In an example of brilliantly timed PR, as the much-trumpeted AKB48 "general election" is having -- with Atsuko Maeda for the last time -- the women's fashion magazine Anan features a very sexy, semi-nude shoot with Yuko Oshima on its front cover this issue.
This got us thinking. Forget the gravure idol magazines and weekly mags like Playboy. The really sexy photo shoots with famous models are actually these mainstream women's fashion magazines!
Anan in particular has carved out a reputation for scoring deals with well-known stars to strip off in body-flaunting shoots.
Such ...
She might well have recently announced her departure from Japan's biggest girl band, but you can still keep a bit of Atsuko Maeda in your life.
In fact, you can get even more of the former AKB48 star than usual with this Acchan Kojiri masturbator, a realistic tight onahole which, very unofficially, models itself on Atsuko's (aka Acchan) cute small butt (kojiri).
Not only is this an onahole masturbator with a hole to pleasure yourself, there is also a pair of Acchan's sexy panties AND even lotion based on her own love juices.
This is of course not designated official ...
Shock news of the week! Atsuko Maeda (前田敦子), probably the most popular and famous member of AKB48, has suddenly announced she is quitting the idol super group!
At a concert on Sunday she made the surprise announcement to thousands of fans, while choking back tears and being comforted by the other girls. It is apparently an individual decision, made in consultation with AKB48 supremo Yasushi Akimoto.
Atsuko entered AKB in 2005 when she was just 14 and now she is heading towards adulthood -- or age 20 -- she said she had to make a new. No doubt she will head onto other and ...
Let the otakus start salivating now. AKB48 and their taskmasters have demonstrated that, yes, there are further depths to be plumbed with their new TV ad for Puccho candy.
The ads feature the ladies passing candy to each other from, yes, from each other's mouth! I can hardly type this I can so excited by the prospect of fake lesbian kissing from child-like idols. Or not, as the case may ...
This is a controversial topic among the TokyoKinky blogging team. Just are the minions of AKB48 (let alone their copycat groups) even good-looking?
Taro and I have been definitely in the "no" camp, while Megumi sat on the fence ("They are kinda ordinary, sometimes cute, but clearly would be terrible in bed), versus Kazuki in the "yes" camp.
But then we saw these very nice pictures of Haruna Kojima looking almost like an adult and, though flat-chested as hell despite the best efforts of a push-up bra, also quite attractive and sexy. We are not so naive as to discount the skills here of ...
Old Akimoto-san is determined to squeeze even more yen out of this "art" as he keeps calling it. The latest way to scheme poor otaku out of their cash is a propaganda film feature length documentary film on his creation, the pop idol group army AKB48.
Yasushi Akimoto always bangs on about the quality of the "content" that he makes in interviews, though that doesn't stop him choosing a very tantalizing poster for the movie -- a group of the ladies, looking very small and young, in tights, boots and short skirts! Yes, quality indeed.
We also love the title, with its wacky Japanese ...
Japan frequently -- hell, basically always -- pushed the boundaries and definitions of what is expected and accepted.
We think of AKB48 and we think of cubby otaku geek men who can't get a girlfriend, jacking off and then heading to the meet-and-greet scrums with the stars, the spunk still dripping from their hands. (Seriously, there are stories like this.)
Think again. AKB is also popular with cross-dressers! Yes, there are guys who find it erotic to dress up as one of the diminutive Akihabara idols and imitate their skimpy, sexy skirts and uniforms.
For precisely these chaps ...
Only yesterday we were lamenting the victory of K-Pop over Japanese rivals.
And now we see news that kind of confirms how stranger and strange local pop music is getting. As if the boy band Sexy Zone (comprised of kids only just into their teens) or the army of AKB48 (not as young as they look, but looks are everything), now comes a new group with a much-trumpeted average age of just 13.7.
Formed by an agency to appear in TV dramas and sing terrible songs, Her Best is made up of 14 girls. There were over ten thousand applications to audition, leading to the name Her Best (sounds ...
Take a beautiful Japanese female artist and it's always going to be a fun day out.
Then she starts to make a series of beguiling, sensual images of hot Japanese female models, actresses and celebrities for magazines, adverts and exhibitions, and you have a truly great combination, popular with men and women alike.
That's what Asami Kiyokawa does, working with the likes of AKB48's Atsuko Maeda and Yuko Oshima, and Yoko Maki, Masami Nagasawa and Asami Mizukawa.
A lot of CG work goes into the final images, transforming the beautiful women into peacocks, forest settings, or ...
Tokyo's AKB48 has already spawned NKE48 (Nagoya), NMB48 (Namba, Osaka), HKT48 (Hakata, or Fukuoka) and SDN48 (adult version)...Now comes JKT48 for, er, Jakarta!
JKT48 is a new overseas experiment from the makers of Japan's top idol groups. If it's a hit perhaps we'll see other bands forming in Singapore, Paris and elsewhere? I'm just surprised that they didn't try Seoul first, given the great similarities between Korea and Japan, but perhaps all the K-Pop gals were too scary to compete with!
To start with they have announced an open call for auditions in Indonesia, with results to ...
