Sumire Yokono suddenly left NMB48 in May 2021 — shortly after a report broke that went to a hotel with a male celebrity twice her age. Even more shockingly, she was also spotted on a date (six days later) with yet another boyband member, with who she also spent the night at an expensive hotel.
The resulting scandal sunk her NMB future.
After a year off, the 21-year-old relaunched her career in May this year.
Su-chan is now trying to go it on her own (with a little help from a major modeling agency). She is carving out a career as a gradol and model, and is succeeding: three gravure cover shoots alone this month (including for Weekly Playboy), plus a print photo book earlier this year that sold out.
Here are some highlights from the Weekly Playboy comeback shoot.
Stunts like this certainly help: no, Sumire hasn’t landed a lucrative gig advertising for Calvin Klein, but sure does look very nice in CK underwear.
She demonstrated this in her recent social media post.
