While much of the nation is glued to their TV screens watching the annual summer baseball tournament that is Koshien, we bring you another piece of baseball-themed gravure news.
No, it's not about batter-model-hottie Ami Imamura.
Nor is it about baseball stadium beer girl who, we now know, is actually a porn star.
It's Aina Misaki (岬愛奈), the gravure idol who made her debut in 2017 and has steadily released six DVDs until now. She also works as a grid girl at motor races.
The Nagano native is a former team manager at a school that competes in the Koshien tournament. Inevitably, this ...
We cannot quite believe that's approaching five years since we last introduced the charms of Satomi Kaneko.
Formerly of AKB48 (until 2007), the gravure idol has in the past done some provocative and alluring photo shoots showing just how close she can get to nudity while just about maintaining a PG-13 rating.
Cue bare backs, fundoshi and a shaved you-know-what, buttocks and glimpses of a nude butt, side boobs and tebura "hand bras" galore.
Now aged 31, Satomi's career is moving into a new phase. And we will be eternally grateful to whichever gods of fate or Shinto are responsible.
For her ...
While the Tokyo Olympics enters its second week, the athletes are apparently not having sex in the Olympics Village.
But that is certainly not the case for Japanese porn stars, who are kept busy in a prodigious industry that pumps out thousands of new releases each year.
In a recent photo shoot, five top Japanese adult video stars posed nude for a "naked Olympics" in which they showed off their athletic prowess (as well as their lovely bodies).
Here is Ayaka Mochizuki doing karate.
The flexible Rui Minagawa displays her gymnastics abilities.
This is Emily (Hikari Sakuraba, Ellen ...
Popular gravure idol Kanami Takasaki (高崎かなみ) has given us the kind of erotic image we all crave in the summer: of her wet, naked body straight out of the shower.
With temperatures soaring in Tokyo, we feel like cooling down in the shower every few minutes -- but that doesn't mean we aren't horny either.
The 24-year-old Kanagawa native is promoting her first photo book, which was recently released.
Imagine what it is like to come home with Kanami after a day walking around in the searing heat and then head straight into the shower to cool off together -- before turning the heat ...
She generously showed us her naked butt last year. And now Tsubasa Hazuki has gone even further.
In her latest onsen-themed photo book, Hazuki is shown nude under a very wet, very thin garment.
Her breasts and nipples are clearly visible through the fabric. Her mons pubis is also shown in close-up and she appears to be paipan.
This is about as close as you can get to a full-nude shoot without being naked -- nominally speaking.
So now we have a vicarious sense of what it would be like to take Tsubasa Hazuki away for an intimate stay at a hot spring resort. If only this was actually one of ...
How old is too old? When you're an "idol," especially in the music industry, the expectation is that you must be young -- mid-twenties at most.
In a sign that makes us feel, well, old, the early members of AKB48 are now pushing three-oh, if not beyond, but are still determined to milk their fandom.
Today marks Yuki Kashiwagi's thirtieth birthday and has released a photo book, "Experience," to celebrate. It's her first photo book in nine years.
But she's no longer the sweet and innocent young girl of those previous releases; she's now an experienced woman with a body that she wants to show ...
Yume Hayashi has finally released her first photo book in a sign that her career as a gravure idol is picking up pace.
After three previous digital photo books, the 25-year-old released her debut print photo book, "Yumemi-gokochi" (Dreamy State), with major publisher Kodansha on June 4.
In it, she appears in swimwear and in various states of nudity, her modesty covered by carefully placed arms or by turning her naked back to the viewer. You can enjoy plenty of side boob, butt cheek, and cleavage, but no actual nudity.
We've included some highlights ...
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 ...
Nao Kosaka (小坂菜緒) of Hinatazaka46 has released her debut photo book, delighting fans with semi-nude shots and achieving rapid commercial results.
Kimi wa dare? (Who Are You?) was released on June 29 and has sold quickly -- 180,000 copies, according to a media report. It has already entered its second print run.
With her cute girl-next-door looks, Kosaka is incredibly popular and there was a lot of buzz about her photo book, as we first wrote about in May. But even we didn't expect it to be such a hit with fans.
Naturally, the amount of skin she is showing is a major ...
After wowing the world with her perfectly proportioned body and face late last year, gravure idol Airi Sato landed a supporting role in the second season of the porn-themed Netflix drama series The Naked Director.
While admittedly not as impressive as her co-stars' sex scenes like Misato Morita, Yuri Tsunematsu, or Yuka Masuda, Sato appears nude in the series. She gives us a look at her breasts in a scene in a strip show (the series is set in the 1980s and 1990s, back when burlesque was still popular in Japan).
The slinky and beautiful Sato is hoping to capitalize on her exposure in the ...
