Terrace House is sadly canceled but the people that the show made into (minor) stars are still around, and some of them are trying to continue their success.
The "sports talent" Risako Tanabe (田辺莉咲子) is one and has now made her gravure debut. The athletic and well-toned beauty just did her first gravure shoot, which appears in the issue of Weekly Playboy on sale from November 8. As gravure goes, there's not too much to get excited about here, but perhaps it will lead more, racier shoots in the months ahead.
The 23-year-old (who is a petite 148 cm) stays in shape by doing workouts ...
There are those times when you go, "Oh, THAT person." And suddenly it all makes sense where you have seen someone before.
Mayu Ura (浦まゆ) is not a name that many, if any, people knew. But her face was familiar from a lot of adverts -- and frankly, some pretty striking, even downright weird, ones.
The 29-year-old is appearing in several commercials, with current contracts with 10 brands.
Well, she may struggle to land major advertising deals now, since she's taken a new step in her career with a nude gravure shoot for a Weekly Playboy (with an accompanying digital photo book). ...
We've always nurtured a fascination with Rina Toeda (十枝梨菜), who's arguably something of an anomaly in the gravure industry.
Sure, she is credited with a G-cup (by Japanese standards) but, unlike the bustier, bouncier, buxom kinds of gravure idols, Toeda has a more assured, alluring style: in particular, great buttocks and skin as well as an exotic face that lends her a glamorous, party-girl character. Especially over the past few years, she's presented an image that is closer to Kiko Mizuhara or a similar kind of model than an average gradol.
Following her exploits on Instagram, the ...
Some of us get more conservative the older we get. Misumi Shiochi gets nuder the older she gets.
The 39-year-old jukujo and former TV announcer has now firmly settled into her role in the gravure industry as the current ara-four ("around 40") lady of the moment that men want to sleep with, perhaps especially if they are the same age.
Her latest photo shoot shows off her G-cup breasts (though without actually showing off her nipples) and gives us some great views on her ass and nude back.
The pictures are highlights from her new photo book, "Nocturne," which came out in Japan on September ...
It's the last gasp of summer here in Tokyo. The weather has dropped ten degrees in just a few days and the overcast or even rainy skies have made things very autumnal indeed. On go the first long sleeves of the season and, as we enjoy sunny weather today, back goes the mind to the memories of the summer.
Well, it was a strange one: the pandemic continued to put a damper on life, leading to canceled or postponed events, all while the Olympics took place behind closed doors. Most people couldn't do much, certainly not take any real trip. Thank the Shinto gods for the joys of the internet.
We ...
She goes by many names and her career just took a whole new turn.
Previous active since 2020 as a music idol in such groups as KissBee and Once a Chance under the names Sarina Toyama (外山さりな) and Sarina Haru (春さりな), she has switched to gravure -- and yet another name, Meisa Nishimoto (西元めいさ).
Not such a big surprise here: a large number of idols also pose for gravure shoots on a regular basis.
But for the Chiba native's shoot in the August 27 issue of the weekly magazine Friday, she posed for a great full-frontal nude shoot (hair nude). Now that's what we call ...
Cosplayer Enako is special in many ways, not only in terms of her looks and talent, but also her willingness to talk openly about the ins and outs of her profession.
The 27-year-old elfin star recently appeared on a late-night TBS TV show, where she divulged information about her income, long a source of discussion.
At the 2019 Comiket, she posed for more than 800 fans. She has self-published her own photo books and produced lots of merchandise.
This all adds up to a lot of cash: she claims her income is an incredible ¥50 million (around $455,000), which is more than top politicians and ...
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 ...
The blond-haired cutie Kokoro Shinozaki (篠崎こころ) appears in the new issue (August 24) of Young Champion with a hot shoot showcasing her slender body and otherworldly allure.
Shot at a lake, the lingerie spread features Kokoro Shinozaki posing in a white dress or pale underwear. If not for the ears, she could be an elf or woodland sprite. (That said, she is apparently not averse to putting on the elf ears and going the whole hog.)
The 28-year-old idol and cosplayer is famously tiny -- 150 centimeters, or under five feet -- and made her debut in 2013.
Frankly, this ...
We cannot quite believe that's approaching five years since we last introduced the charms of Satomi Kaneko.
Formerly of AKB48 (until 2007), the gravure idol has in the past done some provocative and alluring photo shoots showing just how close she can get to nudity while just about maintaining a PG-13 rating.
Cue bare backs, fundoshi and a shaved you-know-what, buttocks and glimpses of a nude butt, side boobs and tebura "hand bras" galore.
Now aged 31, Satomi's career is moving into a new phase. And we will be eternally grateful to whichever gods of fate or Shinto are responsible.
For her ...
