Ai Hongo Profile | From Yume Nikaido Debut to S1 Retirement Box

On December 26, 2025, “Ai Hongo Retirement S1 Complete 19-Title Compilation 15-Hour Box” appeared on FANZA. Content ID ofje00593. The final S1 release served as the retirement announcement itself.

S1’s official description is brief. “The Ai Hongo legend, here concludes.” A single proper noun and two characters for “conclusion.” Her social media had gone over a year without updates, and the retirement announcement came not from her but from the label.

Debuting from FALENO in March 2020 as Yume Nikaido (二階堂夢), then renamed to Ai Hongo (本郷愛) and moving through Bstar and S1 over five years and nine months. Total works: roughly 105 titles under DMM’s older actress ID (1059753) and 55 under the new post-S1 ID (1085397), totaling about 160. X followers: 1.33 million, Instagram: 810,000. Two-time winner at the Sky PerfecTV! Adult Broadcasting Awards 2022 (MVA and MTA). The numbers alone establish flagship status.

Within DMM, the actress has two separate IDs. The older file is hongou_ai.jpg, the newer is hongou_ai2.jpg. The system treats them as separate people on-site, but the cast list in Amazon’s “Ai Hongo S1 Debut [Blu-ray]” explicitly states “Ai Hongo (Yume Nikaido),” providing definitive proof that they are the same person.

That career was summarized in one line on the retirement box. This article traces the path that led to that line.

Profile and Body Data

The fields left under the older ID (1059753, display name “Ai Hongo (Yume Nikaido)”) on DMM’s actress search API serve as the primary source for her profile.

• Date of birth: October 28, 1999 (from Tokyo)
• Height: 158 cm
• Measurements: B85 (Cup F) / W53 / H85
• Hobbies: travel, singing, English & Korean
• Blood type: not disclosed

Pixiv Encyclopedia adds context on her background: “Spent three years of high school living in the United States and Canada; a returnee who speaks three languages.” This matches the “English & Korean” listed under hobbies and aligns with what she has stated in her own bio.

Her physical traits are captured in the copy each label keeps reusing. “Translucent fair skin with an exquisite waistline BODY” (FANZA sivr00291). “I’ve never seen a waistline this impressive!” (jacket copy for Kodansha’s FRIDAY Digital Photo Collection “Zutto Aishite vol.1”). S1’s solo work sone00210 describes her as “golden-ratio slender with the ideal childbearing-hip curve.”

A 158 cm frame carrying F85, W53. Rather than summing up that gap as “slender with large breasts,” copywriters keep finding new ways to describe the waistline. The character image being sold has not shifted in five years.

The FALENO Era as Yume Nikaido (March 2020 – Autumn 2021)

Yume Nikaido’s debut came on March 6, 2020, as FALENOstar’s first new exclusive title. The exact FANZA release date is blurred by missing product IDs, but the earliest retrievable work via API — 1fsdss00036 “Love Juice Soaked! Sensual Development 3 Scenes! Yume Nikaido” (released 2020-05-08, review 4.46 / 56 votes) — pinpoints her position right after debut in its official synopsis.

“FALENOstar exclusive Yume Nikaido’s second work targets her ultra-sensitive sex with sensual development! After an oil massage, her G-spot is stimulated while a hard cock pierces her depths! As sensitivity rises, she gushes squirt and screams through soaked sex! After convulsing from toys, she’s pounded in a final 3P until her womb breaks!”

(FANZA product page 1fsdss00036, retrieved 2026-05-23)

Marked as “second work” — confirming a prior debut piece existed. “Sensual development,” “G-spot,” “squirting,” “3P”: the planned genres led the way before her character was even formed. FALENOstar was running her through the standard pipeline of packaging a newcomer and then gradually carving out her individuality.

The results surfaced within six months. December 2020: third place on FANZA’s monthly actress popularity ranking. According to Pixiv Encyclopedia, she had reached the top tier of monthly rankings nine months after debut. Around the same time FALENOstar released “Yume Nikaido Monitoring! 24 Hours Nonstop SEX” (1fsdss00100, 2020-09-24, review 4.32 / 65 votes) and “Girlfriend’s Little Sister, a Sweet Little Devil with Gaps in Her Guard, Yume Nikaido” (1fsdss00115, 2020-10-22, review 4.33 / 72 votes), back to back. At a monthly solo pace, she was handling both planned and situational genres at a high standard — visible from the way review counts piled up.

