Japanese porn is a huge industry, pumping out productions big and small on a daily basis, and served by an army of performers.
How do you keep those sexual scenarios fresh and new? By turning to parody for inspiration, whether it's lampooning recent events and scandals, anime and manga, TV shows and movies, or even YouTube channels.
Parody is a major and fun part of the adult video industry, narrowly avoiding copyright infringement while entertaining at the same time as arousing viewers. And both delighting and enraging fans of certain franchises.
The latest choice of material is the ...
The adult video star Tsukasa Aoi has announced her retirement.
One of the biggest names in Japanese porn, Tsukasa Aoi posted on Instagram on July 20 that she would retire on August 17.
The 34-year-old wrote that she would no longer work as Tsukasa Aoi and that her exhibition at Gallery Le Déco from August 5, would be her final work.
The wording of her announcement does leave open the possiblity that Aoi will continue to work in porn or make a comeback later under a different performer name, which often happens when performers switch agencies due to contractual restrictions on using ...
Yesterday we published an article about Neru Nagahama's comeback photo book, the Keyakizaka46 music idol's first such release in eight years.
Nagahama is a rare case of a music idol from an AKB or Sakamichi group who has maintained a career after graduating. Most of the more minor members disappear into obscurity -- to say nothing of the many, many other wannabe idols who audition but never even get into the minor ranks.
And some wind up doing porn.
Netizens have identified a former auditionee for Sakurazaka46 (as Keyakizaka46 is now known) as a new porn star Nagi Yasaka ...
Former Keyakizaka46 music idol Neru Nagahama is back with a new photo book, a self-titled release from major publication Kodansha on July 15.
The 26-year-old has not published a photo book in eight years.
The Nagasaki native was seen as a rising star in the idol world in the late 2010s, with her first photo book going through a reprint. The alluring shower pics surely helped.
Recent years have been leaner ones for Nagahama since leaving Keyakizaka46 in 2019, though she remains connected to the idol industry though a position with Tokyo Idol Festival, and her first photo book was ...
They say the internet is forever, but one organization is trying to fight that.
A nonprofit called the Organization for Pornography and Sexual Exploitation Survivors (or PAPS) has had around 67,000 images and videos taken down over the past six years, it recently told Kyodo News.
The group asked website operators and providers to delete a total of 99,266 sexually explicit photos and videos between fiscal 2019 and fiscal 2024.
Of those, 59,653 have been completely deleted from the internet, while 7,577 have been deleted from some of the sites where they were posted.
As of May this year, a ...
We've showcased the incredible work by fintan (pinakotheca) before. He finds often obscure and esoterica Japanese erotica, such as old magazines and photo books, scans them, shares them online, and then sells the original print copies to anyone interested.
Anyone with an interest in Japanese erotica, especially vintage erotica, should follow him on X or Instagram.
We've previously showcased the amazing images from a 1990 photo book called Binding Force: Japan’s First Facial Restraint Photo Book, shared by fintan in March.
More recently, he has explored the veritable gold mine that is ...
Mayumi Yamanaka has made a gravure comeback following marriage and motherhood.
Now aged 32 and the mother of two, Mayumi Yamanaka appears in the current issue of Weekly Playboy. The lingerie shoot also marks 20 years since her industry debut -- she began in 2005 as a junior idol and child actor.
She released her first print photo book soon after, and appeared in Weekly Playboy at the age of 14 (eww!), though hit her career peak in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
In late 2019, she announced she was married and pregnant, though continued to release image videos (her last came out in ...
In January, the Japanese porn star Yuki Takeuchi had announced that she would retire from the adult video industry at the end of this year, but she has now said that she will delay her retirement by a further year.
Many fans had hoped she would do this because she wanted to keep making JAV productions due to audience demand, and while that may be true in part, Takeuchi recently revealed the real reason behind the extra 12 months.
Takeuchi was the victim of a financial scam that saw her lose her savings, she shared on an episode of Abema's Hyena of Love 4 (the same show on which ...
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Kanojo Toys is the biggest Japanese adult shop selling internationally, with thousands of items in stock and around 30 more added weekly. What we especially love about Kanojo Toys is the sheer range of its lineup, which includes onaholes and pocket pussies as well as ...
Regular readers may remember Yuka Kosaka, the former gravure idol who went on to work as a nursery teacher in Chiba.
Kosaka had a turbulent career, hitting the big time in the mid-2000s but then scuppering her future in the industry by gaining a lot of weight. She made a nude comeback in the early 2010s before retiring and changing careers to running her own nursery school (though she does not have children herself).
She makes occasional TV appearances these days. The 40-year-old former gradol is now married (to a former actor several years her junior) and runs a consultancy ...
