In addition to buying up all the CDs and merchandise they can get their hands on, otaku fans like to send their favorite idols various personal gifts, from handmade art to flowers and toys.
Given that the line between fans and stalkers is quite thin sometimes, the idols and their management agencies need to take precautions.
The meet-and-greet sessions, for example, at one time became notorious because fans were allegedly masturbating and leaving their spunk on their hands for idols to touch by accident. They called it the "semen handshake". Yes, nice to meet you indeed!
Now Kaori ...
Another day, another fetish. This is Japan, where things never cease to inspire and surprise us.
Yesterday it was amputee cyborg fantasies. A while ago it was zentai full-body tights. Or up-skirt photography. Or licking door knobs.
Photography shows about thighs have proved a massive hit in recent years, so others are trying to jump on the band wagon with a new gimmick.
This time it's soles. Yuki Yuzawa currently has an exhibition at Yellow House gallery until August 20th that focuses on the naked soles of tender-looking Japanese girls, from schoolgirls to office ladies, maids and ...
It's no secret how wildly popular the gravure model Miyako Akane is, so much so that she seems to be inspiring her own mini fetish sub-genres.
She has a big following, not least because she rewards her fans with such things as making her porn debut (under the name Ema Yumekawa), wearing insanely sexy swimwear, and sparking a new street fashion trend for extreme body painting. In the past she has also posed nude and in a zentai body suit.
But what if your obsession with the angelic-faced, big-chested model was more than just her body? What if you wanted her to be, well, missing ...
Japanese gravure idols are mostly famous for one thing: their busts.
Sure, not all of them have giant breasts but the proportion of busty models is pretty high. There are all kinds of things you can do with such breasts, from groping them to raise money for charity to keeping various objects balanced on them.
If you want a way to accurately check and compare gravure idols' various chest sizes, we recommend the Oppai Zukan, or Full-Sized Gravure Idol Breasts Reference Book.
This hefty book features such gravure idols as Nanoka, Eimi Matsushima, Saki Funaoka, Nonoko, Sayaka Onuki, Mayumi ...
It didn't take long for virtual reality to discover a potentially lucrative niche: Japanese panchira fetish.
This penchant for up-skirt views is a big thing in Japan, unfolding in AV, video games, books, photography, umbrella, and, of course, real-life crimes and incidents. Trains and escalators are particularly notorious places for panchira fetishists to linger.
One of the most bizarre was the case of the man who lay in a Kobe storm drain for hours, looking up under the skirts of girls who walked by. This was something of an addiction -- he was a serial offender!
Well, now you can ...
What is it about (certain) Japanese guys that seemingly makes them want to dress up as girls at any opportunity?
The music video for Gen Hoshino's latest single, Family Song, casts "him" in drag while only the other day we blogged about the deceptively feminine charms of one male high schooler?
Okay, Kabuki, lack of Victorian-era binaries, yada yada. Let's not try to come up with an anthropological mumbo jumbo answer for this. But it begs the question: are we witnessing an exciting surge in agender identity in Japan? From clothes to toilets, genderlessness is definitely growing in ...
Japanese nunsploitation exists -- and it's out there waiting for you on YouTube.
Ayami Takei is an aspiring YouTuber who had attracted viral attention with a video certain to be taken down by YouTube in the very near future.
In it, Takei starts off in a nun costume and then shows off her newly shaven head (unlike certain idols, not done as a sign of penitence). Only she hasn't stopped there: she has also completely shaved her pussy and proudly displays her paipan to the camera.
Her video, titled "Flesh and Blood," has already racked up tens of thousands of views, and there are other ...
We recently read a report in the Asahi Shimbun about the adult video scouts who operate on the streets of Tokyo, searching for the next porn talent to come walking by. If you've ever wondered how a lot of the women, especially the anonymous stars of AV with large casts, get into their jobs, it's often because they are aggressively scouted (many are also "persuaded" to move into porn from careers in modeling, gravure and hostessing). The result is an industry with an almost literally countless number of women working in it as performers at various levels.
The article was an interview with a ...
This cute Japanese high school girl has gone viral, but not for the reasons you might think.
It's because "she" is not a "she" in the conventional sense of the term.
Like Shiseido did before him, @ginsyamu has managed to fool a lot of people into thinking he is a member of the fairer sex.
The 15-year-old young lad has amassed thousands of followers on social media with his uncanny ability to bend genders and strike convincingly feminine poses. Would this young lady have fooled you?
It's not just the hair or makeup (including mascara, lipstick and eyeliner) but ...
For reasons that obviously don't need stating, the curvy Mitsu Dan has inspired her fair level of male attention these past few years. Now she's attracted the attention of Miyagi Prefecture, which hired her to appear in a tourism video. If that sounds pretty random, it's because it unashamedly is.
The nude model and jukujo actress not afraid to shed her clothes on camera spends the 2:30-minute video clad in a kimono and talking very suggestively to a regional mascot and flying turtle.
"Does it feel good?" "Can I ride you?" These are just a couple of the phrases the 36-year-old Dan ...