Momentum did not fade into 2021. March brought her first VR, “Exclusive Girlfriend Cohabitation First VR” (1fsvss00001). April: “Repeatedly Pummeled by Burly Old Men.” May: “My Older Brother’s Girlfriend.” June: “Hated Boss Sticky-Breast-Harassing Me Five Days a Week During Overtime.” She held the monthly solo pace, working through situations and genres in order.

The decider for her ranking-side evaluation was 2021’s Kobunsha FLASH Sexy Actress Ranking 5th place. Breaking into a general weekly magazine’s annual top five expanded her recognition beyond AV solo work into gravure and entertainment territory. By the end of the FALENO / FALENOstar era, her catalog under DMM’s older actress ID had reached 105 titles.

Name Change and Transfer — Restart as Ai Hongo (November 2021 – May 2023)

Pixiv Encyclopedia’s wording is clean.

“Former stage name: Yume Nikaido / Renamed ‘Ai Hongo’ on November 28, 2021.”

(Pixiv Encyclopedia, “Ai Hongo,” retrieved 2026-05-23)

The label also shifted from FALENO to Bstar at the same time as the name change. Bstar is a sub-label within the same DINO group, so the cross-label best collection “Ai Hongo: FALENO Sex Queen’s Trajectory 16-Hour Best” (1fcdss00043, 2023-01-12, review 4.29 / 28 votes) ended up housing works under both names.

Representative Bstar-era titles include “The Store Manager’s Cock Is Bigger Than My Boyfriend’s, So I Beg for Sticky Sex at Work Every Day, Ai Hongo” (1fsdss00518, 2022-12-22, review 4.38 / 21 votes), “My Libido Spikes Because of My Girlfriend’s Waist and Big Breasts. Even After the First Night Ends, We Keep Going” (1fsdss00490, 2022-10-06), and “Sheltered Girl Made to Cum Over and Over by a Breast-Obsessed Middle-Aged Masseur’s Persistent Nipple Play, Ai Hongo” (1fsdss00551, 2023-02-23). The pivot to everyday close-quarters situations — workplace, friend’s girlfriend, masseur — became unmistakable. Title phrasing shifted from the pre-rename “planned-genre first” approach to a character-first one.

Then, four and a half months after the rename, on March 6, 2022, Ai Hongo took two awards at the Sky PerfecTV! Adult Broadcasting Awards 2022 ceremony.

Two Sky PerfecTV! Crowns — Peak Four Months After Renaming (March 2022)

The official archive of the Sky PerfecTV! Adult Broadcasting Awards 2022 (adult-awards.com) records:

• MVA (Most Valuable Actress): Ai Hongo (former Yume Nikaido) / VENUS (Ch.957)
• MTA (Most Technical Actress): Ai Hongo (former Yume Nikaido) / VENUS (Ch.957)

A simultaneous win of MVA and MTA. A single channel taking both crowns in the same year is a limited case in the awards’ history, and pulling it off four months after the rename was unusual.

Her ceremony comment is in the archive.

“During the two months from nomination to award, I almost gave up many times, but with the support of fans and staff, I was able to run all the way through.”

(Sky PerfecTV! Adult Broadcasting Awards 2022 official archive, comment summary)

Her MTA comment leaned into the future.

“Expressing surprise at winning two years after debut. Across roughly 24 works to date, she stated she wanted to try ‘attacking’ scenes going forward and entertain fans more through dominatrix and little-devil-type works.”

(Same source, when receiving the trophy from MTA presenter Maiko Ayase)

“I want to try the attacking side.” That single line would later take concrete form in her post-S1-transfer lineup. Dominatrix, little devil, group sex, large-scale harem — over about three years, the words from the award speech were implemented one by one.

The same year, she also won the Erodemy Award for Best Actress from Shueisha’s Weekly Playboy. Securing annual titles in both the industry track (Sky PerfecTV!) and a general weekly (Shueisha) confirmed her top-tier status across boundaries.

S1 Transfer — The “New Chapter” Keyword (June – July 2023)

In June 2023, Ai Hongo’s S1 exclusive transfer was announced. A jump from the DINO-family FALENO / Bstar to industry leader S1 NO.1 STYLE. Right after the announcement, DMM registered a new actress ID (1085397, image file hongou_ai2.jpg) and began running her separately from the old ID (1059753, hongou_ai.jpg).

