What to do when your career as a weather forecaster is faltering? Strip off for a weekly magazine, it seems.
Well, it's hard to say what the precise motives are for Mian Shirasaka (白坂みあん), the 21-year-old beauty who holds a qualification as a weather forecaster (often held by weather presenters) and whose meteorological broadcasting career is surely just starting.
But that hasn't stopped her from moving to her backup plan, which was apparently not only trying her hand at gravure but at a "hair nude" full-frontal shoot as well. Talk about jumping in at the deep end.
The shoot is ...
It's the last gasp of summer here in Tokyo. The weather has dropped ten degrees in just a few days and the overcast or even rainy skies have made things very autumnal indeed. On go the first long sleeves of the season and, as we enjoy sunny weather today, back goes the mind to the memories of the summer.
Well, it was a strange one: the pandemic continued to put a damper on life, leading to canceled or postponed events, all while the Olympics took place behind closed doors. Most people couldn't do much, certainly not take any real trip. Thank the Shinto gods for the joys of the internet.
We ...
We are late to write about this but Japanese media reported in August that retired porn star Nao Oikawa (及川奈央) had divorced her husband of five years.
She married the man, who is six years her senior, in December 2016 but announced in early August that she had divorced in the spring.
Oikawa was a top adult video performer from 2000 to 2004. Since leaving JAV and now aged 40, she has carved out a modest second career as a "regular" actor, appearing in a major NHK period drama, among various other credits.
Fans have called for her return to the industry, especially now that she is ...
She's certainly proved that a woman's career as a model and "idol" can really come into its own in her thirties.
After releasing a bestselling photo book in late 2019, Minami Tanaka became the face of leading Japanese lingerie brand Peach John.
That quickly yielded some stunning results, as we reported about earlier in the year.
But that was just the appetizer, it seems, since 34-year-old Minami's latest shoot for Peach John sees her strip off and go (almost, very almost completely) nude.
Wearing a short, see-through panty girdle, she is posed with the camera with her nude butt and back ...
She goes by many names and her career just took a whole new turn.
Previous active since 2020 as a music idol in such groups as KissBee and Once a Chance under the names Sarina Toyama (外山さりな) and Sarina Haru (春さりな), she has switched to gravure -- and yet another name, Meisa Nishimoto (西元めいさ).
Not such a big surprise here: a large number of idols also pose for gravure shoots on a regular basis.
But for the Chiba native's shoot in the August 27 issue of the weekly magazine Friday, she posed for a great full-frontal nude shoot (hair nude). Now that's what we call ...
We loved her when she was a braless Uber Eats cyclist, delivering alluring charm around the city. We loved her when she was a ring girl.
We really loved her when she was in sexy lingerie or semi-nude for gravure shoots.
We didn't think we could love Yu Maria (マリア友) anymore, but we were wrong.
The bronze-tanned, big-lipped haafu hottie has now teamed up with renowned shibari master Hajime Kinoko for a Japanese rope bondage photo shoot. And the results are as awesome as you'd expected from such a collaboration and concept.
The shots have a striking red or white theme. Maria's body ...
Today we are showcasing the leggy delights of actor and fashion model Miki Yanagi (柳美稀), especially her recent photo shoot published about a month ago in the weekly magazine Friday.
Check out that sexy mole on her chest.
The 24-year-old Osaka native also appeared in a lingerie shoot for Weekly Playboy in May this year. Here are some highlights.
You can see how her looks are acquiring a maturer, metropolitan sensuality. These photos are from 2019 and 2017 shoots, when you can see how much more pure and innocent she seemed.
She published her first ...
Cosplayer Enako is special in many ways, not only in terms of her looks and talent, but also her willingness to talk openly about the ins and outs of her profession.
The 27-year-old elfin star recently appeared on a late-night TBS TV show, where she divulged information about her income, long a source of discussion.
At the 2019 Comiket, she posed for more than 800 fans. She has self-published her own photo books and produced lots of merchandise.
This all adds up to a lot of cash: she claims her income is an incredible ¥50 million (around $455,000), which is more than top politicians and ...
One of our current favorite gravure idols, 23-year-old Tsubasa Hazuki (葉月つばさ), is releasing her long-awaited second print photo book at the end of the month.
As we wrote before about it earlier in the summer, it's yet another nude book, following her debut, "Red Zone," which was released last year.
This time, with veteran gravure photographer Koki Nishida, she shows us even more of her body, including her nipples -- admittedly covered by wet clothing or translucent fabric. It's not quite full-frontal (hair nude) stuff yet, but very, very close.
After the previous spread we picked ...
The first preview shots are now available from the debut photo book of music idol Yumiko Takino (瀧野由美子).
The 23-year-old member of the Seto-based STU48 is releasing the as-yet-untitled photo book on September 22. Appropriately for the hot late-summer weather, it features Takino in swimwear.
But for all the undeniable charms of her slinky legs, the style of the photo book generally opts to emphasize Yumirin's girl-near-door looks and dress her in modest clothing that shows off her youth and beauty.
So we get to see her in a yukata and white dress, or looking cute by the harbor ...
