Forget Fifty Shades, sado-masochism infiltrates all walks of life in Japan, it seems. Including anime cover hug pillows.
Hug pillows (dakimakura) are of course the pillows designed to be "hugged" to help you through the night. Sometimes they are innocent enough (like comfort blankets) but often it's a euphemism for a type of sex doll, complete with slots for masturbator sleeves. And naturally, there are lots of cool covers to go on these hug dolls, especially moe ones of anime characters.
But the this month saw a strange trend sweeping the Twittersphere in Japan.
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The advertising for Japanese lingerie is practically pornographic. And we say that in a very complimentary way.
Ravijour, who along with Peach John are the lingerie of choice for girls looking to spice up their bodies, have announced their autumn catalog. And given the eye-watering photos they released with it we think these bras and panties are going to be very popular.
The concept behind this season's designs is apparently "jewel", which could just as easily be a reference to the precious quality of the models' bodies.
As usual, the models include Elli Rose, Mai Miyagi, and ...
Japanese weekly tabloid Shukan Post has done a mammoth public service in conducting a superb survey of Japanese women to find out their grooming habits. As in, their bush hair grooming habits!
Shukan Post ran an online survey asking 1,000 women about the nether regions. The ladies were aged from 20 to 69, so we have a range of generations here. The average age was 41.9 years so the majority were in their early thirties or forties -- the rather lovely jukujo (MILF) category.
As many of our readers will be aware, although the ladies of the adult industry are quite well trimmed, most ...
Our scrumptious specimen this week is the slinky gravure model Rei Toda (戸田れい).
Born in 1987, Rei is now approaching 30 and so likely to reach the end of her career, though she continues to release DVDs and even pop up in mainstream TV commercials sometimes.
Rei, we hope to see as much of you as we can! Keep on working even after you hit the bit ...
We always get super excited when Tenga releases a new sex toy.
It's just something about the way they market their products, making proper images to advertise them (a surprisingly rare thing in Japan!), making a special website, coming up with decent copy, and of course the products themselves looking always top notch. Though owned by SOD now, Tenga started off as a small independent adult brand that hit the big time with its Tenga Eggs, Onacup and then, even more so, the Tenga Flip Hole.
But this was a long time ago, relatively speaking. Lately the company has focussed on pushing ...
After having seen a Japan release back in February, people overseas are getting the chance now to see Girl's Blood (released in Japan as Aka x Pinku, or "Red vs. Pink") and it's making waves.
Starring Yuria Haga and Asami Tada, the film is basically a softcore lesbian porn film. Tada and Haga in particular have excited legions of men for their explicit girl-on-girl scene.
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto (known for his contributions to the Kamen Rider series), it also stars the lovely Ayame Misaki (whose scenes are not nude, unfortunately).
It literally starts with Yuria Haga butt naked, ...
Will this finally take the crown for AKB48 Fan of the Century?
As reported by our friends at JapanTrends.com, one admirer of Yuki Kashiwagi has succeeded in making a working android of her, the Yukirin Robot.
AKB48 fans aren't known for their subtlety or restraint. From purchasing up crazy amounts of CDs and merchandise to attacking the objects of their desire at handshaking events, AKB48 is a group that inspires all manner of extreme response from its fans.
But this is something we haven't personally seen before, though it is at least technically impressive.
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What to do about Japan? Its population is aging and its birth rate is falling. That's the double whammy and not a week goes by without some new farfetched plan being proposed by some idiotic politico.
Well, this one might just be the most outlandish one we've heard so far and the latest in a long, long line of gaffes by Japanese male politicians.
A member of the Shinshiro Municipal Assembly in Aichi Prefecture last month suggested a way to increase the Shinshiro City population. While nove, it is probably illegal and also just plain outright crazy.
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Japan's current cause célèbre has ended in a victory for art, personal liberty and eroticism with the release of self-proclaimed "vagina" artist vagina artist Rokudenashi-ko/Megumi Igarashi from police custody. She was arrested earlier this week for using Campfire to raise funds for a project involving making a 3D printing of her own genitals.
“I have always stuck to my artistic principles,” she said. She wants to to revolutionize Japanese society's taboos on depicting and talking about female genitals. Now she's famous for getting arrested, perhaps she has a better chance!
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We have no source for this other than Imgur (over 1 million views at time of writing!) and The Huffington Post, so it could be bogus, but we couldn't resisting re-blogging the exploits of this hapless "lonely Japanese guy" and his efforts to "construct" a girlfriend for himself.
While he could have gone down the now well-chronicled route of buying one of Japan's many amazing sex dolls, which come in all shapes and sizes, instead he decided to use some more shoddy materials and create a girlfriend out of his... shower.
Yes, his shower.
How?! Here is the transformation process.
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