Her S1 debut work ssis00852 “Exclusive NO.1 STYLE Ai Hongo S1 Debut: New Chapter” released on July 21, 2023. Its 216 review votes are among the highest of any of her S1 titles. The official synopsis translated the transfer’s meaning into something closer to her own voice.

“New chapter. Ai Hongo begins again. Without looking back at the past, living now toward the future. This is the place I chose. ‘This Is Me.’ I will not coast on three years of career… Not by inertia but by instinct, an original-return ultra-deep, dense kissing 3-scene piece! Sweat, fluids, drool, juices, squirt — everything mixed sloppily together, all six of S1’s popular series corners in one! The me who grew with time — I want you to see all of it… Ai Hongo’s First Love S1 debut.”

(FANZA product page ssis00852, retrieved 2026-05-23)

“I will not coast on three years of career.” “This is the place I chose.” Unusually for S1 promotional copy, a first-person tone slips into the script. Rather than cleanly amputating the achievements built at FALENO, it accepts the three years and then steps into a “new chapter.” S1’s own declaration of how it received her.

Series tag: “Exclusive NO.1 STYLE.” Genre tags: “Solo Work,” “Kiss / Kissing,” “Large Breasts,” “Exclusive Distribution,” “HD,” “4-Hour-Plus Work.” The standout is “Kiss / Kissing” sitting at the head of the genre stack. Tag structure shows she was being received as a lead candidate for the deep-kiss and kissing-intercourse series S1 keeps in rotation.

VR Unlocked and Securing a Spot in the S1 Lineup (September 2023 – 2024)

Two months after her S1 debut, on September 12, 2023, the VR exclusive sivr00291 “[VR] VR NO.1 STYLE Ai Hongo S1 VR Unlocked Ai Hongo” released. Its 4.68 / 108-vote review puts it among S1’s top-tier works.

“Ai Hongo descends into S1 VR! The highest-detail visuals yet, with optimal distance close enough to feel her body warmth! Whispered sweet talk by your ear, that translucent, fair skin and exquisite waistline BODY right in front of your eyes… Stared down at point-blank range, with every drop drained from your balls! With supreme hospitality and tight-bust contact, she shows off the industry’s NO.1 milking technique! A long-awaited VR for the first time in roughly a year and a half — healing, affection, kindness, technique… an experience of supreme sex with Ai Hongo, who has it all!”

(FANZA product page sivr00291, retrieved 2026-05-23)

The “first VR in roughly a year and a half” line refers to her return since FALENOstar’s “Exclusive Girlfriend Cohabitation First VR” (1fsvss00001, February 2021). A VR label using “descends” in capital letters is proof of upper-tier status within the exclusives. That status carried through: November 2023’s ejaculation-support piece sivr00292 pulled 169 reviews, March 2024’s maid VR sivr00331 106, June’s younger-sister VR sivr00349 95, October’s tutor VR sivr00373 59. She had been folded fully into S1 VR’s main rotation.

Aggregating her S1-era top 30 via DMM API: label distribution is 24 titles for “S1 NO.1 STYLE” and 6 for “S1 VR.” Series tags: 11 for “S1 GIRLS COLLECTION,” 6 for “S1 VR,” 2 for “S1 Fan Appreciation Festival.” The frequency with which S1 plugged her into its regular compilations and commemorative projects mirrored her in-house hierarchy directly.

Three Pillars of Solo Work — Attack, Lover, Bare Face (2024)

2024, her second year at S1, was when the “attacking” line from the Sky PerfecTV! speech took concrete shape. Lining up three representative synopses shows the range of roles she was being given.

sone00210 “[Viewer Warning] [Over-Stroke Warning] Beyond Climax, Even Further: Nonstop Cumming Limit Piston! Trance FUCK at Her All-Time Greatest, Ai Hongo” (2024-05-24, review 4.44 / 45 votes)

“Fragments of Ai Hongo’s dormant pleasure awaken through G-spot, squirting, blindfold, edging… Her golden-ratio slender frame with that ideal childbearing-hip curve is pistoned to the deepest. Reawakening that top-tier body, driving over 100 climaxes in one go! Devastating peaks and blank-stare aftermaths repeated in nonstop, all-out fucking!”

