(the) Road to the Deep East

According to Sankei Sports, it turned out an ex-member of Miniska-police has become a 'OL' ('Office Lady', office worker),from last April.

This woman, Nagai Runa, 25 year-old, was a gravure idol who was famous as the 6th gen member of the TV show, 'Miniska-police' Miniska-police was a popular mid-night TV show in which girls in Police-cosplay challanges to many things without caring about upskirts, and it became a boom around 2000.

After she graduated this TV show, in 2002, she entered Rikkyo University, another university in Tokyo which belongs to 10% from the top, and studied English and American literature in Tokyo. In 2006, she graduated and began to study English language at a graduate school in London to become an international actress.

While she is studying in London, she changed career plan, and decided to become a common people, and work as a OL at a common company.
(picture & article from sanspo)
http://www.sanspo.com/geino/top/gt200805/gt2008051811.html

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Strangely, although this is a kind of sad story – one ambitious girl gives up dream and starts to work as a common people – when it comes to 'gravure' world, it sounds like to me a very happy news.

How many gravure idols ended their career in the weirdest way since last year? As far as I introduced in this blog, two girls disappeared suddenly after they were forced to sleep with a producer, while other woman was arrested in Akihabara for obscenity. A girl killed herself after she was forced to become a porn actress, while another one killed her old boy boyfriend with a kitchen knife and tried to stop the blooding with an instant glue.

But now, this 25 year-old became a common people and going to work as a English-speaking Rikkyo graduate. It's not certain what kind of industry she chose, but it's sure it won't be the one like Mcjob. Job searching for excellent university students is becoming easier, so I won't be surprised even if she says she is working at Morgan Stanley or Merrill Lynch. She couldn't become an international actress as she'd been wishing, but it must be the happiest ending which belongs to 3% of all gravure idols from the top.

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Only the matter of concern is, her past career. In the blog entry she posted just before she left the show business, she is worrying about the clips posted at youtube. When she searched on the Web with key word of her name, '永井流奈', while she felt nostalgic about the gravure pictures which she had already forgot, she was shocked by the clips at youtube, because they were the clips taken in the hardest time in her life.

She was searching for the method to delete these clips, but it seems these clips are still available at youtube, and certainly, they are shocking ones. About 10 years ago, people can enjoy this kind of clip freely on TV in Japan, and she was the casualty of this hentai-TV-show boom era.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuqJ7AvL2Us

However, I don't think she will be fired after these clips are discovered by the company she belongs to. It's the era of the Internet, so I don't think the personal department of the company didn't search her name just as she did and hired her without knowing that she was that kind of miniska police. Miniska-career is a kind of Karma she has to be burdened, but I just wish the best in her next career.