As regular readers will know, we have a strong interest in the afterlives of music idols, gravure models, and porn stars. The situation is particularly tough for the latter, who face discrimination ...

Japanese adult video often employs referential parody formats, from recent cultural productions (anime, TV shows, etc.) to incidents (scandals, crimes, etc.). In a culture where parody and satire is ...

Our friends at Kanojo Toys are running a campaign this week to celebrate Mother's Day on Sunday. You can now get 20% off any Japanese adult toy until Monday. To claim the discount, use the promo code ...

The special menu they offer you at that bar in Shibuya or Shinjuku may well be too good to be true -- and it might well land the proprietor in trouble. A bar in Shibuya offered a "VIP course" to ...

Back in 2020, amidst the fug of the pandemic, we gleefully reported on the gravure comeback of Asami Kumakiri. The mature hottie was then a ripe 40 and posed for a nude shoot that showed off her ...

Nagisa Watanabe is to release her first photo book, published in Japan on June 25. Though still officially unnamed, it is very widely assumed that the former TV announcer is the woman at the ...

A man from New Zealand has been arrested in Japan for attempted extortion after he sent messages to a girl in her teens. The 56-year-old man, who says he is a chef but is unnamed in media reports, ...

With a few notable and noble exceptions, politicians are mostly on the fiddle or on the pull, their hands in the expenses till or around some girl's body. It's a story as old as the hills and pretty ...

Most careers in entertainment are all too short and many stutter and fade before they even really get going. That is true perhaps especially of gravure, an industry obsessed with the next idol, the ...

Stand back, guys, because there's a new gal in town. She's called Mimi Yuzuki (柚月美美). She apparently works as a regular office lady for a company while moonlighting as a cosplayer. And now ...