Following scandals with drugs -- including another one recently where she fled abroad for a while -- H-cup idol Minako Komukai (小向美奈子) shows no sign of giving up.
After losing her job through telling the truth about the industry (that idols have to have sex to progress into the mainstream entertainment world), previously she turned from idol to stripping, with a very enthusiastic reception.
Then she went the soft core root and appeared in some cheesy light BDSM-themed sex DVDs.
Now she has really thrown her towel in with the big girls. Soft on Demand (SOD) has ...
Top idols AKB48 have been promoting almost every product in Japan recently and prominent among the campaigns has been the one for travel agency H.I.S.
Though you sadly can't actually book a trip with any of the lovely ladies, you can go some of the way there with the latest addition to the marketing smorgasbord: An AKB48 augmented reality app for smartphones!
From August 22 to September 30, guys up and down the land are going to be occupied with oen thing only -- the AKB48 Augmented Reality Stamp Rally. After downloading the free app, uou have to go to branches of H.I.S. and read the AR ...
AKB48, eat your heart(s) out!
Marshmallow 3D are the new sexiest idol group in town. They even let you have a fondle of their breasts!
While the AKB48 meet-and-greet sessions with their fans regularly descend into chaos (fans not interested in certain group members, others not wanting to let go after shaking the hand of the idol), I reckon this kind of idea could be even more disastrous.
They're letting people have a good grope on television, for a price, naturally...Certainly is a little bit more 3D than the likes of Avatar managed!
Amazingly this was not just gratuitous ...
After generating uproar and surprise when they faked a new CGI member for an ice cream commercial, AKB48 have trumped us again by introducing the "real" Aimi Eguchi.
In front of 90,000 fans during a major concert, "Eguchi" joined the regular gals on stage for an encore!
It later emerged that we had been fooled again by those dastardly ladies! The performer was in fact 15-year-old Yukari Sasaki, who had been the voice behind the Glico Aimi Eguchi commercial, and was wearing special make-up to make her appear like the idol.
That's a tough thing to attempt since Aimi is famously formed of ...
She might have been losing some ground with the public of late if those Senbatsu Election results are anything to go by, but you'd be a fool to count the achingly cute Tomomi Itano out just yet, especially when she's capable of producing material as pleasing to the eyes and ears as her new single 'Fui ni', released this week.
The song, available in Japanese retail outlets from the 13th, is the second physical single release from the 8th-placed AKB48 starlet, following last year's quite well-received 'Dear J'.
Cleverly (or should that be cynically?) coupling a pounding, ...
You know you've hit the big leagues in the wonderful world of JAV when you've featured in movies alongside (not to mention occasionally inside) the likes of gyaru goddess Mana Izumi and this writer's perpetual go-to girl, Rumika. So it is with the luscious Kokomi Naruse (sometimes going by the name of Cocomi Naruse or even Cocomin) who'll be providing you with some mouthwatering eye candy this week.
Since debuting in 2008, the Niigata-born 22-year-old has gone from strength to strength, featuring in photo books, collaborative movies and a swath of electrifyingly sexy solo efforts. ...
It might seem more than a tad cruel to publicly name and shame the least popular members of your group while vaulting others onto a pedestal to flaunt at the head of your column (at least until the next election rolls around).
Then again, with 48 members to keep track of, the marketing team over at AKB headquarters are probably grateful for any help at all in that department - hate to put a dud on the next single cover, after all. Thus, we have the results of the 3rd Senbatsu Election to mull over.
The divine Atsuko Maeda has, somewhat predictably, nabbed the top spot in this year's ...
Not all of us are thrilled by the prospect of watching flimsy, vrooming death-traps circle a few kilometers of track for lap after endless lap as a means of entertainment, but it'd take a heart of stone indeed to not be moved by the charming set of ladies that motorsports bring to the table -- at their lovely feet at least the claim of inducing boredom could never be laid.
In this regard the gorgeous Shoko Hamada is one among many, but one glance at her pics and you'll see she's most definitely in pole position.
'Race Queen', of course, is not the only title to adorn the divine ...
Underage fans of overlarge idol groups rejoice - the long-standing ban on under-18s attending SDN48's theatre performances has been lifted at last, granting you access to the AKB girls' older, edgier counterparts in (almost) all their raunchy glory.
SDN, the brainchild of AKB48 producer Yasushi Akimoto, was conceived as an "adult idol" group, differentiated from AKB through sexier attire and their focus as a "Saturday Night"-style act (hence the name) aimed at a more mature audience. Having made their major label debut on Universal Music in November of last year with the single ...
Having to sort the wheat from the chaff is an occupational hazard when endeavouring to bring you guys only the finest ladies Japan has to offer, and in a saturated market it can sometimes be quite the task. There's nothing quite like that feeling though, when you've been stuck wading through garbage only to stumble upon gold. Imagine my joy, then, at having almost given up on this month's issue of GT when, lo and behold, the stunning Natsuki Ikeda plunged out of its pages into my lap.
The Kanagawa-born beauty, who will turn 24 this month, has been slowly-but-surely making a name ...
