We recently blogged about an awesome Olympic sports-themed nude photo shoot by several Japanese porn stars.
Now comes the welcome news that former swimmer Miku Kojima (小嶋美紅) has posed fully nude for a photo book. while a teenager, Kojima formerly represented Japan in swimming in such competitions as the 100-meter relay and 200-meter medley. She took part in the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, forming part of the team that won a bronze medal in the 400-meter mixed medley relay, but was not able to channel her ambitions further to the 2020/21 Olympics held in her ...
While much of the nation is glued to their TV screens watching the annual summer baseball tournament that is Koshien, we bring you another piece of baseball-themed gravure news.
No, it's not about batter-model-hottie Ami Imamura.
Nor is it about baseball stadium beer girl who, we now know, is actually a porn star.
It's Aina Misaki (岬愛奈), the gravure idol who made her debut in 2017 and has steadily released six DVDs until now. She also works as a grid girl at motor races.
The Nagano native is a former team manager at a school that competes in the Koshien tournament. Inevitably, this ...
We cannot quite believe that's approaching five years since we last introduced the charms of Satomi Kaneko.
Formerly of AKB48 (until 2007), the gravure idol has in the past done some provocative and alluring photo shoots showing just how close she can get to nudity while just about maintaining a PG-13 rating.
Cue bare backs, fundoshi and a shaved you-know-what, buttocks and glimpses of a nude butt, side boobs and tebura "hand bras" galore.
Now aged 31, Satomi's career is moving into a new phase. And we will be eternally grateful to whichever gods of fate or Shinto are responsible.
For her ...
After last year, this is another summer that almost feels like it doesn't have a proper summer. We can't really go anywhere -- certainly not abroad -- and most festivals and major events are even canceled for a second year in a row or held in reduced forms.
Fortunately, someone is here to bring some much-needed sun into our lives.
The actor and model Miki Sato (佐藤美希) is featured in the August 23 issue of Weekly Playboy in a stunning summer-themed shoot.
What we love about this shoot is that it mostly eschews the more obvious swimsuit and pool or sea shots.
Instead we get the ...
The former porn star and now manga artist Nayuka Mine has interviewed Nanami Kawakami, the actor who this year set up her own agency and announced her upcoming retirement from adult video.
In the article published in Spa!, the two share stories about how they got into porn, both coming from rural parts of Japan and going to not especially reputable high schools before they were scouted. Inevitably, as provincials, they were awed by the idea of moving to be the big city and earning big bucks as porn stars.
In Kawakami's case, it was in Fukui Prefecture. Though she says her first release ...
A former founding member of idol group Yumemiru Adolescence (YumeAdo), Kyouka (京佳) is a curvy, busty goddess. With her F-cup and girl-next-door looks, the gradol has charmed her way through five photo books to date -- though three were self-produced -- and has just released a new digital book.
Since leaving YumeAdo in 2019, she also tried without much success to crowdfund a music album.
But she is still immensely popular as a gravure idol. She has now turned to a sure-fire way to boost her fandom: posing semi-nude for weekly magazine Friday.
With her arms and hands protecting the ...
Popular gravure idol Kanami Takasaki (高崎かなみ) has given us the kind of erotic image we all crave in the summer: of her wet, naked body straight out of the shower.
With temperatures soaring in Tokyo, we feel like cooling down in the shower every few minutes -- but that doesn't mean we aren't horny either.
The 24-year-old Kanagawa native is promoting her first photo book, which was recently released.
Imagine what it is like to come home with Kanami after a day walking around in the searing heat and then head straight into the shower to cool off together -- before turning the heat ...
She generously showed us her naked butt last year. And now Tsubasa Hazuki has gone even further.
In her latest onsen-themed photo book, Hazuki is shown nude under a very wet, very thin garment.
Her breasts and nipples are clearly visible through the fabric. Her mons pubis is also shown in close-up and she appears to be paipan.
This is about as close as you can get to a full-nude shoot without being naked -- nominally speaking.
So now we have a vicarious sense of what it would be like to take Tsubasa Hazuki away for an intimate stay at a hot spring resort. If only this was actually one of ...
It always feels good to welcome back an old favorite.
The gravure idol Ayame Misaki was a regular on this blog in the early 2010s. But then she got married in 2016 (only to divorce the following year) and also started working as a "serious" actress, landing a role in a film by art-house auteur Naomi Kawase.
But she didn't forget her gravure roots, even if her days of doing nude scenes in low-budget movies are sadly behind her.
Now aged 32 and teetering on the edge of youth and jukujo territory in the most alluring of ways, Misaki made a gravure comeback in late May with a shoot for the ...
The gravure idol Ayako Inokuchi (井口綾子) has appeared on a TV show segment about a hot spring bath. As typical for such shoots, she was wearing a towel wrapped around her body to protect her modesty.
But during the filming of the TV Tokyo show Yojikoji Days, things went awry under the water and Ayako ended up revealing her bush for a brief moment!
The 24-year-old, who is a recent favorite of weekly magazines, is a graduate of the prestigious private college Aoyama Gakuin, where she won the Miss Campus beauty contest. She released her first (and so far, only) print photo book in ...
