Sayaka Araki

[3] She was a major contributor to Koakuma Ageha for 4 years and 10 months, since the magazine's very early days.

She graduated from technical schools specialized in these arts, but entered nightwork at the age of 19 when she began working at a hostess bar.

[8] She began performing at various night clubs all over Japan, and even made a collaboration with Tetsuya Komuro, at Avex's 2009 house music event House Nation Fiesta where the attendees included May J., Tomoyuki Tanaka, Yasutaka Nakata, Ami Suzuki, Shanadoo, Maynard Plant, among others.

[12] "Girl's Factory Dot" launched as a 3-story building, where all the floors were dedicated to her own fashion brand GRS.

[16] Her first workplace was a hostess bar in Kabukicho, Shinjuku, Tokyo, where she got the genji name of "Riko" (リコ).

She rose to one of the highest-ranked hostesses within 2 or 3 months, and finally to the second-ranked one, at the bar where most customers were "overly-rich guys" involving in the illegal business.