In Japan, female voice performers are incredibly popular as idols and celebrities despite only displaying their oral talents in their work for anime series and movies. Some are able to carve out lucrative sidelines as models, singers, and gravure idols.
If they have the looks and following for this, it is usually apparent pretty quickly and their agencies don't miss a chance to make some extra yen. But others bide their time.
Such is the case with Minori Chihara (茅原実里), the seiyu who has waited until her forties to cement her gravure career.
Great news if you love Minori Chihara. ...
In Japan, voice actresses are as popular as music idols, fashion models, and gravure idols. Despite only displaying their vocal talents on the screen, fans adore these ladies, and it's why so many of them have developed lucrative side lines in event appearances and photo books.
Rikako Aida (逢田梨香子) is one examples of a voice actress. Previously known by the stage name Rikako Ito, she is now 31 years old and entering jukujo territory (despite her eternally youthful elfin looks, but this hasn't diminished her fandom.
Also a singer, Aida is is best know for her role as Riko ...
Is it something in the air? A kind of "comeback vapor" that's encouraging all these lovely ladies to re-enter the limelight?
Another one has come out of the woodwork: in the wake of high-profile comebacks by the likes of Yukina Kinoshita, Shizuka Nakamura, and Ai Shinozaki, we are very pleased to welcome the return of Shoko Nakagawa.
The 36-year-old tarento, voice actress, and singer is celebrating 20 years of her showbiz career with a new photo book.
Famously short at 155 cm (a smidge over 5 feet!) and a proud owner of a "duck-bill mouth," the cutie and firm fan favorite has been ...
ASMR is one of those things that some people just don't get. It is, let's be honest, for a certain type of person or mindset.
But there is ASMR and then there's ASMR. And then there's Japanese ASMR.
Which means at times intersecting with some very strange fetishes. But how about an audio-sensory frisson from flatulence?
A dojinshi circle, Inoshikachokan (いのしかちょう館), has released an hour-long audio file of a voice actress farting.
Created by Uribou (うりぼう) and with illustrations by Yamato (Daikon), the seiyu Kotori Hino's (日乃ことり) novel contribution to the ...
At the end of last year, we reported on a batch of high-profile photo book releases, including by seiyuu Sumire Uesaka.
But as was generously pointed out by an eager reader, another major voice actress also released a photo book that is very worthy of attention: none other than the recently divorced, sexy jukujo Rie Tanaka.
Now in her forties and still as hot as ever, Rie has shared some highlights from her photo book (her fourth, by our count), which was released in Japan on December 23rd, 2019.
While we have yet to get our hands on an actual copy of her photo book, "Bisai," or, failing ...
Music idol and voice actress Sumire Uesaka has made a sensible decision for the latest stage in her career: show off her bust.
The 28-year-old, former Russian major at Sophia University known for her penchant for Soviet iconography, Uesaka's second photo book "Sumire Iro" came out on December 19th.
Scans have already leaked online, generated a bit of a storm with netizens and fans for upgrading her image from "cute" to decidedly "sexy," courtesy of some nice shots of her until-now-hidden bust. (Not quite true, Uesaka previously exploited her bust to awesome effect in a sexy music video ...
Anticipation is reaching fever pitch over the comeback of forty-year-old seiyuu Rie Tanaka, freshly divorced and apparently determined to return to gravure shoots with a vengeance.
After teasing the internet with some alluring behind-the-scenes shots from one provocative photo shoot, some more images have appeared showing Tanaka semi-nude. Oh, do we like the look of this!
She can be seen covering her breasts with her arms crossed, revealed a toned and slender stomach that is as sexy as most women half her age -- if not even sexier.
More details have also emerged about her comeback: ...
Seiyuu (voice actress) Rie Tanaka has stunned the Internet by tweeting preview images from her latest lingerie shoot.
No stranger per se to sexy shoots, this is nonetheless probably the most provocative the 1979-born idol has got as far as we know. Netizens are delighted by what they saw and Tanaka's original post has received thousands of retweets and likes.
We're not sure where or when the final images from the shoot will appear -- a photo book, a weekly magazine? -- but the brief behind-the-scenes footage suggests the photographer was very lucky to get so close to her slinky ...
One of this blog's ongoing obsessions is the open secret in the Japanese idol world, be it gravure, music, porn, or general tarento and celebrities: the casting couch.
And it really is rampant, it seems, in almost all corners of the industry. Even among seiyu/seiyuu (voice actresses).
The "sexy actress" (a euphemism for porn star used by the mainstream media) Cocona Yuzuki recently shared some of these secrets on television.
A former chika (underground) idol, seiyuu, and now adult video star, Cocona (or Kokona) Yuzuki appeared on a late-night TV Tokyo show on June 6.
She explained that if ...
Voice actress and singer Sumire Uesaka is famous for being cute, of course, and also having an obsession with the Soviet Union. Now she possibly has another feather in her bow.
The 27-year-old idol amply exploits her bust, lips, and other physical assets in the video for "Bon kyu bon wa kare no mono" (very roughly, "My Busty Bust Is His"). The single, which is Uesaka's tenth and is out on April 17th, is also the intro theme for the TV anime Nande Koko ni Sensei Ga!? (Why are you here, sensei?!), for which Sumire voices the character Kana Kojima.
The video shows Uesaka lounging around ...
