The Japanese porn star Nanami Yokomiya (横宮七海) has died. She was just 21 years old (she would have turned 22 in February next year). Her death was announced on social media over the weekend by her friend, Moratorium Hamada. She made her debut in the industry 2021 and continued to appear regularly in adult video productions. She was best known for Lolita-style (rori-kei) roles. Fanza has 248 releases for her name as of writing, including several yet to come out later this month (presuming these are not canceled). Hamada has shared messages that she and Yokomiya exchanged before, ...

     Read More     

Tama Toys has already shown us what AI can do to design masturbator toys with the bestselling Artificial Intelligence Vagina onahole series. Now comes the inevitable next step: AI porn. An AI-generated adult video produced by h.m.p. stars a digitally created performer called Ai Kihana (木花あい). The 35-minute video (41AIBV0001) claims to be the world's first such AI porn release. It comes out December 22 on DVD and Blu-ray. We will have to withhold judgment until we view the actual footage, but the Ai Kihana's face is attractive, yet does have that uncanny valley kind of ...

     Read More     

Early last year, we wrote about the porn debut of Japanese TikToker Unpai. This was exciting enough in its own right, but seemed to signal something of a trend in Japanese adult video industry at the time, as several TikTokers made the shift to porn after acquiring a fandom on the video platform. Unpai was followed by biracial beauty Okogetan and Ichika-sensei. Like a lot of JAV performers, many of these debuts, despite benefiting from extra publicity and interest due to their existing fame and popularity, are destined to have short careers in the highly competitive world of Japanese ...

     Read More     

Japanese adult video studio Faleno is to release a porn parody of Colabo, an organization that helps women in need. This has ignited a huge amount of attention this week, but the context requires some explanation for the uninitiated. Colabo runs a shelter for victims of sexual and domestic violence called the Tsubomi Cafe, which is effectively a large pink bus. It can often be found in Kabukicho, which attracts young runaways and desperate women who may be drawn into prostitution or compensated dating. In a very bizarre turn of events, the organization and its activities found themselves ...

     Read More     

The former Japanese porn star Shunka Ayami is said to be dating the male singer Ryoichi Tsukada. The 36-year-old Tsukada is a member of the boy band ABC-Z, which is part of the roster of troubled (and recently renamed and soon-to-dissolve) agency Johnny & Associates. Ayami reportedly introduced Tsukada to her parents last month, and they have supposedly taken overseas trips together. Weekly Bunshun claimed the scoop when earlier this week it published photos of the two together traveling by Shinkansen. They certainly make a glamorous couple. Tsukada took a well-publicized break ...

     Read More     

Aya Takanashi, the former porn star turned columnist on all things JAV, is back with another article about the porn industry. This time, she's spilled the beans on why some performers have rules about which other performers they are willing to work with. In her latest column for the monthly magazine Spa!, she enumerates some of the major reasons for why co-performers are "banned" by certain AV stars. This is not insignificant, since while the AV industry is flooded with thousands of female performers, the number of men performing regularly is tiny. If you get on the bad side of one of ...

     Read More     

Last year, police in Hong Kong cracked down on foreign sex workers, arresting several women including former Japanese porn star Noa Aizawa. It's well known that active and former adult video performers do sex work. It can be especially lucrative to engage in such work outside Japan, particularly other parts of Asia, where JAV is immensely popular. If your career is flagging in Japan or you want a change of pace, you can enjoy a good lifestyle with affluent clients abroad. It seems that situation in Hong Kong is much the same, with media reporting the arrest on September 5 of 11 members of a ...

     Read More     

Another week, another new Japanese adult video debut. This time, the newbie porn performer who has caught our eye is Ruu Totsuka (十束るう), who used to be known professionally as Shiho Nagisa (渚志帆). Her debut (code STARS-901-T) came out on SODstar digitally on August 30, and then on DVD on September 21. Apparently, she's been working as a voice and stage actor since the age of six! She's meant to be currently a gravure model, though we had never seen her before. Regardless, her 20-year career just entered a whole new chapter. The 26-year-old native of Kumamoto has incredible ...

     Read More     

Earlier in the year, we wrote a short profile about Aya Takanashi, the former porn star who is now a columnist. Her articles in Spa! are always worth a read, usually introducing certain aspects about the adult industry and her insights on them. We spotted her recent piece about street scouts (known in Japanese as "scout man"). Such suited, flashily dressed figures are often seen hanging around certain neighborhoods of a big city. In Tokyo, this often means Kabukicho. They go up to women and try to entice them with offers of well-paid work. Sometimes this is porn work, though the true ...

     Read More     

VR Instant Box Girls stars Ichika Matsumoto and, as the name suggests, is intended for watching with a VR device like the Oculus. As far as we can tell, this is a new series of AV by SOD Create and we presume will include other entries with different stars. Released on August 7, the 87-minute AV (13dSDVR01282) has an eye-catching cover with Matsumoto as a female action figure in a blister pack with accessories like lubricant and vibrators. Needless to say, the action figure is naked and doesn't come with any costume parts! This is recreated in life-size in the AV, which is filmed in a ...

     Read More