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 ...
The Japanese female TV announcers who present the news and other shows do pretty well, but some of them branch off to pursue even more successful careers in other fields: as a general celebrity (Crystal Takigawa), as a fashion model (Kasumi Mori), as an actress (Minami Tanaka), or even as a gravure idol (Akane Takiyama).
Hoping to emulate these predecessors, the former Fuji TV announcer Nagisa Watanabe has made her first foray into gravure in the current issue of Weekly Post.
The 27-year-old left the channel at the end of August after a period of illness suffering from PTSD.
A graduate ...
We are used to Japanese politicians, both male and female, having affairs with hostesses, party workers, foreign musicians, and even other lawmakers. But what about gravure idols?
In a case that recalls Kensuke Miyazaki, who had advocated for fathers to take paternity leave but was caught having an affair with a gravure model while his wife (another lawmaker) was giving birth, a tabloid has broken a scoop on Democratic Party for the People leader Yuichiro Tamaki, who is alleged to have been having an affair with a former gradol.
Flash has revealed that the 55-year-old Tamaki has been ...
This is quite a way to kick off a career.
Sena Himekawa (姫川せな) is a gravure newbie, having released a couple of image videos this year, but this hasn't stopped her from already making the leap right into the next stage of her career with a nude shoot included in the latest issue of Flash.
The shoot is nothing inventive or spectacular, mostly just Himekawa standing or lounging around to show off her naked body in a bedroom or bath. There's no bush, but mainly because she's obviously paipan (fully shaved) down there.
Himekawa has also released a new nude video (imaginatively ...
Two gravure gyaru. What more could you want?!
Yukipoyo has been joined by her younger sister in a gravure shoot for the first time.
The 20-year-old Yumichi poses with Yukipoyo for a shoot in the October 22 issue of Flash magazine.
Yukipoyo (full name Yuki Kimura) is 27 years old and, though now known more generally as a celebrity, got her start in the gyaru fashion magazine egg. She overcame a drug scandal to make a comeback a few years ago. Stripping off helped.
Yumichi (Yumi Kimura) is very much following in her older sister's footsteps. She made her debut this February as a model in ...
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 ...
The gravure idol and actor Asuka Kishi has returned to the pages of Weekly Playboy for the first time in six years.
The 33-year-old Asuka Kishi has focused more on acting roles of late, landing a number of credits in TV dramas. Known for her H cup, she made her debut in 2012. Her last print photo book was Culmination, which came out in 2022.
The mini-comeback shoot appears in the Weekly Playboy issue that went on sale on October 7. A digital photo book is also now on sale.
It's not the cover shoot -- that honor goes to Mizuho Habu, formerly of Sakurazaka46 -- but it's one of ...
We love to sing the praises of the Japanese cougar or jukujo on these digital pages. In the past, we've showcased the jaw-dropping beauty of 55-year-old Fumie Nakajima, and the allure of voice actress Minori Chihara and mother-of-three Yoko Kumada -- both in their forties.
Newbie gravure idols and JAV talent appear each month, but the older ladies have staying power.
We have now taken a look at the latest image video by Nana Hiratsuka (平塚奈菜). The 39-year-old is on the cusp of her forties but this has tempered her willingness to strip.
The stunner shows off her I-cup breasts and ...
Weekly Playboy has collaborated with three of the hottest gravure idols of the moment for a lineup of T-shirts produced by sneaker brand KIKS TYO.
The resulting photo shoots are a kind of face-off between the trio. Who looks the best with sneakers hanging from their body?
Here's delightful Cocoro Toyoshima, available in pink or blue sneaker versions.
And here's comely Ina Enohara.
And finally, this is the lovely Yuzuha Hongo.
If you wanted to get your chance on the Cocoro Toyoshima T-shirts (available in white or black and various sizes), you're probably out of luck. ...
Gravure idol Fumina Suzuki is marking 15 years of her career as a glamor model with a new photo book and a shoot that shows she's still got it.
Fly High comes out September 5 from Genkosha and revels in the busty gradol's gorgeous boobs and curves. She hasn't done anything new per se (don't expect nudity here!) but we love all the side boob and underboob on display.
This isn't a comeback because Fumina Suzuki (thankfully) never went away. She has continued to work in gravure (we loved her five-idol shoot with a postpartum Yuka Kuramochi) and her most recent photo book was also not ...
