The emerging biracial gravure idol Tina Kitsune has already massively boosted her fame and profile since the start of the autumn.
Now she has resorted to a tried-and-tested tactic of bringing in a friend to give her helping hand. In this case, it's more than a friend: it's her sister.
Tina appears with her sister Kaia on the cover of a new issue of Young King, shot by veteran gravure cameraman Munetaka Tokuyama. The shoot is also available as a new digital photo book, because you can't have too much of a good thing.
Like Tina, Kaia Kitsune is a half-Australian, half-Japanese model and ...
The sisters Kei and Rei Jonishi have posed together for a sensual gravure photo shoot for Weekly Playboy featuring the two idols in alluring lingerie and swimwear.
Kei Jonishi is the older of the sisters, now 31 years and a member of Osaka music group NMB48 from 2010 to 2017. She has since done work as a model but has left a couple of agencies, and hasn't released a solo photo book (digital or print) for a few years.
Rei Jonishi is still just 24 years old and also a member of NMB48 since 2016. She released her most recent print photo book in March last year, and also features in the ...
Last year was full of gravure comebacks big and small. One of the more minor ones that nonetheless made us happy was Mayumi Yamanaka, now a mother of two and a mature, sensual 32.
In July 2025, she made a return to gravure after a few years away, appearing in a Weekly Playboy shoot and releasing a digital photo book. Mayumi has been in the industry for over two decades, having started as a junior idol when a teen. Her comeback proved once again that jukujo are the best.
She's also got a 30-year-old sister, Tomoe, who ostensibly retired in 2020.
That seems to have changed, though, since the ...
Two gravure gyaru. What more could you want?!
Yukipoyo has been joined by her younger sister in a gravure shoot for the first time.
The 20-year-old Yumichi poses with Yukipoyo for a shoot in the October 22 issue of Flash magazine.
Yukipoyo (full name Yuki Kimura) is 27 years old and, though now known more generally as a celebrity, got her start in the gyaru fashion magazine egg. She overcame a drug scandal to make a comeback a few years ago. Stripping off helped.
Yumichi (Yumi Kimura) is very much following in her older sister's footsteps. She made her debut this February as a model in ...
A Japanese TV show asked a man what he thought about gravure photo shoots. Nothing strange about this, perhaps, but the details are more unusual.
This man may look like a regular white-collar worker but his younger sisters are anything but: they are gravure idols and he was shown images from their provocative shoots.
The ladies in question are Tomoe Yamanaka (山中知恵) and Mayumi Yamanaka (山中真由美).
The brother laughs uncomfortably. "Yeah, I have mixed feelings about that."
To our shame, we did not know that Tomoe Yamanaka and Mayumi Yamanaka were sisters, though now ...
