It used to be that everyone abroad thought Japanese TV was wacky because of the big-budget, outlandish game and challenge shows.
But in fact, the craziest stuff these days tends to happen on non-terrestrial channels, especially late at night. The live octopus tentacle sex reenactment broadcast recently being a prominent example! And remember the hand job karaoke? We're pretty sure the participants won't forget it in a hurry!
Trust the online TV channel AbemaTV, which also likes to throw in nude sex scenes into its drama shows, to push the boundaries.
Its show Momoiro Game Channel ...
It's hardly a secret that many music idols, along with gravure idols, slip into porn after graduating from their idol job. While most fade quickly into obscurity once their management companies cut them loose, a few brave souls try to branch out in second careers in adult video, and an even smaller number are successful at it and last more than one or two releases.
Several members AKB48 and its sister groups have made prominent debuts in AV, most notably Momona Kito, and now comes an example from another idol group.
An ex-member of Aoyama Saint Hachamecha High School, Yume Narai, will ...
Gravure idol Erina Kamiya has amazing breasts. This much we already knew and are one of the reasons she is one of the hottest and most popular gravure idols in Japan at the moment.
Erina Kamiya has previously demonstrated that her G-cup breasts can do a range of awesome things, such as break tiles. She can also balance pretty much anything on her sizeable chest.
But we didn't know that those same breasts can even save the world from certain destruction. Until now.
In an aptly titled video called "Breasts Save the World," Erina shots light beams from her beautiful breasts ...
No chronicle of Japanese adult fetishes is complete without mention of tentacle sex (aka tentacle rape). Known as shokushu goukan in Japanese, the trope was made famous by The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife by Hokusai -- a shunga erotic print vividly depicting an ama diver's fantasy of an octopus having sex with her -- but pops up in other walks of life, too. We really liked an erotic photo shoot we spotted in 2016 of a slinky Japanese gravure idol rollicking with a live octopus.
And it was recently on a mainstream TV show! Kayoko no Heya is a late-night program on Fuji TV fronted by Kayoko ...
Following her previous semi-nude scene in the TBS TV drama Kimi ga Kokoro ni Sumitsuita, popular cutie Riho Yoshioka has followed up with another hot scene in the third episode of the series.
In the show, her character has to model a bra at a public event. During her trip down the catwalk, however, she slips and falls. While this is hardly the stuff of high drama, it does mean that viewers get a lingering look at her naked back, slender waist, and modest bust. And Riho certainly does look mighty fine in lingerie, though we already knew that.
Well, Riho ...
If you were upset by Sola Aoi's sudden marriage announcement, don't worry: you still have a chance to marry a Japanese AV idol.
Asuka Hoshino had a career between 2010 and 2014, and is now trying to build a post-AV career. Presumably things are not going too well for her, since she's now turning to her fans to pay her directly.
Still, she's offering something original: a marriage ceremony!
Yes, you can "marry" Asuka Hoshino just by paying a fee. She will participate in a fake ceremony that you and the 31-year-old former porn star will plan together with a genuine wedding planning ...
AKB48 is said to be phasing out swimsuit and lingerie photo shoots for its young members, perhaps out of fear of foreign accusations of peddling lolicon and child pornography as Tokyo prepares to for the 2020 Olympics.
There is speculation that the Akihabara-inspired supergroup, which builds followings for its female idols through swimsuit and underwear shoots as well as scantily clad music videos, is taming down its tactics.
Now members of high school age will apparently not be asked to reveal their flesh during photo shoots, it is reported.
A large proportion of AKB48's members ...
Since there are so few mainstream films released in Japan with decent nude scenes, we have to look back at past ones for entertainment.
We were recently marveling again at the busty delights of gravure idol and actress Megumi Kagurazaka in Guilty of Romance.
The 2011 film was directed by Sion Sono, who later made the sensible decision to marry Kagurazaka (despite quite an age gap of some twenty years).
The film is particularly worth revisiting for its sex scenes. Megumi Kagurazaka has multiple nude scenes and naked sex scenes throughout the film, mostly showing off her very ample ...
The up-and-coming gravure idol and actress Riho Yoshioka is one of the stars of the new TBS TV drama Kimi ga Kokoro ni Sumitsuita (You Always Inhabit My Heart).
An adaptation of the manga by Kirin Tendo, the 24-year-old Yoshioka has a semi-nude scene that is currently setting portions of the Japanese web on fire. In it, Yoshioka is shown undressing and revealing her naked back. Strangely, she is then left standing nude in front of a bunch of guys who show no interest.
Unfortunately this is a drama on a regular Japanese TV channel, so you don't really see anything -- AbemaTV, which will ...
Actress and gravure idol Mami Yamasaki has done plenty of alluring photo shoots in her career, exploiting her girl-in-the-office looks.
But she's gone one further with this December photo shoot in weekly tabloid magazine Flash, which seems to tread very narrowly along the border between nude and chakuero (clothed but nude). In some shots Mami is clearly naked but you can't see anything.
The Osaka native is technically a jukujo ("ripe girl"), now she's in her early thirties. But the hormones are doing wonders and she looks better than ever.
We see the 32-year-old effectively finger herself ...
