While most recent news about Japanese porn has been dominated by the very welcome return of Asahi Mizuno, we wanted to highlight another example we found that shows how part of the industry operates.
Once again, a minor idol from a group relatively unknown in the mainstream has been persuaded to switch from music to porn.
In this case, it's 19-year-old Sayaka Takayama (高山さやか), formerly of Girl's Horizon (aka Garuhora), who has made her AV debut under the name Nana Yaotome (八乙女なな) mere weeks after leaving the group.
The 180-minute release (MIFD00140) comes ...
Our friends at Kanojo Toys, your one-stop store for all things adult about Japan, are having a Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale.
You can get 10% off any item you order (even if you order multiple times, which regular shoppers like us will appreciate). To claim your discount, use the code BF2020.
The sale covers every toy in store, from onaholes and masturbators old and new to sex dolls (silicone, blow-up, plush), vibrators, dildos, costumes, porn, dakimakura hug pillows (and covers), used panties, smell fetish sprays and lubes, and more. Kanojo Toys has a catalog with thousands and ...
Sumire Yokono of NMB48, the Osaka sister group of AKB48, is celebrating her nineteenth birthday with a braless photo shoot.
Yokono has a hot, slinky body that is sensual and leggy that belies her youth. But we've so far only seen her in lingerie or swimwear.
Now she's gone semi-nude for her first photo book, "Anata no yoko no" (literally, Next to You -- but also a play on her name, meaning "Your Yokono"), which was shot in the sunnier climes of Okinawa and comes out on December 16 in Japan -- shortly after Su-chan's nineteenth birthday (meaning she was a comely 18 when the photos were ...
When Ken Shimura passed away earlier this year from complications due to the coronavirus, many groped for ways to described the death of such a major figure in popular culture. "The Japanese Robin Williams" was about the best anyone could come up with.
Some platitudes aside, we also remember how risqué Shimura's comedy shows were.
Feminists are (rightly) shocked when they look at clips that are not from the distant past, but just a few years ago.
Nude or scantily clad women appear on the show for the sole purpose of gags.
We wanted to share one particular highlight from his show in which ...
One of the staples parts of being a gradol, or gravure idol, is posing for a photo session at Sofmap in Akihabara.
The women stand there, invariably scantily clad in a bikini while members of the media snap away. This is usually part of a press conference to promote some kind of release or appearance.
The photos are ubiquitous: a gradol posed against the squared advertising on the wall behind her.
Just occasionally does a photo session stand out.
In this case, gravure idol Rin Sakura (桜りん) was going through the standard motions of a session -- in this case, to promote a DVD, her ...
It has been a somewhat peculiar November in Tokyo.
The annual changing of the leaves has duly appeared, transforming the trees around the city and creating piles of crisp leaves to jump in.
It has also been unseasonably hot on some days, almost like an Indian summer.
And it has been windy, with blustery days sending the fallen leaves into swirls in the air.
All very Instagrammable, yes, but so what? Well, we spotted this unfortunate side effect of the windy days.
A TV presenter on Fuji TV's show Mezamashi TV was giving a live report on the weather when the wind blow hard against her. ...
Besides COVID and the change in prime minister, the biggest story of the year in Japan is probably the massive box office success of the anime version of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.
The popularity of the franchise has skyrocketed and, inevitably, we have got adult parodies, since parody is such a regular component of the porn and toy market here.
First there was an early porn parody starring Mitsuki Nagisa.
Now Tama Toys, the leaders in this kind of toy, have come along and conjured up a superbly made parody onahole.
The Kimetsu no Yaeba Fangs Onahole is playing on the popularity of ...
We have some sad news to report.
Normally the release of a new photo book by an idol would be a cause for celebration, but Mai Ishioka's (石岡真衣) upcoming "After the Rain" is apparently to be her last.
One of our long-time favorite gradols, Ishioka has announced that that she is "graduating" -- i.e., retiring from the industry.
This can be more one of several things: her career is stalling and so her agency is dropping her at the end of her contract; she is fed up with the industry and her career, and wants to do something else (or get married, which is hard to do while remaining a ...
The AKB network of idol supergroups faces a particular challenge in these COVID days of maintaining revenue when meet-and-greet and even concerts are not realistic.
The idols remain popular, of course, and field requests to appear in the weekly magazines or release photo books.
Mina Oba, for instance, recently appeared in a photo shoot for the weekly magazine Flash.
The lingerie shoot showed off the 28-year-old modest yet sensual bust. Thank you, Mina, for taking our minds off the emerging third wave of corona infections in Tokyo.
It's probably about time for Team K's ...
On November 12, idol Moga Mogami announced that she is pregnant on her personal blog.
This should not be surprising, given that she is now 31 -- an age when many women in Japan would be pleased to start a family.
But she's not married, nor was a marriage announced at the same time.
Unlike a large number of prominent celebrities in Japan, she is not planning to marry the father of the child. Such shotgun weddings (or dekichatta kekkon) are common here, since the need for contraception is frequently ignored, though also because it is sometimes the only way to force the all-powerful ...
