The former Morning Musume idol Ai Kago has collaborated with Young Magazine for a cosplay shoot where she became the title character from the "sexy manga" Heisei Haizanhei Sumire-chan. It is part of a series of winter shoots recreating alluring female characters from six manga with different models.
The striking images have attracted both media headlines and social media buzz because of the seemingly superhuman ability of a woman who is almost 40 to transform into a schoolgirl. While makeup and Photoshop no doubt help a lot, mother-of-two Ai Kago has apparently drunk from the elixir of youth ...
Mayumi Yamazaki has burst back onto the scene at the age of 53 years young. Marking her first gravure shoot in 32 years, the comely ex-idol appears in a shoot over eight pages of the current issue of Weekly Flash.
Of course, makeup and Photoshop can work wonders for anyone, but we think Mayumi looks fantastic. Let's hope this isn't just a one-off.
The former music idol was a member of Onyanko Club's B-Gumi from 1986 to 1987, and then went on to release a few singles as a solo artist. Onyanko Club was the Morning Musume or AKB48 of its day.
She married in 1994 and retired from the ...
One of the most prominent members of NMB48, the Osaka-based iteration of AKB48, Miru Shiroma graduated the group in 2021 after an 11-year tenure. Since then, she has continued to work as a singer, releasing a couple of music singles in 2022, and also does some acting and YouTube content.
She already stunned fans by graduating with a second photo book, Reborn, which featured the idol in very skimpy lingerie and some very revealing poses.
She followed this up with a third book in 2023, Aventure, but while her past NMB48 peers have been getting married and having kids (Yuka Hagino, a year ...
Right now, gravure feels a bit like a battle between the nearly 40-year-olds, all vying to outdo each other.
Or it could be that for all the sweet charms of fresh-faced young newbies like Hina Kikuchi, Cocoro Toyoshima, Aika Sawaguchi, Ina Enohara, and Yuzuha Hongo, these older models and idols just make better stories. (And to be frank, as we get older, we can't help finding these similarly aged women the hottest.)
We recently had Yuka Iguchi showing us her age-defying beach body and bust.
Former AKB48 idol Mai Oshima is also 37 and looks amazing.
Mayumi Yamanaka is a bit younger but a ...
Many music idols have rules, explicit or implicit, that prevent them from having romantic or sexual relationships to keep up the pretense that fans have a chance of dating their favorite singer.
If you think music idols are not having sex, though, you've pretty naive, as the various dating "scandals" have demonstrated over the years.
Some idols are even more sexually active than you might suspect, including having secret porn careers.
Tsumugi Mugino was recently fired from the Hokkaido idol group Icecream Square after her alleged appearance in an "amateur" porn release came to ...
Until a few days ago, Saori Araki (荒木佐保里) was little known even in Japan, to say nothing of outside the country. But that all changed this week.
That Nagasaki-born idol with cute cheeks has now hundreds of followers on social media. (She had a mere 7,000 followers on X and 100,000 on Instagram in June.)
And it all began with a photo of herself in suit and holding a laptop that she posted on July 25 with a simple "good morning" message. That post on X currently has 76 million views, the majority of which are from the United States and Britain. So what gives?
Her post had ...
Marking 20 years since she entered the entertainment industry and 15 years since she made her solo debut, the former AKB48 music idol Mai Oshima has returned to gravure with an erotic shoot that emphasizes her alluring jukujo charms.
Oshima was a member of AKB48 between 2005 and 2010, and marked her graduation with a solo photo book. All that feels like a long time ago -- and it was, at least in terms of gravure idols, which are the industry equivalent of FMCG.
Now aged 37 (and turning 38 in September), the comely model is today mostly a YouTuber (she opened her first channel in 2021 ...
Yesterday we published an article about Neru Nagahama's comeback photo book, the Keyakizaka46 music idol's first such release in eight years.
Nagahama is a rare case of a music idol from an AKB or Sakamichi group who has maintained a career after graduating. Most of the more minor members disappear into obscurity -- to say nothing of the many, many other wannabe idols who audition but never even get into the minor ranks.
And some wind up doing porn.
Netizens have identified a former auditionee for Sakurazaka46 (as Keyakizaka46 is now known) as a new porn star Nagi Yasaka ...
Former Keyakizaka46 music idol Neru Nagahama is back with a new photo book, a self-titled release from major publication Kodansha on July 15.
The 26-year-old has not published a photo book in eight years.
The Nagasaki native was seen as a rising star in the idol world in the late 2010s, with her first photo book going through a reprint. The alluring shower pics surely helped.
Recent years have been leaner ones for Nagahama since leaving Keyakizaka46 in 2019, though she remains connected to the idol industry though a position with Tokyo Idol Festival, and her first photo book was ...
One of the more unusual stories swirling around J-pop right now is the identify of the mystery singer with whom Elon Musk claims to have fathered a child.
Ashley St. Clair, a conservative influencer and mother of Musk's fourteenth known child, told the New York Times that Musk has "fathered children around the world, including one with a Japanese pop star."
Of course, this is a second-hand report and not from Musk directly, but people have taken it seriously.
Who could it be? Suspicions quickly centered on Ayumi Hamasaki, the veteran "Empress of Pop" who has two children (one born at the ...
