Hikari Hino (Japanese:妃乃 ひかり, Hepburn:Hino Hikari) is a Japanese former AV idol who performed for several prominent adult video (AV) companies and who appeared in more than 500 AVs. ^[11]

Hino was born March 7, 1986 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan In July 2005 she debuted at age 19 on the Crystal-Eizou company's Venus label in the video G's Curiosity - Hikari Hino (Gの好奇心 妃乃ひかり). ^[10] Crystal-Eizou promoted her video appearances by offering fans a chance to buy a pair of her "T-Back" panties in an auction ending on January 21, 2006. ^[15] Hino was the subject of two further panty-auctions in March and June 2006. Hino remained with Crystal-Eizou for a year, making about one video a month, before she moved on to Moodyz, one of the largest studios in the Japanese porn industry, in July 2006. For the 2006 year, Hino ranked number 31 in the list of 100 best selling actresses at the video retailer DMM (part of the Hokuto Corporation). ^[14] Outside the AV world, Hino also starred in the softcore V-cinema feature about a child bride, Moe moe yō na tsuma (萌え萌え幼な妻) released in August 2006. ^[17]

Hino continued to make videos with Moodyz but she also made numerous videos with several other companies as well including a number of more hardcore S&M works for the Attackers and Dogma studios. Hino's 2007 video for Moodyz, Super Deluxe Body Special (超絶品ボディーSPECIAL), won the 8th Place runner-up award at the 2007 Vegas Night Awards sponsored by Moodyz and 22 other AV companies ^[6] and her 2008 video Roomshare was the Wanz Factory nominee for the 2009 AV Grand Prix. ^[7] She also starred in another V-Cinema film, this one about an office affair, Office Immorality (社内不倫 秘密の２人,Shanai furin himitsu no 2 nin), which was released in January 2008. ^{[7] [7]}

For the year 2009, Hino placed number 28 in the list of 100 best selling actresses at the major Japanese adult video distributor DMM, ^[7] and in 2010, five years after her debut in AV, she was ranked at number 62 in sales. ^[7] In 2012, when DMM held a poll of its customers to choose the 100 all-time best AV actresses to celebrate the 30th anniversary of adult videos in Japan, Hino finished in 43rd place in the overall balloting. ^[7]

Hino announced her retirement from the AV industry in her Official Blog on October 5, 2013.

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