Gotta catch them all!
Well, there are so many Pokémon that that aspiration is surely impossible. But it seems you can catch the important ones.
Satoshi not only caught Pikachu, but was spotted giving Pikachu a good kiss.
Namely, a guy dressed as Satoshi (Ash Ketchum in the West) was recently seen kissing a lady friend dressed as Pikachu in a backstreet of Shibuya.
The young couple, presumably at the end of a successful date, were surreptitiously filmed in an alleyway exploring each other's faces. The four-second video subsequently uploaded to Twitter on October 24 has gone viral. The ...
Managers at Universal Studios Japan are clutching their pearls at the risqué costumes that some patrons are wearing.
The coronavirus pandemic was almost the nail in Japan's Halloween street cosplay coffin: the pandemic years saw the numbers of people gathering for street parties in crazy costumes (often bearing no relation to Halloween) drop dramatically.
Now the custom is returning and theme parks are also always popular places to visit in costumes, regardless of the season. But it seems that patrons at USJ in Osaka are taking things too far, emphasizing the sexy side of the Japanese ...
Feti Fes is Japan's top fetish festival. We have attended before and previously posted photo reports that readers seemed to like.
It's the kind of event where every little room, cubbyhole, or booth is dedicated to a whole other fetish. Participants include chika (underground) and gravure idols, ero-cosplayers, fetish service providers, and goods and merchandise retailers.
After postponement due to the pandemic -- obviously, given the nature of the event, it's hardly compatible with social distancing guidelines -- Feti Fes 19 was finally held in April. We were not able to attend but, as we ...
Uber Eats (and similar services) has become a part of daily life in Tokyo, with its bike couriers often seen shuttling around the city making deliveries.
You know that something is an established part of Japanese pop culture when it gets its own parody onahole.
Plus it has inspired fantasies of hot girls bringing you your lunch and with a little something extra, courtesy of the revealing clothes they wear. This has practically launched the modeling career of Uber Eats delivery rider Yu Maria.
Now the trope has another iteration: cosplay.
Sexy Uber Eats cosplay is trending and the best ...
Enako is Japan's most famous cosplayer at the moment -- and also most successful.
By 2019, she was making $90,000 a month, a tenfold increase from 2016. She is a spokesperson for anima and game corporations, and also earns yen from streaming. She makes very regular appearances on the covers of weekly magazines, though doesn't charge a modeling fee for these, as we previously reported -- a savvy decision that encourages magazines to keep hiring her.
Success and fame means money. It also means masses of costumes.
In Enako's case, a whole warehouse full of costumes. She has hundreds of them ...
Happy New Year. We welcome in the Year of the Tiger by checking out a small sampling of the great tora-themed sexy cosplay posted on social media by Japanese cosplayers, gravure models, porn stars, and more.
We start with an obvious choice: Japan's top cosplayer, Enako, whose contribution looked both busty and cozy.
Former AKB48 idol and lingerie model Haruna Kojima, who seems to be visiting Paris at the moment, made do with a croissant pose and some cat cosplay (albeit it in colors/pattern that was more like a cow than a tiger).
Shibari model Cana achieved an intimacy and warmth with ...
Cosplayer Enako is special in many ways, not only in terms of her looks and talent, but also her willingness to talk openly about the ins and outs of her profession.
The 27-year-old elfin star recently appeared on a late-night TBS TV show, where she divulged information about her income, long a source of discussion.
At the 2019 Comiket, she posed for more than 800 fans. She has self-published her own photo books and produced lots of merchandise.
This all adds up to a lot of cash: she claims her income is an incredible ¥50 million (around $455,000), which is more than top politicians and ...
Office romances can be great -- but can also get messy.
In days past, office ladies (OL) were almost expected, alongside their other duties, to hook up with their future hubbies among the desks of their company, marry, and then quit to start a family. Thankfully, those stereotypical expectations are, if not quite dead, on the decline.
That said, the office romance (shanai renai) still holds a special appeal for men and women seeking distraction from those mind-numbing hours of spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations.
While the fantasy has fueled a thousand adult videos and gravure shoots ...
Probably the most famous and successful cosplayer in Japan right now, Enako is no stranger to provocative photo shoots. Heck, did you see her as a semi-nude mermaid?
But did she inadvertently reveal more than she and her managers intended in a recent photo shoot?
That's what netizens are hoping and speculating about in their customary frenzy. Cue lots of zooming-in and squinting at screens.
The suggestion is that in this photo, Enako's left nipple (or at least, the areola) is visible. The image was described as a behind-the-scenes shot from a shoot for the August issue of Young Champion ...
When it comes to gender, Japan does things differently. That guy may well be a girl, and that girl may well be a guy. Androgyny is a firmly established aspect of beauty and fashion. Indeterminate gender is sexy and alluring.
Deception, the other hand, is just plain annoying.
Cosplayer Rei Dunois is known for a penchant for Evangelion and MCU, and for incredible character transformations. He has built up a significant fanbase -- to the tune of over 60,000 followers on social media.
We write "he" because we now know the truth, though you would be forgiven for misunderstanding if you saw ...
