Hina Kikuchi was the joint winner at Weekly Playboy's Gravure Japan Awards 2024 announced in December, and it's clear that the public is lapping her up as well. The 20-year-old's highly anticipated third photo book, memory, is a hit, selling 50,000 copies across physical and digital editions since March 19. As the weather warms up in Japan, fans are clearly connecting with the photo book's summery theme. Since she's still only 20 years old, we suspect Hina Kikuchi -- with her slinky body and pale skin -- has a long and fruitful gravure career ahead of her. She got her break as a ...

Weekly Playboy has announced the top gravure idols of the year. The winners of the Gravure Japan Award were Hina Kikuchi and Cocoro Toyoshima (joint winners of Grand Prize). Leyla Ikeda and Ina Enohara were the joint winners of Best Newcomer. No one who has followed the gravure scene in 2024 will be so surprised by these winners, especially the Grand Prize winners. All have been a dominant presence in gravure magazines this year. Best Work was awarded to Yuka Iguchi, the voice actress in her late thirties who has made a big splash in gravure this year. Best Photo Book went ...

Long-running gravure magazine Weekly Playboy is celebrating its 57th anniversary with a photo shoot featuring the titular number of up-and-coming gradols. The 57 nubile ladies appeared in white swimsuits in a classroom and other settings in the ambitious photo shoot. Most of the idols are lesser-known names just starting out on their careers. There is also an accompanying video showing some behind-the-scenes footage. The "Nippon gravure" shoot, which was done by veteran gradol photographer Luckman, is published over 16 pages of the November 13, 2023, issue, which has Hina ...