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 ...
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 ...
People come to gravure from different paths. Not all gradols start off at teenagers fresh to the industry and willing to do anything.
Some dip their elegant toes into the waters of gravure when the fancy takes them, having already establishing themselves as entertainers, singers, or actors. (By contrast, some quickly build strong mainstream careers as actors and would like us to forget the bikini shoots they did when they were 18.)
The former figure skater Mai Asada (older sister of Mao Asada) is one such example of the former. After competing at the international level in the 2000s, she ...
Female athletes will receive better protection against voyeuristic photography while competing, the Japanese Olympic Committee has said. Working in partnership with the Japan Sport Association and All Japan High School Athletic Federation, the JOC is preparing concrete steps to prevent exploitative photos being taken and shared of athletes.
Dressed in clothing designed to help them do their best in their competition, female sports athletes are easy prey for snappers, who can use a lens to zoom in on breasts and buttocks. Such images may then be shared online with offensive captions.
This is ...
Call us morbid, but we have a strange fascination with the afterlives of gravure idols.
This is a competitive, cruel industry, one where young women are discarded after two or three years. From gracing the covers of the weekly tabloids like Spa! and, if you're lucky, releasing digital or print photo books, you might descend quickly into obscurity when the editors and people behind the scenes decide to make someone else a star for another brief run.
Given the open secret of the casting couch, it is hardly a giant leap of logic to see why some, if not many, gradols go on to second (or, let's ...
Males watching the 2019 Japan Championships in Athletics, held last month in Fukuoka, quickly expressed thoughts about their favorite athlete.
Without doubt, it seems that male viewers were keen to support the supple achievements of 18-year-old longer jumper Ayaka Kora (高良彩花).
Kora (sometimes written Kohra) from Tsuba University didn't win her event in terms of distance jumped but she did win in terms of capturing the hearts of netizens. And with a body as toned and agile as this, it's easy to see why.
A few years ago, it was a cute Waseda University student pole ...
Combining bodybuilding and sports with gravure, "muscles idol" Reika Saiki is a femdom fetishist's dream come true.
It's not hard to imagine her appeal with harmony of cute face and muscular body. Imagine those thunder thighs and powerful arms pinning you down while she grinds you! She's not completely new to the scene, though. We already noted her brawny charms in 2016.
Now Reika Saiki has taken things to the next logical conclusion: by transforming into Street Fighter's Chun-Li.
She recently posed for some stunning shots that really show off her combat pose and chunky ...
What is it about female Japanese sports athletes? They just keep turning us on.
Former Olympic snowboarder Mero Imai recently cemented her post-sport spiral with a porn debut.
Reika Saiki has shown that muscles are sexy, while Ami Inamura has demonstrated that a girl who knows what to do with a baseball bat is hot as hell.
And lots of mainstream models are keen to display their svelte, sporty bodies.
There's also a subgenre of athletes who have gone fully nude, such as the ice skater Fumie Suguri and dancer Tamiyo Kusakari.
Similarly to former Olympic gymnast Risa Izumi and ...
Mero Imai is a former Olympic snowboarder turned nude model and call girl.
As we reported in April, the 29-year-old single mother from Osaka has also now added porn star to her cluttered resume. Her debut Snow Drop was released May 1st from Muteki, which specializes in minor celebrities making the switch to porn.
The first pictures are in, so let's take a look.
What do you think? Mero Imai has a nice body and there's always the novelty factor with a release like this, but otherwise it looks pretty banal in terms of setting and on-screen ...
The former Olympic snowboarder Mero Imai is to make her porn debut on the Muteki label, a studio that specializes in celebrities switching to the adult video industry. (Recent examples include Anri Sakaguchi, Miyako Akane, and Yua Mikami.)
As we wrote back in 2015, Mero Imai is a former half-pipe Olympic competitor in 2006. However, her lack of success at the Winter games led to personal and family problems and she started working as a hostess in Osaka.
As is sadly too common in the hostessing world, she then segued into a career as a delivery health call girl. She also had plastic ...
