Two of our favorite ladies in gravure, together in one shoot.
Former AKB48 idol Mariya Nagao and model Yume Hayashi recently appeared together in an alluring lingerie shoot, which appeared in Friday just before Golden Week.
Such shoots with two gradols invariably have a lesbian undertone, even (or perhaps especially) when it's two sisters.
The 32-year-old Mariyagi has done these kinds of "joint" shoots before with her friend, Jun Amaki, who is set to retire from gravure this summer, sparking a million male fantasies of a threesome with them. Mariyagi also photographed one of ...
We do love the gravure comeback. Sure, it's sometimes just a marketing gimmick, a manufactured framing of a return in order to generate headlines. Other times, a comeback genuinely raises a nostalgic smile as we remember when the idol (and we) were younger, and marvel at how good they still are.
Recently, comebacks have been popular, with top stars from the 2000s returning to gravure for an anniversary or career boost: Nozomi Sasaki, Megumi Kagurazaka, Erika Sawajiri, and Atsuko Maeda.
But most of these ladies are still in their forties or even late thirties. What about those stunners from ...
In early March, we reported on Akari Yoshida's gravure comeback under a new name.
Now working as Akari Koda, she had just done her first shoot in about three years, appearing in the pages of Weekly Playboy.
It wasn't a one-off. Koda has leveraged that shoot to keep building momentum in the competitive world of gravure, which is always looking for the next talent as the major publications seek to keep readers interested at a time when other images are just a click or swipe away.
The 22-year-old Koda, who actually made her debut in the entertainment industry at the tender age of 13, has ...
We all have fantasies about the hot Asian nurses giving us very intimate medical checkups. Well, Nana Saejima (冴島なな) is the real deal: an actual nurse in Japan who moonlights as a gravure idol because she's got the assets for the job -- namely, a pair of G-cup breasts.
The 27-year-old Saejima is a newbie on the gravure scene, having debuted just last year, but is already set to release her first nude photo book on April 20.
Unfortunately, initial previews are censored so we don't get to see those lovely nipples, but we look forward to perusing the goodies after the book comes ...
The sisters Kei and Rei Jonishi have posed together for a sensual gravure photo shoot for Weekly Playboy featuring the two idols in alluring lingerie and swimwear.
Kei Jonishi is the older of the sisters, now 31 years and a member of Osaka music group NMB48 from 2010 to 2017. She has since done work as a model but has left a couple of agencies, and hasn't released a solo photo book (digital or print) for a few years.
Rei Jonishi is still just 24 years old and also a member of NMB48 since 2016. She released her most recent print photo book in March last year, and also features in the ...
Miku Ikuta debuted in the adult industry in 2017 and gained a following until she retired in February 2023. She then announced her marriage in April 2024.
The 28-year-old ex-performer recently sat down for an interview with Spa! about her post-porn life. We have translated some extracts.
Q. You debuted in June 2017. How did you end up on the path to becoming a JAV performer?
Originally, I was a huge fan of Ebisu Muscats (an idol group featuring porn stars). But when I was watching their show, I didn't know they were sexy actresses. I just saw them as pretty girls. I wondered who they were ...
The gravure idol Tayu Anio has caused a bit of a stir by proudly posting a selfie on social media that features her armpit hair.
The 25-year-old posted the viral image at the end of March. It features not just a few strands of armpit hair, but long hair that she has even dyed to match the color of her regular hair.
It's not the first time. She has also not hidden her armpit hair in past shoots and selfies, and it seems that her decision to grow her armpit hair led her to leave her agency in 2022 and go freelance.
In 2023, she released a nude photo book (inevitably, her other very ...
She is now in her thirties and, despite being still one of the most famous gravure idols in Japan, it was inevitable that this day would come: Jun Amaki is to retire this summer.
Yes, it's sadly time to say sayonara to one of the cutest and bustiest of gradols in Japan.
She announced this a few days ago to accompany her appearance in the current issue of Weekly Playboy. There is also a tie-in digital photo book, appropriately called Retirement, now on release. The resulting storm of publicity Amaki's announcement has generated has helped send the book up the Kindle charts.
Amaki was at ...
Former AKB48 superstar Atsuko Maeda has recently proved that rewarding fans who have waited nearly two decades with a semi-nude photo book in your mid-thirties, and claiming it's your best and your last, will reap commercial dividends.
On the other hand, as relative newcomer Miyuka Minami is showing, you can just go nude early in your career to make a splash.
The 20-year-old Mie native made her debut in 2021 as a junior idol but has branched out into more full-on gravure in recent years with the end of her stints in two idol groups in Nagoya. She released her first gravure photo book in ...
What magic is this? What elixir of youth has she drunk? Because veteran gravure idol Yoko Kumada does not look like a 43-year-old three-time mom.
The model continues to carve out a career well past the point at which most gradols have thrown in the towel. Not so with Yoko, who has overcome a fair few challenges in her personal life (not least, domestic violence and divorce) and stays in superb shape through pole dancing. She pumps out regular gravure DVDs that show off her athletic body.
In the latest proof of this, Kumada has released a video on Instagram showing a behind-the-scenes ...
