Yua Aida

Yua Aida
あいだゆあ
Born (1984-08-12) 12 August 1984 (age 40)[1]
Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Years active2003–2007
Height1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)

Yua Aida (Japanese: あいだゆあ, Hepburn: Aida Yua) is a former Japanese model and AV idol.

Life and career

Early life

Yua Aida was born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, on 12 August 1984. Aida was an active girl and involved in many sporting activities during primary and middle school. Tennis was her strongest sport throughout middle school. In high school, she changed her focus from sports to art, an interest she attributes to her mother. Aida reports that exposure to nude models while oil painting helped her to be more comfortable when she began her AV career.[2] After her graduation from high school, Aida began working at a part-time job. At this time she was scouted by an AV talent agency while shopping in Tokyo's Shinjuku neighborhood. Aida says that she was not impressed with the talent scout, but when she met the company president, she thought, "This guy is really great. I’m gonna work here!"[2]

AV career

Yua Aida debuted in photo layouts in 2003, and made her AV debut in the January 2004 DVD release Pichi Pichi for Max-A.[3] The video was directed by Yukihiko Shimamura with whom Aida made several more videos in the following years.[4] Aida's second video, Your Yua Aida, was released in February 2004 by the KUKI studio. This video left the fictional narrative format to explore the documentary style common with Japanese adult videos.[5] Over the next year, Aida made new videos about once a month alternating between Max-A and KUKI.[4] At the 2004 X City Grand Prix Awards, Aida received the Best New Actress Award as well as the 3rd Place Best Actress Award.[6]

In Spring 2005, Aida joined a new studio, S1 No. 1 Style, and released her first video with them, Sell Debut, directed by Hideto Aki, in May 2005.[7] She also acted alternately with Style Art studio, former name of Moodyz studio. She became one of the most popular figures at the S1 studio – in the DMM list of the top 100 actresses by sales, she placed No. 1 in 2005 and No. 4 in 2006.[8][9] While at S1, Aida won the Best Actress Award for Excellence at the 2006 AV Actress Grand Prix.[10] In addition, on 20 March 2006 at the 2006 Adult Broadcasting Awards, she received the Best Actress Award for programs broadcast in 2005.[11] Aida remained with S1 for the rest of her AV career, appearing in about one original video a month. In March 2007 she appeared in one of the "Digital Channel" series of videos for Idea Pocket and later, in mid-2007, she also starred in four videos in the Moodyz Diva series.[4]

On 12 July 2007, Aida announced in her blog that she was retiring from appearances in AV, but planned to continue appearing in gravure and non-pornographic "Image" videos.[12] The November 2007 gravure video Eternal, The Last DVD was announced as her final retirement work.[13] Later in November Style Art entered her video Yua Aida Dance Best (containing dance scenes from her earlier Style Art videos) in the 2008 AV Grand Prix contest.[14] On 16 February 2008, Shinyusha published a final photobook Yua with photographs by Miseki Liu.[15]

In 2012 the major Japanese adult video distributor DMM held a poll of its customers to choose the 100 all-time best AV actresses to celebrate the 30th anniversary of adult videos in Japan. Aida placed number fifteen in the final count.[16]

Personal life

Aida's sister is Towa Aino, a gravure idol.[17]

References

  1. ^ Infobox data from "あいだ ゆあ – Aida Yua" (in Japanese). 'Web I-dic' (Idol Dictionary). Archived from the original on 6 October 2007. Retrieved 18 February 2007.
  2. ^ a b Aida, Yua. "Yua Aida – Stark Naked Interview". sexasian18.com. Archived from the original on 14 July 2007. Retrieved 5 January 2009.
  3. ^ "2004" (in Japanese). AV 研究所 (AV Research Laboratory). Archived from the original on 18 January 2010. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  4. ^ a b c "Profile Yua Aida あいだゆあ". Urabon Navigator. Archived from the original on 9 September 2012. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  5. ^ Schönherr, Johannes (29 December 2006). "Japanese AV – A Short Introduction". Midnight Eye. Retrieved 16 July 2007. The majority of Japanese AVs employ elements of documentary filmmaking to some degree.
  6. ^ "X City AV GrandPrix 2004 Newcomer" (in Japanese). X City. Retrieved 25 January 2011.
  7. ^ Otsubo, Kemuta (4 January 2006). いまさらですが2005年ＡＶ界を振り返る！ (in Japanese). AllAbout. Archived from the original on 11 March 2012. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  8. ^ "DMM 2006年 DVD AV女優 年間ランキング ベスト100" (in Japanese). dmm.co.jp. Archived from the original on 1 February 2008. Retrieved 13 October 2008.
  9. ^ "DMM 2007年 DVD AV女優 年間ランキング ベスト100" (in Japanese). dmm.co.jp. Retrieved 13 October 2008.
  10. ^ "AV Grand Prix 2006 Winners Announced". Asianidols.net. 7 January 2007. Archived from the original on 13 August 2007. Retrieved 17 November 2008.
  11. ^ "Japanese AV Awards 2006" (in Japanese). spbb.jp/. Archived from the original on 15 April 2006. Retrieved 19 October 2007. and
    "Japanese AV Awards 2005" (in Japanese). it-telecom.com/. Archived from the original on 22 February 2007. Retrieved 3 March 2007.
  12. ^ イメージＤＶＤ撮影です♪ (in Japanese). yua1.livedoor.biz. Retrieved 30 July 2007. あとご報告ですが、Ｓ１さんの今度の作品でAVは引退しますがグラビアなど続けていきます...
  13. ^ "ETERNAL ～これが最後のDVD～ あいだゆあ" (in Japanese). DMM. Archived from the original on 29 October 2007. Retrieved 2 December 2009.
  14. ^ "AV Grand Prix 2008 Mania Stage" (in Japanese). dmm.co.jp. Archived from the original on 3 November 2007. Retrieved 5 October 2008.
  15. ^ あいだゆあ写真集YUA (in Japanese). ASIN 4883807258.
  16. ^ "AV女優★人気投票" (in Japanese). DMM. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  17. ^ "Towa Aino Official Website" (in Japanese). Livedoor. Retrieved 8 June 2015.

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