As former NGT8 idol's Maho Yamaguchi cements her recovery from the mistreatment she received at the hands of the group's management with her debut photo book, another ex-AKB group lady is determined to make her mark after graduating.
Previously a member of AKB48 from 2013 to 2017, Nana Owada releases her first photo book, Risutaato (Restart), which came out on September 15 amid a reasonable flush of publicity.
As we reported in August, Nana has chosen the semi-nude style of shoot to make a splash, including the classic tebura "hand bra" shot. In fact, though, the first leaked photos from ...
Formerly of idol group NMB48, Miyuki Watanabe's new photo book sees the slinky young lady pose semi-nude. The shoot includes the 25-year-old in a tebura ("hand bra") pose for her first photo book in three years, Miyuki desu. (This is Miyuki.).
While the semi-transparent bottoms are rather lovely and there's the hint of a butt crack, it's not a particularly explicit in terms of nudity -- no buttocks on display, just some side boob -- but fans will still be pleased with the tantalizing glimpses she offers of her body.
Will this be enough to maintain her career after leaving the ...
Curvy (well, comparatively curvy) former AKB48 idol Nana Owada will release her debut photo book and it includes a semi-nude cover with a "hand bra" (tebura) shot.
This kind of shot, where the lady covers her breasts with her hands and reveals plenty of side boob, has become a standard trope in semi-nude idol photo shoots.
Past examples from the AKB stables alone include Minami Minegishi, Ayaka Umeda, Atsuko Maeda, Rina Hirata, Haruna Kojima, Yuko Oshima, and -- most controversially -- Tomomi Kasai, whose tebura effectively ended her career.
As Maho Yamaguchi is demonstrating, there is ...
On June 19, Miru Shiroma of AKB48 sister group NMB48 releases her first photo book "Love Rush." As a preview and promo of what's inside, the current issue of weekly tabloid Shukan Playboy has a double-sided cover with an alluring shot of the popular idol without a top on and her breasts covered by her hair.
Is this a kind of pun? As in, a "hair nude" without the nudity -- just the hair? It's also a sort of update on the usual "hand bra" shot.
There was already buzz about Miru's "busty" debut photo book back in the spring when some images and details about the Australian shoot emerged. ...
The tebura or "hand bra" is a frequent trope in gravure. What can be more alluring, it seems, than an idol or model covering her breasts with just her bare hands?
Recent examples include Rola and Minami Minegishi.
It has become something of a rite of passage for AKB-kei alumni, not least Minegishi, Haruna Kojima, Yuko Oshima, Kei Jonishi.
It can also get them into trouble, though, as the lesson of Tomomi Kasai notably shows. Her post-AKB career never recovered.
The latest idol to try her luck with this tactic is Ayaka Umeda, formerly of AKB48 and NMB48. However, her tebura shot, published ...
In a move certain to delight almost every man in Japan (and beyond), Rola, the Japanese-Bengali-Russian model who appears on almost every train ad or TV commercial in Japan these days, has stripped off for a semi-nude photo shoot.
There were rumors last year that Rola was suffering mental stress from overwork, trapped in an unforgiving contract with her agency that is milking her for all the yen it can get, but she seems happy enough in this photo shoot for the October 2018 issue of Numero Tokyo magazine.
The photos revel in her bronze skin and exotic haafu aura. We get plenty of ...
Anan is the thinking man's soft-core porn mag. The weeklies like Playboy are fantastic in their way, but it's Anan -- ostensibly a magazine about fashion and lifestyle for women -- that continues to deliver some of the best shocks. Namely, this is persuading mainstream celebrities to strip off and pose for alluring photo shoots.
While the women in question usually stop short of actual nudity, the results are as attention-grabbing as a "hair nude" full-frontal shoot in some cases.
Previous examples of this trend include Yui Ichikawa, Nanao, Maomi Yuuki, Kazue Fukiishi, Ryoko Yonekura, and a ...
Kei Jonishi of the Osaka-based AKB48 spin-off idol group NMB48 has released a new semi-nude photo book, "21K".
The soon-to-be 22-year-old idol from Shiga is one of the most popular members of NMB48, alongside Sayaka Yamamoto and Miru Shiroma. "21K" is her second photo book. Released in February, it is set to propel Jonishi to further stardom. (That being said, at the moment the buzz is actually mostly about Nogizaka46's Mai Shiraishi and her photo book, "Passport".)
The photos include images of the serenely white and thin Jonishi standing with her chest exposed and her modesty covered ...
Ahead of the release in July of her new photo book, a preview image of Minami Minegishi has come out showing the slinky idol doing the classic semi-nude "hand bra" (tebura) pose.
While pretty tame considering what some AKB48 graduates get up to, this kind of photo shoot has become something of a rite of passage for AKB48 idols.
Haruna Kojima did it, covering her gorgeous pale flesh with her tiny hands. Likewise, Atsuko Maeda has done a tebura and so did Yuko Oshima in a Mika Ninagawa shoot.
Most notoriously, Tomomi Kasai's tebura was so controversial it led Kodansha to cancel ...
AKB48's Yuko Oshima like you've never seen her before, naked!
At least, that's what the publisher is (almost) promising.
While she has never been averse to risque shoots, Yuko's new photo book is particularly eyebrow-raising. By comparison, most AKB girls, even after graduating, remain fairly safe, though there are exceptions. Atsuko Maeda, for example, is attempting to forge a career in mainstream acting (good luck with that).
Over the summer the twenty-five-year-old Yuko has been stripping down for photographer Mika Ninagawa. The results are a photo book to be released in ...
