Two million people have registered! Why the company that runs “paters”, the app for women looking for a daddy’s love, is serious about “looking for a partner”.

The term “papa katsudo joshi” has been around for quite some time. Recently, a derivative genre of this term has even emerged: “itadakatsu joshi,” girls who receive only money and goods from the men they meet, with no hint of romantic interest in them. One matching app that attracts many such “papa-katsu-girls” is “paters.

From the paters website

Paters is a smartphone app that was released in 2017. It currently has over 2 million members. The total number of matches is over 1,300. Female members are basically free to register and use the service, and men pay a monthly fee. Unlike marriage activity apps, “paters” is mainly a service that provides a versatile meeting place, and the demands of its users are varied. The most common type of user is the “daddy” type of dating. In terms of scale, it can be said that “paters is one of Japan’s largest daddy activity apps.

A company executive says, “Paters itself is also busy ‘looking for a partner.