Gravure idols famously come and go. Those who seemed at the top of their game with regular cover shoots in the weeklies might fall out of favor in a couple of months and be gone from our lives. The most successful idols learn that they need to branch out into acting and TV work, and not rely on the precarious gigs doing shoots for magazines and releasing digital photo books in a crowded market.
Nana Asakawa was huge at the end of the 2010s and likewise began to take high-profile acting jobs, including sex scenes in the Haram Marriage TV adaptation and We're Too Bad at Romance.
Those ...
Yuka Kuramochi has returned to gravure with her first shoot since she gave birth to a child in 2021.
Kuramochi, who is married to a very successful esports player, chose to make a splash with her comeback. After all, landing a shoot with Yuka Kuramochi alone would be sure to shift copies, but Weekly Playboy elected for a whammy for its May 23 issue.
Joining Kuramochi are Jun Amaki, Fumina Suzuki, Saki Yanase, and Saki Suzuki. So we get five of the most voluptuous ladies in the industry, all in one shoot.
And what a shoot, as the preview images and the behind-the-scenes pics reveal! It's ...
She is, in our humble opinion, the proud owner of the best pair of buttocks in gravure at the moment, and now she's just showed us even more of them.
Umi Shinonome has released her first photo book, Umi no naka (a pun meaning both "Inside Umi" and also "In the Sea"), this month, which has a decidedly summery, beach theme.
With her G-cup bust and 100-cm hips, the gradol is absolutely popular with male fans, but she has cemented her following with her videos showcasing her hobby: building models.
A print photo book is another major step in her career.
The 25-year-old is promoting her ...
Welcome back, Shizuka Nakamura. We've missed you.
We can't think of the last time that we saw a new shoot by the former top gradol. Thankfully, building on the momentum of her role in the high-profile Netflix adultery drama Fishbowl Wives, in which she appears in a sex scene, Shizuka Nakamura has returned to her first career: gravure.
Shizuka Nakamura appears in the March 25 issue of weekly magazine Friday with a nine-page, winter-onsen-themed shoot. Now aged 33 and as a slim as ever (if anything, a bit slimmer than before?), the Kyoto native has matured into a sensual jukujo. (If we're ...
Detectives Tokyo and Kinky are on the case -- the case of the gravure idol who disappeared immediately prior to her debut DVD release.
Toka Irino (入野十香) is a 19-year-old Japanese girl with an I-cup bust (and a face somewhat similar to Nana Komatsu's). She was set to release her first gravure image video this month, but all traces of her releases have now vanished online. Her upcoming DVD appears -- untitled and without a cover image -- with a "production canceled" notice on online shops or is no longer listed at all. Her official Twitter account, which she launched in November 2021 ...
She promised. She delivered. Now this is what we call a comeback -- and a way to celebrate entering your thirties in style.
As teased in January, veteran gravure idol Ai Shinozaki has returned to what she does best.
And now that her new photo book, "IDEA," is out in Japan from publisher Kodansha, we can share the highlights. Fans have been waiting over four years for a new Ai Shinozaki photo book. They won't be disappointed.
It features a milky-bath shoot that is about as nude as you can get without showing actual nudity. Ai-chan is famous for her huge bakunyu breasts -- hey, this is ...
Veteran gravure idol Tomomi Morisaki is now 29 and on the cusp of full jukujo-dom. Far from toning things down as she grows older, she's turning up the heat for her fans.
In mid-April, she will release a new photo book (her fourth) and it's set to be perhaps her most explicit yet.
As an advance preview, these initial pictures were published in Weekly Friday and, boy, do they whet our appetite for what's to come. Best of all, we finally get to see Tomomi's nipples on those amazing G-cup breasts, albeit through translucent clothing. Unless we missed a shoot, we think this is the first glimpse ...
The former Yumemiru Adolescence idol Kyouka is, as we have eagerly chronicled on this blog, leaving gravure with a highly anticipated nude photo book.
The goodies have been released piecemeal with photo shoots in Weekly Friday.
The latest to catch our roaming eye (published in the February 1 issue of Flash) are these pictures, once again showing off her ravishing breasts in all their glory. Such exquisite shape and size -- and what beautiful skin!
The photo book, which finally now has a title ("Frontera"), is being promoted as a "full nude," suggesting that the 22-year-old ...
While we're getting excited about TikToker Unpai's porn debut and gravure idol Kyouka's nude photo book, other developments can slip under our radar.
Aina Misaki (岬愛奈) was not a gradol we weren't so familiar with before but we are now, since she's upped the ante by stripping nude for the first time.
The 26-year-old Nagano native debuted in the gravure industry in 2017 and has now released a nude photo book and accompanying DVD.
We initially wrote about her last year when the photo book, "All Aina," was announced and first preview images appeared. We are pleased to share more.
Her ...
Last month, a lot of readers joined us in admiring Kyouka's breasts. The former Yumemiru Adolescence idol had teased us throughout 2021 with provocative shoots, finally rewarding with a nude photo book.
The photo book, which was shot in Okinawa, is yet to be released -- meaning we may be in for even better treats in due time -- but further images from it confirm there are other great nude shots of her body.
Though these are not full-frontals (are those waiting for us between the covers of the release on March 4), but once again showcase the 22-year-old's ravishingly voluptuous F-cup breasts ...
