The truth is : Tinder in Japan is NOT for hookups. OkCupid is for women who are full of themselves.
On Skout you can choose to ignore the "buzz" section and lots of people do it.
Anyway, all my three current sexfriends were found on Skout and I assure you they have a very nice personality which makes the whole thing even more pleasurable. Nothing sexual in their profiles so they have nothing to defend.
Seriously, women who want to find a serious relationship, they give up on Skout pretty fast.
Because this isn't the place for that anyway.
Guys there come for only one thing : find sexfriends, fuckbuddies, ONS.
That's why you can read on several profiles"please don't send me your cock!!!" ahaha
I will have to respectfully disagree about Tinder, as it appears to be slowly coming around in Japan, in terms of understanding about casual hookups and it's use. And I have met women from Tinder. I would argue Tinder is superior to SKOUT.
SKOUT profiles on the other, come off as so scam-ish or blatant attention whoring, because many profiles are WAY out of character for Japanese women in comparison to any place else or dating website. For example, a Japanese woman wearing a super revealing dress and with one leg in the air, so that you can almost see her panties. Really? I mean even many Western women don't pull such antics on dating profiles. Looks VERY much like sakura.
I'm also amazed that many women can stand the super creepy and slimy comments made under their pictures. Again, it's weird to me that regular Japanese women would tolerate such, not block such guys, or not allow comments under their pictures.
All the guys commenting on a woman's profile is arguably NOT conducive to dating. Seeing other and which guys are lusting after your girlfriend or sex-friend, would make many guys upset. How many guys want a girlfriend with an online profile with several guys commenting and obviously lusting after her?
Furthermore, SKOUT does some weird stuff with the location of women. Her location might say Tokyo, but this woman's background, language, or other pictures show she is from Thailand, Philippines, Korea, China, etc... And these are NOT travel settings or showing the airplane symbol indicating she's a traveler or from elsewhere. It looks more like a scam to convince people that a woman is from the local area, when she's not.
If SKOUT is working for some of you guys, I will just have to take your word for it, but I have strong doubts about that application.