It's been a long time since we did a regular "idol of the week" post but here's a great one to whet your appetites and make up for our tardiness.
The shapely Anri Uda certainly made an impression on us when she posed for an (unfortunately censored) shoot for Weekly Playboy earlier in the year.
That's one sure-fire way to make your gravure debut. Sadly the uncensored images are only available in the actual magazine.
We love her body: curvy, but without a bust that's too overloaded.
Born in 1991, Anri Uda is ...
Fumi Nikaido is a sprightly 20-year-old Okinawan but has already acquired legions of fans.
A child star, she made her debut as a junior idol when 12. She is probably best known overseas for her role in Himizu in 2011.
In addition to her prolific career (starring in several films a year), she posed nude for Weekly Playboy in 2014 and an accompanying photo book. Sadly, it wasn't a full-frontal "hair nude" shoot, though that might even be illegal, given that she was under 20.
No breasts on display yet but give her time...
It was also reported she was dating older actor ...
We were pointed by Twitter user @Genzolico to this survey of Japanese women's "underhair" habits.
Featuring some lovely revealing shots of JAV porn star Iori Kogawa, we feasted our greedy eyes on the pages, taken from Weekly Playboy magazine. The article promises to reveal the "secrets" of Japanese idols, AV stars and amateurs! (The survey itself is with amateurs, though.)
It's not so recent -- dating back to 2013, though we doubt habits have changed that much.
A hundred women aged 16 to 29 were asked what they did with their hair downstairs.
Some 36% trimmed or cut their bush 2-3 times ...
Following her alluring shoot for Anan magazine in 2014 and a naked turn in the movie Umi wo kanjiru toki (When I Sense the Sea, or Undulant Fever), actress Yui Ichikawa has again stripped off her clothes for a great series of images in Weekly Playboy in March this year.
Here are some of the stunning images from the shoot, plus some others we couldn't resist ...
The career of Haruna Kojima (known as Kojiharu to her fans) may be on the wane, having lost the lucrative Peach John lingerie modeling gig to Saeko and her sizzling charm.
But that doesn't mean she doesn't have the power still to shift magazines.
To launch her new photo book, Kojiharu has been featured on the cover of Playboy magazine. Inside is a sweet photo shoot showing off her pale body.
There is some serious Photoshop going on here, though. Kojiharu famously has very sensitive skin and close-ups on TV usually reveal this.
Her new photo book is called Dou suru? (What shall we do?) ...
A little while ago the gravure world was stunned by the sudden appearance of a gorgeous model called Rara Anzai. She made her debut in a nude shoot for Weekly Playboy magazine that fully showed off her incredible bust and body to the full.
The photos are "censored" but are actually highlights from a full-front "hair nude" photo-book called "Hello, Goodbye", published in June 2014. (It's common for photo-books, especially high-profile and raunchy ones, to have a promo spread in a weekly tabloid magazine at the same time as the release.)
In fact, a little bit of digging by those in ...
