Just when you think the bureaucrats couldn't get any sillier, along come some to prove you wrong.
Activists and ero-manga (adult manga) fans in Japan have been shocked by the recent designation by Hokkaido and Shiga prefectures of two reference books as "harmful" to youngsters.
Zenkoku-ban Anohino Erohon Jihanki Tanbouki (Nationwide Study of Pornography Vending Machine of Yesterdays) and Ero Manga Hyogenshi (The Expression History of Ero-manga) by Yusuke Kato are about adult manga but are not adult manga themselves. But this distinction means nothing to Shiga and Hokkaido: the former ...
Japan's biggest adult retailer and a porn producer in its own right (through the various production companies in its group), Soft on Demand is now going one step further.
Following in the footsteps of the Playboy bar in Kabukicho that is staffed by hot gravure idols, the SOD is opening the Soft on Demand Tachi Syain standing bar in Akihabara (apparently located "15 seconds' walk" from the Showa-dori Gate).
Patrons will be served by, you guessed it, actual Japanese adult video ...
New women debut in Japanese adult video every month. Many are actually nameless -- uncredited "extras" -- and some are actually just women who are now performing under a new name. A small minority are celebrities from another industry that are switching over, typically to the Muteki label.
But another set of women are those who make a genuine splash on their own merits, who stir up real buzz just for being hot and appearing in an exciting release.
Suzu Honjo was a recent example of this. Noa Takeuchi was, too, but then her AV releases literally disappeared from the shelves.
Saika Kawakita ...
The glory of Japanese television strikes again. From handjob karaoke contests to gravure idols stripping off samurai armor and filming behind the scenes at a nude photo shoot, there seems no end to the imaginations of producers.
This time, it was Wednesday's Downtown, a variety show on TBS presented by the comedy duo Downtown (Hitoshi Matsumoto and Masatoshi Hamada).
The gorgeous and decidedly busty gravure idol Fumina Suzuki was stripped naked and then wrapped in plastic for no reason other than to show off her breasts being squeezed by the tight layers of semi-transparent plastic. ...
We all have our peccadilloes, but some are stranger than others.
Some of them are rightfully referred to as fetishes -- and some will get you arrested. And sometimes they are both.
Judging by the astounding amount of smell fetish toys, sprays, and lubes available, Japan would seem to have a thing for erotic aromas.
A minority, though, inevitably take things too far.
One day, a Japanese man decided he wanted to take some shoes from a school in Noboribetsu on the northern island of Hokkaido. But he didn't want them as ordinary footwear. No, his interest lay in their pungent value ...
The results are predictable and messy. Along comes a journalist in the West who fancies tackleing the thorny old saw that is sexlessness in Japan, or a perceived problem of sexlessness, and blunders around making generalizations based on some Google searches.
This time it's well-known writer Julie Burchill in the British right-leaning weekly magazine The Spectator, who provocatively asks "Why do the Japanese despise sex?"
Her rationale seems to be that it all comes down to hikikomori -- acute social withdrawal syndrome -- which affects, the article claims, some half a million male ...
Seriously, we thought we had seen it all: a grenade, an ear, a sweet corn cock. They say there's an app for that. Well, there's also an adult toy for it. Onaholes and masturbators come in all shapes and sizes, and every fetish has its own specialist toy.
The Nikubenki Human Toilet Masturbator is one of the most unique and inventive sex toys we've seen. It takes the "human toilet" (nikubenki) trope that is so big in adult video and transforms it into something you can have sex with.
The word "nikubenki" is slang for a female slut, but a subgenre of Japanese pornography interprets this ...
The actress Riho Yoshioka took part in her first fashion show catwalk event last weekend and gave fans more than they bargained for when she bent down to touch hands with admirers.
At the Sweet Collection 2018 event in Shibuya on April 7th, organised by Sweet magazine, the 25-year-old Riho Yoshioka made a surprise guest appearance on the catwalk. Her cute bust wobbled as she walked and she even stuck out her tongue with sheer glee.
She momentarily revealed quite a flash of her chest, almost giving us a glimpse at the goods beneath. All right, so it's not quite a genuine nip slip but we ...
One of the things that never ceases to amuse and amaze us is the sheer bravado of Japanese adult toys when it comes to picking subjects to parody.
Satire and emulation is a very strong part of the industry and we've seen some fun ones. Much of the time parody onaholes are catering to an esoteric crowd, based on a character from a slightly obscure eroge, manga, anime, or light novel. But occasionally the masturbator designers go all out and create something inspired by a really famous part of pop culture, such as a household drink or regional PR mascot. AV also frequently parodies other ...
The latest amateur nude selfie goddess to tear up the interwebs in Japan is this young angel. Her hinnyu chopping-board chest is surprisingly hot, along with her cute girl-next-door face.
But best of all is the sheer inventiveness of the series of shots she has posted online, displaying off her alluring nude or semi-nude body in a sequence of poses that really show off her normal life at home. Some of the over-exposed (technically, that is) shots feel very professional, in a deliberately "casual" and rough sort of way, and we suspect she got help creating them. Is she in fact the muse of a ...
