An Anzu is advertised as a former gravure idol who has made the switch to adult video. These cases are actually quite common and sometimes it's just marketing guff, or -- as recently with Kanna Seno -- the initial gravure "career" was already planned as a publicity boost for the AV career. An Anzu does seem to have worked in gravure, but either under another name or without much success. We could find some info on her first image DVD, released last July, but not much else. Boasting I-cup breasts, it's not difficult to see why 20-year-old An Anzu would appeal to porn producers. Her ...

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When you're languishing behind bars, there's probably a lot of things you miss from your life on the outside. Nice good and booze, for a start. Sex and intimacy too. No doubt you'd find yourself thinking a lot about hot girls. Without a phone or access to the internet, you're probably starved of stimulation in this regard, but perhaps the occasional magazine or newspaper might provide glimpses of attractive models to give your fantasies food for thought. And how about a letter from a gravure idol? Chihiro Midorikawa is a 31-year-old gradol who won the Miss Tokyo Sports Grand Prize in ...

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Weekly Playboy has announced the top gravure idols of the year. The winners of the Gravure Japan Award were Hina Kikuchi and Cocoro Toyoshima (joint winners of Grand Prize). Leyla Ikeda and Ina Enohara were the joint winners of Best Newcomer. No one who has followed the gravure scene in 2024 will be so surprised by these winners, especially the Grand Prize winners. All have been a dominant presence in gravure magazines this year. Best Work was awarded to Yuka Iguchi, the voice actress in her late thirties who has made a big splash in gravure this year. Best Photo Book went ...

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The newbie gravure idol Kanna Seto (瀬戸環奈) has only just launched her career with a shoot for Weekly Post in October, but her first photo book is already announced. The J-cup stunner is also jumping up a few rungs on the career ladder by opting to go nude for her debut photo book, emerald, which comes out from Shogakukan on January 28. With a sweet, girl-next-door face and slim waist, coupled with those huge bakunyu breasts, Kanna Seto is bound to win hearts, especially since the shoot doesn't shy away from showing us her tits and ass in all their glory. You ...

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We love a good comeback story at Tokyo Kinky. And we especially love comebacks that defy mainstream expectations about women and beauty. Why shouldn't older women still be sex symbols? A year ago, we wrote about Fumie Nakajima's image DVDs that prove a woman can still look great in her mid-fifties. Now here's another 55-year-old Japanese woman who returned to our lives. Reiko Kato was something of a legend in the later 1980s and early 1990s. She has answered our Christmas wishes and come back to gravure with her first such shoot in 26 years. Kato's past photo book and shoots -- often ...

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In Japanese idol world (gravure, AV, and music), plastic surgery is something of an open secret. The occasional models and idols who admit to it -- Haruka Kodama being a recent one, as is porn star Ichika Mogami -- are exceptions that prove the rule, so to speak. Formerly known as Tenka Hashimoto, Tenchim (てんちむ) is a 31-year-old Chinese-Japanese tarento and model, and a rare example of a celebrity who openly admits to having had surgery on her breasts. In 2021, she made a comeback after a double scandal that saw her career as a model and tarento derailed, so much so that she took to ...

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The internet recently went bonkers over the arrival of former Morning Musume idol Maki Goto's nipples, not least because she is almost 40 and it might be her last hurrah. But a younger star, 25-year-old Rui Shido (紫藤るい), has set a precedent for doing nudity early on her career with her new photo shoot, which appears in Weekly Friday. The gravure idol used to be known as Yuuri Rukawa, under which name she worked as a junior idol from the age of eight. She is also a former cram school teacher, though her shoot reveals assets that surely would have distracted her students, ...

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Who's your favorite gravure idol? Who do you like to see grace the covers of the tabloid magazines every month? These are the questions constantly running through our minds on an almost daily basis -- and we're clearly not alone. If you want to let the world know which lady you love best, you can now do so via a contest run by gravure magazine Weekly Friday. The Grademy Award seeks to find Asia's top gradol. Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Friday, voting is now open online via the dedicated website. Friday is taking a broad definition of gradol -- basically anyone who does ...

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Most of us can only dream of dating a Japanese model. Usually, only actors, singers, sports players, or other male celebrities get to live out that fantasy. Recent examples include the boyfriends of hotties Risa Yukihira and Miyu Murashima. So if you were lucky enough to be dating a Japanese fashion model or gravure idol, you'd be crazy to throw it away, right? Well, it happens. Perhaps after a while, you taken it for granted. Gravure idol Sena Natsuki recently revealed on a late-night TV show that she was single again, having broken up with her boyfriend of five years. She met him ...

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We recently wrote about what we think is Kei Fubuki's first sex scene, which was very welcome in some ways, but disappointing in others (no nipples on display). She continues to branch out into acting but Fubuki remains best known as a gravure idol. That said, she used to do a different job entirely. As she reveals in an interview with the tabloid magazine Friday, she was once a flight attendant! Imagine sitting in economy and this stunner is a member of the flight crew serving you drinks! With such a large (and surely heavy) bust, we're surprised her airline didn't take a cut from ...

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