The world of gravure is a ruthless one.
An gradol who graces the covers of Weekly Playboy or Friday one month, may be forgotten half a year later, and forced to turn to gimmicky stunts like a full-frontal nude shoot to get back in the game.
Who are we to complain? We love all the visuals.
Ai Shinozaki (篠崎愛) is one of those gravure idols who seems to have been around all the many years we have written this blog. That's essentially quite true -- she made her debut in 2006 as a junior idol.
With her cute, youthful, come-hither face and bouncy bust, she has a classic gradol body.
But ...
A 24-year-old woman was arrested on January 22 after a 82-year-old man was found dead in a love hotel in Ikebukuro, Tokyo.
The man, Katsuzo Imano, was found in the room on the night of January 21, covered in blood and with box-cutter wounds on his chest. The money in his wallet was gone.
The suspect, Haruka Fujii, apparently called a former boyfriend immediately after the crime and then attempted to flee. Fujii, the ex-boyfriend, and his younger brother were apprehended at Nishi-Hachioji Station, just outside Tokyo, the following morning.
The image above shows Fujii shortly before she ...
The singer Yuki Miura (三浦由希) has been fired from the four-member Japanese idol group Luna×Holic after it emerged she was moonlighting as a porn star.
Miura's porn debut comes out today, January 25, in Japan. The 60-minute limited edition (SBMO01226) is followed by another 60-minute release (SBMO01208) in late February. The releases, which have swimwear and schoolgirl themes, clearly emphasize the young idol's busty assets.
(To clarify what wasn't clear when we first published this post: these are fully nude videos but don't seem to feature hardcore/on-screen ...
We spent a fair bit of time and digital inches talking on this blog about pubic hair, especially women's, and the various ins and outs of Japanese trimming habits in this regard.
We probably don't give enough space to talking about another kind of hair: the underarm variety.
Fortunately, we now spot a toy from A-One that is here to address this gap in the discourse.
The Gyaru Mama Armpit Vagina Sex Masturbator is a kind of multi-fetish toy all in one, combining our love for all things gyaru with young mother and armpits.
As you might expect, the skin is tanned and bronze like a true ...
In August last year, we wrote about a stunning nude shoot featuring former Olympic swimmer Miku Kojima (小嶋美紅).
That seriously whetted our appetites, of course, and we were expecting what has now been confirmed: Kojima has made her porn debut.
The one-time Olympic swimmer for Japan appears in a release from Soft on Demand, out from February 23 domestically.
As is common, the 21-year-old has adopted a performer name: Saki Shinkai (新海咲).
Also as is common for such a debut, the SOD Star production (code not yet announced) is a clear nod at her past (and appeal) with a ...
Politics can be a dry business but there's one sure-fire way to liven things up: sex. That said, there's a time and place for everything.
There were red faces all around in the Italian Senate on January 18 when the live broadcast was allegedly hacked, resulting in a CGI hentai porn version of Final Fantasy playing on the public feed.
During a session, which was attended in person and remotely by such luminaries as Senator Maria Laura Mantovani and Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi, the streaming suddenly showed a CGI anime with a man fucking a woman from behind. An unknown person had somehow ...
One of the regular themes of this blog is the after-lives of gravure idols, models, adult video performers, and so on. What happens after they retire? What can do they do after their time -- often only brief -- in the limelight?
We had Reiko Nagaoka (永岡怜子) on our radar for a while in this regard, because she presents an interesting example. And then her story took an intriguing twist recently and we felt it was time to share.
She first worked in gravure in the 2010s under a different name: Una Shirakawa (白川卯奈).
Shen then switched to Reiko Nagaoka in around 2016, ...
Nana Suzuki has rewarded her many fans by going nude again -- about five years after her previous shoot.
This is what is technically classified as a "semi-nude" in Japan, since you don't see any nipples (much less bush), but Nana certainly looks stunning in profile and with much of her butt on view.
She's now 33 years old and balances mature quasi-jukujo allure with a yoga-toned slenderness.
A model since her high school days for magazine Popteen (and associated with another similar model Tsubasa Masuwaka), Nana is these days mostly a TV tarento famous for being famous, but is finally ...
The best kind of sex and intimacy is hands-on. Toys are great but can create extra layers of elastomer or other material between yourself and your own body, or even your hands and your partner's body. There is the risk of things becoming clumsy, clunky, or even mechanical. Sex is, after all, not like driving a car.
Japan's most design-conscious adult brand, Tenga, is well aware of all this, hence it came up with the SVR vibrator series of "wearable" toys. These smoothly textured vibes have rings for slipping on a finger or two, allowing you to stimulate your partner's vagina or clitoris ...
Gravure idol and actress Asuka Hanamura (華村あすか) has given her fans a real treat with a semi-nude photo shoot. Though she has done plenty of lingerie and bikini shoots over the past few years, this is her most explicit to date.
The 22-year-old is promoting her first photo book, which comes out from Shogakukan on January 31.
In the shoot, which is featured in the January 25 of Flash magazine, she covers her nude body with her arm in a version of the classic tebura (hand bra) pose and also shows off her naked back. In other shots, she is lying wet in water, though her nipples are ...
