Tenga president reveals his true dedication to sex toy design
August 2, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
Japanese designers and engineers are famous for their dedication and meticulous approach. It is this mindset that led to innovations like the Prius and Walkman.
The same goes for Japanese sex toys too.
In the adult industry, while there are a fair few products that are clearly just rushed through the design and manufacturing process to make a quick yen, we never cease to be amazed by the original and striking designs that continue to emerge, month after month.
Tenga is, of course, the industry leader when it comes to design. Its sleek and stylish masturbator toys revolutionized the ...
Tenga to launch rocket (and new sex toy) into space
January 29, 2021
/ Tadashi Anahori
Space, the final frontier for masturbation?
Tenga is not just content merely with producing some of the most sophisticated and best-designed Japanese adult toys, and achieving the distinction as pretty much the sole Japanese sex toy line to have global distribution in its own right, the brand also continues to market its products in unique and fun ways.
The latest iteration of this is Tenga Rocket, a project that sees brand founder Koichi Matsumoto in the same territory as other captains of industry like Richard Branson and Elon Musk.
Tenga Rocket is pretty much what it sounds like: a ...
Going inside Tenga, the top adult toy company in Japan
July 16, 2019
/ Tadashi Anahori
Tenga won't be new to regular readers of this humble blog. Just in case, know that Tenga is the top adult brand in Japan in terms of mainstream exposure, quality, and sophistication of design. It is the only adult brand to have made it big in markets globally and its amazing toys are now sold worldwide, though some are only available in Japan.
It has changed over the years, though, and is now a subsidiary of Soft on Demand, affecting the internal freedom -- or so we have heard down the grapevine.
Nonetheless, it continues to release great items that continue the sex and masturbation ...
Only the other day we blogged about Tenga's awesome Year of the Monkey design onacup.
Well, Tenga actually closed their special year of celebrations for their tenth anniversary by opening a new store in downtown Osaka in December.
It's their first dedicated outlet in Japan and occupies a prominent site in Namba (our old stomping ground).
To promote the store, Tenga invited porn star Mana Sakura to join them for the opening. Mana is fast becoming Tenga's go-to girl for advertising.
Here she is cutting the ribbon and then posing with Koichi Matsumoto, the ...
Tenga Flip Hole onahole debut at AET 2007 Tokyo
July 28, 2007
/ Taro
This is BIG.
After a couple of years of amazing success with the Tenga Onacup series, Tenga is moving to the next level. The current onacups have great prices and a huge selection of "modes" and sizes, but there's also been high demand for a durable device that can be reused multiple times.
This fall Tenga is releasing the Tenga Flip Hole, their most stylish item yet, and the most easy to clean male masturbator out there.
The Flip Hole takes the original Tenga's style and quality, but enhances the inside with more durable material. The best part is the "flip" action, which makes ...