She started her hardcore career as Hitomi in November, 2008 with the video Celebrity Shock AV Debut (芸能人 Hitomi 衝撃のAVデビュー) for the Soft On Demand studio. Her debut videos for SOD were popular enough to elevate her to the #6 ranking in sales for all actresses from the DMM website for the last half of 2008. She continued to be one of the top ranked actresses at DMM in 2009, ranking #27 for the first half of the year and #42 for the full year. She made several more videos for SOD in 2008 and 2009 and in August 2009, the company released Hitomi Premium Collection 8 Hours which included material from all of her previous solo videos.
