Japanese → English transcript

My very first single-project video sold incredibly well.

They told me it sold so well you could buy a house with it.

But my pay was only about 400,000 yen.

Even if the project sells well, don't you get a cut?

No, there are no bonuses.

I was like, "Why?"

But as an AV, it sold incredibly well.

And I took up most of DMM's ranking.

Does the pay itself go up for single-project videos?

Or is it just about the volume?

No, it's just about the volume.

Wow, so it doesn't go up.

Because the contract is already set.

Since I'm contracted for 270 videos a year...

The total pay is 80 million yen.

So what I get is, well, about 40 million yen.

How does your pay go up then?

But your life is pretty much decided from the very first video.

So it's hard to succeed by having it go up later on?

It just keeps going down.

So as you stop selling as well...

And it keeps going down...

You start thinking about what restriction to lift next.

But even then, it's not like your pay goes up.

Is that just to maintain your current pay?

Yes, just to maintain it.

To make the drop a bit more gradual?

Yes, I get told that a lot.

Like, "You don't make as much as I thought."