Most teenagers dream of dating pop singers or movie stars. But this girl isn't most teenagers.
No, 13-year-old Seira Watanabe had a different kind of dream date: Godzilla.
And she finally got her dream granted.
Watanabe already has a huge Godzilla figure collection, but nothing beats meeting and interacting with the real thing.
A Japanese television show recently helped make that happen by arranging a date for her with Godzilla, as reports Kotaku.
Naturally, the kaiju was not quite its usual size.
When she spotted Godzilla outside her window at her home in Hyogo Prefecture, she almost ...
They say that television is fake and this story may not convince you otherwise.
Netizens have exposed the beautiful woman who is supposedly an instructor at the Uzumasa Driving School in Kyoto as a gravure model.
Featured on a Japanese TV show as Aimi Yoshikawa (吉川愛未, not to be confused with Aimi Yoshikawa 吉川あいみ, the retired porn star), ostensibly because the driving school is covered by the government incentives aimed at encouraging domestic trips, this Aimi was, in fact, none other than Aimi (あいみ), a mononymous gradol much-admired for her svelte ...
Model Sumire is a prominent example of the "sporty celebrity" in Japan -- similar to models like Anne Nakamura, Kazusa Okuyama, or Yuri Shibuya.
On a recently broadcast Japanese television show, the 30-year-old Sumire (who is the daughter of entertainer Junichi Ishida) showed off her athletic body and workout prowess for the cameras. Unfortunately for her (but not for us), she also revealed her camel toe.
The outline of her you-know-what (apparently fully shaved) was clearly visible underneath her tight leggings.
Sumire (aka Sumire Matsubara) is fluent in English and has acted in ...
There are nip slips and then there are nip slips.
The gravure idol Hikari Hashimoto (橋本ひかり) recently suffered an incident that falls squarely into the latter category.
For reasons known only to the people who devise Japanese television content, the idol was recently doing an interview (filmed live and remotely from her home) for the web channel AbemaTV in which she was supposed to whip off her top to reveal her bikini beneath. Unfortunately (or not), her breasts had come loose from the flimsy bikini top (or bikini-style bra) and her right nipple was firmly and delightfully visible ...
Japanese media has reported that reality television star Maria Hamasaki has died of an apparent suicide.
Hamasaki was the 23-year-old star of AbemaTV's Suddenly, Marriage, a show that purportedly chronicles that first 30 days after a man and a woman have registered their marriage. The popular web TV show had just started broadcasting its fourth season at the start of August. Its production and distribution has been suspended.
Hamasaki, a model who also ran a business delivering South Korean cosmetics, also appeared in one of the seasons of another web TV reality show, Bachelor Japan, on ...
From one nip slip to another. Such is the life of the humble Tokyo Kinky blogger.
Yesterday we posted an amusing, cautionary tale about gravure idol Mirai Nishijima, who is very active on Twitter and posts daily pictures. Unfortunately when she posted an image of a shoot at a hot spring from a few years ago, she didn't realize that it showed one of her (lovely) nipples.
Now another, sweatier example...
Japanese television news loves to show random shots of people on the streets during hot weather, demonstrating how the masses are coping with the heat. (For context, it's over 40 C, or 104 ...
A Japanese TV show asked a man what he thought about gravure photo shoots. Nothing strange about this, perhaps, but the details are more unusual.
This man may look like a regular white-collar worker but his younger sisters are anything but: they are gravure idols and he was shown images from their provocative shoots.
The ladies in question are Tomoe Yamanaka (山中知恵) and Mayumi Yamanaka (山中真由美).
The brother laughs uncomfortably. "Yeah, I have mixed feelings about that."
To our shame, we did not know that Tomoe Yamanaka and Mayumi Yamanaka were sisters, though now ...
Just as the second wave was beginning to hit Tokyo late last month, the country entered a four-day weekend that was originally intended to mark the triumphant start of the Olympics in the capital.
Things were not as they were meant to be and the holiday was subdued.
Netizens, though, found plenty of entertain themselves by finding TV news interviews with women on the streets of Tokyo about the need for self-restraint during the long holiday weekend.
Naturally, they were pleased to see how busty these interviewees were. You don't have to be a cynic to wonder if the news people deliberately ...
A Japanese TV show recently showcased the curvy body of gravure idol and actress Oto Abe (安倍乙).
Nothing new about this, except it wasn't quite how you might think.
Similar to the strange show we blogged about a while back that demonstrated how unfit certain ex-AKB48 idols were, this program broadcast on the local Nagoya-based station Chukyo TV exposed the tummy fat that Otome Abe has been cultivating.
She openly shared the secrets of her body as well as the effects of doing a lack of exercise, such as constipation. We will never look at her gravure shoots the same way again!
Abe ...
On the troubled Japanese Netflix reality show Terrace House, which faces possible cancellation after one of its stars took her life following online bullying, the gravure model Yume Hayashi recently made quite a personal confession.
Much of the appeal of the show hinges on watching young people with emerging careers as models and so on hook up. Accordingly, Hayashi has attracted the attention of both male viewers and an occupant of the house.
Hokkaido-born, 24-year-old Yume Hayashi is well known for her sporty body. She goes by the name Yume Yoshida on the show, despite (or perhaps ...
