Yume Hayashi has finally released her first photo book in a sign that her career as a gravure idol is picking up pace. After three previous digital photo books, the 25-year-old released her debut print photo book, "Yumemi-gokochi" (Dreamy State), with major publisher Kodansha on June 4. In it, she appears in swimwear and in various states of nudity, her modesty covered by carefully placed arms or by turning her naked back to the viewer. You can enjoy plenty of side boob, butt cheek, and cleavage, but no actual nudity. We've included some highlights ...

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After yesterday's good news about Mariko Seyama's nipples comes more fine tidings about another lady we have long admired. Minami Fukuoka (福岡みなみ) is not a jukujo like 41-year-old Seyama but has her old slinky, slender charms. In the 26-year-old's latest gravure photo shoot for the current issue Weekly Playboy, she has taken off everything and shown us what she looks like with her most intimate parts of her body covered with her arms. The results are mighty fine -- even more so if you like a girl tied up in shibari bondage rope. From lab tech beauty to rooftop seductress and ...

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Mariko Seyama (脊山麻理子) has shown us herself at her most naked yet. After years of teasing with lingerie shoots and semi-nudes, the 41-year-old has finally stripped to reveal more of her body. While she has sadly stopped short of full nude (the "hair nude," as it is known in the industry), her new photo book shows her in see-through lingerie that reveals her nipples. In addition, she generously flashes us her naked butt, though we have seen this wonder before. "Milk" is released in Japan on July 1. She joined a new agency last year, perhaps signaling a shift in ...

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Minamo is moving fast to capitalize on the big splash she made with her recent porn debut. After switching from gravure, where she was known as Shizuku Taiyo, the angel-faced beauty has rapidly attracted a following with her well-publicized first release for Soft on Demand. As often the case, another video was quickly shot -- she was probably contracted from the start to make at least a couple of productions -- and put on the release slate. While no full preview images are available yet, the aptly titled "Ecstasy" (1stars386) comes out from SOD Create on July 8 and the cover alone is ...

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Another week, another adult video debut. Another month, another gravure or music idol quietly switches to porn. Recently we had Rin Arai (Rin Asahi), Shizuku Taiyo (Minamo), and Ruu Yumemi. Here's the latest. The 25-year-old, angel-faced Moko Nakagawa (那珂川もこ) launched her career as a gradol in 2018 but the G-cup minor star seemed to vanish in April. Then came the reason: she had joined the T-Powers agency and was relaunching her career as a porn star, now called Kanan Amamiya (天宮花南). She celebrated with a nine-page hair nude (full-frontal) spread for the weekly magazine ...

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The 39-year-old gravure model and celebrity Yoko Kumada is "working" at a luxury hostess club in Ginza. Well, kind of. The initial media headlines were a little misleading. Kumada's entrepreneur husband was arrested last month for assaulting her, including allegedly hitting her in the face, but was released without charge two days later. She has announced her intention to start divorce proceedings, though there are also reports that the incident was prompted by her husband's suspicions of her adultery, which might complicate things. She and her husband have three young children. She shared ...

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Summer is nearly here and we are looking forward to some camping. Ideally with a lady like this. Tomomi Morisaki is so hot, she's on fire. That's the unsubtle yet apt metaphor conveyed in her latest photo shoot, which has a "phoenix" theme with the lovely Tomomi posing in lingerie around open flames. The shoot was featured in an issue of Weekly Playboy released in late April, meaning the outdoors shoot was actually done when the weather was still quite mild. Now that's commitment to her craft. The stunning 28-year-old with a G-cup, long a favorite of this blog, is promoting the ...

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What happens to the beauty contest finalists who don't quite make it? Though the winners often go on to carve careers as models and celebrities (and a small minority do more interesting things like become porn stars or appear in sex tapes), what about the almost-rans? One example is Fumika Mizukusa (水草文香), a 2018 Miss Japan finalist when she was a young 23 years old (and a first-year student at the University of Tokyo, Japan's most prestigious university). Now Mizukusa is a little older and wiser -- and a lot hotter and willing to exploit that. Working today under the name Fumika ...

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It's one of the most hotly anticipated porn debuts of the year -- and now we have some more preview images to pour over until the video comes out. First she appeared, then disappeared, then reappeared. Shizuku Taiyo burst onto the scene as a gravure idol in late 2019, only to promptly vanish. Thank the Shinto gods that they saw fit to guide her nascent career in a new direction. She has relaunched herself as an adult video star now called Minamo. As we reported last week, her debut comes out on June 10 from Soft on Demand. The release (1stars371) is a three-hour epic and we can now share ...

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A debut and a disappearance. This is a curious tale. The beautiful gravure idol Shizuku Taiyo (太陽しずく), whose name literally means "drop sun" or "trickle sun," broke into the mainstream with her industry debut in autumn 2019. She graced the covers of Young King magazine for the September 24 and October 28 editions, and a 15-page spread in the latter. But then the 19-year-old basically vanished. While it is customary for models and idols to change their professional names (especially ahead of a porn debut) and, in the process, for previous social media channels to be deleted, why ...

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