Do androids dream of electric sheep? Do otaku date non-2D women?
These are the eternal questions of our times. In the case of the latter, it seems that are some otaku who are keen to branch out into three dimensions.
So much so that, well, there's an app for that.
Otakoi (Otaku Love) is a dating app for otaku. The promo images are just awesome. If you've seen these ads popping in your feed, you know you're in trouble!
Needless to say, these images are AI-generated. The presence of fake photos of couples might be a warning sign for a dating app, but since the target demographic is ...
The syphilis epidemic in Japan is something that has featured on this blog countless times.
Just last year, we wrote about its alarming further growth.
We wish we had something more positive to share with readers, but the news just keeps getting worse.
The total number of cases in 2023 has already exceeded 10,000 -- the fastest time this has ever occurred. Medical experts are advising people to get tested even if they exhibit no symptoms in an effort to stop the spread of the disease.
Cases hit 10,103 on September 3, according to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases. That is a ...
Japan's much-publicized, controversial new porn law that passed last year was ostensibly conceived to introduce safeguards against performer coercion.
Is it actually doing its job? It's perhaps too early to say, though many major adult video stars were publicly opposed to the legislation.
The newly established rules on contracts and paperwork quickly claimed its first victim, when a production firm executive was arrested in December for misleading performers and uploading uncensored material.
Concerns, though, were soon raised about the potential loophole in the law regard private and ...
We have grown used to Japanese porn stars' prior careers as music idols, gravure models, and so on. What's often so exciting about their entry into adult video is that those worlds generally don't allow the women to have relationships publicly (because it spoils the illusion that you could date the idol).
This is similar with the Takarazuka Revue, a long-running all-female company that puts on musicals in Osaka and Tokyo. Some of the most famous actresses in Japan started off life as members of the company, though it is something of a closed eco-system, putting on a very particular type of ...
Former NMB48 idol Miyuki Watanabe has released a new photo book, Dappi, marking what seems to be a somewhat maturer look and more sensual development in her career as she enters a new stage in life.
Also a one-time member of SKE48 and AKB48, Watanabe (known as Miruki to her fans) left NMB48 in 2016. She turned 30 earlier this week. Since leaving the music group, she has worked as a model and launched a music career as a solo artist and member of girl group Ange et Folletta.
Dappi is her fifth book and marks the latest stage in this more adult part of her career.
Last year, she ...
Aya Takanashi, the former porn star turned columnist on all things JAV, is back with another article about the porn industry.
This time, she's spilled the beans on why some performers have rules about which other performers they are willing to work with.
In her latest column for the monthly magazine Spa!, she enumerates some of the major reasons for why co-performers are "banned" by certain AV stars.
This is not insignificant, since while the AV industry is flooded with thousands of female performers, the number of men performing regularly is tiny. If you get on the bad side of one of ...
The YouTuber Takashii, who provided the interesting video we reposted recently about Japanese women and their attraction toward foreign men (or non-attraction, as the case may be), has produced a couple more videos with interviews about the old saw: adultery.
His latest provocative topic is on adultery in Japan, especially cheating on a partner with sex workers.
He asks some women for their opinions and some men.
They give a range of responses, but the general gist is that the women don't seem to mind if their men cheat on them with fuzoku (sex workers/services). In fact, this doesn't ...
Just when you thought it was safe to walk by a drain in a skirt, the drain pervert is back!
If you live in Kobe, be sure to check the drains before walking over them.
Police in the West Japan city have arrested the 36-year-old Yasuomi Hirai for setting up a phone in a roadside drain in order to take videos of schoolgirls.
He was caught when the camera was filming an 18-year-old school student at around 3 o'clock in the afternoon on September 8. And he was found out because the girl was a Good Samaritan. She noticed the phone in the drain and took it to a police substation, believing it was ...
It's mid-September and still feels like mid-August in Tokyo. It is meant to cool down soon but this summer has been a little long, with the sticky temperatures dragging on into the supposed start of the autumn.
Usually, things stay pretty hot through September and even October, but the humidity leaves the stage. Not so much this year.
Personally, we don't mind it so much, but then we don't have to put on a salaryman suit and commute to the office each day on a crowded commuter train.
Occasionally, it feels like all the Japanese media does is talk about food or the weather. But with the hot ...
Hinatazaka46 idol Hinano Kamimura has released her first photo book.
The 19-year-old's book, Sono mama de (As It Is), came out on September 12 with four different covers (one for each of the seasons).
It features a series of pics of the music idol in underwear or swimwear, plus a somewhat more explicit of her in a bath. Some shots have a summery vibe; others look ahead to the imminent autumn season.
If you want a slim and youthful Japanese girl, you've come to the right place.
There's one decidedly sexy, more mature shot where she's lying in her underwear on a ...
