Japanese Man Paid a Girl to Take Her to a Motel to Play Inazuma Eleven

A curious case caught attention on social media: a Japanese man paid a girl involved in “papa katsu” to play Inazuma Eleven with him inside a motel room. Inazuma Eleven is a popular soccer game series developed by Level-5.
The situation became a topic of discussion for showing an unexpected side of this type of meeting, which is usually associated with something sexual, but in this case ended up being pure fun.
Ok, but what exactly is Papa-Katsu?
Technically, papa-katsu is:

→ Young women (usually between 18 and 25) looking for older, wealthy men who pay them money, buy them gifts, meals, trips or monthly allowances.
→ In return, what the man wants varies — but in the MAJORITY of cases it involves sexual activity.
So Papa-Katsu is normally a type of “prostitution,” since in many cases the girl is perfectly fine with going to a motel with the man who supports her financially.
Japanese Man Paid a Girl to Take Her to a Motel to Play Inazuma Eleven
And that brings us to our case: a man simply decided to pay 20,000 yen (a bit under 400 reais) to take a papa-katsu girl to a motel.
And once they got there, what did he ask her to do with him? He wanted to practice soccer! (Play Inazuma Eleven.) According to him, the desire came after watching Inazuma Eleven (which has both games and anime) and feeling an “overwhelming urge to play soccer immediately.”
In the video posted online, the two appear playing inside the motel room, with the girl tossing the ball to him while he practices as a goalkeeper. It is worth noting that he is even dressed like characters from the anime, all to play Inazuma Eleven

No one knows exactly how long they stayed in the motel, but what caught people’s attention was how natural the whole situation seemed. By paying for company under the rules of papa-katsu in Japan, the young man fulfilled his wish to practice soccer with someone, even if it was in such an unusual place as a motel.
What is even more curious is that this was not the first time he did something like this. In another video, the same guy paid another girl to help him reenact scenes from Haikyu!! — this time bringing a volleyball into the room. His goal was to recreate famous plays from the anime and live out the sports fantasy he loves so much (including shouting lines from the show inside the room).
Many comments on social media said that, although it seems like a strange idea, it actually makes some sense. He wanted someone to play with, and he found someone willing to participate in exchange for fair payment. She provided exactly the service agreed upon, and he was able to turn his excitement about anime into real-life moments.
If he keeps up this mission of turning sports anime into reality, it won’t be long before we see more videos of him recreating famous scenes—whether from soccer, volleyball or any other sport. It’s clear he’s truly a huge fan of sports anime
