While most recent news about Japanese porn has been dominated by the very welcome return of Asahi Mizuno, we wanted to highlight another example we found that shows how part of the industry operates.
Once again, a minor idol from a group relatively unknown in the mainstream has been persuaded to switch from music to porn.
In this case, it's 19-year-old Sayaka Takayama (高山さやか), formerly of Girl's Horizon (aka Garuhora), who has made her AV debut under the name Nana Yaotome (八乙女なな) mere weeks after leaving the group.
The 180-minute release (MIFD00140) comes ...
Another mainstream idol group has had to jettison one of its members after she was found to be pursuing a secret porn career.
Nijiiro no Hiko Shojo (虹色の飛行少女) is a seven-member group active since 2018.
Kana Usami (宇佐美花菜), who played the idol "character" Hana Midorisawa in the group, was fired on February 27 and replaced. This is after it came to light that she had performed in a porn release. She made her AV debut under the name Azu Kusunoki (楠木あず) for Soft on Demand Star with a release on January 17 (1stars00176). The publicity claimed she was 20 years old. ...
It's one of the Japanese entertainment world's worst-kept secrets that minor music and gravure idols moonlight as prostitutes for various kinds of sex shops or services.
Sometimes this precedes their more mainstream bikini modeling careers; sometimes it comes after, when they get too "old" to attract offers of photo books and magazine shoots. And often it runs parallel and you get some very, very lucky customers indeed.
It has come to light that minor pop idol Kokoro Haruno has been one of the notorious moonlighters, the revelation of which possibly caused her agency to sack her and ...
