The fashion model Angelica Michibata has rewarded very patient fans and admirers by showing off her nipples (and perhaps more) at long last.
Michibata will release a new photo book, "Angelica," on August 7 that promises to be fully nude and showcase her stunning body. The shoot was done in a Tokyo studio in early June just after the state of emergency was lifted. The photographer is Hajime Sawatari, a veteran of nude shoots, and the publisher is another big name -- Futabasha.
These are the initially announced preview images.
The news has been greeted with glee by the mainstream ...
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 ...
Japanese netizens: savvy, beady-eyed, industrious, curious, or just too much free time?
Pick your descriptor, but they all apply to some extent in the end.
The latest example of this was exposed, if you will pardon the expression, by a bikini photo shoot by NGT48's Ayuka Nakamura.
In the Australian shoot, the up-and-coming idol in the Niigata-based group is sitting down and turning to the camera. She is wearing an orange and white swimwear set that shows off her very slim body -- rather too slim for our liking, in case you wondered -- and graceful legs in profile.
But she forgot ...
A Japanese TV show recently showcased the curvy body of gravure idol and actress Oto Abe (安倍乙).
Nothing new about this, except it wasn't quite how you might think.
Similar to the strange show we blogged about a while back that demonstrated how unfit certain ex-AKB48 idols were, this program broadcast on the local Nagoya-based station Chukyo TV exposed the tummy fat that Otome Abe has been cultivating.
She openly shared the secrets of her body as well as the effects of doing a lack of exercise, such as constipation. We will never look at her gravure shoots the same way again!
Abe ...
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 ...
We were excited to blog in April about the then-upcoming release of a nude photo book by Asuka Fukuda, an ex-Morning Musume idol, that was the first such hair nude (full frontal) nudity by a member, current or former, of the famous group.
Now in her mid-thirties, Fukuda has matured into an alluring older woman (jukujo) who knows exactly what she is doing with her body.
Ahead of the hotly anticipated release of her photo book, "PASSIONABLE," on June 19 from Kodansha, more highlights from the shoot have appeared. Check out these images.
Fukuda once again shows us she knows exactly ...
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 ...
We like it when the legions of idols who pass through the ranks of AKB48 and its sister groups manage to find second careers after graduation. This is actually quite rare, though a lucky few do go on to work as actors, singers, models, tarento, or other types of entertainers.
Now Miyuki Watanabe, formerly of NMB48, has established herself as an underwear model by posing for Peach John.
The shoot has shown off a lot more of her cleavage than we have seen until now, and we like the results, even if Miyuki is far from what we might call busty.
The popular lingerie brand ...
The Japanese government's uninspired response to the coronavirus -- announcing, belatedly, a state of emergency, but carrying out few tests -- may well prove the end of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's long term.
One of the most maligned and mocked initiatives has been Abe's offer to send each household in the country two face masks.
This has been criticized as an "epic fail" due to the ineffectiveness of just two masks, delayed distribution, quality of the masks, and their cost.
But by far the most novel critique and, simultaneously, striking utilization of the masks has come from idol Amo ...
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 ...
