If you think something is too good to be true, you're probably right.
That's our advice, which should have been followed by the thousands of men who thought they had the chance to go on a date with Atsuko Maeda.
A 38-year-old man was arrested earlier this month for operating a deai-kei dating website that claimed to offer dates with the former AKB48 idol.
He had fled the country but foolishly returned in late September.
Maeda is now a mainstream actress and cannot even be "met" at the famous AKB48 handshaking events. But that didn't seemed to occur to the 370,000 people who paid ...
After steadfastly refusing to go nude for the enticingly titled film Sayonara Kabukicho (though others in the film did and there is at least one awesome, explicit sex scene from a Korean actress), one-time AKB48 idol Atsuko Maeda has instead decided to tempt us with a glimpse of her bathroom body.
Here she is enjoying a shower and then lounging around at home in her underwear, before landing a kiss on her squeeze's lips.
The scene is from the current TBS drama series Yuriko's Barenaked Diary in which Maeda is a reporter (!) who has a rule to juggle ...
Directed by Ryuichi Hiroki, Kabukicho Love Hotel (Sayonara Kabukicho) came in 2014, promising to be a dark romance.
Okay, let's get something straight.
As you might expect, star Atsuko Maeda may have left her AKB48 days behind her but unsurprisingly she does NOT strip off in this movie. (Apparently after Maeda was cast the script was radically changed.)
Instead we have to make do with modest nude scenes and sex scenes starring members of the supporting cast.
As the title suggests, the film is set in a love hotel in Tokyo's sex capital, Kabukicho.
Actually, the main (and best) sex scene ...
Charlie Hebdo got itself into tragic trouble over its depictions of Islam.
In Japan, an equivalent would be if you tried to fictionalize the Imperial Family. People have tried it and have ended up dead.
But only slightly less powerful is the yakuza-connected entertainment world, which holds a massive sway over the press.
Only the weekly tabloid press, for all their smut, do a fine job in defying the control freaks that are the jimusho agencies. These magazines almost invariably feature a gravure idol on the cover but inside cannot use official press photos of the idols and ...
The tabloids are salivating over the news that Atsuko Maeda, the former starlet of AKB48, may be dating kabuki actor Matsuya Onoe.
Though there have been rumors before and drunken pictures seemingly showing Atsuko in the arms of a young man after some late-night partying, this will be the first public romance for the former AKB48 queen.
After all, AKB48 bans sex and love for its rank and file members, so in theory Atsuko (22) could still be a virgin.
Atsuko's agency has not denied the reports, instead giving an ambiguous statement: "We leave private matters to the person in ...
A man has been arrested for running an online dating (deai-kei) scam that scammed 2,100 otaku out of 210 million yen over the years.
Deai-kei websites are common portals in Japan, usually a ruse for informal prostitution or enjo kosai. In this case, the owner tricked members into thinking they would be able to exchange emails with their favorite AKB48 idols and even go on dates with the girls.
The trial has begun of the 32-year-old man from Chiba who ran the site. He would have his part-time employees send mails to the otaku posing as celebrities and idols. After a time, these mails ...
One of the Japanese tabloids is currently running pics apparently of former AKB48 idol Atsuko Maeda looking drunk, dishevelled and generally not very cute.
She is with some guy (apparently an actor) in rather dubious circumstances, and is even seemingly photographed being carried to a waiting car possibly without any underwear on.
Tabloids are not famed for their integrity or honesty, so we cannot vouch for the veracity of the details, but we do like a juicy scandal when we sense ...
After police predicted an unprecedented amount of fans would gather, the last chance to "meet" Atsuko Maeda while she is still a member of terrible pop "music" band AKB48 has been cancelled at the last moment.
On August 20th some five hundred thousand people were in Ginza to watch the victory parade of Japan's returning Olympians (despite many of them putting in slightly mediocre performances). Not sure if half a million were expected to witness pre-solo career Atsuko head to her swan song concert at the AKB theater in Akihabara, but apparently public safety fears prompted a change in ...
She might well have recently announced her departure from Japan's biggest girl band, but you can still keep a bit of Atsuko Maeda in your life.
In fact, you can get even more of the former AKB48 star than usual with this Acchan Kojiri masturbator, a realistic tight onahole which, very unofficially, models itself on Atsuko's (aka Acchan) cute small butt (kojiri).
Not only is this an onahole masturbator with a hole to pleasure yourself, there is also a pair of Acchan's sexy panties AND even lotion based on her own love juices.
This is of course not designated official ...
Shock news of the week! Atsuko Maeda (前田敦子), probably the most popular and famous member of AKB48, has suddenly announced she is quitting the idol super group!
At a concert on Sunday she made the surprise announcement to thousands of fans, while choking back tears and being comforted by the other girls. It is apparently an individual decision, made in consultation with AKB48 supremo Yasushi Akimoto.
Atsuko entered AKB in 2005 when she was just 14 and now she is heading towards adulthood -- or age 20 -- she said she had to make a new. No doubt she will head onto other and ...
