Singer-actress Mariya Nishiuchi poses for Weekly Playboy bikini cover shoot
December 1, 2021
/ Tadashi Anahori
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 ...
Highlights from music idol Meisa Nishimoto porn debut
October 1, 2021
/ Tadashi Anahori
We recently reported on the porn debut of name-changing idol Sarina Toyama, aka Sarina Haru, and now working in JAV as Meisa Nishimoto.
Apparently still an active member of the idol group Once a Chance (which just celebrated its first live music event), Nishimoto is also a porn star, a new career that she launched with a full-frontal nude photo shoot a few weeks ago.
Soon after, we got confirmation of her first release (STARSBD-462), which comes out via SOD Star later in October.
Now we finally have some proper preview pictures to share.
The release looks like a standard fuck-on-a-bed ...
Music idol Sarina Haru/Toyama launches gravure career with nude shoot
September 1, 2021
/ Tadashi Anahori
She goes by many names and her career just took a whole new turn.
Previous active since 2020 as a music idol in such groups as KissBee and Once a Chance under the names Sarina Toyama (外山さりな) and Sarina Haru (春さりな), she has switched to gravure -- and yet another name, Meisa Nishimoto (西元めいさ).
Not such a big surprise here: a large number of idols also pose for gravure shoots on a regular basis.
But for the Chiba native's shoot in the August 27 issue of the weekly magazine Friday, she posed for a great full-frontal nude shoot (hair nude). Now that's what we call ...
Another minor Japanese music idol makes her porn debut
December 1, 2020
/ Tadashi Anahori
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 ...
Nijiiro no Hiko Shojo music idol fired over her secret porn career
March 24, 2020
/ Tadashi Anahori
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. ...
Erika Ikuta goes semi-nude in smash-hit new photo book
January 25, 2019
/ Tadashi Anahori
Erika Ikuta of Nogizaka46 has a major hit on her hands with her latest photo book, which may more than just a little to do with the fact that she has posed semi-nude for it. After all, as Rena Kato amply demonstrated, raising the sexiness level for a photo book generally leads to buzz and sales.
Here are some of the delights waiting for readers on the pages of "Intermission."
The photo book was shot over seven days in New York last September.
Following a series of successful photo books by Nogizaka46 and Keyakizaka46 idols, not least Mai Shirase, but ...
Keyakizaka46’s Neru Nagahama poses semi-nude in new photo book
December 21, 2017
/ Tadashi Anahori
It's something of an open secret these days that all the commercial excitement comes from Nogizaka46, not AKB or its direct sister groups.
Photo books by the likes of Mai Shiraishi and Nanami Hashimoto have become runaway bestsellers, or photo shoots by Misa Eto have dazzled. Even more minor members such as Yumi Wakatsuki, Mai Shinuchi, Kazumi Takayama, and Miona Hori have established their reputations in recent times -- at least in our consciousness.
But let's not forget the official AKB48 sister groups. NMB48's Miru Shiroma, for example, is a true star on the rise.
And now the Nogizaka46 ...
Idol Kokoro Haruno moonlights as prostitute, agency fires her
September 28, 2012
/ Tadashi Anahori
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 ...