Photo shoot of the year: Yua Mikami, Shoko Takahashi, Mana Sakura
December 22, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
Disgraced gravure idol and now one of AV's top porn stars Shoko Takahashi/Takasaki has joined her fellow porn newcomer Yua Mikami (Momona Kito) for what must be the sexiest photo shoot of the year.
These nude shots, taken for Weekly Playboy in the autumn, really show off both their voluptuous bodies to the full.
What's more, in a more recent subsequent nude photo shoot the two were joined by none other than Mana Sakura, who is already a major star in her own right. There was even a 30-minute video to accompany the "lesbian threesome" shoot. And check out those stunning ...
What happens to Japanese gravure idols after they stop being famous?
December 15, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
One of our ongoing preoccupations is what happens to gravure and music idols after they stop being famous. Once they have faded into obscurity, how do they survive? Get married and become homemakers? Go into hostessing or even prostitution? Or a totally different line of work?
Some evidently advance into careers in AV.
We also previously looked at the case of Yuka Kosaka, who now runs a nursery school in Chiba.
Others make the unexpected leap into mainstream politics.
Here is another cautionary tale.
The tarento Hanako Takigawa is only 28 but already has had a troubled, up-and-down ...
Pikotaro PPAP (Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen) gets busty gravure cover by Jun Amaki: Pen Oppai Oppai Pen
December 14, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
It's the video that launched a thousand imitators (and counting).
Pikotaro's PPAP (Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen) video made "PPAP" one of the buzzwords of the year and inspired a whole meme industry.
No doubt it will blow over in a few weeks' time.
Until them we can enjoy the variations, not least this eye-opening one by gravure idol Jun Amaki.
The busty gal is best known for her "I cup" chest and being a petite 148cm. That's quite a combination. She's also a former member of the masked idols group Kamen Joshi.
She has created a version of Pikotaro's PPAP ...
To accompany porn debut, Anri Sakaguchi does hair nude full-frontal shoot
December 8, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
We reported earlier this year about the AV debut of actress and model Anri Sakaguchi.
To appear in "What a day!!" the 25-year-old Sakaguchi (now going by just "Anri") is reportedly getting paid ¥120 million -- a suspiciously high figure considering she is a B-list celebrity.
She made her JAV debut on the Muteki label, which specializes in these kinds of career switchovers from gravure, music idol or mainstream entertainment. Past successes include with Yua Mikami/Momona Kito and Shoko Takahashi/Takasaki.
Most of these stars, though, do one or just a small number AV releases before ...
Strange Japanese TV show celebrates failed gravure idols with provocative bikinis
December 6, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
Japanese TV is not known for its quality but it at least never fails to impress with its latest nude novelties or risque antics.
Now a TV show has appeared featuring gravure idols wearing sexy bikinis. Nothing new about that. There are even shows about gravure idol in armor.
But these are "failed" gravure idols, ladies who haven't made it big (yet). The idea is that the minor idols make their last grasp at fame on the show, wearing everything from noren (the low curtains that hang over entrances in Japan) to toilet paper, kagami mochi (a New Year decorative rice cake) or even lids of ...
Photo report from Japan Adult Expo 2016
November 29, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
At the Japan Adult Expo 2016 on November 10th-11th, around 4,000 people attended, including many Japanese AV fans from other parts of Asia.
Held for the third time, the event features 200 AV makers and studios, and offers a great opportunity for fans to get close to their adult idols.
At the booth for Aroma Kikaku, which specializes in fetishes, Hibiki Otsuki was there to welcome fans.
KMP had the likes of Ayaka Tomoda and friends were on hand to pose for pictures.
Echoing the biggest adult trend of the year, Total Media Agency (TMA) -- despite the name, it's ...
Race queen Eriko Sato wins over Japan with her naked butt
November 21, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
Our new lust this month is the model Eriko Sato.
Eriko has posed nude in a butt-revealing series of shots for a new photo book.
First off, this is not the Eriko Sato we already know and love. She's now apparently given up her acting and modeling career for the joys of interracial marriage.
This Eriko Sato (different kanji, by the way) is a 26-year-old race queen and gravure idol who released her first photo book in late October. "Shiriaitai" is all about her butt, and it's easy to see why they went for that theme. The other Eriko Sato never went this far, more's the ...
Ex-AKB48 Satomi Kaneko shows her shaved pussy in latest gravure release
November 15, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
Former AKB48 idol Satomi Kaneko has joined the growing ranks of idols who have graduated onto "sexier" and more revealing careers.
She has stopped short of doing actual porn yet her new gravure DVD (released on October 21st) is very explicit, full of close-up shots of her shaved you-know-what area.
Netizens are eagerly parsing the images to see if you can see her pussy hair. (You can't, but it's a close thing.)
The 26-year-old with the F-cup left her brief AKB career behind in 2007, since when she has turned to shedding her clothes to maintain an income.
And ...
Did NGT48 idol Maho Yamaguchi put a sex tape online?
November 14, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
A potential scandal threatens to engulf idol group NGT48, the Niigata spin-off of AKB48... or it may just blow over.
This time it involves cute idol Maho Yamaguchi, the 21-year-old 1st generation-member of the group.
During a live streaming session on the online platform Showroom on November 13th, she is accused of having sex with a boyfriend.
This has been denied by her management, though even they admit that Yamaguchi's decision to lie down on a bed and speak to the camera was poor judgment and likely to give the wrong impression.
In the video, which is now circulating freely on ...
Japanese gravure models and porn stars celebrate “nice breasts day”
November 9, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
It's become something of an annual tradition: November 8th is Ii Oppai no Hi (Nice Breasts Day), at least according to the Japanese Twittersphere.
Cue lots of lovely pictures of bust shared by gravure models and AV idols.
Here is porn star Kirara Asuka.
スーブーというエロ写メラマンに『はい朝日を感じて〜📸』『風が味方してるよ〜📸』とかまんまと乗せられて気付いたらノリノリで脱いでた。#いいおっぱいの日 pic.twitter.com/zmF83rVsJ7— 明日花キララ(きいたん) (@asukakiraran) November ...