While most recent news about Japanese porn has been dominated by the very welcome return of Asahi Mizuno, we wanted to highlight another example we found that shows how part of the industry operates.
Once again, a minor idol from a group relatively unknown in the mainstream has been persuaded to switch from music to porn.
In this case, it's 19-year-old Sayaka Takayama (高山さやか), formerly of Girl's Horizon (aka Garuhora), who has made her AV debut under the name Nana Yaotome (八乙女なな) mere weeks after leaving the group.
The 180-minute release (MIFD00140) comes ...
Detailed detective work on the part of Japanese netizens have identified newbie porn star Sora Minamino (南乃そら) as Miyako Torase (虎瀬美也子), a former member of idol group Oyasumi Sekai.
Torase was active in Oyasumi Sekai from November 2018 to April 2019. If the netizens are right, it would seem that she struggled to find a post-idol career or otherwise specifically chose to enter AV with the right offer.
Sora Minamino released her first adult video title on September 1 with a splashy 149-minute feature (MIDE-812) from Moodyz.
The video, which nominally follows ...
The latest minor celebrity to make the crossover to porn is Riri Nanatsumori (七ツ森りり), who previously worked under the name Reika Matsumoto (松本鈴香).
Born in 1995 and blessed with an F-cup bust, Riri Nanatsumori is half-Japanese, half-Filipino. Along with the relatively recent porn debut of Japanese-Portuguese performer Karen Ishida, there is growing demand for so-called "haafu" AV idols.
She built up a career as Reika Matsumoto initially as a model for the magazine CHOKi CHOKi and as a host of a music TV show.
She changed her professional name in July when she switched to ...
Producers are promoting Mao Watanabe (渡辺まお) as a 19-year-old, second-year college student, releasing her first AV (1EOMOI00009) on May 22 on SOD Create.
Who doesn't like a good porn debut? And who isn't intrigued by the performer's path to porn?
Fortunately, or not, millennials leave online footprints. Inspired netizens swiftly got to work and managed to apparently confirm and identify the student, tracking down old photos and an online paper trail. Mao Watanabe is indeed a student from Miyagi, as advertised, and now attending at the prestigious Waseda University in ...
Another mainstream idol group has had to jettison one of its members after she was found to be pursuing a secret porn career.
Nijiiro no Hiko Shojo (虹色の飛行少女) is a seven-member group active since 2018.
Kana Usami (宇佐美花菜), who played the idol "character" Hana Midorisawa in the group, was fired on February 27 and replaced. This is after it came to light that she had performed in a porn release. She made her AV debut under the name Azu Kusunoki (楠木あず) for Soft on Demand Star with a release on January 17 (1stars00176). The publicity claimed she was 20 years old. ...
The female student who won the Miss Campus beauty contest at the prestigious Gakushuin University in 2016 is to make her porn debut.
A law faculty graduate, Kanako Asakura appears in an adult video as Rumina Yuki (結城るみな) in the 64-minute release from Shiroto-TV, which specializes in "amateur" performers.
The video SIRO-4100 came out as an online-only release on February 15.
In a follow-up DVD release (118DISC071) on March 20 by the label Prestige, marketed as her full debut, Rumina/Kanako exploits her appeal by playing the violin like a nice middle-class girl.
But what a ...
Lots of women make their debuts in the Japanese adult video industry to relatively minor fanfare. After all, it's a crowded market. If they are lucky, newcomers get a big marketing push and it helps boost their career prospects. And if you are someone making a well-publicized switch from another career -- music idol, gradol, acting, TV presenting -- you are guaranteed extra publicity.
But it's rare for porn producers to have so much faith in their new star that they even create a sex toy to accompany her debut release.
That's what's happened with Runa Hotsuki (朋月るな), whose ...
Another week, another exciting AV debut. This time it is the busty Inori Fukazawa, apparently a former gravure idol, who will release her first porn video on New Year's Day.
Start 2020 off with a bang by watching Inori getting, well, banged.
The 150-minute release (MIFD094) from Moodyz sees Inori getting screwed by a couple of guys. Judging from the preview images, she has two cocks to deal with at one point and at another is sucking a lucky guy off while her face is covered by a serious coating of cum. Now that's what we call celebrating the New Year.
The publicity ...
Anticipation is building over the adult video debut of a lady being trumpeted as the "beauty from Kobe."
Known only as Mino (美乃), the goddess has an insane F-cup (?) bust and will apparently release her first porn DVD at the end of October from Eightman Production.
Whoever she is and wherever she came from is irrelevant at this point. I mean, just look at that body. And at those breasts.
The hair nude (full-frontal) shoot photos have already set the Japanese internet on fire. Let's now see if that translates into DVD sales and then an extended porn career for this ...
We frequently follow news of Japanese porn debuts and there always seems to be something novel in the announcements, from college girls to hostesses, gravure idols, actresses, and so on.
But we think this is the first time we've heard of a professional mahjong player making the switch to adult video.
With a face like gradol Eimi Matsushima and the slinky body of an angel, Minami Nakanishi (中西南) has opted for a mahjong-themed, 131-minute JAV debut release (1SDMU00939), which came out in July from SOD Request and is directed by ANZO. Naturally it involves sex on top of a mahjong ...
