A doujin-made comic cooking book is provoking some eyebrow-raising online.
The title for Oyako to shimai o oishiku itadaku 15 no houhou translates literally as "15 ways to deliciously eat mothers-and-daughters and sisters". What the heck does that mean? No, the creators, doujinshi Poisson Rouge, are not promoting cannibalism. Certain dishes in their book are classified as "mother-and-daughter" recipes, while others are "sister" dishes.
It's a pun on Oyako-don, a common dish whose name literally means "parent-and-child rice bowl".
While the concept is pretty interesting in itself, the ...
We reported a little while ago about the fantastic news that Tenga was giving something back by organizing a special beach clean-up event at Enoshima.
Participants competed to fill up their garbage bag with trash on the beach within 90 minutes. If you could get a full bag, you got a free sex toy, a Tenga Egg or Pocket Tenga.
This means you can put your hand on your heart whenever your girlfriend or someone criticizes you for hanging on to your trusty onahole, sex machine or other masturbation aid: sex toys are good for the planet!
Well, in case you couldn't make it to the event ...
While some idol groups make a lot of money, the idols themselves are not getting rich per se. The management companies keep them on salaries representing their worth and this is a policy reflected across the Japanese entertainment industry.
That said, this is the first time we've heard of a Japanese idol group deliberately launched in poverty.
Japanese idol culture has been accused of moral bankruptcy in the past but The Margarines have a combined debt of ¥127.7 million (over $1 million). Aged from 19 to 30, these ladies are floundering in financial woes due to student debts, a failed ...
No sooner had we blogged an odd story about a bus driver trying to kiss his lone teenaged passenger in Tokushima, then along comes another peculiar tale of groping on the subway.
Two Chiba residents have been arrested by Tokyo police on suspicion of trying to grope a woman on the Tokyo subway during the morning rush hour.
The men -- a 24-year-old Tokyo court assistant and a 39-year-old Mitsubishi Tokyo UFJ Bank employee -- are accused of both groping the same woman on a subway train at around 8am on September 25th.
It is unknown if the two knew each other or how they came to ...
We all know that trains are far from the safest places for women in Japan, so full of would-be gropers the train companies have had to introduce women-only carriages in recent years.
Well, now you can add buses to your list of danger zones.
Why? Because police arrested a middle-aged bus driver for trying to kiss a female passenger.
The 54-year-old Kunihiko Nakanishi apparently attempt to plant a smooch on the forehead of a teenaged girl in March this year. Nakanishi is alleged to have stopped the bus he was driving mid-route while there were no other passengers on board except ...
Who says otaku can't be book worms? After all, they certainly read a lot of manga. And obsession can be a form of erudition.
An otaku magazine is currently offering a freebie for readers. Nothing special in that, though. In Japan this practice is known as omake and has become a staple in fashion magazines. But we'll take this freebie over any brand bag.
It's a book cover -- and one with breasts!
The boobs in question are supposed to belong to Rias Gremory, the main heroine in the light novel, manga and anime "High School DxD".
Needless to say, as you read you ...
While the Tokyo Game Show last weekend ultimately did not feature Sony's divisive "Summer Lesson" demo for the Project Morpheus HMD headset, it did have some virtual boyfriends instead.
One booth at TGS 2014 showcased virtual dating and romance apps so women could get their perfect partner. The only snag is that the man in question does not exist in reality.
Voltage Romance Apps features a series of smartphone social apps with fake boyfriends for lonely women. They even have English-language versions adapted for North American audiences.
The average user is a 30-year-old Japanese ...
It's high time we talked about otoko no ko (also written otokonoko) (男の娘). The name of course is a play on the word for "boy" but whose characters mean "male daughter". As we know, the word for daughter (musume) is also employed a lot to mean "cute young girl", and that's the nuance here.
The phrase has been used since the 2000's. A otoko no ko is a cross-dressing cosplayer, who dresses as a girl for certain occasions. It's an unusual combination of cosplay culture, sexuality, and (in a way) otaku culture (it's quite geeky as subcultures go). It took the world of men dressed as ...
Last summer photography Manabu Koga delighted us with his series of sexy photographs of slinky girls swimming underwater in various states of undress.
Now he's back with a follow-up, Underwater Knee-High Girls plus, released this October.
Sexy Japanese girls in knee-high socks, diving underwater. The concept is unchanged -- when it ain't broke, don't fix it! -- though this time the slender maidens having some incongruous props like umbrellas and raincoats, meccha gear, and even rabbit ears.
The models include Shimarisu Mashima and ...
Our exquisite sexpot this week is slinky Akane Suzuki, born 1984.
The Gravure idol has been absent from our lives for a while now after a career of gradually increasingly revealing photo shoots.
She went out with a bang, ending by stripping complete nude in 2010. Since then we have seen no appearances by Akane but we can still hope for a (suitably scantily clad) comeback one ...
