How old is too old? When you're an "idol," especially in the music industry, the expectation is that you must be young -- mid-twenties at most.
In a sign that makes us feel, well, old, the early members of AKB48 are now pushing three-oh, if not beyond, but are still determined to milk their fandom.
Today marks Yuki Kashiwagi's thirtieth birthday and has released a photo book, "Experience," to celebrate. It's her first photo book in nine years.
But she's no longer the sweet and innocent young girl of those previous releases; she's now an experienced woman with a body that she wants to show ...
The 22-year-old Ryoka Oshima (大島涼花) has put her past in the idol group AKB48 firmly behind her and made a bold foray into TV drama acting.
In the new erotic anthology series The Night I Became a Beast, broadcast on online streaming channel Abema Premium (formerly AbemaTV), Oshima plays a lead role in the first episode.
She is shown masturbating in a toilet and also in various love scenes where she is ostensibly naked with a co-star, Reiya Masaki, in the bath or in bed. Though seen in close-up riding him cowgirl at one point, the episode seems to feature no actual ...
She promised. She delivered.
Formerly of AKB48, Yuka Masuda left the group in 2012 over a sex scandal. She then tried to make a gravure comeback with limited impact but has continued to work as an actor and a singer.
This time, she has definitely made a lasting impression.
In the second episode of the new season of Netflix drama The Naked Director, which explores the Japanese porn industry in the 1980s through the story of legendary producer Toru Muranishi, 29-year-old Masuda does some great sex scenes with nudity. (If you're pressed for time, skip to the 8-minute and 20-minute marks of ...
We were already excited about the upcoming second season of the Netflix Japanese drama The Naked Director because of the pedigree of the first season, which lived up to its promise of the porn industry premise and then some with awesome nudity and sex scenes galore.
Then came news that the singer Mariya Nishiuchi had been cast as a porn star, offering the tantalizing prospect that she would make her nude debut in the series, which deals with the career of legendary adult video director and producer Toru Muranishi.
Now comes a trailer and we are delighted to see former AKB48 idol Yuka Masuda ...
What ever happened to those original major AKB48 stars after they left the group and got older?
Most have disappeared from the limelight. Some have got married and started families. A select few like Atsuko Maeda and Yuko Oshima have switched into "serious" acting.
For Yuki Kashiwagi, there are still offers for major gravure shoots. She recently graced that cover of Young Jump and a generous 12-page spread inside.
This is impressive considering she is about to turn 30, which basically places her in jukujo MILF territory by the dubious standards of the gravure industry. Most of her peers ...
Airi Rissen (立仙愛理) might well be one of the lesser-known idols in the AKB48 ranks, but that may change soon.
The 21-year-old from AKB48 Team 8 and Kochi Prefecture representative was doing a live broadcast online while dressed in a sailor school uniform. That alone would probably send fans into raptures, but then she decided to stand up.
Since she was wearing a skirt, fans were treated to a glimpse of the holy grail: her white panties.
Oh, panchira. The treasured upskirt view of a woman's panties. As sought-after as the "real thing" (i.e., what's underneath those panties) by some. ...
Former AKB48 idol Mariya Suzuki (鈴木まりや) has stripped off for a semi-nude photo book.
The 29-year-old joined AKB48 in 2009 and transferred to Shanghai-based sister group SNH48 in 2012. She graduated in June 2017. She has since worked as an actress and maintained a following tens of thousands-strong on social media.
"Merenda" (presumably derived from the Italian word meaning "nuncheon") is her debut photo book and is released on Monday. To promote it, Suzuki is appearing in gravure shoots in Flash, Entame, and Asagei Secret magazines. The project represents her first attempt at a ...
In a recent photo shoot, Yuki Kashiwagi (Yukirin) has seemingly revealed to her many admirers that she goes paipan downstairs.
The 29-year-old veteran member of AKB48 would seem to be hairless between her legs, either through shaving or waxing.
The photo in question is from the cover of a recent issue of weekly magazine Young Jump, released in Japan on September 10. What a wonder the zoom function is! What treasures it reveals!
In a ten-page cover shoot for the weekly Flash out this week, Kashiwagi looks back on her career in the supergroup.
This month, Yukirin also appears in a ...
The former AKB48 idol Kira Takahashi (高橋希来) has stripped naked for her first photo book, Twinkle, which comes out locally on September 10. That said, it is not, strictly speaking, a nude photo book, since the naked Takahashi still just about manages to protect her modesty.
She is wearing panties and her breasts are tucked up, squeezed yet hidden by her knees. We get plenty of side book, though.
It's now September and, while humid, Tokyo is arriving at typhoon season. Nonetheless, the photo book brings a splash of late summer, complete with shots of the 19-year-old poolside in wet ...
So far, the highest-profile victim of COVID-19 in Japan has been the comedian Ken Shimura.
His death happened fairly early in the pandemic in Japan and since then infection numbers have risen quite a lot as the second wave hits, though deaths have not climbed to a scary rate (yet - touch wood).
As entertainers are continuing to work, filming things and so on, and coming into contact with a lot of people in the process, coronavirus infections are also disproportionately affecting the industry.
In recent days, several high-profile cases have appeared.
In early August, the busty gravure idol ...
