Prosecutors demand 13 years in prison and 12 million yen fine for 25-year-old self-proclaimed "girlfriend". Defendant Mai Watanabe has granted interviews with NHK reporters three times so far.
Defendant dropped out of a fashion school and started working at a sex shop at the invitation of a high school senior. The defendant says he began to trick the customers of the sex shop into romantic feelings and defraud them of their money so that he could use the money to host the host.