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 former gravure idol and one-time political candidate Mari Takahashi has sadly died at the age of 27.
Her death was announced on September 9 and reported in the Japanese media today, though she died last week on September 4.
A graduate of the prestigious Keio University, Takahashi worked briefly as a gravure idol in around 2020 and also as a TV announcer and at an IT consultancy. She was also a finalist for the Miss Japan beauty contest.
She was briefly the official Democratic Party for the People candidate for a seat in a Tokyo constituency in the House of Representatives of Japan ...
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. ...
The impossibly slinky and sexy Japanese gravure idol Sayaka Nitori has just released her second photo book.
Shot in Guam and released on July 30 from major publisher Kadokawa, Colon follows the highly successful Ribbon, which came out in 2022 (also from Kadokawa), and we are pleased to report that it's properly nude this time.
After teasing us for too long with semi-nude shoots that showed off her naked butt or her body but only under sheer or wet clothing, Colon drops the pretense and lets us see Sayaka's breasts in all their G-cup glory.
Here are some highlights that display her ...
There was a wondrous time back in the 1990s and early 2000s when the hair nude (full-frontal nude shoot) was commonplace. Hardly a week went by without another female celebrity shedding her clothes and trying to get in on the action, from newbies to more established stars, all trying to emulate the incredible success of photo books like Santa Fe with Rie Miyazawa.
Today, though adult video stars of course commonly do hair nude shoots, the genre has faded and it's very rare for models and actresses, much less big mainstream stars, to do a hair nude.
Which is why we are so pleased when we do ...
Yesterday, we wrote about the backlash Yua Mikami has faced as she tries to move beyond her former porn career and establish herself as a mainstream fashion brand producer.
The "afterlives" of gravure and JAV idols is a perennial topic on this blog, as regular readers will know.
What happens to those lovely ladies after they disappear from our lives? Mikami enjoyed a hugely successful career and her retirement from AV was fully planned, but most idols just fade away with a whimper, pushed out in a highly competitive market. And which means we rarely get to hear what they do next. (Spoiler: ...
Seaside Lover (海辺の恋人, Umibe no koibito) came out last year in Japan and stars the gorgeous model Fumika in the title role.
It was rated R15 and was promoted as an erotic film and has some nice sex scenes, but we're not sure if there's any or much actual nudity. (We will update as we work our way through the movie, which is available on various streaming platforms in Japan.)
Images from the scenes were shared by the always-reliable Nude Asian Films account on Twitter/X, showing Fumika's two sex scenes that are definitely hot but carefully positioned hands and camera angles prevent ...
On Monday, we wrote about the upcoming porn debut of L-cup gravure idol Yu Tano, and it got a stronger-than-expected reaction from readers.
Well, if you liked the initial news, you're going to love the first preview pics of the 20-year-old's debut AV, which show off her naked body -- and especially those amazing bakunyu tits.
Coming out from top studio S1 No. 1 Style, the release date is now confirmed as June 7 for streaming. The AV is 154 minutes and the code is SONE00221, so search for it next month if you want to check it out. And anyone with a pulse will surely want to.
Her knockers ...
She only made her gravure debut in January, but busty idol Yu Tano (田野憂) has already made the switch to adult video.
The 20-year-old newbie with L-cup breasts will make her porn debut with S1 No. 1 Style, much like gradol Chika Yuki did last autumn.
Details are still slim about the release -- not least, when it will come out -- but Yu Tano made the announcement on social media last week and it has been confirmed by S1.
The announcement has sent her digital photo book shooting to the stop of the charts.
If you are into bakunyu mega-busty AV performers like Hitomi Tanaka, then ...
We wrote yesterday about the very welcome return of Rina Aizawa, who is releasing her first gravure photo book in 12 years -- and it is supposed to be her most nude one yet.
Today, we have the opposite kind of news. The 27-year-old gravure idol and actress Yuki Kiyose is to retire from gravure modeling and focus on her acting.
She has announced that her final event will be a promo for a calendar on April 30 in Akihabara.
Her last shoot appears in Weekly Playboy (the same issue that features the Rina Aizawa photo book preview pics), which is also a photo book published by the magazine ...
