April marks the start of the 2022 fiscal and academic years in Japan. It also brings with a major change for young people: the age of adulthood will come down from 20 to 18.
Eighteen- and 19-year-olds can already vote, so this change has already been in the works for a while. One of the major consequences of this is regards contracts (somewhat strangely, the age for smoking, drinking, and gambling -- all the good things about being an adult -- will remain 20). In the past, they needed parental consent to sign a commercial contract until they reached the age of majority.
Given that a lot of ...
Detectives Tokyo and Kinky are on the case -- the case of the gravure idol who disappeared immediately prior to her debut DVD release.
Toka Irino (入野十香) is a 19-year-old Japanese girl with an I-cup bust (and a face somewhat similar to Nana Komatsu's). She was set to release her first gravure image video this month, but all traces of her releases have now vanished online. Her upcoming DVD appears -- untitled and without a cover image -- with a "production canceled" notice on online shops or is no longer listed at all. Her official Twitter account, which she launched in November 2021 ...
She promised. She delivered. Now this is what we call a comeback -- and a way to celebrate entering your thirties in style.
As teased in January, veteran gravure idol Ai Shinozaki has returned to what she does best.
And now that her new photo book, "IDEA," is out in Japan from publisher Kodansha, we can share the highlights. Fans have been waiting over four years for a new Ai Shinozaki photo book. They won't be disappointed.
It features a milky-bath shoot that is about as nude as you can get without showing actual nudity. Ai-chan is famous for her huge bakunyu breasts -- hey, this is ...
Veteran gravure idol Tomomi Morisaki is now 29 and on the cusp of full jukujo-dom. Far from toning things down as she grows older, she's turning up the heat for her fans.
In mid-April, she will release a new photo book (her fourth) and it's set to be perhaps her most explicit yet.
As an advance preview, these initial pictures were published in Weekly Friday and, boy, do they whet our appetite for what's to come. Best of all, we finally get to see Tomomi's nipples on those amazing G-cup breasts, albeit through translucent clothing. Unless we missed a shoot, we think this is the first glimpse ...
The world of gravure is a ruthless one.
An gradol who graces the covers of Weekly Playboy or Friday one month, may be forgotten half a year later, and forced to turn to gimmicky stunts like a full-frontal nude shoot to get back in the game.
Who are we to complain? We love all the visuals.
Ai Shinozaki (篠崎愛) is one of those gravure idols who seems to have been around all the many years we have written this blog. That's essentially quite true -- she made her debut in 2006 as a junior idol.
With her cute, youthful, come-hither face and bouncy bust, she has a classic gradol body.
But ...
Gravure idol and actress Asuka Hanamura (華村あすか) has given her fans a real treat with a semi-nude photo shoot. Though she has done plenty of lingerie and bikini shoots over the past few years, this is her most explicit to date.
The 22-year-old is promoting her first photo book, which comes out from Shogakukan on January 31.
In the shoot, which is featured in the January 25 of Flash magazine, she covers her nude body with her arm in a version of the classic tebura (hand bra) pose and also shows off her naked back. In other shots, she is lying wet in water, though her nipples are ...
Happy New Year. We welcome in the Year of the Tiger by checking out a small sampling of the great tora-themed sexy cosplay posted on social media by Japanese cosplayers, gravure models, porn stars, and more.
We start with an obvious choice: Japan's top cosplayer, Enako, whose contribution looked both busty and cozy.
Former AKB48 idol and lingerie model Haruna Kojima, who seems to be visiting Paris at the moment, made do with a croissant pose and some cat cosplay (albeit it in colors/pattern that was more like a cow than a tiger).
Shibari model Cana achieved an intimacy and warmth with ...
The year is drawing to a close: another twelve months packed full of gravure shoots and photo books. But who did the most memorable nude shoot?
Sure, there were plenty of sexy and semi-nude shoots, but who made their nude debuts? Who looked best without their clothes on?
We look at the best nude shoots in 2021 from gravure idols, models, and other celebrities (not porn stars, since going nude is par for the course).
Former Morning Musume idol and singer Maki Goto make a high-profile comeback to live performance and also released a photo book, where she went nude again -- and proved how ...
It's that time of year: December and January are packed with hot women releasing photo books.
One such lady is Mariya Nagao (永尾まりや), the former AKB48 idol who is now a model and actor, and a long-time favorite of this blog. She's releasing her fourth photo book, "Yabai! Mariya." (very roughly, "OMG Mariya" or "Risky Mariya"), on January 20, 2022, and she was apparently the main person behind the concept and planning.
The photo book recreates a Showa-Japan look, from the 1960s cars and buildings to the clothes and hairstyles.
It was shot in the hot spring resort of Togura ...
The model, singer, and actress Mariya Nishiuchi has made a foray into gravure with a bikini cover shoot for the current issue of Weekly Playboy, which went on sale in Japan on Monday.
As the weather turns well and truly wintry here in Tokyo, it may seem a peculiar choice to have Mariya in a sexy bikini and emerging from the sea, her body dripping. (Where and when did they do the shoot? Given the travel restrictions, surely somewhere in Japan, but it's chilly even down south in Okinawa right now, so it must have been a few weeks ago.) Still, it's got us dreaming of summer -- not to mention ...
