One of our current favorite gravure idols, 23-year-old Tsubasa Hazuki (葉月つばさ), is releasing her long-awaited second print photo book at the end of the month. As we wrote before about it earlier in the summer, it's yet another nude book, following her debut, "Red Zone," which was released last year. This time, with veteran gravure photographer Koki Nishida, she shows us even more of her body, including her nipples -- admittedly covered by wet clothing or translucent fabric. It's not quite full-frontal (hair nude) stuff yet, but very, very close. After the previous spread we picked ...

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While much of the nation is glued to their TV screens watching the annual summer baseball tournament that is Koshien, we bring you another piece of baseball-themed gravure news. No, it's not about batter-model-hottie Ami Imamura. Nor is it about baseball stadium beer girl who, we now know, is actually a porn star. It's Aina Misaki (岬愛奈), the gravure idol who made her debut in 2017 and has steadily released six DVDs until now. She also works as a grid girl at motor races. The Nagano native is a former team manager at a school that competes in the Koshien tournament. Inevitably, this ...

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After last year, this is another summer that almost feels like it doesn't have a proper summer. We can't really go anywhere -- certainly not abroad -- and most festivals and major events are even canceled for a second year in a row or held in reduced forms. Fortunately, someone is here to bring some much-needed sun into our lives. The actor and model Miki Sato (佐藤美希) is featured in the August 23 issue of Weekly Playboy in a stunning summer-themed shoot. What we love about this shoot is that it mostly eschews the more obvious swimsuit and pool or sea shots. Instead we get the ...

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A former founding member of idol group Yumemiru Adolescence (YumeAdo), Kyouka (京佳) is a curvy, busty goddess. With her F-cup and girl-next-door looks, the gradol has charmed her way through five photo books to date -- though three were self-produced -- and has just released a new digital book. Since leaving YumeAdo in 2019, she also tried without much success to crowdfund a music album. But she is still immensely popular as a gravure idol. She has now turned to a sure-fire way to boost her fandom: posing semi-nude for weekly magazine Friday. With her arms and hands protecting the ...

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Popular gravure idol Kanami Takasaki (高崎かなみ) has given us the kind of erotic image we all crave in the summer: of her wet, naked body straight out of the shower. With temperatures soaring in Tokyo, we feel like cooling down in the shower every few minutes -- but that doesn't mean we aren't horny either. The 24-year-old Kanagawa native is promoting her first photo book, which was recently released. Imagine what it is like to come home with Kanami after a day walking around in the searing heat and then head straight into the shower to cool off together -- before turning the heat ...

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It always feels good to welcome back an old favorite. The gravure idol Ayame Misaki was a regular on this blog in the early 2010s. But then she got married in 2016 (only to divorce the following year) and also started working as a "serious" actress, landing a role in a film by art-house auteur Naomi Kawase. But she didn't forget her gravure roots, even if her days of doing nude scenes in low-budget movies are sadly behind her. Now aged 32 and teetering on the edge of youth and jukujo territory in the most alluring of ways, Misaki made a gravure comeback in late May with a shoot for the ...

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The gravure idol Ayako Inokuchi (井口綾子) has appeared on a TV show segment about a hot spring bath. As typical for such shoots, she was wearing a towel wrapped around her body to protect her modesty. But during the filming of the TV Tokyo show Yojikoji Days, things went awry under the water and Ayako ended up revealing her bush for a brief moment! The 24-year-old, who is a recent favorite of weekly magazines, is a graduate of the prestigious private college Aoyama Gakuin, where she won the Miss Campus beauty contest. She released her first (and so far, only) print photo book in ...

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The busty gravure idol Rio Teramoto (寺本莉緒) has stripped for a scene in the new Xstream46 movie Welcome to the Toei Murder Studio (ようこそ東映殺影所へ), which is streaming in Japan since last week. In the 46-minute low-budget horror, Teramoto is shown stripping off for an older guy watching her in a chair. If you're a fan of the 19-year-old gradol, don't get totally excited just yet. The scene is great but stops at her nude back. This is sexy enough, for sure, but we'd love to have seen the front and it's a shame that she keeps her panties on. It's also possible that it's ...

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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 wowing the world with her perfectly proportioned body and face late last year, gravure idol Airi Sato landed a supporting role in the second season of the porn-themed Netflix drama series The Naked Director. While admittedly not as impressive as her co-stars' sex scenes like Misato Morita, Yuri Tsunematsu, or Yuka Masuda, Sato appears nude in the series. She gives us a look at her breasts in a scene in a strip show (the series is set in the 1980s and 1990s, back when burlesque was still popular in Japan). The slinky and beautiful Sato is hoping to capitalize on her exposure in the ...

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