Beloved for her slinky body, boyish looks, and short hair, the Japanese porn star Riasu Mizutani has announced her pregnancy on social media.
We had noted Mizutani's recent social media absence and lack of releases, after making a bit of a splash with her debut in 2023. She broke her silence on March 1 with the announcement, accompanied by a picture of her cradling her pregnant belly.
Mizutani has carved out a very unusual presence in the adult video industry, mainly because she is a highly educated young woman who also works an English-Japanese translator.
Since emerging on the scene, ...
A few years ago, we reported on the career of gravure idol Yuka Kosaka, who abruptly quit the industry in 2009, gained a lot of weight, made a brief comeback (with a semi-nude shoot), and then settled into a quieter life as a nursery school teacher from the age of 24.
She did that for around a decade now, though the 39-year-old has also restarted some activities in the entertainment industry since last year. It seems she no longer works as a teacher due to health issues and instead focuses on entrepreneurial projects launching new schools, consulting for schools, and doing counseling. She ...
What happens to former gravure, music, and porn idols after they retire is a question that often crops up on this blog. We've often written about the different kinds of jobs they do and what it is like to raise a family with that kind of past.
But what about the pictures and videos they made during their idol career? On the whole, these remain available and, unless you were working before the 2000s (and even if before), it's still online for anyone to search and find.
Former Idoling!!! member Mai Endo, though, wants that to end. She left the idol group in 2014 to pursue a solo career. She ...
How many idols find true happiness? Of course, the majority who do tend to retire and live the rest of their lives in quiet obscurity.
The ones who remain in the news often do so because their post-idol lives are filled with hiccups, personal or professional. If you just read the celebrity news, you might be forgiven for thinking that all former music and gravure idols were divorced or rocked by one scandal or other.
Nonetheless, we suspect that divorce rates among idols is a bit higher than the general populace, perhaps because their jobs and the closed nature of the idol industry means ...
The polls closed in Japan on Sunday and the votes are in, but the results are inconclusive: the Liberal Democratic Party has lost its House of Representatives majority for the first time in 15 years, but neither did any of the opposition parties win a majority. Things are now in flux as the LDP attempts to build a coalition so it can form a government.
One thing's for sure, though: Japan's new hottest politician is duly elected Chisato Morishita.
The 43-year-old singleton has succeeded in her second attempt at becoming a lawmaker, having previously lost in 2021.
The former race queen, ...
After they retire, most JAV porn stars disappear into obscurity, though a prominent handful have remained in the public eye in other roles, such as writers and photographers.
Yua Mikami is pursuing a career in modeling and apparel, though has faced some criticism over her association with other brands, and former adult video star Minami Aizawa recently announced she would no longer use her performer name in her post-JAV career.
Among the many things that porn stars have expertise at, understanding about hygiene, physical health, and STDs and STIs surely ranks near the top.
As regular ...
Earlier in the year, we reported on former HKT48 idol Miku Tanaka's attempts to sex up her image and establish her credentials as an actor with a role in the TV drama Cinderella Complex that involved a steamy sex scene.
She stopped short of doing actual nudity, which doesn't surprise us, but Miku Tanaka seems to be continuing this strategy with a new shoot that is probably her most explicit to date.
She does the "hand bra" (tebura) pose, which has become a trope (and almost a cliché) of gravure semi-nude shoots. But who's complaining when the results look this good, with Miku Tanaka's ...
Formerly known as Satomi Kaneko, the name under which she performed in music group AKB48 and worked as a gravure and nude idol, Kiho Kanematsu's porn debut this spring was one of the most highly anticipated and hyped of the year so far.
After making her adult video debut on the specialist crossover label Muteki back in April, the excitement continued as she transferred to S1 No. 1 Style and generously went back on the (always dubious) promise that her debut would be a one-off.
Let's be honest, the logic of the market dictates that if the sales were good and demand strong, there were always ...
Yesterday, we wrote about the backlash Yua Mikami has faced as she tries to move beyond her former porn career and establish herself as a mainstream fashion brand producer.
The "afterlives" of gravure and JAV idols is a perennial topic on this blog, as regular readers will know.
What happens to those lovely ladies after they disappear from our lives? Mikami enjoyed a hugely successful career and her retirement from AV was fully planned, but most idols just fade away with a whimper, pushed out in a highly competitive market. And which means we rarely get to hear what they do next. (Spoiler: ...
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 ...