(FANZA product page sone00210, retrieved 2026-05-23)

sone00164 “I’ll Make This Woman My Mistress… Devouring the Best Woman in a Single Night’s Lick-Down Mistress Contract, Ai Hongo” (2024-04-19, review 4.13 / 23 votes)

“An unremarkable office worker constantly chewed out by his boss… one night, by chance, he gets hold of the weakness of the most beautiful OL in the company. ‘If you’ll do what I say for just one day, I’ll keep quiet about this…’ The dream-tier woman he could never reach gets locked into a one-day mistress contract…”

(FANZA product page sone00164, retrieved 2026-05-23)

The climax-extreme sone00210 and the drama-style mistress contract sone00164. The first is built on her sensitivity as a physiological premise; the second swaps her “out of reach” persona into a power-imbalance scenario. The duality of roles she was carrying ran in parallel through April–May releases.

Then there is a documentary-leaning piece alongside them.

sone00082 “Ai Hongo Like You’ve Never Seen Her Be Spoiled! Private Side Fully Exposed, Just the Two of Us Fucking All Night, Raw-Style POV FUCK” (2024-02-23, review 4.10 / 30 votes)

“Ai Hongo’s first try?! No manager! No makeup! No staff at all! And even her bare face revealed! A genuinely two-person, one-night two-day date-style AV shoot! Carefree, honest, lonely, attention-seeking… today she’s allowed to stay her bare self… we filmed the complete private sex of a top actress with an incredible body! No one knows it, no one has seen it — the real Ai Hongo.”

(FANZA product page sone00082, retrieved 2026-05-23)

“Carefree, honest, lonely, attention-seeking.” The core of the persona the staff carved out during the no-crew POV shoot is parked right here. Attack side, dominated side, bare-face side. Capable of swinging in three directions simultaneously, she crossed S1’s main series as a solo actress.

25-Person Group Sex, ULTRA VIP Soapland, 20th-Anniversary Tags — Flagship Proof (Late 2023 – 2025)

The works that prove her flagship status at S1 all fit one of three baskets: multi-person scenarios, multi-actress collaborations, or label-anniversary commemoratives. The scale she was being entrusted with is visible.

Released shortly after her S1 debut, in November 2023, ssis00963 “To the Greatest Ejaculation of Your Life with Ai Hongo: ULTRA VIP Soapland 10 with 4K” (review 4.17 / 36 votes).

“S1 Presents 4K equipment × ultimate-service infinite-ejaculation 10-round ULTRA VIP soapland special full course! Men’s esthe, pink salon, delivery health, refle, oppai pub, ona-cla, image club, SM club, M-perceptive, soapland… A soapland scenario where Ai Hongo’s masterful technique and affectionate, doting service fulfill every desire! ‘Today you can let out as many as you want…’ What every man should taste once in their life! 210 minutes of premium-luxury, fluid-extracting ejaculation!”

(FANZA product page ssis00963, retrieved 2026-05-23)

Ten soapland scenarios performed solo in a single piece. A 210-minute runtime is a large project even by S1 solo standards, and being given that scale of lead just four months after transferring in says a lot.

Then, three years after her stated intent, the largest-scale version of “trying the attacking side” arrived in January 2025: sone00598 “That’s Why She’s Ai Hongo. She’s Erotic. Throw a Group Sex Party with 25 Men and She Gets Crazy Erotic.” (2025-01-24, review 4.23 / 26 votes).

“Smack, smack, smack, smack!! Slam, slam, slam, slam! For 120 minutes straight, sucking nonstop! Penetrated nonstop! Stroked nonstop!! Ai Hongo’s first-ever rapid-fire 100,000-piston mega group sex! Brutal strokes on the verge of breaking her pussy! AV’s No.1 beautiful body vs. 25 of the industry’s biggest cocks!”

(FANZA product page sone00598, retrieved 2026-05-23)

Her “first-ever” group sex bout. From the award-speech declaration, two years and ten months later she was pushed to the upper end on both scale and headcount.

April 2025’s “S1 20th Anniversary Commemoration SUPER VVVIP Orgy PARTY” (sone00561, with Saika Kawakita, Kiho Kanematsu, Ai Hongo and others) and June’s “S1 20th Anniversary Commemoration: When You’re Loaded Up, Cum — We Are Cock Technicians” (sone00563, with Saika Kawakita, Kiho Kanematsu, Ai Hongo) booked her into two consecutive 20th-anniversary tag pieces. Being placed in the lead group alongside Saika Kawakita and Kiho Kanematsu — both S1 flagship stars — for those anniversary projects mirrors her in-house ranking directly.

