How you did that even as a joke...you are a stronger will than I Joey. How did she deal with that for 2 years?

I always kind of knew the idol industry was problematic and wondered how bad it was. It sounds like the child pageantry stuff in the west, but maybe even worse in terms of the time taken and reward given and mostly just the scale of it all. Working that much for so little pay at any age is a travesty and I mean... practically slavery for the agencies forcing so much work for almost nothing on these people. Pretty sickening.

Hearing this I feel like we always villainize the fans but it's actually the agencies and the bosses that are the center of the toxicity around the idol culture

Wow! Didn't expect Takanashi Kiara's name to pop up here. Now that I heard Jessica's stories, I can sort of understand why Kiara was quite stressed during that period.

Joey literally had a heart attack when roleplaying as an fan... Edit- Mom I'm famous. Thx for the likes...

This is such a valuable video, revealing the behind the scenes on things that are paradoxically massive but are so closely guarded that most of its inner workings are secret and kinda messed up. This is fuckin sick Joey

This is a very insightful view into the idol industry, thank you joey for making this video and Jess for giving us the info on it!