Splatoon streaming and virtual YouTubers are both big in Japan. What happens when they get together? A whole lot of craziness, it seems.
Some streamers are facing a backlash from players worried that Nintendo might ban all Splatoon livestreams after VTuber Kikaze Kimiko and others modded their games to show an adult video while they played.
They chroma keyed the enemy ink to make it transparent and play over it a live-action cosplay porn featuring DeepWebUnderground, a popular virtual YouTuber who has already inspired her own adult toys.
The results looked like Splatoon 3 with porn playing ...
Sometimes, like a knight errant, you come across strange and exciting things in the wild. Like a Tenga masturbation toy washed up on a beach. Like porn magazines piled up with household newspapers on garbage collection day -- or even dumped in a public park. Or panties that have blown away in a typhoon.
But what about if you found a silver attaché case by the roadside? Would you ignore it? Open it? Or would you assume the worst and call in the police?
Because that's what happened on the morning of October 5 in the city of Kakegawa, Shizuoka Prefecture.
A well-meaning citizen found the ...
Japan, the land of countless otaku, all passionate about a niche fandom. Also Japan, the land of a thousand fetishes -- including some you didn't know existed.
Like the humble raincoat. Sure, latex-style clothing is a must for bondage fans. Who doesn't love the look and feel of tight rubber gear on a sexy body?
But we're talking basic rain protection here. What's so hot about it?
Well, in the case of one particular man in Osaka, a lot. So much so that he stole 360 women's raincoats -- and must now face the consequences for it.
Yoshida Yoda is not, despite the name, a wizened Jedi living a ...
A new survey has found that an increasing number of people in Japan aged 18-34 don't expect to get married.
The results of the government-affiliated National Institute of Population and Social Security's 2021 survey of 7,862 people, published earlier this month, show that 17.3% of men and 14.6% of women aged between 18 and 34 claimed to have no intention of marrying.
This is the highest such figure since the questionnaire was first conducted in 1982.
Back in the mid-1980s, at the peak of the confident bubble economy years, the numbers were just 2.3% for men and 4.1% for women.
The ...
Public toilets in Japan are sometimes surprisingly exposed, especially the male ones in parks. Instead of an actual door, there's just an open doorway. The windows are often low. A casual passerby is frequently able to peep in and see men relieving themselves.
And if you're lucky, you might see some scenes like this.
We have brought together some great nude photos and shots of outdoor sex by Japanese couples at public toilets. This kind of roshutsu "exposure" sex is a whole subgenre of Japanese adult video, but there's also plenty of examples of amateur couples leaving a digital trace of ...
You may never have heard of Marie Tachibana, but pretty much everyone in Kabukicho seems to have heard of her.
Perhaps the first thing to remark about her is that she is biracial (her father is American). The second is that she comes from a Christian family (that father was a missionary) -- and a big family at that, with seven siblings.
Instead of pursuing the conventional academic path, none of the children went to high school. Marie went to volunteer in India when she was 15, for instance.
If you were following J-Pop closely in the 2000s, you might have already seen Marie Tachibana ...
Kinbaku (shibari) rope bondage sensei Steve Osada, formerly known as the photographer Dr D Vice, is the inheritor of the Osada name and tying style (Osada-ryu) from Eikichi Osada.
The late master is one of the people responsible for making kinbaku known in the mainstream. He staged his first kinbaku performance at a ballet school in Asagaya, Tokyo, in 1965, which ushered the previously hidden world of rope bondage into the open. He subsequently moved his performance act to the strip show venue circuit in the late 1970s. In the 1980s, he did many shows with pink movie legend Hiromi Saotome, ...
We are not as obsessed with haafu models and actors as the Japanese fashion world and mainstream media seems to be, but we do love certain biracial celebrities.
One of them is British-Japanese Sonoya Mizuno, who has carved out an impressive career first as a dancer and lingerie model, and then as a serious actor in both film and television.
She has a nude sex scene in the new HBO TV series House of the Dragon. She shows off her butt in several shots during the scene (which you can find in episode one of the Game of Thrones prequel) as another character has sex with her behind, plus a bit of ...
It's not just top businessmen and politicians who frequent the pricey hostess bars of Ginza and elsewhere. Male celebrities also have expensive tastes, including spending time with the attractive younger ladies who (as long as you keep buying them over-priced drinks) will pretend to find your conversation interesting and hint that they might be willing to sleep with you.
However, large consumption of alcohol and the sense of privilege that comes from paying for a woman's time can lead to trouble.
One of Japan's most famous and popular actors, Teruyuki Kagawa, was forced to apologize on ...
Sometimes, things do have a happy ending.
When AKB48's Minami Minegishi shaved her head back in 2013 to apologize for a sex scandal, it prompted immense controversy over the control that management has over idols' private/person lives, and sparked headlines around the world. Her tearful video, head shaven like a nun, was painful to watch (though images of Miichan seeming to pose happily for photos with her peers either just before or after suggested to some that the video was purely performative).
As a 20-year-old, she had to undergo a traumatic and humiliating experience in public just for ...
