Call us morbid, but we have a strange fascination with the afterlives of gravure idols.
This is a competitive, cruel industry, one where young women are discarded after two or three years. From gracing the covers of the weekly tabloids like Spa! and, if you're lucky, releasing digital or print photo books, you might descend quickly into obscurity when the editors and people behind the scenes decide to make someone else a star for another brief run.
Given the open secret of the casting couch, it is hardly a giant leap of logic to see why some, if not many, gradols go on to second (or, let's ...
We can't go to tumblr these days, after the platform banned nude images. Twitter can be a bit hit or miss.
So it's to Instagram that our wandering eyes stray, always on the look out for new beauties.
There is a lot of buzz right now about Mai Watanabe (わたなべ麻衣), who has gained a following on Instagram and has now made her most high-profile venture into gravure (promoting a digital photo book).
And what a shoot it is, getting progressively nude as it goes on and ending with Watanabe's wet and semi-nude body.
The Hiroshima-born 30-year-old ...
Occasionally we like to browse the busy ranks of gradols and showcase a lesser-known or newly emerging talent in the industry. It's not great for clicks but we feel like it's our duty.
Our choice today is Yu Yamamoto (山本ゆう), whose star is rising and we can identify at least two reasons for this.
Two large reasons. In fact, two H-cup-sized reasons.
Since 2019, she has released several image videos, with the latest coming out at the end of last month. We have including some screen grabs from this in the post. Be warned, though, that the pictures of the off-camera man's hands ...
It seems that during lockdown, even Japanese television producers are getting desperate for ideas.
The popular TV show Ariyoshi Hanseikai recently featured the gravure idol (gradol) Mai Arakawa (荒川真衣).
She appeared semi-nude for a sequence. Nothing new about this, which is often how gradols appear on TV in Japan.
Except that Mai Arakawa is known for her love of eating insects -- something she shares with the world in her YouTube videos -- and her penchant for all things creepy and crawly was showcased to a certain extent by having her pose with beetles on her buttocks and garter ...
Over the weekend here in Tokyo, temperatures climbed close to 30 degrees Celsius -- a reminder that summer is once again just around the corner and, hopefully, an end to this coronavirus pandemic.
Another, very welcome reminder came from the Instagram account of actress and model Kyoko Fukada, a long-time favorite of this blog, who posted a video of herself surfing and showing off her stunning, toned and tanned bikini body.
Sure, she is wearing bikini bottoms but they have cheekily slipped down to reveal a decent slice of her butt crack. We're not sure when the video was filmed but it was ...
We have long had a crush on Misumi Shiochi (塩地美澄), the curvy jukujo with a gently undulating gravure idol career that emerged from her TV announcer and presenting work (largely for a regional channel in the 2000s).
She only released her first photo book in 2016, when she was already in her thirties.
Now aged 37, the very comely Shiochi has posed for what is surely her sexiest photo shoot yet -- a series of semi-nude pics, released as a digital photo book, that show off her ravishing and alluring body. In Japanese cup sizes, she is apparently a G-cup but we are not wholly convinced. ...
Here at Tokyo Kinky, we consider it our sworn duty to introduce readers to gravure idols who are not only the famous and established names.
It's a busy and competitive industry, and many gradols can frankly slip between the gaps. Here today, gone tomorrow. Careers can burn out before they have even had a chance to glow.
That's why we sometimes turn the spotlight on newbies or more minor names in the industry.
Asako Tani (谷あさこ) is, at least for now, one such example.
Born in 1993 in Kanagawa, Tani is technically a TV announcer (presenter) rather than a fully fledged gradol, but she ...
One gravure idol is so proud of her buttocks that she used them as the "paper" for telling a kamishibai-style story.
Kamishibai (literally "paper plays") are old types of street theater storytelling with a narrator and illustrated boards. Though it is very rare to see it outdoors in Japan now, you can still find kamishibai events for children.
Maity is a G-cup idol who is ostensibly head of the "thong squad." She got a friend to draw illustrations on her butt cheeks.
The story seems to be able two friends who get separated.
Maity then shared the results with fans in a series of posts on ...
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 ...
From Rina Hirata to Karen Ishida and Angela Mei, it's no secret that we love a hot haafu.
Mixing Japanese with the blood of another ethnic group leads to some stunning results.
And here's yet more proof of that, if any were needed.
Pamela Asahi (朝比パメラ) is the latest biracial arrival on the gravure idol scene and she has already made a big impression.
With her pale skin and angelic looks, not to mention curvy butt and attractive bust (C cup), the native New Yorker has carved out a career so far mostly in regular modeling.
Born in 1991 to a Canadian father and Japanese mother, ...
