We do love the gravure comeback. Sure, it's sometimes just a marketing gimmick, a manufactured framing of a return in order to generate headlines. Other times, a comeback genuinely raises a nostalgic smile as we remember when the idol (and we) were younger, and marvel at how good they still are.
Recently, comebacks have been popular, with top stars from the 2000s returning to gravure for an anniversary or career boost: Nozomi Sasaki, Megumi Kagurazaka, Erika Sawajiri, and Atsuko Maeda.
But most of these ladies are still in their forties or even late thirties. What about those stunners from ...
While Japanese porn stars are often described euphemistically in the mainstream media as "sexy actresses," major apparel brands think nothing of hiring adult video performers to front campaigns for them (though this is not without some controversy).
And so we have Minamo modeling for top lingerie brand Ravijour.
This is not a new campaign per se. The 25-year-old JAV superstar has been modeling for Ravijour since at least 2023, as we gleefully reported at the time.
Originally a gravure star who worked under the name Shizuku Taiyo, the mononymous stunner made her porn debut in 2021 and ...
The Japanese actor, fashion model, and gravure idol Akari Yoshida has made a comeback under a new name.
Now known as Akari Koda, she has done her first gravure shoot in about three years. The shoot appears in the current issue of Weekly Playboy.
"I had always wanted to do gravure modeling, but I was waiting for the right timing," Koda told the magazine. "I changed agencies and had decided to change my name, so I thought it would be great if more people could get to know a different side of me."
The shoot by veteran gravure photographer Chikashi Kasai puts lots of emphasis on her thighs ...
Former AKB48 idols have been in the news again recently, from the first generation of idols like Atsuko Maeda (releasing her first photok book in 14 years) and Haruna Kojima (still ravishing at 37) to more recent members of the supergroup like Megu Taniguchi.
The 27-year-old Taniguchi, known as Omegu to fans, is now promoting Ravijour lingerie as part of a new campaign for the brand announced this month.
She was a member of AKB48 from 2013 to 2024. Fans are celebrating how stunning she looks in the revealing Ravijour lingerie, which revels in her slinky body.
Doing a stint as a ...
The top Japanese porn star Minamo has appeared in an advertising campaign for leading Japanese lingerie brand Ravijour.
She is modeling various holidays-themed underwear items that are now available from Ravijour stores and online. She is also holding a promotional meet-and-greet event for the brand in Shinjuku in January, where you even get a signed Minamo-Ravijour mug.
We adore Minamo and she looks ravishing in the Ravijour lingerie, which comes in an erotic red. In keeping with the "holiday collection" theme, the lingerie is festively colored. A Christmas campaign for a ...
Yuki Kashiwagi, the AKB48 idol who inspired her own fan-made robot, is following in the footsteps of her ex-colleague Haruna Kojima and establishing herself as a lingerie model. Or at least, she's making her first major steps in that direction.
She is now the latest model for Japanese lingerie brand Ravijour (the rival of Peach John, which was paying for Kojiharu's services until recently), having been announced as an ambassador back in the spring.
In fact, though, Yuki Kashiwagi is apparently doing more than just stepping in front of the camera with barely any clothes on. If you believe ...
I think we have our new favorite lady in the entire world! Or at least, for the time being.
Sonoya Mizuno is a haafu model and actress. A rare example of a British-Japanese, she is frankly stunning.
She is one of several naked female bodies on display in the hit sci-fi film Ex Machina.
In one scene from the movie she shows off her slinky naked body with full-frontal nudity. Unfortunately, things then get a bit weird because Mizuno is playing a female android (gynoid).
She was born in Japan in 1988 but grew in England. First a ballet dancer, she moved into ...
We love to follow the developments of Japanese lingerie brands as ersatz soft-core porn.
The best are Ravijour and Peach John.
After all, no lingerie brand that invents something that stops men from unhooking a bra if they are not the right guy for you has got to have a nice sense of humor.
But we are sad to see that Ravijour has moved away from Japanese models!
In the past, our jaws have dropped at the hot ladies modeling their latest lingerie, including Elli Rose, Mai Miyagi and Azusa Koizumi.
But whereas Ravijour rival Peach John continues to be very "Japanese" in its ...
We've said it before and we'll say it again. Move over, Gravure idols. Move over, music idols like AKB48.
The sexiest and sexiest-dressed ladies we encounter in daily life are the tantalizing posters we see on the Japanese lingerie shops.
In particular, Peach John and Ravijour, kind of the Victoria's Secret of Japan, never fail to make our jaws drop.
Now Ravijour has launched its 2015 spring collection and the results are eye-watering, as always...
As always, models include the ravishing haafu Elli Rose, and Mai Miyagi and Azusa ...
Japanese sexy lingerie brand Ravijour has held its first solo strip show -- sorry, we mean fashion show. To look at the pictures, it's an easy mistake to make!
Models include Elli Rose, Mayuko Arisue and Natsumi Yoshida strutted their stuff on October 8th and showed off their slinky bodies in Roppongi to celebrate 10 years of one of Japan's two main drop-dead-hot lingerie lines (the other is Peach John).
I know we write about Japanese lingerie like Ravijour perhaps a bit too much on this blog, despite it being a bit too ordinary to qualify for "kinky". It's just ...
