She teased. The mainstream media lapped it up. She delivered. Now the publisher is looking to see the impact on the sales figures.
The former top fashion model Yukina Kinoshita has attempted her comeback with a page straight out of Angelica Michibata's book: when in doubt, take off your clothes.
As we continue to revel in a wave of nostalgia with recent gravure comebacks by the likes of Shizuka Nakamura and Ai Shinozaki -- likewise, nude or semi-nude -- we were intrigued by this slightly different case, in which the model Kinoshita, after being dropped by her agency over the celebrity's ...
Welcome back, Shizuka Nakamura. We've missed you.
We can't think of the last time that we saw a new shoot by the former top gradol. Thankfully, building on the momentum of her role in the high-profile Netflix adultery drama Fishbowl Wives, in which she appears in a sex scene, Shizuka Nakamura has returned to her first career: gravure.
Shizuka Nakamura appears in the March 25 issue of weekly magazine Friday with a nine-page, winter-onsen-themed shoot. Now aged 33 and as a slim as ever (if anything, a bit slimmer than before?), the Kyoto native has matured into a sensual jukujo. (If we're ...
We love a good comeback story.
After some time quietly doing her own thing on YouTube and Instagram, Yukina Kinoshita (木下優樹菜) has returned to the mainstream entertainment world.
As a kind of de facto apology for her recent scandals, the 34-year-old mother of two is releasing a nude photo book.
"CORRECT" is published by Futabasha and released on March 17. It's being publicized heavily as "nude," though the preview images we have seen so far are only semi-nude (in the classic "hand bra" pose, or tebura). We will update with more pictures when they become available. Hopefully this ...
She promised. She delivered. Now this is what we call a comeback -- and a way to celebrate entering your thirties in style.
As teased in January, veteran gravure idol Ai Shinozaki has returned to what she does best.
And now that her new photo book, "IDEA," is out in Japan from publisher Kodansha, we can share the highlights. Fans have been waiting over four years for a new Ai Shinozaki photo book. They won't be disappointed.
It features a milky-bath shoot that is about as nude as you can get without showing actual nudity. Ai-chan is famous for her huge bakunyu breasts -- hey, this is ...
Gravure idol and actress Asuka Hanamura (華村あすか) has given her fans a real treat with a semi-nude photo shoot. Though she has done plenty of lingerie and bikini shoots over the past few years, this is her most explicit to date.
The 22-year-old is promoting her first photo book, which comes out from Shogakukan on January 31.
In the shoot, which is featured in the January 25 of Flash magazine, she covers her nude body with her arm in a version of the classic tebura (hand bra) pose and also shows off her naked back. In other shots, she is lying wet in water, though her nipples are ...
Kyouka (京佳), the 22-year-old gravure idol who is a slightly less busty Jun Amaki lookalike, has continued to build a fandom in the surest way possible: by taking off her clothes.
As we gleefully reported earlier in the year, she already did this for a weekly magazine and showed us her butt and side boob.
Now the lovable gradol and former Yumemiru Adolescence member with the winning smile has done it again with another shower-and-bath-themed shoot for Weekly Friday, published back in November (sorry, we forgot to post this!). Over the nine pages, she showed us her nude butt and about as ...
The ex-AKB48 idol Nana Owada (大和田南那) has posed semi-nude for the current issue of Weekly Flash.
The 22-year-old is promoting her second photo book, "private," which comes out on November 30. The 10-page shoot features unused shots from the upcoming release.
The now-conventional tebura "hand bra" shot is really nice, as is the one where she's lying on her side and her arms just about cover her breasts. That said, it actually looks like she is taming things down from her first photo book, which was even more revealing in terms of the amount of flesh on display (though not outright ...
We promised. We have delivered.
Kana Kurashina's cover shoot for Anan magazine guaranteed it would be hot when the first images emerged about a week ago. Now we have seen the full shoot and fans of the busty actress will be delighted at the results.
The 33-year-old is shown nude with her large breasts covered by her arms or sporting floral Salute lingerie. The mood of the shoot seems to switch from alluring and sensual to cute and smiling. We would have preferred more emphasis on the former.
Nominally a magazine for women, Anan frequently features semi-nude or lingerie shoots with ...
Here's something that proves yet again that besides the weekly magazines like Playboy and Friday, the women's magazine Anan remains a publication to watch for provocative shoots with established models and actors.
The latest in its long line of such shoots features the actor Kana Kurashina (倉科カナ) doing a great "hand bra" (tebura) pose.
The 33-year-old Kyushu native is well known for her large bust. She is modeling lingerie by Salute in the issue of Anan that goes on sale on September 22 in japan, after which we expect more images will become available. Right now, all we have are the ...
She's certainly proved that a woman's career as a model and "idol" can really come into its own in her thirties.
After releasing a bestselling photo book in late 2019, Minami Tanaka became the face of leading Japanese lingerie brand Peach John.
That quickly yielded some stunning results, as we reported about earlier in the year.
But that was just the appetizer, it seems, since 34-year-old Minami's latest shoot for Peach John sees her strip off and go (almost, very almost completely) nude.
Wearing a short, see-through panty girdle, she is posed with the camera with her nude butt and back ...
