Everyone has a past and though it's common for people to use different names when they switch agency or industry, netizens still have ways of identifying you. And so it is with a performer in a new AV release from Rocket, who has been identified as a former winner of second prize at Miss Tokyo Sports, a prestigious gravure contest whose winners include many big names in the industry. The AV in question (code 1RCTD00591) is the tenth entry in the popular, increasingly outlandish Shameful Brainwashing! I Was Turned into a High-Cut Person, which features women in leotards and similar ...

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The leading Japanese porn star Yura Kano has announced she will retire in July to focus on non-AV work like her regular acting roles. The 25-year-old star made her debut as a nude model at the age of 18 and in the adult video industry in November 2017 with a release from S1 No.1 Style. Over the course of her seven-year AV career, she has released dozens of productions and risen to the top ranks of a highly competitive industry. She has also published numerous print and digital photo books. In addition, she release a pocket pussy toy based on her vagina, the Japanese Real Hole Yura ...

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The 25th edition of Japan's largest fetish event, FetiFes, took place on April 28. Certain household responsibilities prevented the Tokyo Kinky team from attending, so we were pleased to find the festival had generously published a huge gallery of pictures from the event (available on the festival website along with galleries from past editions). All the images are taken by officially approved photographers (who are are credited on the gallery page images if you want to know who they are). Unfortunately, they are just a gallery, without captions, so it is hard for us to provide much ...

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In early March, we reported on the exciting news that former AKB48 idol and nude model Satomi Kaneko was to make her porn debut as Kiho Kanematsu, after she had supposedly retired in 2023. We can now share the first preview images from her debut, which comes out from Muteki, a specialist is such crossovers. The 34-year-old's first AV, the 176-minute 18Gold (TEK00099), was released on digital formats on April 2 . We have yet to see the AV. If you've caught it already, please let us know your assessment of the quality. From the previews, it looks quite conventional, though Kaneko/Kanematsu's ...

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Porn star Nanami Ogura (小倉七海) may still be just 21 years old but has already amassed a prodigious output of releases since making her debut with S1 No. 1 Style in September 2021, including multiple bestselling AVs as well as two print photo books and several digital ones. But that all seemed like a flash in the pan when she suddenly announced her retirement in October 2022, leading some to speculate it was due to the constraints placed on the JAV industry since the introduction of new porn legislation. Thankfully, Ogura's retirement didn't last and she was soon back, under a ...

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The former AKB48 idol Satomi Kaneko officially retired last year and we thought it was the last we would see of her. How wrong we are. Today comes the happy news that Satomi Kaneko is to make her porn debut with the Muteki label -- which specializes in such industry crossover debuts -- and under the name Kiho Kanematsu (金松季歩). It is common, often for contractual reasons, for idols to change their professional name when transition into porn, or even just when switching management agencies. Kaneko/Kanematsu announced her new professional name about a week ago, along with a new shoot ...

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The insanely popular Japanese porn star Eimi Fukada was spotted on a date at a ramen restaurant in late 2023 with Junnosuke Taguchi, who has also been spotted by reporters coming in and out of her home. Sporting dyed-blonde hair, Taguchi is not the former KAT-TUN member of the same name but a 31-year-old cosmetic surgeon who works at a clinic in Roppongi. As seems to be the case with everyone these days, he also has a successful sideline as a YouTuber. They have been dating for around a year and a half, according to a recent report in Weekly Flash, and have even been on a trip to Vietnam ...

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We've written before about Aya Takanashi and her columns providing her insights on Japanese porn. As a former AV performer herself from 2016 to 2018, she is in the know about such things. Her latest column for Spa! deals with the question of why so many underground idols (chika aidoru) are seemingly making the switch to porn? It's true that porn retails sites like Fanza do seem chocker-block with chika idols of late. One example is Ichigo Nekomiya (pictured), who is meant to be a member of an Akihabara underground idol group and is making her debut (4HMN487) this month on the Honnaka ...

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We usually report on FetiFes after it happens, but this year we wanted to offer a quick preview of the upcoming edition of Japan's largest fetish event. Some of the highlights this year are a pole dancing show, booty-tastic performances by four ladies with lovely butts, a gymnastics show by three porn stars, and a shadow play act by male JAV star Riku Mukai. The upcoming edition of Fetish Festival is the 24th and features booths and attractions over four floors of a building in east Tokyo. We have noticed that the event's English marketing has been seriously ramped up, and we suspect ...

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Misato Maeda (前田美里), a former face of Nippon TV, is to make her porn debut on Soft on Demand. She will now be performing as Ema Yano (矢埜愛茉) and her first release (1stars984) was announced officially today and is scheduled for release on February 8. The 27-year-old from Tokyo has already made a nude photo book, released by Kodansha in September. Here are some highlights (which first appeared in the weekly Friday in August), showing off her D-cup breasts and her curvy body. Here are some pics from a semi-nude shoot she did for Flash to ...

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