At Tokyo Kinky, we keep a close eye on new gravure idols and other developments in the industry, not least because it's a constant flux and flurry of activity: who is debuting, who is making a comeback, whose photo book sold well, etc.
But even we were a little taken aback by the latest "idol" to release a photo book: Myaku-Myaku, the weird and wacky mascot for the 2025 Osaka expo.
While the expo ended in October last year, love for the bizarre alien creature still lives on. Myaku-Myaku is possibly meant to represent water and cells, but even that doesn't explain why the upright, bipedal ...
In an age of AI, when computer-generated content has glutted our screens and it is sometimes hard to tell what is human and what is fake, what does it take a new idol to stand out from the pixels?
Sarina is hoping she has it.
The "sexy streamer" has just launched a gravure career, building on her massive social media base that has seen her accrue hundreds of thousands of followers.
She has just released Miraculous Quartet Body, a digital photo book for Weekly Playboy that is R18 rated (and also available in a tamer "all-ages edition"). It shows off her slinky body and large breasts, ...
Erika Sawajiri is to release her first photo book in 20 years, cementing her comeback.
Now aged 39, Day Off comes out on May 23 from Gentosha. It features over 150 images, selected from more than 10,000 taken of Sawajiri on location in an exotic beach and sea setting. Perhaps taking a cue from mature hottie Kyoko Fukuda, who loves to show off an active style for her beach body, Sawajiri is seen swimming and surfing in the upcoming release.
Her previous photo book was ERIKA, released in 2007, when she was just breaking out as a star. It's been a roller-coaster ride ever since.
Erika ...
The Japanese actor, fashion model, and gravure idol Akari Yoshida has made a comeback under a new name.
Now known as Akari Koda, she has done her first gravure shoot in about three years. The shoot appears in the current issue of Weekly Playboy.
"I had always wanted to do gravure modeling, but I was waiting for the right timing," Koda told the magazine. "I changed agencies and had decided to change my name, so I thought it would be great if more people could get to know a different side of me."
The shoot by veteran gravure photographer Chikashi Kasai puts lots of emphasis on her thighs ...
Fans of early period AKB48 idols are in for a treat right now with the recent photo shoots of Haruna Kojima, who looks ravishing at 37, and the new photo book by Atsuko Maeda.
Maeda has established herself as a serious actress since leaving the idol group in 2012, having been with it since the very beginning. She also got married, had a child, and then divorced. Today, she's a 34-year-old single mom.
Japanese idol groups are often premised on members with girl-next-door looks and whose fandom emphasizes their normality. This was very much the case with AKB48 too, so much so that it's ...
The former music idol Haruna Kojima still looks amazing at 37, as these recent pictures from a photo shoot demonstrate. They show her in a figure-hugging black swimsuit that reveals her trim body, flat stomach, and slender legs.
Kojiharu, as she is nicknamed, turns 38 in April and is one of the hottest jukujo in Japan, up there with Sayaka Isoyama and Kyoko Fukada.
The Saitama native was part of the early period of AKB48 history, when the supergroup was ubiquitous and produced several mainstream stars. She was a member of the group from 2005 to 2017, after which she worked as a fashion ...
Former gravure model Chisato Morishita has won her seat in the snap election called by Sanae Takaichi, which saw the ruling Liberal Democratic Party secured a big majority and wipe out much of the opposition.
After some years of campaigning and failing to win a seat, Morishita finally became a member of the lower house in the 2024 election (and thus, Japan's hottest lawmaker) through the LDP's proportional representation allocation. She was then given a minor Cabinet position in 2025, like other prominent women in the Takaichi government.
This time, she won her seat outright, comfortably ...
She promised us more with her nipples, and she delivered.
The leading gravure idol Kisumi Amau recently wowed fans with wet pics from her new photo book. In the pool-themed shots, her nipples are clearly visible through her soaking swimsuit.
The 29-year-old former music idol's third photo book, Bonus, came out January 7 from Shueisha.
Even better, more images from the photo book showed that the gradol has really let rip this time with some nude shots. Perhaps conscious that the clock is ticking down on her career now that she's leaving her twenties, she has opted to do some very ...
The gravure idol Kisumi Amau has delighted fans with a wet shoot in which she poses in a skin-tight one-piece swimsuit, with her nipples clearly visible through the fabric.
Amau started off her career as a music idol in the early 2010s. The 29-year-old has now established herself as one of the top gradols at the moment.
She has just released her third print photo book, Bonus, which came out on January 7 from Shueisha.
We are having trouble confirming the source the new images of Kisumi Amau, though presume they are from Bonus, as Amau doesn't seem to appear in any of the weekly ...
Ever wondered what a chest X-ray looks like if you have a G-cup bust?
Coroco Toyoshima gave us an intimate glimpse into her body -- literally inside her body. The leading gravure idol posted a picture of her chest X-ray on social media on January 23, which soon went viral. At the time of writing, it's been viewed a whopping 43.2 million times! That's a lot more than how many look at our X-rays whenever we have a medical checkup.
The apparently innocuous post was even reported in the mainstream media.
The X-ray shows the shape of the ribs on her small chest, with the huge mounds of her ...
