Oh, Yuuri Morishita.
She of the awesome butt and the penchant for showing it off in all its nude glory.
She of the amazing "living mannequin" look.
She who unfortunately took plastic surgery too far.
A long-standing favorite of this blog (before the surgeon's knife turned her into a quasi-parody), We were saddened to hear that the 33-year-old gravure idol had gotten married in June with a regular guy not from the entertainment industry.
Now comes the double whammy: she's pregnant and due to give birth in spring next year.
Perhaps pregnancy will do wonders to her body, ...
Gravure idol Yuka Someya has the body of a goddess: curvy, sultry and powerful.
Blessed with a height of 175cm (5.7 ft) and a G-cup bust, Yuka Someya is an almost Amazonian specimen of a Japanese gravure idol.
Now starting to approach 30, she has the eyes of a lady who has experienced more than her fair share of fun in the bedroom. Sadly, she hasn't become the superstar we had hoped, which is possibly why she has made the next move in her career of posing nude.
This isn't complete hair nude territory (yet), to be fair, so don't expect full-frontal goodies from this photo shoot, but Yuka is ...
The gravure idol Mai Hakase gave viewers more than expected when she appeared on a recent Japanese television show.
The slinky model was wearing a white bikini and was required to complete a task in very hot water. This was hardly HBO standards. Fortunately for us, there was so very, very nearly a nip slip when one of her nicely sized cups started to come out of her wet bikini top.
The show was part of an annual charity telethon on NTV that continues for 24 hours. Clearly not all of the content is family-friendly!
Previous guests on the show include the ...
In addition to buying up all the CDs and merchandise they can get their hands on, otaku fans like to send their favorite idols various personal gifts, from handmade art to flowers and toys.
Given that the line between fans and stalkers is quite thin sometimes, the idols and their management agencies need to take precautions.
The meet-and-greet sessions, for example, at one time became notorious because fans were allegedly masturbating and leaving their spunk on their hands for idols to touch by accident. They called it the "semen handshake". Yes, nice to meet you indeed!
Now Kaori ...
Japanese gravure idols are mostly famous for one thing: their busts.
Sure, not all of them have giant breasts but the proportion of busty models is pretty high. There are all kinds of things you can do with such breasts, from groping them to raise money for charity to keeping various objects balanced on them.
If you want a way to accurately check and compare gravure idols' various chest sizes, we recommend the Oppai Zukan, or Full-Sized Gravure Idol Breasts Reference Book.
This hefty book features such gravure idols as Nanoka, Eimi Matsushima, Saki Funaoka, Nonoko, Sayaka Onuki, Mayumi ...
Kazuhito Kosaka, aka Daimaou Kosaka, aka Piko Taro, the comedian best known for his viral hit "Pen Pineapple Apple Pen", has married his secret long-time girlfriend.
And the lucky lady is none other than... gravure idol Hitomi Yasueda!
This is not a joke. The busty model (and former race queen) with a delightful butt has been dating Kosaka for four years, after they appeared together on a TV show in May 2013 and long before he hit the big time as his Piko Taro character.
They got married on August 3rd. To be honest, when we read this news we assumed it was a very mistimed ...
Here's a new toy that will certainly get young boys interested in games that don't involve a screen: the oppai spinner, as invented and demonstrated by the immensely busty and immensely popular gravure idol and singer Jun Amaki.
Best known for making the "virgin killer sweater" famous, Jun Amaki has a chest that she knows how to use -- such as by creating a special version of Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen.
The fidget spinner is the toy of the moment and has become very popular this year. It is also starting to grow in Japan, where is known rather intriguingly as the "hand spinner", so it ...
We love gravure and AV idols, but not just the ones currently in fashion. We also like learning about the thousands of women working in gravure and AV do after their careers are over.
Some go into prostitution or working as a hostess. Some become mainstream TV presenters or actors -- or even politicians. If they're lucky, some snag the right man and settle down to a quiet life of marriage and family. Some, though, fade into obscurity and poverty.
The actress Hikari Mitsushima is an acclaimed and popular talent today but started her career as an teen idol. The porn star Nayuka Mine is now a ...
What is it about female Japanese sports athletes? They just keep turning us on.
Former Olympic snowboarder Mero Imai recently cemented her post-sport spiral with a porn debut.
Reika Saiki has shown that muscles are sexy, while Ami Inamura has demonstrated that a girl who knows what to do with a baseball bat is hot as hell.
And lots of mainstream models are keen to display their svelte, sporty bodies.
There's also a subgenre of athletes who have gone fully nude, such as the ice skater Fumie Suguri and dancer Tamiyo Kusakari.
Similarly to former Olympic gymnast Risa Izumi and ...
If this is what the ongoing cleaning-up of Shinjuku's notorious red-light district means, then bring it on.
The AV and gravure idols magazine Weekly Playboy is opening a bar in Kabukicho from June 10.
Every night, different gravure models will be serving drinks at Shupure Sakaba (Weekly Playboy Bar) to a few very lucky customers.
This is an exclusive VIP bar with just five seats per session and a limit of only three seatings per night. Needless to say, reservations are a must and there is a hefty cover charge of ¥10,000 for one hour and a four-course meal (drinks and food not in the ...
