On October 13, NMB48 announced that Fuuwa Kuroda (黒田楓和) was to leave the music group with her graduation performance being on October 26 and last official day as a member on November 5.
However, on October 28, the group announced that Kuroda will instead leave with immediate effect, and won't attend three hand-shaking events as planned on October 29, November 4, and November 5.
Health issues are nominally cited as the reason, but Japanese netizens have speculated that the real reason is much darker.
It is alleged that the 19-year-old made a sex tape with her boyfriend, which has ...
Former NMB48 idol Miyuki Watanabe has released a new photo book, Dappi, marking what seems to be a somewhat maturer look and more sensual development in her career as she enters a new stage in life.
Also a one-time member of SKE48 and AKB48, Watanabe (known as Miruki to her fans) left NMB48 in 2016. She turned 30 earlier this week. Since leaving the music group, she has worked as a model and launched a music career as a solo artist and member of girl group Ange et Folletta.
Dappi is her fifth book and marks the latest stage in this more adult part of her career.
Last year, she ...
Akane Takiyama (瀧山あかね) is the latest Japanese TV announcer trying to forge a concurrent career in gravure.
She works as an announcer for shows on ABEMA (she joined the streamer in 2018) and is a former NMB48 "research student" (in 2011 and 2012, while in high school). The 29-year-old has now branched out into gravure with a cover shoot for Weekly Playboy that is making waves and rapidly expanding her fandom.
In the summery swimwear shoot for a June issue of Weekly Playboy, she is channeling some Kyoko Fukada vibes with a sporty beach body and radiant, smiling ...
One of the most popular members of NMB48, Yuzuha Hongo made the surprise announcement on April 4 that she would be graduating the Osaka group.
Alongside her singing, Hongo pursues a burgeoning career in gravure (as reported before), having released her first photo book from Kodansha in 2022.
A second photo book is set for release at the end of May, shortly before she will graduate from NMB48.
Known as Yuzu to her fans, the idol is still just 20 years old and seems very young to graduate (though she joined way back in 2015, so has devoted eight years of her life to the Namba-based group). ...
Sumire Yokono suddenly left NMB48 in May 2021 -- shortly after a report broke that went to a hotel with a male celebrity twice her age. Even more shockingly, she was also spotted on a date (six days later) with yet another boyband member, with who she also spent the night at an expensive hotel.
The resulting scandal sunk her NMB future.
After a year off, the 21-year-old relaunched her career in May this year.
Su-chan is now trying to go it on her own (with a little help from a major modeling agency). She is carving out a career as a gradol and model, and is succeeding: three gravure cover ...
Fans of former NMB48 (and AKB48) idol Miyuki Watanabe are in for a real treat.
The cute idol, who left NMB48 in 2016, previously delighted us with her lingerie shoot for Peach John in 2020. The year before that, her photo book featured semi-nude shots of her with her arms held against her chest.
This latest photo shoot is a similar kind of semi-nude wonder, with the 28-year-old turned to look alluringly at the camera, her arm covering her modest breasts, and showing off plenty of bare back and leg.
The shoot is for the current (December) issue of fashion and beauty magazine Bijin Hyakka. ...
Call us naive or just ill-informed, but we didn't know that Momone Yasuda (安田桃寧) was hiding such big boobies! Fortunately, we do now, thanks to a visual introduction to her breasts.
The 20-year-old member of Osaka-based idol group NMB48 is releasing her first photo book, "The Reason I Want to Meet Again," later this month. The initially available preview images are not only surprisingly sexy for such a young idol and debut effort, but also show off how busty she is.
If Momone Yasuda, who joined NBM48 in 2015, naked under a pair of dungarees or while bathing sounds like your kind of ...
Yuzuha Hongo (本郷柚巴) of NMB48 may still be a very sprightly 18 years old, but that doesn't stop her managers from organizing sexy photo shoots for her. She seems game for them too.
Her latest is proving almost too busty for fans.
She poses in alluring black lingerie, hugging an electric guitar like a lover's body or lying on an old leather sofa with fellow NMB48 member Wakana Abe, both balancing plectrums on their busts. Now that's what we call music.
If you look closely, Hongo is wearing pads over her nipples because her breasts threaten to burst out of her bra.
The shoot ...
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 ...
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 ...