Lead in S1’s Kissing and Fellatio Compilations — Concrete Evidence of Genre Specialization

Separate from her individual best collections, S1 rolls out genre-themed compilations across its roster under the “S1 GIRLS COLLECTION” series. Counting the ones she appeared in via DMM API gives 11 — over a third of the 30 S1 NO.1 STYLE titles in her top-30.

The concentration is unmistakable: “kissing,” “fellatio,” and “upward-gaze” genres. Three representative title strings:

• ofje00487 “From S1, the Beautiful AV Label, the Sexiest Eye-Contact Sucking Angles Selected! Premium Beauties’ Upward-Gaze Fellatio 70 Burst, 8 Hours” (2025-02-07, review 4.83 / 6 votes)
• ofje00556 “Greatest Deep Kisses by the Greatest Beauties: Brain-Melting, Rock-Hard, Saliva-Drenched 150 Kissing Intercourse 12-Hour Special” (2024-03-08, review 4.83 / 6 votes)
• ofje00481 “452 Orgasm Squirts and Sex Squirts: Jobababaaaa!! AV History’s Greatest Squirt Volume Over 75,000cc — Squirting Lewd Beauties 54 of Them” (2025-01-10, review 4.80 / 5 votes)

“Eye-contact sucking,” “deep kiss,” “squirting.” Her scenes have been slotted again and again into the title-line slots of S1’s genre compilations. It lines up with her S1 debut ssis00852 having “Kiss / Kissing” as its lead tag — the genre position the label assigned her is visible.

The director count backs up the genre specialization too. Aggregating her S1-era top 30 by director gives ZAMPA at the top with 5 titles, followed by Michiru Arashiyama, Mon°C, Nikuson, and Trendy Yamaguchi at 2 each. ZAMPA is a solo-work director known for densely staged kissing, foreplay, and physical-contact sequences — meaning he held the main axis of her solo work.

Four Cross-Label Best Collections — Backing for the Individual Brand

Across her 5-year-9-month career, four individual best collections were released under Ai Hongo (and previously Yume Nikaido). Each time her label changed, the new maker independently planned a fresh “individual best.”

• 1fcdss00043 “Ai Hongo: FALENO Sex Queen’s Trajectory 16-Hour Best” (2023-01-12, review 4.29 / 28 votes)
• 1fcdss00073 “Ai Hongo: FALENO Complete 16-Hour Best” (2024-04-25, review 4.46 / 13 votes)
• ofje00457 “Ai Hongo S1 First Best, 12 Titles 12 Hours” (2024-10-04, review 4.22 / 9 votes)
• ofje00593 “Ai Hongo Retirement S1 Complete 19-Title 15-Hour BOX” (2025-12-26, review 4.15 / 13 votes)

The title rhythm shows what each label recognized: “Ai Hongo’s individual best” was a product that could carry on its own. FALENO used a two-stage build (“Sex Queen’s Trajectory” → “Complete”); S1 also went two-stage (“First Best” → “Complete 19 Titles”). A cross-label individual brand, propped up by all four of these best collections existing in the first place.

Especially notable is April 2024 — after she had moved to S1, her former label FALENO put out “FALENO Complete 16-Hour Best.” For an old label to slap “Complete” on the back catalog of a transferred actress and still have a viable release, the catalog had to be large enough to support that. A rare case of cross-label viability, and an asset that keeps streaming even after retirement.

Kodansha FRIDAY Regular — Four Photo Books and Wordplay on “Love”

Alongside the AV side, on the gravure side her main turf became Kodansha’s FRIDAY Digital Photo Collection imprint. Research turned up four bibliographies.

• “Ai Hongo: Zutto Aishite vol.1 FRIDAY Digital Photo Collection” (2023-05-17, photographer: Toshihiro Nakaba)
• “Ai Hongo: Zutto Aishite vol.2 FRIDAY Digital Photo Collection” (about 100 different cuts from vol.1)
• “Ai Hongo: Ai ga Ippai FRIDAY Digital Photo Collection” (2023-09-08, photographer: Kiyoshi Shinohara)
• “Ai Hongo: Meguriai FRIDAY Digital Photo Collection” (2024-04-05, photographer: Kiyoshi Shinohara)

Lining up each book’s promo copy shows what Kodansha was selling.

