Halloween in Japan is much more than just trick or treating. It means dressing up skimpy costumes and cosplay outfits, and hanging out in places like Shibuya for hours on October 31st as well as the weekends leading up to Halloween.
The popularity of the movement has developed a lot in the past few years, with thousands now descending on Scramble Crossing every year.
This makes for a visual feast in terms of costumes, and the best ones often have little to do with a traditional Halloween as we know it in the United States, and more to do with Japanese pop culture, trends, in-jokes, and ...
Not content with having conquered the Japanese adult video scene, former SKE48 idol and now top porn star Yua Mikami (Momona Kito) decided to take over Halloween as well.
To celebrate October 31st, which is something of a crazy bonanza in Tokyo, Mikami dressed up in an original costume.
She could have gone for a sexy nurse or even a zombie, and still come out a winner. But she decided to head off into more novel territory with her choice of garb: she transformed herself into... a Starbucks Frappuccino.
Yes, as if she wasn't sweet enough, Mikami became one of the notorious ...
No one needs any convincing that Japanese schoolgirls are awesome, especially their uniforms. That's why there is such a mountain of toys, dolls, and costumes out there.
But what about schoolboys? No, we don't mean like that -- though there are some toys in that direction, such as the provocative Boy's Penis Smell Bottle. We'll leave the world of shotacon for another day.
The Gakuran Swimsuit Japanese Schoolboy Coat Design is a item of female swimwear brilliantly inspired by a classic part of the Japanese male school uniform.
The gakuran is a Prussian-style coat worn by many young ...
If the long-running and immensely popular Bandai and Peach John Sailor Moon lingerie was not sexy enough for you, take a gander at these new Street Fighter cosplay underwear costumes!
The limited-edition underwear is on sale from the online retailer SuperGroupies, which specializes in apparel with a gaming and anime theme, from August 28th. Don't get too excited just yet, though. It's reservations only for now: the lingerie isn't actually available until January next year! Reservations are taken up till September 18th and we predict this will immediately sell ...
Shocking. Fluorescent. Gaudy. Loud. Vular. Neon. Flashy. Tacky.
There's a lot of epithets that can be applied to this new cosplay style that is like body art on psychedelic drugs, though none of them quite capture it.
Inspired by strange characters from anime, cinema and video games, behold the new Japanese subculture of ishoku-hada.
Certain sections of the Interweb are currently abuzz with breathless talk of this bizarre body painting and cosplay niche, which literally means "unique skin" or "unusual skin".
Like an "alien" version of gyaru, ganguro or yamanba trends, women dress ...
We first encountered the gyaru ero-cosplayer and model non (also known as Nonsummerjack) when we visited Fetish Fes 2015. Frankly she was so hot (and scantily clad) that we basically creamed in our pants. She was lying on a bed, charging a few coins for the chance to take a few photos.
Since then we have occasionally followed her latest shoots and so on. All for purely professional reasons, of course!
We are late with this -- it was an entry in our ever-growing backlog of future blog posts -- but back in April she did something pretty cool with the lower half of her body. Wait, stop ...
If you want to perv over scantily clad girls posing for anyone to take their picture, then head to Akihabara at the weekends where the main strip, Chuo-dori, is pedestrianized. You should find plenty of cosplayers happy for you to snap away.
This has led to some issues in the past, though, when police and the local Chiyoda government have become alarmed that some ladies are effectively putting on mini stripteases for the benefits of the male audiences. Flasher idol Asuka Sawamoto even got arrested in 2008 for letting guys photograph her underwear.
Some say that the street massacre in ...
How to get girls to surround you? Simple. Wear a t-shirt saying you are a virgin and wander around the crazy street party that was Shibuya during the Halloween weekend.
That's what this guy did. The sophomore University of Tokyo student, Ryosuke Takano, is a self-professed virgin but he still wanted to join in the fun for the holiday.
He carried 120 handwritten cards around with his name, Twitter account and Line number, hoping to attract followers or groupies to his cause (presumably ending his virginity).
The gimmick worked a treat: he was soon surrounded by hordes of cute ladies ...
It's almost time for the first ever Tokyo Comic-Con, only there is a strange rule: men cannot dress as female characters.
The news has been blazing down the internet grapeview that Tokyo Comic Con in December at Makuhari Messe will be banning cross-dressing men from attending if they dare to arrive in costumes of female characters.
This is a move that would surely disappoint the likes of Ladybeard, Sailor Fuku Ojisan, and the legions of otoko no ko cross-dressing cosplayers out there.
Needless to say, the announcement has caused something of an uproar because so much of cosplay ...
Now that's what we call tentacle sex.
Some people really go that extra mile for their cosplay. Here is one example that's going to be hard to beat for a while.
Cosplayer Namada spent half a day with photographer Kazan Yamamoto and the results are incredible, not least because Namada is beautiful and she was posing with a friend. That friend being a 18kg (nearly 40 lb) live octopus from Hokkaido.
Regular readers to this blog will immediately spot that this is a reference to Hokusai's The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife, perhaps the most famous example of shunga ...
