The former momograci music idol Momona Kozakura (小桜ももな) is making her porn debut as Haruka Tachibana (橘春花) in a new release from IDEAPOCKET's First Impression series of adult videos.
Releasing November 10, Old School Idol Who Dedicated Her Youth to Live Performances and Gravure Now Super-Nervously Makes Her Solo Debut in Porn is, as the title very clearly states, nominally about a 24-year-old's progression from music idol to adult performer after six years as a music idol. The idol is presented as a "pure" young lady whose hobbies are playing the piano, doing tea ceremony, ...
The former AKB48 idol Haruna Kojima has announced her marriage and the birth of her first child.
Still ravishing even in firmly in her jukujo period, the 38-year-old made the sudden announcement on social media today.
It seems the Saitama native -- known to fans as Kojiharu or Nyannyan -- kept her union and pregnancy secret, but there have long been rumors that she was living with an IT entrepreneur in a swanky Roppongi condo.
She did not give any details about her husband, though it is reasonable to assume it is the same man rumored to be her long-term partner since the late ...
Aera Digital recently featured an article by Kawori Inbe in which she interviews the actress, former gravure idol, painter, and erotic novelist Natsumi Tadano (只埜なつみ).
The 34-year-old has long black hair and alluring eyes that suggest the confidence of someone who has had a very varied career to date. Today, she mainly works as a painter, selling as many as 80 percent of her works when she holds solo exhibitions.
As the interview explains, she moved to Tokyo at the age of 18. "I'm originally from Kyoto. After graduating from high school, I moved to Tokyo, determined to become an ...
To remember the former porn star Tsubomi is to go back to what now seems like a veritable golden age of adult video, a more innocent time of JAV before the restrictive new legislation came in and the coercion scandals that have blackened the industry.
Tsubomi was a Lolita-style performer who made her debut in 2006 at the age of 18. She had already appeared in 1,000 releases by 2012.
We actually assumed she had retired in the 2010s, but it seems she did not officially leave the industry until late 2022, making her career one of the longest in recent memory.
Known as Tsubomin to her fans, ...
Regular readers will remember the cautionary tale of gravure idol Miyu Murashima, who was forced to apologize and put her burgeoning career on ice in mid-2024 after her affair with a married basketball player came to light.
She was effectively sacked by her agency and announced later in 2024 she would no longer do gravure, instead focusing on producing her own content on YouTube and TikTok.
The basketball player with whom she had an affair seemed to suffer no professional consequences.
Over two years on from the scandal, what is Murashima doing?
Now 27 years old, the former idol announced ...
What happens when porn stars retire? Most disappear into obscurity after a short career in a highly competitive industry, probably earning money by hostessing, compensated dating, and sex work. A small number are able to switch gears to an adjacent career, such as acting or modeling (such as Yua Mikami). And there are interesting examples of JAV stars who switch to a wholly different occupation, like Hiyori Yoshioka, who works at a sexual health clinic.
We have chronicled various examples of these post-idol careers over the years, and another interesting one recently came across our ...
Retired porn stars tend to disappear into the oblivion of regular employment after retirement, with only a few seeking out the limelight by launching other public-facing careers. But this is the first time that we have heard of a porn star switching gears into charity work.
Eimi Fukada was one of the biggest names in the Japanese adult video industry but she seemed to quietly retire last year. As far as we know, she didn't realize any new productions and, while we didn't seem a formal announcement, she is now described in the media as a "former" porn star (or, as the Japanese media always ...
What happens to those sexy, leggy race queens (grid girls) when their careers dry up? Well, in the case of Chisato Morishita, they might go into politics. A lucky few switch to grave. Others run bars.
And possibly get arrested for doing so.
Last week, people went crazy about the beautiful, chatty bar manager who was among five arrested in a police crackdown in Kabukicho, Akihabara, and Ikebukuro, and now some details and rumors about her background have emerged.
Tomoko Nagata is accused of operating Wisteria as an unlicensed girls bar in Kabukicho because her female staff were not just ...
The veteran gravure idol Ayana Nishinaga is to retire from the industry after an 18-year career that began at the age of 12.
She released her fiftieth DVD in 2025, appropriately titled Bye-bye!, and appears in the current issue of Weekly Playboy, which has released a digital photo book called The Last to accompany her final shoot, suggestively featuring the model in a wedding dress.
The 30-year-old from Okayama describes in her interview in the magazine how she hopes to get married in her early thirties and start a family.
The magazine shoot features Nishinaga enjoying a "bath" with her ...
Many gravure idols struggle to reinvent themselves when their modeling career starts to wan, but Rin Takahashi has demonstrated that you can do this with aplomb -- and completely transform your body at the same time!
The 35-year-old formerly curvy gradol has shifted careers by becoming a personal trainer, toning herself in the process into a muscular, athletic, and tanned beauty.
A recent before-and-after viral photo shared by Garen Takizawa really brings home the extent of her physical journey, which she herself announced at the start of 2026. She lost around 17 kilograms in two years by ...
