We recently wrote about Kana Kurashina's incredible semi-nude Anan magazine shoot. It reminded us yet again what a great magazine it is: nominally a fashion and lifestyle publication for women, it's regular sex-themed issues and provocative cover shoots with established models and female actors have continued to grab attention (and seriously boost the careers of the models) for years now. Here is a selection of some of the best covers from the past decade, featuring (in publication/chronological order): Kana Kurashima (2021), Ayaka Miyoshi (2020), Fumika Baba (2019), Rio Uchida (2018), ...

Some sad news to start 2013: Babe Maomi Yuuki is getting married. Maomi (32) will marry her boyfriend, a hair stylist aged 35 this June. They met through work last May, which I guess proves that once over the magic three-oh, girls like to get hitched quick! Maomi is often classified as an intenri josei tarento (brainy female TV personality) -- a perhaps rather unjustified label, given that essentially she is a model. At the end of the day, she is a minor TV celebrity famous for being a bit pretty and doing lingerie shoots. She is particularly ...

The very sexy Maomi Yuuki (a personal favorite of mine) has decided to go nude in Anan, a Japanese ladies' magazine that is ostensibly about fashion and lifestyle but frequently features sexy photo shoots. The thirty-year old model has decided to do a limited nude photo shoot. I would prefer (as would many others) for her to be fully nude and possibly doing dirty, dirty things in the photo shoot, but this is a start. When asked what she thought of doing the photo shoot she commented about her gravure idol shots in her twenties. "Even back when I had a 20-year old body, I was ...