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 ...
The blond-haired cutie Kokoro Shinozaki (篠崎こころ) appears in the new issue (August 24) of Young Champion with a hot shoot showcasing her slender body and otherworldly allure.
Shot at a lake, the lingerie spread features Kokoro Shinozaki posing in a white dress or pale underwear. If not for the ears, she could be an elf or woodland sprite. (That said, she is apparently not averse to putting on the elf ears and going the whole hog.)
The 28-year-old idol and cosplayer is famously tiny -- 150 centimeters, or under five feet -- and made her debut in 2013.
Frankly, this ...
Japanese female golfer Makoto Takemura (竹村真琴) has posed for a gravure shoot.
The 31-year-old, who has been professional since 2009, put down her clubs for a session with Shukan Post, a weekly tabloid. The shoot was done at the beach town of Kujukuri in Chiba.
It was her first bikini and lingerie shoot, though various Japanese female sports athletes have made the move into gravure and nude photography. Recent examples include an Olympic swimmer.
Because she's also in her thirties, Makoto Takemura also qualifies as an alluring jukujo. After all, you can tell she knows how to grip a ...
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 ...
