Sometimes, things do have a happy ending.
When AKB48's Minami Minegishi shaved her head back in 2013 to apologize for a sex scandal, it prompted immense controversy over the control that management has over idols' private/person lives, and sparked headlines around the world. Her tearful video, head shaven like a nun, was painful to watch (though images of Miichan seeming to pose happily for photos with her peers either just before or after suggested to some that the video was purely performative).
As a 20-year-old, she had to undergo a traumatic and humiliating experience in public just for ...
Readers, we have failed you. After reporting on Mariya Nagao's latest photo book in December 2021, we failed to follow up when it was released earlier this year.
We should have, because it was actually (as rumored) Mariya Nagao's first nude photo book. Her fourth print book Yabai! Mariya. came out in January and follows Mariyagi as she visits an old hot spring resort with its run-down love hotels and snack bars.
The Showa-themed shoot features a naked Mariya in vintage clothes that she takes off for a bath and then enjoys the water. Her nude butt is visible in several shots. After years of ...
You've already got the sweaty stocking smell spray.
You've got the freshly taken-off scent of panties.
If you're a bit kinkier, you've got the pee-stained panties spray.
Maybe you've even tried the high school girl menstruation smell bottle.
What's next? What more could the market offer you? As it turns out, quite a lot!
Which all begs the question: What is it about Japan and smell fetishes? We haven't done a comprehensive survey in any way, shape, or form, but it really does seem like something quite peculiar to the adult market here. Smell fetishes themselves are certainly universal, ...
The graduation of various leading members and the restrictions placed on live, in-person events by the pandemic have greatly reduced the presence of AKB48 and its sister groups in popular culture. The groups retain strong followings, of course, but the days when AKB dominated advertising and TV shows seem over.
As such, even the little scandals seem to pass us by. We missed that Yuka Suzuki (鈴木優香) was forced to graduate AKB48 last September due to an alleged romance (oh, the horror!) that first emerged in spring 2021.
Following her ignominious departure from AKB48, Yuka Suzuki ...
It seems a long time since current or past members of AKB48 have made a real impression on the public at large. The power of the supergroup has waned significantly and its members are rarely seen in major advertising campaigns like they were in the 2000s and early 2010s, though we still try to follow what certain present and former idols are up to these days.
Ayaka Umeda is now 33 years old. She left AKB48 in 2016 after 10 years with the group, and has since established herself as an actor. What a great age, and it really shows.
Her second photo book, "Etude," is out now, and here are a few ...
Japan is known for its large numbers of seniors. Not only are seniors numerically significant -- almost 30% of the population are over 65 -- but they still dominate politics, bureaucracy, and even entertainment, with older people (especially men) remaining in respected positions.
This can lead to trouble.
After the notorious case earlier this year with former prime minister Yoshiro Mori's comments about women talking too much in meetings that cost him his job as head of the Tokyo Olympics comes another example, this time involving Kazuo Tokumitsu, who is a sprightly 80 years ...
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 ...
Former AKB48 member Minami Takahashi, who got married in May 2019 on the first day of the Reiwa era, has revealed that she doesn't like kissing her husband.
This hardly sounds promising for their nuptial bliss, but the reason is pretty understandable.
As the 30-year-old shared with the whole nation on a recently broadcast TV show, Takahashi's husband apparently never brushes his teeth. He would stand at the sink in the bathroom and pretend to brush his teeth, and then even lie to Takahashi when returning to the bedroom (presumably hoping to initiate some intimacy).
And now the inevitable ...
Yuko Oshima has really changed in the seven or so years since she graduated AKB48 (writing which makes us feel old!).
She's reinvented herself as a serious actress, like her former AKB stablemate Atsuko Maeda. She went off to study in America and got herself a foreign boyfriend when she returned.
More recently, the 32-year-old got married (not to the aforementioned foreign boyfriend but to fellow actor Kento Hayashi) this year.
But another chapter in her post-AKB career appeared a couple of years ago: she shot her first sex scenes (unless we missed an earlier example) for All the Things We ...
We cannot quite believe that's approaching five years since we last introduced the charms of Satomi Kaneko.
Formerly of AKB48 (until 2007), the gravure idol has in the past done some provocative and alluring photo shoots showing just how close she can get to nudity while just about maintaining a PG-13 rating.
Cue bare backs, fundoshi and a shaved you-know-what, buttocks and glimpses of a nude butt, side boobs and tebura "hand bras" galore.
Now aged 31, Satomi's career is moving into a new phase. And we will be eternally grateful to whichever gods of fate or Shinto are responsible.
For her ...
