Famously, or maybe rather infamously, bukkake is a word with a more general meaning and another very particular, sexual meaning.
The former refers to splashing and is often used to mean cold noddles with broth poured over them.
The latter, as readers to this blog will no doubt already know, means ejaculating on a sexual partner's body (especially the face). A very different kind of splash indeed.
If you were to order a bowl of bukkake udon in Japan, no one would snigger, since the general meaning is still common. But "bukkake" as a sex term has gained precedence internationally, ...
Is compensated dating with sugar daddies increasing among Japanese women due to remote working?
Bunshun Online had an intriguing article suggesting something to that effect. It interviews a 24-year-old female office worker who has started doing "papakatsu," a newly coined kind of compensated dating where younger women go on dates with older men.
She started her new sideline in January and over the course of the past few months, has met over 60 men this way.
The woman says that shifting to working remotely has changed her whole daily schedule, making it more flexible, whole semi-lockdowns ...
Kiko Mizuhara has rarely shied away from publicity and provocation. From her nude shoots to outspoken views, she is as much a social icon as a fashion one.
Her private life has been complex, involving relationships with high-profile men like K-pop singer G-Dragon and the actor Shuhei Nomura.
She recently added very, very explicit sex scenes to her roster of achievements.
As we recently showcased, the new Netflix film Ride or Die features both nude straight and lesbian scenes. The latter were shot with co-star Honami Sato. As the director said, "One of the reasons this work was not adapted ...
Office romances can be great -- but can also get messy.
In days past, office ladies (OL) were almost expected, alongside their other duties, to hook up with their future hubbies among the desks of their company, marry, and then quit to start a family. Thankfully, those stereotypical expectations are, if not quite dead, on the decline.
That said, the office romance (shanai renai) still holds a special appeal for men and women seeking distraction from those mind-numbing hours of spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations.
While the fantasy has fueled a thousand adult videos and gravure shoots ...
Was this inevitable? Everything seems to be getting in on the non-fungible tokens boom, which has now reached the Japanese adult industry.
The legendary shibari (kinbaku) rope bondage artist Hajime Kinoko is going sell an NFT of the latest entry in his "red" series of bondage images -- his first NFTs release and his first all-digital addition to the series.
The project is organized in partnership with Zak Shibuya of Reality Production Management (RPM Tokyo), which is planning an Instagram launch event and charity event to accompany the NFT.
It's another first for renowned Hajime Kinoko: ...
In late April, the internet went a bit crazy with this story of a 39-year-old Japanese man who was arrested and charged with defrauding 35 Japanese women in Osaka.
The duped women all thought they were his girlfriend. The man, Takashi Miyagawa, had told them different dates for his birthday so he could get as many gifts of meals, money, and clothing as possible. The fraud, though, seems only to have added up to ¥100,000 (about $1,000).
The handsome Miyagawa apparently met his victims through his work as a salesman for water purifiers and shower heads.
What's most intriguing here -- and ...
Netflix is ramping up its Japanese-market content, not least successful drama series like The Naked Director (second season coming soon!) and movies like Ride or Die. It is also getting into producing original anime and has even opened an academy for training the next generation of talent.
And now it's created a virtual YouTuber as its anime ambassador.
Launched in late April, N-ko is a bilingual sheep girl character (officially, a "sheep-human lifeform"), since you can't go wrong with kemonomimi and moe anthropomorphism to build a fandom.
Apparently aged 24 and (like Netflix) from Los ...
It is sometimes tempting to discard music idols as cookie-cutter enterprises whose ranks are filled with identical-looking young women.
But at least they are flesh and blood. The models of the future may well not be.
Digitally created models or even androids might be the faces of major commercial brands one day. After all, they don't age, nor is there the risk of your brand ambassador landing herself in hot water with a clumsily worded tweet or drugs arrest.
The cosmetics brand Kate has released a 30-second commercial with an innovative lineup of talent: two virtual models (imma and Ria) ...
It was a bit of a shock when Yuka Kuramochi, the top Japanese gravure idol and staple subject matter of this humble blog, announced her marriage to pro gamer Fuudo in later 2019 (after years of secret dating). She went quiet after that and is effectively retired from gravure, instead spending most of her time tweeting about esports and games.
Inevitably, Fuudo did not waste much time in impregnating her -- and who can blame him?
Yuka announced her pregnancy at the end of December and is due in late May.
She recently shared a series of maternity photos on her social media ...
Is the hair nude making a comeback?
Well, the full-frontal nude shoot never went away per se, but it's a rarer species these days. Have gradols become more risk-averse? Where are the mainstream actresses of the 1990s who had big hits with hair nude photo books (like Rie Miyazawa, Miho Kanno, Eri Ishida, or Saki Takaoka)? Many, if not most, such full-frontal shoots these days are published in a weekly tabloid magazine and often as a promo for an upcoming porn debut (like Anri Sakaguchi). The singer KOM_I is a notable, welcome exception to this trend.
But we are pleased to report two new ...
