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 ...
Gravure idol Nanami Moegi has posed semi-nude in the latest push in her career.
The 24-year-old, G-cup idol has released a steady stream of DVDs since she debuted in 2012, but has yet to hit the big league. Will this all change with her latest photo shoot?
This is a typical example of the "semi-nude" shoot -- aka chakuero (chaku-ero) "clothed erotic" shoot -- some idols do, as opposed to the fully nude ones that reveal pretty much everything, though often with the exception of their hairy bush.
Gravure idols Yuka Someya and Moemi Katayama both recently showed us other examples of ...
Ai Shinozaki is one of the most popular gravure idols in Japan but we have almost never featured her on this blog. (An exception is that great story from back in 2015 when Ai Shinozaki was turned into the first "artificial intelligence gravure idol".)
She has all the classic assets of a gradoll: big bust, curvy body, cute face. But something about her just doesn't click with us. Maybe we are too fussy?
Well, this blog is not simply a forum exclusively for showcasing our own personal proclivities and tastes, so we wanted to share Ai Shinozaki's latest photo shoot, which really shows off ...
The TV Tokyo drama series Fringeman recently broadcast a sex scene featuring busty gravure idol Asuka Kishi. Okay, not quite a sex scene -- this is Japanese television, after all -- but almost one.
We got to see the alluring sexpot in her bra, sitting on a bed in a love hotel as she invited her lover to strip and sit next to her. Who wouldn't take up an offer like that?!
There are some stunning shots of Asuka Kishi's bust, practically bursting out of the bra, as well as her tattooed body. Despite the ban on tattoos in public bathing facilities, many women nonetheless have them and they can ...
Continuing the trend for former AKB48 idols trying to make a name for themselves post-AKB with a raunchy photo shoot, Aika Ota is the latest young lady to show us what she's got.
She follows in the glorious footseps of Mariya Nagao, Aki Takajo, Satomi Kaneko, and Natsumi Hirajima.
Just recently, Haruka Shimada preceded her imminent graduation with a sultry shoot that suggests she may be keen to go further in the near future.
Born in 1994, Ota graduated from AKB48 in April 2017 after time spend in both the main AKB48 group and its Fukuoka spin-off, HKT48.
Aika ...
Erina Kamiya. Member of Kamen Joshi (Masked Girls) and Steam Girls. Gravure idol of the moment. Fire of our loins.
She of the killer cute butt and the amazing bust.
These days, Erina Kamiya is also a YouTuber. What we particularly love about her is that she doesn't seem to take herself too seriously.
In one of her recent YouTube videos and TV appearances she has shown us how to strip off quickly and what she can balance on her bust.
Another one of her official channel from the end of October sees her take off her clothes and attempt to hide her pussy with various objects. Yes, ...
