It was only a matter of time before someone came up with a way of linking maid cafes and hostess bars with digital idols and adult virtual reality.
Behold the VR hostess cafe.
Yumenographia is not a physical space, but exists purely in a digital realm: it's waiting for your patronage whenever and wherever you put on a VR headset. It is staffed by hostesses/maids who are, of course, entirely "fake" -- in the sense that they are digital avatars. But, and this is a big "but," the hostesses are real in the sense that they are the avatars of genuine people, rather than characters. At some remote ...
We think we probably do more than enough damage to Brand Japan by our daily blog posts without perpetuating media myths about "sexless Japan." We see a lot of articles and coverage of this topic, which we feel is a real problem but nonetheless also exaggerated by sensational, mostly foreign reporting.
Nonetheless, we like to share interesting twists on this familiar trope.
Something like half of married couples are no longer having sex, the studies would have us believe. But this may start younger, since one survey apparently claimed the majority of college students are virgins.
This is ...
Virtual dating games and services are very well-established in Japan, and YouTube is the next logical step in this evolution. One of the biggest virtual YouTuber idols at the moment is Shiro-chan, whose videos offer private dining experiences.
Now the Japanese virtual YouTuber Note Takehana has upped the stakes with a crowdfunding campaign to remake the titular VTuber with 3D computer graphics. To encourage fans to contribute, "she" is offering supporters a range of merchandise depending on how far their wallets stretch.
So what's the top perk? If you fork out ¥1 million ($9,000), you get ...
When the new Japanese era name of Reiwa was announced on April 1st, sparking intense speculation about how best to translate it into English, our first thought was: that could be a great porn star's name!
Admittedly the kanji characters (令和) are unusual, so it would have to be a homonym. Unfortunately we couldn't find any decent examples on a brief search
Nonetheless, the most amusing such parallel we've spotted so far has actually derived from the official English translation of the name: beautiful harmony.
An online search for "beautiful harmony," though, may bring up quite a ...
A new commercial for German DIY store chain Hornbach has stirred controversy. It shows two unkempt and decidedly unhandsome white men getting all sweaty outside in the garden, watched by two scientific-looking bods. The men are then instructed to strip for the observers and hand over their apparently smelly briefs.
The scene cuts to an unnamed East Asian city that looks like Hong Kong or a futuristic Tokyo. A woman approaches a vending machine and buys a package. it turns out to be one of the hairy German guys' briefs, sealed and fresh. The woman, who looks Japanese, gleefully opens the ...
This is the latest nude selfie lady (裏垢女子) that caught our eye.
She's apparently a "young Japanese wife." We can't prove this with any certainty, but we can definitely say that she has breasts and pale Asian skin to die for.
While she sometimes uses filters to hide her face and identity, this is often very minimal and at least one shot is totally open, giving us a full look at her beauty. What a stunner.
If the paper she is holding up is true (and we are reading it right), the clue to finding her is the code eDDIxZN30 but this doesn't seem to yield results on Google Search or ...
The Apple of the adult toy industry in Japan, Tenga still has a sense of humor, which is often very much in evidence its marketing. After producing romantic chocolates for Valentine's Day, it continues its funny and inventive promotional efforts now with the Tenga Furikake, which is aimed at horny male students with big appetites.
No, not bukkake. There's already plenty of toys for that. Furikake, as in the topping that you sprinkle onto a bowl of rice.
Naturally, this isn't your average furikake. It contains ginger, oysters, and garlic, which are meant to improve your stamina and erectile ...
Last year, Hirokazu Kore-eda's film Shoplifters attracted a lot of critical buzz for its socially engaged nuances and rightfully won it several big awards and nominations.
Call us boring. We couldn't help but take a different interest in the film: for its brief but welcome nude scene with the lovely Sakura Ando.
Ando is shown lounging naked on her stomach on the floor, displaying her slinky body and beautiful tanned skin. We don't get to see much flesh, just her buttocks and a flash of her breast as she quickly turns over to cover herself up.
Want to see more? Then you will be pleased to ...
Back in 2010, a Japanese book about school baseball and inspired by the management theories of Peter Drucker became a surprise bestseller and then, the following year, adapted into a film starring ex-AKB48 idol Atsuko Maeda -- underling the popular cult that surrounds the management guru's ideas in Japan.
The novel was Moshidora (in full, Moshi Koko Yakyu no Joshi Manager ga Drucker no "Management" o Yondara, What If the Female Manager of a High School Baseball Team Read Drucker's "Management"?). Clearly its success has not been forgotten, or Drucker's theories are still read a lot in the ...
Ah, Japanese television. Not the place to go for cutting-edge drama or provocative news stories. But it is the place to go for bizarre shows that tread a fine line between porn and... well, we're not quite sure what.
Case in point is this show called Zennihon Waga Ie no Ofuro Osho (全日本わが家のお風呂大賞, All-Japan Our Bath Grand Prize) on the streaming channel FOD broadcast on March 27th and apparently introducing bathing spots around Japan.
The actual point of this show seems purely to let viewers leer at the body of such ladies as Natsumi Hirajima, who looks frankly ...
