We love parody -- and so does both the Japanese adult toys industry and the porn industry.
But when does spoofing go too far?
The comedian/YouTuber Chikuwa, who has over 180,000 subscribers to her YouTube channel, was recently forced to apologize after she mocked the ex-porn star Kirara Asuka about having plastic surgery.
The controversy started on November 14, when Chikuwa posted a video in which she did an impression of Kirara Asuka. The former adult video idol, however, was less than amused, and tweeted that she was beginning legal action.
Chikuwa then responded with an apology video ...
Formerly known as Tenka Hashimoto (橋本甜歌), Tenchim (てんちむ) is a 27-year-old Chinese-Japanese tarento and model.
She has relaunched her career after more than a decade gracing people's TV screens and magazine pages -- and now she's raising things up a sexy notch (or several).
This has come about due to a scandal in 2020 with "bust-boosting" products she endorsed on her popular YouTube channel, which turned out to be fake -- since she had, in fact, has a boob job. She also admitted to taking marijuana on an overseas holiday.
With her income drying up, she started working last ...
What are the dark secrets of the entertainment industry in Japan? Here is our subjective list.
1: Sex
Despite the control exerted by talent agencies over idols' private lives (who they can and cannot date, or in the case of some groups, not letting them date or have sex at all), the truth is that there is plenty of sex happening -- it's just not all that pleasant or consensual.
Makura eigyo (sleeping with people to get ahead, like the casting couch) is rampant at many levels of the gravure and idol industry, with female models and entertainers frequently having sex with older male managers ...
We all know that Japanese girls have small busts. While, some say local breasts are getting larger, But for many guys that doesn't matter -- they prefer flat chests (hinnyu). (There are even bras that REDUCE bust so you can get that kawaii bust look.)
Japan's cute-but-hardly-there chests have previously inspired one female fashion designer to create a series of bras effective at making the most of a flat chest.
Well, what if you have that special date and want to make a good impression? Or just want to try out a large cup size?
Tokyo Isea Clinic offers Cinderella Breast ...
Korea's hottest female DJ (how many do you know?) has beguiled fans in Asia ever since a video of her DJing went viral earlier this year.
But now there's speculation that DJ Soda is one of the legions of Korean women whose beauty is not natural, but a result of the surgeons's knife.
We can't vouch for her DJ skills but DJ Soda certainly has a cute face and a might fine pair of legs. She works at top clubs and has posed for a sexy photo shoot for Maxim, not to mention tantalizing the world with her Instagram feed -- basically a stream of selfies in various states of ...
We all know that plastic surgery is a dirty secret in Japan and an open practice in Korea.
But what about China?
Well, here's a demonstration of the perils of tampering too much with with what nature gives you.
Fashion model Li Ying Zhi has had some work done on her face, especially her chin, as can be witnessed by comparing her appearance in 2012 with a recent one in 2014.
This is the stunner in 2012 at the Beijing Motor Show, promoting BMW.
But these days she looks rather different (admittedly the quality of the images is also somewhat to blame for the ...
Sometimes models and actresses get a little bit of help to look better and further their career.
But this is an extreme case.
Japanese porn star Rina Nanase/Rumi Kanda has been having a series of plastic surgery operations to her eyes, nose and chin because she believes having a very spade-like look makes her look cuter.
Similarly to how former curvy gravure idol Yuuri Morishita has turned her face into a weird shape, Rina/Rumi has also become not so much "glamorous" as emaciated.
The result? See for yourselves. She looks like an alien or even Dobby from Harry Potter.
She has also been ...
It's an open secret that many gravure idols and Japanese TV celebrities use plastic surgery to enhance their appearance.
While this is even more prevalent in Korea and relatively openly admitted to, it is still seen as a bit of a deception in Japan.
How do the girls get that innocent doll-like look? Often not just through their genes, it seems.
Only does the occasional lady break the silence and tell the truth.
One idol and actress attracting attention at the moment is cute Rika Adachi, who has a very lovely pert butt, not to mention a very "pure" face.
At a recent event Twitter users ...
The Japanese geinokai (entertainment industry) has several open secrets: that idols have to sleep with their handlers in order to get ahead, as revealed by former stars; that drugs are rampant; and that plastic surgery is also common.
It's rare for a model to break the conspiracy of silence about any of these. When Miss Japan model Biwon admitted that she had had some work done, there was much shock over the revelations.
Plastic surgery is notoriously widespread in Korea but, despite Japanese people's admiration for Korean women's beauty, the "fake" aspect of this is used to denigrate ...
Finally do we have proof that plastic surgery has gone too far in Korea?
Right now the Japanese internet is enjoying just such a gloat as they peruse the entries for Miss Korea.
Why? Because the ladies look so similar it is virtually impossible to tell them apart unless you look at the Hangul names.
It's no secret that plastic surgery is rampant in Korea -- as opposed to Japan, where it is common in the celebrity world but kept an open secret -- but does this mean that everyone starts to look the same, with the same kind of generic beauty?
The girls look lovely but ...
