Mariya Nagao is one of the few former AKB48 idols to maintain a successful career in modeling and gravure for the many years since her departure from the group.
Unlike the likes of Haruna Kojima (now also an entrepreneur) or Atsuko Maeda (a serious actor), however, she hasn't diversified per se, instead relying largely on photo books and shoots to earn a living (though she also does some acting and produces an idol group).
It helps that she has a slinky body and has regularly teased nude glimpses of it in her photo books over the years.
So far, she's limited the nudity to her butt and side ...
One of Tokyo Kinky's all-time favs, Kyoko Fukada, is to release her first photo book in five years.
Aging like a fine wine or whisky, Fukakyon has overcome some recent mental health issues and a brief career hiatus, and the as-yet-untitled photo book is sure to restore her status as Japan's most desirable unmarried woman.
Now aged 42, her beach body remains svelte and exuberant, and those breasts look as ripe and succulent as ever.
As an actor, her career has mainly focused on TV roles but she also appears in occasional films.
The photo book is shot by veteran ND Chow comes out on ...
The 40-year-old gravure idol Miri Hanai held a launch event for her latest photo book, the aptly titled Legendary, in Tokyo yesterday.
Released by major publisher Kodansha, Legendary is her first print photo book in about two decades, though she has continued to release digital books.
In 2023, we wrote about Hanai and her incredible 20-year career in gravure. We don't know what magic or dark arts she uses, but she still looks at busty and svelte as ever.
Fans will certainly be pleased with Legendary, which showcases the jukujo's charms and assets in swimsuits, lingerie, and nude. ...
The voice actress Saki Kosaka has made her swimwear gravure debut in an issue of Weekly Playboy that went on sale on Monday.
Known for voicing the role of Gold City in Uma Musume: Pretty Derby, Kosaka is also releasing her first gravure photo book, a digital release also published by Weekly Playboy.
Voice actresses are often popular idols in their own right and can have long and successful complementary careers in gravure. This might prove the case for Kosaka if her initial foray is well received.
Kosaka's age is not available publicly, though we assume from her career that began ...
Last week, we reported on the gravure side career of 31-year-old comedienne Angor Soncho. This weeks brings news that another female comedian is branching out into gravure.
Are we witnessing the birth of a new trend?
Kintalo. is a comedic tarento (general TV celebrity) and impressionist who is usually seen dressed up in silly makeup and pulling a wacky face. The 43-year-old married mother of two, whose real name is Shiho Tanaka, has decided to make an unexpected foray into gravure.
Even more unexpected is that it's not even her first try. She already did this 11 years ago, she says, ...
It takes either desperation or confidence to launch a gravure career as a step sideways from another existing career. (Normally, gravure idols try to do it the other way around: break into other types of work while starting out in gravure.)
This is a rare example of a comedienne branching out into modeling, especially gravure modeling.
Angora Soncho is one half of Nyanko Star, a moderately successful comedy duo active since 2017. She has now turned 31 and to mark the milestone, will release a photo book in July from major publisher Kodansha.
A graduate of Waseda, one the most ...
The gravure idol and businesswoman Saya Akane recently updated her social media to announce her marriage.
"I recently got married," wrote the 31-year-old on the platform note, and promised (unlike many other idols) not to stop working in entertainment even after her marriage.
Akane thanked her fans, saying, "It's been more than 10 years since I came to Tokyo. [...] The stages of life change little by little, but I hope to continue moving forward at my own pace."
However, it wasn't all felicitous tidings for the gradol. Akane also explained the reason for her lack of social media posts ...
The special menu they offer you at that bar in Shibuya or Shinjuku may well be too good to be true -- and it might well land the proprietor in trouble.
A bar in Shibuya offered a "VIP course" to customers who wanted to eat and drink while watching scantily clad female bar staff take a bath in a jacuzzi.
Shibuya Maison Sweet Dreams is run by a man called Wilbet Kerwin Carrasco Diaz, but the 40-year-old Peruvian has now been arrested by Tokyo Metropolitan Police for operating a business that violated the Entertainment and Amusement Business Law.
The VIP course at the Dogenzaka bar cost ...
Back in 2020, amidst the fug of the pandemic, we gleefully reported on the gravure comeback of Asami Kumakiri. The mature hottie was then a ripe 40 and posed for a nude shoot that showed off her slender, sexy figure. She has since released several digital photo books.
Well, Asami is now 44 and still going strong.
She just did her first shoot for gravure magazine Flash in 13 years, generating headlines in the media. She is shown covering her naked breasts with her hands, her body covered by white pearls. The issue even comes with a DVD featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the ...
Most careers in entertainment are all too short and many stutter and fade before they even really get going. That is true perhaps especially of gravure, an industry obsessed with the next idol, the latest body, the newest boobs.
But some women are an exception, like Yoko Kumada, whose gravure career has continued even as she has got older, had a family, and suffered a scandal (domestic violence) -- or perhaps, it's precisely because of this. Kumada is a lady with experience and who knows how to handle herself, a very attractive quality for a woman.
The 42-year-old divorcee and ...
