The former AKB48 idol Natsumi Hirajima (Nacchan) has worked hard to establish herself as a solid gravure idol after leaving the group in 2012. And her efforts just got a boost with the release of a new photo book this month.
She actually left the group somewhat under the cloud of scandal, following the leak of photos on ex-member Rumi Yonezawa's private Twitter account showing images of them with men.
In one, Nacchan is in a bar with a lucky (and horny) guy, who had her in the classic kabe-don pose. She nonetheless returned briefly in 2013 for one of the AKB "elections" to ...
Last week we blogged about the upcoming adult video debut of former Aoyama Saint Hachamecha High School idol Yume Narai, who will release her first porn title through Soft on Demand in March as Kia Aoyama.
As is typical in these well-publicized debuts, Aoyama/Narai has posed for a full-frontal (known in Japan as a "hair nude") photo shoot -- and the results are so good we just had to share them with readers.
With her idol group now defunct, the adorably cute yet shapely Aoyama/Narai is going all out for her hotly anticipated entry into the porn industry, perhaps hoping to emulate the ...
It's hardly a secret that many music idols, along with gravure idols, slip into porn after graduating from their idol job. While most fade quickly into obscurity once their management companies cut them loose, a few brave souls try to branch out in second careers in adult video, and an even smaller number are successful at it and last more than one or two releases.
Several members AKB48 and its sister groups have made prominent debuts in AV, most notably Momona Kito, and now comes an example from another idol group.
An ex-member of Aoyama Saint Hachamecha High School, Yume Narai, will ...
Gravure idol Erina Kamiya has amazing breasts. This much we already knew and are one of the reasons she is one of the hottest and most popular gravure idols in Japan at the moment.
Erina Kamiya has previously demonstrated that her G-cup breasts can do a range of awesome things, such as break tiles. She can also balance pretty much anything on her sizeable chest.
But we didn't know that those same breasts can even save the world from certain destruction. Until now.
In an aptly titled video called "Breasts Save the World," Erina shots light beams from her beautiful breasts ...
Following her previous semi-nude scene in the TBS TV drama Kimi ga Kokoro ni Sumitsuita, popular cutie Riho Yoshioka has followed up with another hot scene in the third episode of the series.
In the show, her character has to model a bra at a public event. During her trip down the catwalk, however, she slips and falls. While this is hardly the stuff of high drama, it does mean that viewers get a lingering look at her naked back, slender waist, and modest bust. And Riho certainly does look mighty fine in lingerie, though we already knew that.
Well, Riho ...
AKB48 is said to be phasing out swimsuit and lingerie photo shoots for its young members, perhaps out of fear of foreign accusations of peddling lolicon and child pornography as Tokyo prepares to for the 2020 Olympics.
There is speculation that the Akihabara-inspired supergroup, which builds followings for its female idols through swimsuit and underwear shoots as well as scantily clad music videos, is taming down its tactics.
Now members of high school age will apparently not be asked to reveal their flesh during photo shoots, it is reported.
A large proportion of AKB48's members ...
The up-and-coming gravure idol and actress Riho Yoshioka is one of the stars of the new TBS TV drama Kimi ga Kokoro ni Sumitsuita (You Always Inhabit My Heart).
An adaptation of the manga by Kirin Tendo, the 24-year-old Yoshioka has a semi-nude scene that is currently setting portions of the Japanese web on fire. In it, Yoshioka is shown undressing and revealing her naked back. Strangely, she is then left standing nude in front of a bunch of guys who show no interest.
Unfortunately this is a drama on a regular Japanese TV channel, so you don't really see anything -- AbemaTV, which will ...
Actress and gravure idol Mami Yamasaki has done plenty of alluring photo shoots in her career, exploiting her girl-in-the-office looks.
But she's gone one further with this December photo shoot in weekly tabloid magazine Flash, which seems to tread very narrowly along the border between nude and chakuero (clothed but nude). In some shots Mami is clearly naked but you can't see anything.
The Osaka native is technically a jukujo ("ripe girl"), now she's in her early thirties. But the hormones are doing wonders and she looks better than ever.
We see the 32-year-old effectively finger herself ...
Since leaving AKB48, Mariya Nagao has been determined to carve out a career for herself by exploiting her assets.
While she hasn't gone quite as far of other AKB idols before her and done full nude or semi-nude shoots, lke Aika Ota recently, and certainly hasn't entered adult video like a prominent number of her fellow AKB and sister group graduates, she has shown us her killer body on more than one occasion. And what a stunner she is.
Now she has shown off her acting chops in a role that sees her do her first sex scenes. And judging by her performance, at any rate, she would seem to ...
It's something of an open secret these days that all the commercial excitement comes from Nogizaka46, not AKB or its direct sister groups.
Photo books by the likes of Mai Shiraishi and Nanami Hashimoto have become runaway bestsellers, or photo shoots by Misa Eto have dazzled. Even more minor members such as Yumi Wakatsuki, Mai Shinuchi, Kazumi Takayama, and Miona Hori have established their reputations in recent times -- at least in our consciousness.
But let's not forget the official AKB48 sister groups. NMB48's Miru Shiroma, for example, is a true star on the rise.
And now the Nogizaka46 ...
