Yume Hayashi has finally released her first photo book in a sign that her career as a gravure idol is picking up pace.
After three previous digital photo books, the 25-year-old released her debut print photo book, "Yumemi-gokochi" (Dreamy State), with major publisher Kodansha on June 4.
In it, she appears in swimwear and in various states of nudity, her modesty covered by carefully placed arms or by turning her naked back to the viewer. You can enjoy plenty of side boob, butt cheek, and cleavage, but no actual nudity.
We've included some highlights ...
Former NMB48 idol Rina Kondo (近藤里奈) has delighted fans by slipping off her clothes and lying nude on a bed, her modesty preserved only by a slinky pair of panties.
The 24-year-old has released a digital photo book in which she shows off her sweet girl-next-door features, but with a healthy degree of sex appeal thanks to her naked back. Who says cute girls cannot also be sexy?
Intended to preview and promote the digital photo book release, the gravure shoot was published in an issue of Weekly Playboy in late June -- her first appearance in the magazine in eight ...
Nao Kosaka (小坂菜緒) of Hinatazaka46 has released her debut photo book, delighting fans with semi-nude shots and achieving rapid commercial results.
Kimi wa dare? (Who Are You?) was released on June 29 and has sold quickly -- 180,000 copies, according to a media report. It has already entered its second print run.
With her cute girl-next-door looks, Kosaka is incredibly popular and there was a lot of buzz about her photo book, as we first wrote about in May. But even we didn't expect it to be such a hit with fans.
Naturally, the amount of skin she is showing is a major ...
Minamo is moving fast to capitalize on the big splash she made with her recent porn debut.
After switching from gravure, where she was known as Shizuku Taiyo, the angel-faced beauty has rapidly attracted a following with her well-publicized first release for Soft on Demand.
As often the case, another video was quickly shot -- she was probably contracted from the start to make at least a couple of productions -- and put on the release slate.
While no full preview images are available yet, the aptly titled "Ecstasy" (1stars386) comes out from SOD Create on July 8 and the cover alone is ...
Another week, another adult video debut. Another month, another gravure or music idol quietly switches to porn.
Recently we had Rin Arai (Rin Asahi), Shizuku Taiyo (Minamo), and Ruu Yumemi.
Here's the latest. The 25-year-old, angel-faced Moko Nakagawa (那珂川もこ) launched her career as a gradol in 2018 but the G-cup minor star seemed to vanish in April.
Then came the reason: she had joined the T-Powers agency and was relaunching her career as a porn star, now called Kanan Amamiya (天宮花南).
She celebrated with a nine-page hair nude (full-frontal) spread for the weekly magazine ...
Things don't happen in a vacuum: even if the new porn star isn't already famous and making a switch from gravure modeling or another career to JAV (e.g., Ruu Yumemi or Shizuku Taiyo), the chances are she was doing something beforehand.
And being an underground (chika) idol is one. These young women inhabit the groups that etch out a precarious living doing small gigs and events, attended by a modest but devoted following of fans.
The chika idol group Miramajo (みらまじょ) made a sudden decision to disband in January of this year, giving no formal reason -- meaning it was probably ...
The Japanese porn performer Eimi Fukada has announced on her YouTube channel that she is moving homes after her address was identified.
The 23-year-old, whose adult toys are also immensely popular, was rumbled by college students near where she lives in Shinjuku and by others when she was spotted at a local convenience store.
While they are not as accepted in the mainstream entertainment world as regular models and celebrities -- and always euphemistically called "sexy actresses" by the media -- top AV stars have thousands of fans, almost all men -- and willing to go to great lengths to ...
Shortly to graduate NMB48, Miru Shiroma is releasing a new photo book, "Reborn," and it's possibly her hottest ever as she seeks to position herself for a new phase in her career after eleven years in the idol group.
The 23-year-old is the last remaining original member of the Osaka-based group. Her second solo photo book and timed to coincide with her departure, "Reborn" comes out July 7 and features Mirurun in a somewhat different take on the standard tebura "hand bra" pose.
Shiroma already gave us an alluring "hair bra" pose for her first photo book in 2019, along with great shots of her ...
A drugs scandal has spelled the end of many celebrities' careers in Japan. Only a lucky few have managed to crawl back into the limelight and it took a lot of time.
As we blogged in late March, the gyaru model and tarento Yukipoyo (Yuki Kimura) seemed to run into an insurmountable snag in her burgeoning career when her apparent boyfriend was busted for drugs -- with her in attendance.
The Japanese-Filipino recently made a tearful apology on TV and, even more effectively, landed a new promotional gig with a gym chain and launched a photo book with even more provocative shots than before ...
It's one of the most hotly anticipated porn debuts of the year -- and now we have some more preview images to pour over until the video comes out.
First she appeared, then disappeared, then reappeared. Shizuku Taiyo burst onto the scene as a gravure idol in late 2019, only to promptly vanish.
Thank the Shinto gods that they saw fit to guide her nascent career in a new direction.
She has relaunched herself as an adult video star now called Minamo. As we reported last week, her debut comes out on June 10 from Soft on Demand. The release (1stars371) is a three-hour epic and we can now share ...
