Gradol (gravure idol) shoots have a certain kind of culture. The locations gradually start to feel familiar and the way the models pose is also often repeated.
In this post, we bring together a few typical poses.
We start with the raised-arm pose, where the armpit(s) are exposed along with the neck and chest area. This hints at what the gradol looks like when pressed down on a bed or up against a wall.
The sideways-on-all-fours pose has obvious appeal: you get to see what she looks like when poised for doing it doggy. A common variation of this pose is from behind -- again, with ...
Freelance photographer Misuzu Shibuya (渋谷美鈴) recently shared on Twitter highlights from an erotic photo shoot she did with three models: Maria Mitsu (Maria Temari), ai, and Rin.
In a far, frankly welcome cry from the more obvious world of busts, butts, and bikinis in the gravure shoots of the weekly tabloids, Shibuya has created an artistic, remarkably alluring series of images.
The red theme is an obvious winner, as is the water, subtle nudity, and the hints of lesbianism.
Is this the sexiest erotic photo shoot ever? Well, probably not -- but it's gotta be in the list.
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Like a lot of gravure idols recently, RaMu has taken to YouTube to connect directly with fans and also occupy herself during downtime (which the coronavirus pandemic is generating a lot of for precariously employed models and idols).
These days, gradols are YouTubers, and one video that RaMu uploaded at the end of 2020 is gaining some traction (over 360,000 views and counting).
In it, 23-year-old RaMu talks about the secrets of how a gravure photo shoot works. It is all in Japanese but she has some illustrative props.
These include panties with see-through string so that the model can ...
The singer and actress KOM_I is known for her provocative career choices, from doing lesbian sex scenes in the Netflix show Followers to releasing nude photo shoots not once -- but twice. Somewhat queasily yet erotically, one of the shoots even involved blood and knives in addition to her pale, naked flesh.
The 28-year-old Wednesday Campanella singer has now shed her clothes again for a photo shoot for Vogue Japan, the highlights of which she posted on her own Instagram account a few days ago.
The shoot has KOM_I nude in a garden, facing off against a classic sculpture while wearing a gold ...
Like many, we have avoided the beach this year because of the recommendations not to leave Tokyo and not unintentionally spread the coronavirus.
Last week, we shared a couple of photo shoots that offered a vicarious experience of a love hotel session with a stunning Japanese beauty.
What about something more summery? Hungry for a beach fix, we recently admired a shoot done with the model 3zuki (Mizuki) by photographer ohmen2001, who generously shared the results on their social media channels.
She is ravishingly slinky in a barely-there bikini as well as satisfyingly curvy in a wet ...
Too scared to go to love hotels with a partner right now in case you catch the dreaded virus?
Like a lot of people, we are holding back these days and not taking our usual trips to places. This might be the beach or the movie theater or museum, though our no-fly zone also currently includes nightclubs, bars, and love hotels. Life is dull indeed.
Fortunately, other people can go to these places for us and provide stunning photo shoots that offer a vicarious experience.
Such as Twitter user and photographer @room404nf, who posted a series of images from an incredible love hotel shoot. The ...
Have you ever seen (or stayed at) a love hotel like this?
Though the cyberpunk (is that the right descriptor?) style is like something out of a Neo Tokyo landscape or cut from the same cloth as the Robot Restaurant in Kabukicho, it is actually a room in an Okayama hotel with a retro fairground and amusement park theme.
As fans know, the most outrageous and unusual love hotels are to be found not in cities but deep in the countryside.
Saying that, if you are into BDSM and dungeons, there is this love hotel in Asabu, Minato ward, that has been running for four decades.
The ...
The singer KOM_I of the music group Wednesday Campanella has posed for a hair nude, full-frontal photo shoot.
In the shoot, KOM_I is completely naked, including her hairy bush (hence the genre known locally as "hair nude") -- normally a taboo under the regular interpretation of Japan's arcane obscenity laws, but exceptions are made for "artistic" photo books.
These photos are as gory as they are gorgeous. In fact, the shoot is as provocative for its nudity as it is for its violent yet erotic theme. Its grotesque imagery is certainly not for the squeamish, replete with wounds and blood and ...
We're a little late to the party with this but our favorite Twitter account of the moment is @shinya_1972_, which has been posting alluring images of beautiful women since May 2018.
There is no information in the profile and no links to speak of, but it seems like "Shinya" is a photographer (born in 1972?) who is generously sharing his own images of models (or girlfriends?).
There's rarely any actual nudity but these photos are incredibly hot. Seemingly shot on a film camera and without much or any editing, the erotic images feel raw and genuine. The subjects are lying half-naked on a ...
Photographer Yuji Susaki has returned with a follow-up to the successful Oppai Zukan Full-Sized Gravure Idol Breasts Reference Book, which included copious to-scale images of the busts of dozens of gravure idols.
The sequel, 3D Oppai Zukan Full-Size Adult Video Idol Breasts Reference Book (Gurutto Mawaseru! Gensundai Oppai Zukan 3D), is, as the title sugests, a three-dimensional update, since now you can also use your phone to read the QR codes on each idol's page and display the breasts in 3D.
Moreover, the idols this time are not gradol who have to keep their clothes on, but adult ...