“I’ve never seen a waistline this impressive!”

(Jacket copy for “Ai Hongo: Zutto Aishite vol.1” / Kodansha BOOK Club, retrieved 2026-05-23)

“A work depicting an ‘overly sweet daily life filled with love’ with Ai Hongo. Includes bath scenes and maid-outfit cuts. Carefully selected unreleased cuts from the ‘Juicy Honey Collection’ are featured.”

(Synopsis for “Ai Hongo: Ai ga Ippai” / Kodansha BOOK Club, retrieved 2026-05-23)

“Top actress Ai Hongo, two-time winner at the Sky PerfecTV! Adult Broadcasting Awards 2022 (Best Actress), delivers her latest photo book. Those charming twinkling eyes and her fair-skinned bust — irresistible. A permanent keeper condensing her sweet, lover’s-point-of-view side.”

(Synopsis for “Ai Hongo: Meguriai” / Kodansha, retrieved 2026-05-23)

“Zutto Aishite,” “Ai ga Ippai,” “Meguriai” — wordplay built around “ai” (love) layered into a series-like rhythm. FRIDAY Digital Photo Collection only keeps releasing for top-tier actresses, and four books in under a year is straightforward evidence of her standing on the gravure side.

The two photographers (Toshihiro Nakaba, Kiyoshi Shinohara) are both veteran FRIDAY gravure shooters, and unreleased cuts from the Juicy Honey Collection series got pulled into the mix, with the “fair-skinned bust,” “waistline,” and “twinkling eyes” copy carved out one more time. What AV-side called “slender with big breasts” was being broken down into “waistline” and “fair skin” for the gravure shelf.

Social Media’s Overwhelming Reach — 1.33 Million Followers Frozen

Ai Hongo’s X account @ai_hongo_ opened in February 2020. As of May 2026: 1.332 million followers, 4,869 total posts, following 294. Instagram @ai_hongo_: 20 posts with 817,000 followers.

The abnormality of the numbers is most obvious on the Instagram side. 817,000 followers on 20 posts. Per-post pulling power that ranks at the upper end for any gravure-style AV actress account.

Bio field: no text. The X side has only a link to the Instagram. She was holding that follower count with zero profile copy — just her display name “Ai Hongo” and her face.

Three high-engagement posts visible without logging in, all from summer 2022:

“I want to see you soon” (2022-07-16) — 1,723 replies / 5,669 reposts / 84,000 likes

“Today’s waistline” (2022-07-14) — 577 replies / 2,021 reposts / 45,000 likes

“Summer showers feel so good, right” (2022-08-20) — 413 replies / 1,663 reposts / 39,000 likes

Thirteen characters, six, fifteen. A density where a single short post pulls tens of thousands of likes — the engagement peak came around the post-rename Bstar era. After the September 19, 2024 activity suspension, both X and Instagram have not updated. 1.33 million followers stay frozen, drifting up and down without her presence, into 2026.

September 2024: Activity Suspension — Limited to Quotation

September 2024: reports surfaced of a Los Angeles trip with the popular streamer Junichi Kato. On the 12th of that month, photos of the two side by side at a Dodgers–Cubs game spread on social media. On the 15th, she posted an explanation video on her YouTube channel; on the 19th, she announced an activity suspension on X.

Tokyo Sports Web quoted her September 19 post.

“To the fans who have always supported me, and to everyone involved, I deeply apologize for the great trouble I have caused this time.”

“After discussions with the agency, I will be taking some time off from activities.”

(Tokyo Sports Web 2024-09-19, quoting her X statement)

All About reported the background she gave on YouTube.

“Mr. Kato told me, ‘Actually, I’m already divorced from my wife,’ and ‘I’m single now, so if you’d like, please meet me from here on.’”

“I told him that without a divorce announcement, there was a ‘risk of being seen as an affair, so I can’t date you.’”

“Mr. Kato responded, ‘I plan to announce it soon.’”

(All About News, quoting her YouTube statement)

“From the very first time he told me he was already divorced from his wife, even now, I still believe his words, and honestly I don’t have the perception that this was an affair.”

