Uploading Videos Every Day for 10 Years!” The Ultimate Beer Girl” Mana Amano chooses her “5/3650 best beers”.

‘You want to be in a beer commercial?　Well, why don’t you try …… uploading beer videos on social media every day?”

Ten years ago, a casual remark from an acquaintance at a major advertising agency marked the beginning of a long and grand challenge for Ms. Mana Amano, 32 – a challenge that has become a household name.

It was the “Ryota Murata vs. Golovkin fight” that made Ms. Amano’s name famous. Amano served as a ring girl for the fight of the century, and her tears in the ring after the bout were called “cute” and “too beautiful,” leading to the release of a photo book. Another, perhaps the biggest, face of her multifaceted career, which includes gravure for magazines and acting, is her “beer-drinking video postings” that span more than 10 years.

In the past, there were always posters at beach houses showing a beautiful woman in a bathing suit holding a beer mug around her waist. Or, dreaming of appearing in a commercial for “Otsukare Seikatsu,” which became a topic of conversation when head coach Katsuo Hirata of the Hanshin baseball team imitated it while pouring beer, Amano set November 1 as the starting date. Since then, she has continued to upload her “beer videos” in the hope of serving as a ring girl in the fierce battle between Naoya Inoue and Nonito Donaire, regardless of whether it rained, thundered, was hit by a huge earthquake, or a new type of coronavirus raged.

Many years have passed since then, and on November 3, Amano-san held a commemorative event in Tokyo to mark the 10-year mark. Amano, who was 22 years old when he started, is now 32 years old and has drunk more than 3,650 beers. He recalls, “I’m amazed at how long I’ve been doing this.

I’m amazed I’ve lasted this long. The biggest crisis came on the third day of the event (laughs). I was still in my early 20s at the time. I was still in my early twenties at the time, and I was drinking a lot with my friends!　I had to change my clothes or else they would be the same as yesterday’s.” It became very tedious to upload the video. I was hungover and feeling sick, and I remember overcoming my desire to just go to bed and upload the video.

The reason the 10-year anniversary fell on November 3 instead of November 1 is because he was hospitalized for five days with an appendectomy, he says.

If I had been out of the hospital for five days, then the anniversary would have been November 5, but after 10 years, there are two “leap years” in the year (laughs). (Laughs.) So, the 10th anniversary was extended by three days to November 3. During the past 10 years, I have had fevers and injuries, but the only time I was unable to upload videos was during the five days I was hospitalized, and I never really took a break. I really didn’t take a break, because when I fell down seven years ago and the right half of my face was covered with scars, I only shot a video with the left half–in profile.”

The rules are very simple: “Don’t upload videos wearing the same clothes for at least a week” and “upload videos of yourself drinking without clothes. When filming at home, he drank in his pajamas with no makeup and glasses on.

I really had a hard time finding outfits. My closet at home is filled with clothes. The other day, I counted the number of hangers and found 250 (laughs). I think the number of beers is also unusual. My refrigerator is filled to the brim with beer, even in the vegetable compartment.

The “3,500th beer” received the most views, with 30,000 “likes” and 1.17 million views. The video with the most views was the 3,500th beer, which received 30,000 “likes” and was viewed 1.17 million times. We were curious to know which beer the “ultimate beer girls” thought was “good. We asked them to choose their top five beers, and Amano-san spent two weeks answering the question.

The following are the five beers that “took 20 round trips through the list of beer videos.

The five best beers (1) Sapporo Black Label poured by the master (April 16, 2010)

Do you know Mr. Yutaka Shigetomi, the beer pouring master?　He is an expert in pouring beer with a beer server called “Swing Karan,” which was used in Showa-era beer halls, and travels around Japan holding events called “Beer Stand Shigetomi,” where he pours beer with 10% foam or 50% foam at will. The handle of a regular tap is moved vertically, but the handle of a swinging canner is rotated only horizontally. There is no function to produce only bubbles, and Mr. Shigetomi makes bubbles only with his handle movements. I drank it all in one go and …… was already shocked. I like a clean, smooth beer like Super Dry, and I thought the strong flavor of Black Label might be a little out of my taste buds, but in the master’s hands, the taste of Black Label is surprisingly clear!　I was impressed by how much the potential of Black Label has been improved.

The best 5 glasses (2) Hugarden White (October 30, ’14)

The first beer I ever tasted in my life was Hugarden White!　Hugarden White is the first beer I ever tasted in my life. My mother was a white beer lover and was a member of the “White Beer Society” formed in her hometown of Ibaraki, Osaka. I also joined in the 5th grade and joined …… Of course, I don’t drink, you know? (Laughs.) I don’t drink, but the president, Mr. Beer King, was very kind to me and often took me to drinking places where the members gathered.

Mr. Bierking was in his mid-30s at the time. He was an elite businessman who traveled all over Japan on business trips and knew a lot about good restaurants and good beer. One of the restaurants we often visited for the “White Beer Club” was a place that was supplied with Hugarden White directly from Konishi Brewery, and one of their beer servers was Hugarden White. I think it was quite rare at the time. My first Hugarden was when I was a teenager. I drank it at the end of my coming-of-age ceremony and was impressed by its gentle taste. Later, when my mother, Beer King, and I drank it together, I was very moved. The famous words of the Beer King, ‘There is no bad person who drinks beer,’ are still engraved in my mind.