SOD Land porn theme park bar complex opens in Kabukicho, Tokyo
October 14, 2020
/ Tadashi Anahori
Top Japanese porn producer Soft on Demand has opened its mini theme park complex in Kabukicho, Tokyo, which, despite recent gentrification, remains one of the centers of the adult and sex industry.
As previously reported, SOD Land is five floors devoted to porn. Visitors can get food and drink served by actual adult video stars or sex workers in several different types of establishments.
Here are some pictures from when the site opened to the public on October 10. People were lining to get in, despite the pre-typhoon rainy weather.
The "silent bar" on the top floor is the ...
Top porn producer Soft on Demand to open adult theme park bar building in Tokyo
September 21, 2020
/ Tadashi Anahori
The Weekly Playboy bar in Kabukicho was a big success back in 2017. We were reminded of it -- and how few chances there are to encounter the adult industry in a bricks-and-mortar setting other than just a shop in the likes of Akihabara -- when we read the exciting news that top Japanese porn production and distribution company Soft on Demand is opening what is essentially a sex theme park in Tokyo.
Ostensibly, the building will host restaurants and bars staffed by genuine porn performers, following the precedent established by Weekly Playboy's bar, where real gravure idols served ...
Netizens identify Waseda University student making porn debut
May 20, 2020
/ Tadashi Anahori
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 ...
How has the coronavirus affected the adult industry in Japan?
April 8, 2020
/ Tadashi Anahori
With the coronavirus pandemic still raging all over the world, many people are stuck at home. If they are stuck there with a partner, the chances are they are passing the time by getting intimate together. There's nothing quite like sex to take one's mind off a crisis. Failing that, there's always masturbation, so we are sure that traffic for porn sites is going through the roof right now.
Things in Japan just got more serious, with the declaration last night of a state of emergency, although the current number of infections are still much lower than other major industrialized nations.
How ...
Nijiiro no Hiko Shojo music idol fired over her secret porn career
March 24, 2020
/ Tadashi Anahori
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. ...
In response to coronavirus, Soft on Demand offers free streaming for 200 Japanese porn videos
March 13, 2020
/ Tadashi Anahori
Many people are now worried about the coronavirus and the risks it poses to us, not to mention the economic damage as nations worldwide grind to a halt to cope with the threat.
A lot of people in Japan are currently working from home or on reduced hours, something which has probably come as a shock to regular salaryman. There is at least one positive takeaway from the COVID-19 crisis, then, that this has forced conservative Japanese corporations to reconsider their working styles and workaholics to reassess their life priorities.
So this means many people are spending a lot more time than ...
Soft on Demand DVD magazine marks 99th and final issue, fans mourn
July 30, 2019
/ Tadashi Anahori
Print publishing is in dire straits, so people have said for years now, and magazines and newspapers have particularly struggled. Titles large and small have folded or seriously downsized.
Even Japan's mammoth adult video and porn industry -- often said to be the largest of its kind in the world -- is not immune to this downward trend, even though DVD sales are still relatively healthy.
The eponymous magazine put out by porn giant Soft on Demand will end with the September issue. Issue 99 features a suitably commemorative cover featuring multiple eleven top Japanese porn stars in revealing ...
Today in Japan is White Day, when men are supposed to buy chocolates for women, who do the same on Valentine's Day.
So it's another romantic day in the annual calendar, along with Christmas Eve.
As such, porn giant Soft on Demand has set up a novel light display in the heart of Tokyo's Shibuya neighborhood to promote, well, sex and renewable energy. And it's not even real sex, but the virtual kind.
The display, formally called the White Day Illumination Shining with Virgin-Produced Electricity (童貞力発電で輝くホワイトデーイルミネーション), is a way for ...
The latest Japanese adult video debut to attract our seasoned eyes is last year's from Waka Misono, who, if the publicity is to be trusted, is an 18-year-old with angelic white skin and a fully natural F-cup bust. The young lady is also very petite -- apparently measuring a mere 155 cm (5.1 feet) in height. That makes for quite a combination with her chest.
Her debut, "Please Teach Me Sex," came out in February 2018 from a Soft on Demand label, directed by Kurumi Ichinose. The 140-minute title (1SDAB00054) was followed by "I Came for the First Time" (1SDAB00056), which came out in March ...
Former idol Tina Nanami continues adult video career after hit debut
February 18, 2019
/ Tadashi Anahori
We wrote about the adult video debut of Tina Nanami back in late 2018 but could only find time in our busy schedules finally to check it out last week.
Released on January 10th, "Rin toshite hakanai" (roughly, Dignified Ephemeral) (1STARS00025) from SOD Star is a solid first porn title and Tina Nanami (七海ティナ), who is apparently a former Nagoya underground idol (chika idol) and Shibuya 109 Men's sales representative, should have a bright career ahead of her.
Pale skin? Big bust? Beautiful face? Tina's got it all!
Her second AV release (1STARS00037) already came out on February 7th ...