The growing popularity of Halloween in Japan has resulted in massive street cosplay parties, particularly in areas like Shibuya in Tokyo.
That have been adverse effects, too, which is almost inevitable when so many thousands of (mostly young) people come together. Last year, in particular, seemed like a turning point when a truck was turned over in Shibuya by drunken revellers. Some used the street parties as a mere excuse to grope women or take panchira underskirt photos.
This year's Halloween in Shibuya was crazily crowded but a little more subdued, with tighter police controls back again ...
Anticipation is reaching fever pitch over the comeback of forty-year-old seiyuu Rie Tanaka, freshly divorced and apparently determined to return to gravure shoots with a vengeance.
After teasing the internet with some alluring behind-the-scenes shots from one provocative photo shoot, some more images have appeared showing Tanaka semi-nude. Oh, do we like the look of this!
She can be seen covering her breasts with her arms crossed, revealed a toned and slender stomach that is as sexy as most women half her age -- if not even sexier.
More details have also emerged about her comeback: ...
Busty Japanese gradol Yuka Someya has made a gravure comeback with her first shoot in two years. Posing nude for two issues of Flash this month, the 27-year-old goddess has shown off her ravishing butt again as well as her famously immense breasts.
Given that she previously done a nude photo shoot before, this is not just a "new" thing for fans but it's still great to see the curvy lady back in action in the pages of the weeklies where she rightly belongs.
One of the shoots has a summery "ice cream" theme, while the other features a light dominatrix style.
She will ...
In the November 7th issue of the weekly manga magazine Young Jump, gravure idol (gradol) Aya Kawasaki has posed for a memorable shoot as part of her final countdown to retirement from the industry.
The shoot has an autumn festival theme, dressing 28-year-old Kawasaki up in a very skimpy fundoshi outfit and robe. Loved for her sharp butt and long legs, the images pay tribute to Aya's best assets with loving care. Given the recent bout of typhoony and rainy weather we have been having in Tokyo, we suspect the shoot was done several weeks ago or outside the capital somewhere.
There ...
Fans are delighted by the news that the debut photo book by popular fashion model Eri Oishi (大石絵理) has the idol in the buff.
As the scans now doing the rounds online indicate, the stunning 25-year-old strips off for "honey" (released in late September) and her pert buttocks are on alluring display.
In addition to lovely shots of Eri Oishi in her lingerie or soaking seductively in the bath, fans gets to see her full ass. The fact that it is through a shower wall may be as sensual as it is frustrating...
The slender and "pure"-looking Eri Oishi is a haafu (or more ...
These days Rena Takeda is increasingly forging a career as an actress and model, but the slim and sexy star got her break in gravure -- where the ladies are usually on the bustier side but she won fans aplenty for her slender boy and cute looks.
But Rena Takeda has now announced her "final" gravure shoot, published in the current issue of Weekly Playboy. And she's going out with a bang: a major, splashy spread shot on location in LA over eight days.
The results feature plenty of sun and sand, and show off her very petite body.
Renarena, as she is known to fans, is still ...
We love to browse our ever-growing library of titles by Japanese porn's established stars, but that doesn't mean we don't always have our eyes fixed on the latest debuts and debutants.
One we noticed back in August is the sexy, slinky Marina Asakura (麻倉まりな).
We think -- and hope -- this lady has the star quality that would catapult her to AV fame.
To be accurate, we can find a release from 2017 with the same performer and she already did some magazine shoots before then, but we think she seemed to explode in August when a stunning new DVD came out.
The only ...
Seiyuu (voice actress) Rie Tanaka has stunned the Internet by tweeting preview images from her latest lingerie shoot.
No stranger per se to sexy shoots, this is nonetheless probably the most provocative the 1979-born idol has got as far as we know. Netizens are delighted by what they saw and Tanaka's original post has received thousands of retweets and likes.
We're not sure where or when the final images from the shoot will appear -- a photo book, a weekly magazine? -- but the brief behind-the-scenes footage suggests the photographer was very lucky to get so close to her slinky ...
The immensely popular Japanese gravure idol Nanoka (菜乃花) has hit thirty and released a new photo book. And as she enters another decade, so she arrives at the next stage in her career: one which she is initiating with a nude shoot.
It's not hair nude full-frontal territory (yet), but we do get finally to see Nanoka's ass in all its glory and, as far as we know, it's the most naked Nanoka has ever been.
The photo book, her fourth, "NN" came out in Japan on September 27th. In at least two shots from it, Nanoka is butt naked. We hope to update with more scans and images when they leak ...
As they have progressed steadily into their forties, the members of music band Tokio have become a marginal presence on the pop music charts. Instead, they have established themselves on Japanese television as one of the most popular presenters.
A scandal ripped through the lineup last year, however, when member Tatsuya Yamaguchi was exposed as having invited teenagers to his apartment and, apparently in a drunken state, having kissed one. He resigned from the group and left the entertainment world.
Tokio has soldiered on.
One of the remaining members, Shigeru Joshima, has found solace in ...