(Same source)

The facts stop here. Limited to her statement and the news quoting it — no evaluation added. What matters is that this suspension announcement became the effective end of her career. After September 19, her social media did not update, and no new releases were announced for over a year.

Retirement Box ofje00593 — A Retirement Without Her Voice (November 27 – December 30, 2025)

On November 27, 2025, the label announced the retirement work. There was no statement from her or any official channel.

Yutura (a YouTube news aggregation site) wrote this on December 13, 2025.

“Ai Hongo, the sexy actress who debuted in 2020 under the name Yume Nikaido… will retire as an active actress with this month’s compilation release.”

“After last year’s affair scandal with Kato pushed her into activity suspension, she has not appeared in public even once.”

(yutura.net, article dated 2025-12-13)

The retirement work ofje00593 “Ai Hongo Retirement S1 Complete 19-Title 15-Hour BOX” began streaming on December 26, 2025; the package version released on December 30. The 19 solo works released during her S1 exclusive period, bundled into a 15-hour best collection.

The official synopsis reads almost like a eulogy the label wrote with her absent.

“In 2023, Ai Hongo made a fresh start as an S1 actress. With each successive work, beauty and eroticism sharpened. A pretty face happily sucking cock. A waistline drawing beautiful lines, writhing into climax. Ideally rounded hips slamming themselves down on cowgirl until they nearly break. Smeared in fluids and semen, clinging to a man. Whatever the act, just because it’s ‘Ai Hongo,’ the image inevitably ends up erotic. Brimming with grace and beauty, yet vulgar and obscene. This is everything Ai Hongo is. The Ai Hongo legend, here concludes.”

(FANZA product page ofje00593, retrieved 2026-05-23)

“Brimming with grace and beauty, yet vulgar and obscene.” “The Ai Hongo legend, here concludes.” Unusual weight for S1 promotional copy. Without a personal speech or a retirement comment, the label’s single line was left standing in their place.

From her March 6, 2020 debut as Yume Nikaido to the December 30, 2025 retirement-box release: exactly five years and nine months.

What Kind of Viewer This Reaches

• Those who want the career narrative alongside the works: Cases where you can follow an actress chronologically from debut to retirement across three label moves, a name change, awards, and an off-air period are rare. Four works alone — 1fsdss00036 (FALENO #2) → 1fsdss00518 (Bstar) → ssis00852 (S1 debut) → ofje00593 (retirement box) — give you the five-year-nine-month arc.
• Viewers who prioritize the slender-large-breast silhouette: A textbook “waistline with breasts” build at 158 cm / B85 (F) / W53 / H85. Maker and publisher copy has not wavered for five years, hitting “fair skin,” “waistline,” and the slender-bust combination — a rare consistency, so if that direction matches taste, the miss rate is low.
• VR-focused viewers: She was holding a main slot in S1 VR. Multiple VR works with 100-plus reviews remain (sivr00292 169, sivr00331 106), enough that the VR representative pieces alone make up a month’s worth of viewing.
• Fans of kissing, sweet-clingy, and dominance-scenario builds: The S1 solo lineup splits into kissing pieces (ssis00852), mistress-contract / power-dynamic pieces (sone00164), and bare-face POV pieces (sone00082). Whether “carefree, honest, lonely, attention-seeking” lands is the entry-point test.

Looking Back

Started as Yume Nikaido and concluded as Ai Hongo across five years and nine months. Built a monthly solo cadence at FALENO, leaned into everyday close-quarters scenarios at Bstar, was trusted with VR and 20th-anniversary tag pieces at S1, and finally bowed out through a label-issued retirement box. Awards, talk-of-the-town moments, the trajectory of her career — none of it falls short of flagship status.

One aftertaste does linger: the retirement announcement carried no voice of her own. Even so, the roughly 160 surviving works keep streaming on FANZA after the retirement. Both the S1 debut’s “without looking back at the past, living now toward the future” and the retirement box’s “the Ai Hongo legend, here concludes” can be read back as many times as anyone wants, as long as the streams stay up.

One last point. It is possible to look for Ai Hongo’s work on free pirate sites, but the viewing revenue arriving after her retirement is what keeps her archive alive. If a single title lands well, choosing to rent or buy it properly on FANZA is close to the only mechanism left for supporting a retired actress. No new work is coming. Precisely because no new work is coming, the choice to actually pay for and watch the work that already exists is the one that pays off later.

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