Ex-SKE48 Machiko Tezuka’s Akihabara gravure cafe busted by police
June 25, 2024
/ Tadashi Anahori
What do gravure idols, porn stars, music idols, and models do after they are famous? It is a question that preoccupies us a fair bit on this blog.
Some open small businesses -- and the savvy former stars choose ventures that trade on their fandom and existing networks.
Former SKE48 member Machiko Tezuka is now 38 years old and firmly into sexy jukujo "older woman" territory.
She opened a kind of "gravure cafe" in Akihabara in 2015 in which gradols talk to customers at a table and entertain them in swimwear. Highlights on the menu included "tit squeeze pancake" for ¥1,500, which ...
A short history of the hair nude: Full-frontal nude photo shoots by Japanese actresses, models, and idols
July 18, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
The "hair nude" is a curious Japanese-English term. It refers not just to naked flesh; it's naked flesh specifically with genital hair.
What is "shocking" here is the display of pubic hair, the line by which art and entertainment is usually fettered in Japan. It is fine to have plenty of nudity in films and print publications, but to avoid the century-old ambiguous obscenity laws, people censored or did not show actual pubic hair.
The hair nude set out to deliberately show this bush taboo was something to be challenged, both legally and artistically.
While the likes of Nobuyoshi Araki ...
Former AKB48 and sister group idols who have “graduated” to porn careers
January 3, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
This is a working list of idols from AKB48 or sister groups like SKE48 who have graduated onto second careers in nude modeling and/or adult video (AV).
There are rumored to be others but these are what we know of. Share if there are others!
Momona Kito
The most high-profile recent graduate into the porn industry, Momona Kito starred in an ostensibly one-off porn release by Muteki as Yua Mikami. It was such a hit, she has since decided to do more and make a whole career of it.
Rina Nakanishi
Rina Nakanishi was the pioneer, laying the ground for the other idols who have followed in her ...
Ex-SDN48 idol Machiko Tezuka strips again
September 17, 2015
/ Tadashi Anahori
We swiftly became fans of curvy, sultry Machiko Tezuka when she first stripped off for a hair nude shoot in 2013.
Formerly of SKE48 and now-disbanded SDN48, the J-cup mistress has gone through several name changes: from Machiko Tezuka (her real name) to Ourei Harada (gravure debut) to Eiko Maeda (SKE48 debut), and back to Machiko Tezuka (SDN48 debut).
Now the 1986-born Machiko has stripped off again this year for some more photos. She is promoting a new photo book out in October, hence the motivation to take her clothes off again for the tabloids. Hey, we certainly won't complain about some ...
Ex-SDN48 member Machiko Tezuka bares all!
February 2, 2014
/ Tadashi Anahori
Now this is a woman! When those idol group girls graduate and put a few more years on them, this is what they become. Behold, Machiko Tezuka!
The 27-year-old hottie was a former SKE48 idol group member who then joined SDN48 for a while.
She has had a rather peripatetic career, as these minor idols often do, including joining Seifuku Koji Iinkai for a time in 2002.
In 2004 she changed her professional name to Ourei Harada to become a Gravure idol. She then promptly retired in 2007.
And then in 2009 she changed it to Eiko Maeda for when she joined in SKE48.
And then she ...