People come to gravure from different paths. Not all gradols start off at teenagers fresh to the industry and willing to do anything.
Some dip their elegant toes into the waters of gravure when the fancy takes them, having already establishing themselves as entertainers, singers, or actors. (By contrast, some quickly build strong mainstream careers as actors and would like us to forget the bikini shoots they did when they were 18.)
The former figure skater Mai Asada (older sister of Mao Asada) is one such example of the former. After competing at the international level in the 2000s, she ...
We've said it before and we'll say it again: it's the older ladies who know how to sex things up.
The tarento and actress Chiharu Niiyama (新山千春) has released her first gravure shoots in -- yes, this is quite a gap -- 20 years!
Now aged 40, Niiyama last posed two decades ago. Last's do a before-and-after.
Here is what she looks like now, featured in a recent issue of weekly magazine FLASH.
And here is what she looked like 20 years ago, in 1998.
This is her again in the magazine FLASH but in May last year.
Now that she is firmly in the jukujo "mature" stage of ...
Earlier this year we wrote about the comeback photo book featuring 40-year-old model Asami Kumakiri (熊切あさ美).
Even after entering her fifth decade, the jukujo beauty still looks stunning with her sun-kissed, well-toned body, which she shows off in the modest yet sensual shoot. The appropriately named "Bare Self" is her first photo book in 16 years and has enjoyed good sales.
Now we have more images from that photo book to share as well as a semi-nude photo shoot from a weekly magazine that Asami Kumakiri did recently.
We've also included some images from a 2021 calendar that went ...
The actress Mao Miyaji is to release a new photo book, her first in 10 years.
Aisansan (roughly, Bright Encounter) comes out at the end of December, with preview shots already published in the weekly magazine Friday.
Now aged 36 and firmly entering jukujo (MILF) territory, Mao Miyaji is something of an industry veteran.
After a string of major roles on TV in the 2000s, her career has been quieter for several years. She married a man seven years her senior in 2017.
She has done semi-nude photo shoots before (like below), where she showed off her slender body and butt, though her ...
One of our favorite gravure idols, Yuka Someya, recently appeared in a stunning photo shoot that further cements her comeback on the scene ongoing since last year.
Since she has already done nude shoots -- albeit not actually showing pubic hair to qualify fully as "hair nude" -- what more can Yuka show us? Well, she can tease us, it seems, and do this very well.
For a shoot that ran in the weekly magazine Flash in the February 25th issue (sorry, folks, we're late with this one!), the busty 28-year-old was cast as a sexy housewife and covered her naked body in dripping chocolate.
Now that's ...
Late last year, 27-year-old gravure idol Yuka Someya posed for another nude shoot to cement her recent return to the world of gravure for the first time in two years.
The results, published in the weekly magazine Flash in December, are frankly as stunning as ever, showing off Yuka's curvy, busty body in an office lady outfit, lingerie, bondage restraints (she looks particularly fetching with a collar and leash), and her birthday suit (though, as before, unfortunately stopping short of full-frontal hair nude).
We have covered Yuka Someya's ...
The busty gravure idol (gradol) Aya Hazuki is making something of a comeback with her first solo photo book in nearly five years.
To cement its success (i.e., sales), she has stripped off and, while just about technically preserving her modesty in terms of visible nipples, is essentially nude.
In "Bonn," 28-year-old Aya is practically naked on the very cover, with just some yellow tape covering her tits. In the other preview shots, her amazing breasts are almost bursting out of her clothes or hands...
"Bonn" came out last week at a busy time for the market.
Miyako Sono has gone ...
The actress and model Moemi Katayama has made a gravure comeback with her first shoot for Weekly Playboy in two and a half years.
The 29-year-old appears in the current issue of the magazine. She keeps her clothes on, but barely, and the shoot shows off her alluring back, snug buttocks, and famously large bust. Oh, and that mole under her left eye is so damned hot...
Tall and slender, Katayama has concentrated on her acting in her recent years, including a role in the acclaimed film Shoplifters and doing a nude sex scene, though she found time earlier in 2019 to make another ...
Busty Japanese gradol Yuka Someya has made a gravure comeback with her first shoot in two years. Posing nude for two issues of Flash this month, the 27-year-old goddess has shown off her ravishing butt again as well as her famously immense breasts.
Given that she previously done a nude photo shoot before, this is not just a "new" thing for fans but it's still great to see the curvy lady back in action in the pages of the weeklies where she rightly belongs.
One of the shoots has a summery "ice cream" theme, while the other features a light dominatrix style.
She will ...
