We were waiting with bated breath and they delivered: Tenga, Japan's top adult brand, has blasted off to the edge of space!
The whole launch of the Tenga Rocket -- part of the Space Tenga project implemented with such partners as entrepreneur Takafumi Horie -- was broadcast live online.
The MOMO6 rocket left terra firma on July 31 from the launch site in Hokkaido, achieving speeds of around 92 km some four minutes after launch and succeeding in releasing its payload. It marks the first such space launch by a private enterprise in Japan.
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Tenga, the designer Japanese adult brand who reinvented masturbation toys for men, has extraterrestrial ambitions.
As reported earlier this year, Tenga hopes to launch a branded rocket into space in partnership with Takafumi Horie's civilian spaceflight company, Interstellar Technologies.
This is an insanely expensive publicity campaign -- the latest in a long-running series of original stunts and gimmicks by the adult brand to attract attention. It has certainly succeeded this time, generated a ton of ink for its efforts.
The actual 10-meter (33-feet) rocket was unveiled last week. ...
Space, the final frontier for masturbation?
Tenga is not just content merely with producing some of the most sophisticated and best-designed Japanese adult toys, and achieving the distinction as pretty much the sole Japanese sex toy line to have global distribution in its own right, the brand also continues to market its products in unique and fun ways.
The latest iteration of this is Tenga Rocket, a project that sees brand founder Koichi Matsumoto in the same territory as other captains of industry like Richard Branson and Elon Musk.
Tenga Rocket is pretty much what it sounds like: a ...
Japan's top adult brand, Tenga, already amazed the Internet with its first Tenga Robo toy last year, inspired by the antics of creative netizens. Now it is back with a line of limited-edition collaboration items that are just as vibrant and fun as the first.
Combining the design of Tenga's Cup masturbation aids with robot characters, the toys measure 20 cm in height and are made in collaboration with characters created by the Go Nagai (Devilman, Cutey Honey, and Harenchi Gakuen).
Based on the 1970s anime/manga Mazinger Z, the black Mazinger Tenga Robo comes with a Jet Scrander ...
Tenga, as we often like to say, the Apple of the Japanese adult industry.
It makes the most attractive sex toys in the land and continues to innovate and surprise even more than ten years after its first releases revolutionized the market. Its latest product, the Tenga Spinner, is already proving to be a bit hit.
But did you know that Tenga also makes robots?
All right, we're twisting the truth here a little. The new Tenga Robo is not a real robot (nor a sex toy) but a figure toy that looks like a classic Tenga Onacup, which can transform into a robot character in the style of Gundam ...
What is it about Tenga that seems to inspire Japanese people to make robots?
About a year ago a minor meme on the Japanese Twittersphere involved posting self-created visions of a mecha robot that could transform into a Tenga onacup.
That was apparently (and bizarrely) related to Valentine's Day. White Day (where the men give women gifts in Japan) saw a new meme, this time mecha robots inspired by the Iroha vibrator.
Now for 2016 along comes @ZMD11S, who hasn't simply drawn or planned a Tenga robot model: he (we are assuming he's male) has built one!
Sadly it's not an actual ...
When you need something done, crowdsource it. And we know that Japanese netizens are a creative and resourceful bunch.
For Valentine's Day (when girls give guys chocolates in Japan), Tenga became the Tenga Robo... a mecha creation for pleasuring the men.
For White Day (March 14th, when the guys give chocolates to the girls in Japan), Japan's netizens reciprocated and turned Tenga into a Iroha-integrated robot. As shared on Twitter in an ever more outlandish series of images, the Tenga Iroha Robo was artistically very impressive.
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On Valentine's Day, something amazing happened on the Japanese Twittersphere. People celebrated Tenga as the perfect Valentine's Day companion.
As reported by KAI-YOU, the leading adult toy brand found itself converted into a mecha robot by a series of talented illustrated.
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