This is the grim reality for Comiket if you are a cosplayer. Sure, if you're a popular cosplayer like Enako, no doubt you get your own team of staff to help manage the crowds, but for the amateurs and the small fry out there -- of which they are many -- you are nothing more than a toy or meat to be haggled over, parsed, and lensed by the snapping cameras of hordes of male visitors. And all at ultra-close proximity.
These two pictures widely shared online have once again revealed this situation, this time at Comiket 97 held at the end of December at 2019.
As is clearly visible, the men are ...
For our final post of 2019, we won't do the usual round-up of the year but instead opt for something a bit more fun: sexy Santa cosplay.
Here is a selection of some of the best Mrs Claus cosplay (a genre known in Japanese as Santacos) by various idols and models, as featured in recent seasonally themed photo shoots or selfies.
First up, here is the gravure idol Tomi (or Toumi).
This is cosplayer and idol Amatsu-sama.
And here is Rina Hashimoto.
AKB48's Yuki Kashiwagi has chosen for the cute rather than sexy look, but that's still fine.
Race queen Yu Kikuchi (top) and model Chiyo ...
Damn, we missed this one. Now here is something that would have livened up our Christmas lunch and dinner!
We just heard about this fun promotional item made by everyone's favorite Japanese masturbation aid and sex toys brand. For the holiday season this year, Tenga created a special party popper that resembles ones of its classic onacups.
If you want to advertise to your family members or friends your penchant for masturbating with the help of Tenga toys, this red popper is for you.
At any social gathering, just whip out this deceptively realistic Tenga Cracker and pull. ...
Christmas is done and dusted for another year. What better a post-prandial treat than feasting your eyes on the body of gravure idol Aya Kawasaki?
As we blogged before, Aya Kawasaki is one of several high-profile names in gravure who is retiring or stepping back from the limelight of the weekly magazines to some degree.
In Aya's case, it's supposedly a full retirement at the end of the 2019 fiscal year (end of March), which has been massively hyped with major photo shoots and an upcoming photo book. (Most gravure idols, rather, just find their careers fading away, their agencies not ...
Christmas Eve in Japan is all about couples having sex. Christmas in Japan is about...well, cosplay, KFC chicken, and strawberries.
Ever the nonconformist, we are spending our Christmas doing what we always do: checking out the latest developments in the world of Japanese adult video and gravure idols, while also keeping our beady eyes on the new arrivals in the sex toys market.
And what a Christmas present Tenga has given us -- and everyone. The Apple of adult toys has launched its latest venture in masturbation pleasure with the Tenga crysta series of (currently) three sex ...
Music idol and voice actress Sumire Uesaka has made a sensible decision for the latest stage in her career: show off her bust.
The 28-year-old, former Russian major at Sophia University known for her penchant for Soviet iconography, Uesaka's second photo book "Sumire Iro" came out on December 19th.
Scans have already leaked online, generated a bit of a storm with netizens and fans for upgrading her image from "cute" to decidedly "sexy," courtesy of some nice shots of her until-now-hidden bust. (Not quite true, Uesaka previously exploited her bust to awesome effect in a sexy music video ...
It is a busy season for gradols and model photo books, with everyone hoping to get a nice end-of-year sales bump.
Competing for our yen include photo books by the likes of Misa Eto, Aya Hazuki, and Miyako Sono.
Now the fashion model, YouTuber, and tarento Nicole Fujita has released her debut photo book, "Suki ni naru yo?" (Will you like me?), and has opted for that foolproof strategy: increase sales by taking off your clothes.
It is quite tasteful, mind you.
Nicole Fujita is shown holding her breast as she poses, wet and semi-nude, for the camera.
The 21-year-old ViVi magazine ...
The busty gravure idol (gradol) Aya Hazuki is making something of a comeback with her first solo photo book in nearly five years.
To cement its success (i.e., sales), she has stripped off and, while just about technically preserving her modesty in terms of visible nipples, is essentially nude.
In "Bonn," 28-year-old Aya is practically naked on the very cover, with just some yellow tape covering her tits. In the other preview shots, her amazing breasts are almost bursting out of her clothes or hands...
"Bonn" came out last week at a busy time for the market.
Miyako Sono has gone ...
We post a lot of content about girls but our eye is not only limited to topics related to straight tastes. We are also always keen to hear the latest updates from Japan's gay scene, including gays porn and sex toys.
The lines are often blurred. In fact, it's well known that gay men also commonly use Tenga's masturbation aids, though we tend to associate such items with straight men.
With this one, though, there should be no such ambiguity.
The K2 Man Core Male Torso Musashi Aoi Butt Masturbator is everything its name promises: an awesome Japanese male butt, cloned from the toned rear of ...
After getting married, most idols will settle down and stop posing for erotic gravure photo shoots. Fortunately, though, "most" is not everyone.
The 26-year-old Misa Eto is a former member of Nogizaka46 who got married this year to baseball player Sosuke Genda. She also graduated the idol in March, making 2019 a particularly landmark on for her life and career.
He apparently is not putting his foot down on Misa's career -- namely, her sharing what she's got with the rest of the world. She recently posed for a shoot that shows off not only her beautiful back but also her butt. Granted, we ...
