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Nana Asakawa returns to gravure with nude shoot
Gravure idols famously come and go. Those who seemed at the top of their game with regular cover shoots in the weeklies might fall out of favor in a couple of months and be gone from our lives. The...
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Former child model Moeka Marui makes porn debut
If you follow the Japanese adult video newbies closely, you may have noticed the porn debut of Moeka Marui (円井萌華) back in May for SOD Create. Though her exact age is unknown, Marui was formerly a child...
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Gravure idol Momoka Ishida retires
We’ve bemoaned the crowded and competitive state of the gravure industry before. A gradol may grace the cover of Weekly Playboy or Young Jump one week and, just a few months later, be hung out to dry...
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Minami Fukuoka makes gravure comeback after huge live streaming success
Back in June 2021, we delighted in the gravure idol Minami Fukuoka’s shibari-inspired photo shoot. Things have been quiet for a while but Fukuoka has now made a return to gravure for the first time in...
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Gravure idol and professional caregiver Riko Suzuhara shows nipples in debut...
Riko Suzuhara (鈴原りこ) is a 30-year-old gravure idol who is also apparently a certified and practicing caregiver. She could use those nursing skills to intimate effect in the bedroom, no doubt. Just...
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Mariya Nagao’s nude trip to a Showa-era hot spring
Readers, we have failed you. After reporting on Mariya Nagao’s latest photo book in December 2021, we failed to follow up when it was released earlier this year. We should have, because it was actually...
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Kaoru Yasui cements porn stardom with first vibrator release
In recent weeks, we have been obsessing over the porn debut of music idol Rikako Inoue (now performing as Yotsuha Kominato). With all the new JAV releases each month, it can be easy to forget who was...
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Ex-porn star Nanami Kawakami announces marriage and pregnancy
The recently retired porn star Nanami Kawakami has announced her pregnancy and marriage. The 29-year-old shared the news with fans on August 1 via social media, though she says she actually married her...
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Busty idol Aoi Fujino releases debut photo book, goes nude
Curvy, busty gravure idols are nothing new. But it can still make you stop and sputter when you stumble over a provocative shoot. Take Aoi Fujino (藤乃あおい), whose bust is meant to measure a whole meter!...
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An interview with June Lovejoy, foreign performer in Japanese porn
Most of our readers will be regular Japanese adult video fans and perhaps serious connoisseur. No doubt they will already know of June Lovejoy, the American woman who frequently plays curvy English...
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Former porn star Anri Sakaguchi divorces transgender husband after two months...
When Anri Sakaguchi announced her marriage to a transgender man in June, it felt like just the latest chapter in the saga of a troubled celebrity, which had already encompassed arrests, a stint in...
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Weather presenter gravure shoot at 50 proves that older ladies have still got it
As we get older, we appreciate the charms and beauty of older women more. But it’s far from the case that we ignored jukujo during our own salad days. Far from it, we have long sung the praises of...
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Japanese porn star Eimi Fukada holds 24-hour free hugs event for fans
People like to bang on about the supposed Protestant work ethic, but one of the first things you notice about Japan when you visit or live here is how seriously locals take their jobs. They work (or...
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Hikaru Aoyama new photo book promises wet nudity
About two years ago, we published something about busty gravure idol Hikaru Aoyama’s semi-nude photo book debut, and it was an unexpectedly popular post. There has been a kind of subtle shift in the...
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Former patissier Riko Hoshino makes porn debut
New Japanese porn stars make their debuts on a weekly basis. Most come out of nowhere — at least, their names are not yet known — while others have some background in a related industry like gravure....
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Gravure idol Sayaka Nitori releases first photo book, shows off nipples
The slinky Sayaka Nitori is one of the most popular gravure idols of the moment and enjoys a following especially on social media (to the cool tune of a million followers on Instagram). In fact, she’s...
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Former AKB48 idol and porn star Risa Naruse (Haruna Aisaka) marries comedian
We have spilled much digital ink on this blog talking about what happens to idols from AKB48 and its sister groups, taking an interest (for obvious reasons) especially in the young ladies who go on to...
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Sumire Yokono bounces back from scandal with photo book, cover shoots, and...
Sumire Yokono suddenly left NMB48 in May 2021 — shortly after a report broke that went to a hotel with a male celebrity twice her age. Even more shockingly, she was also spotted on a date (six days...
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More highlights from Sayaka Nitori debut nude photo book
A few weeks ago, we posted a preview about the gravure idol Sayaka Nitori’s highly anticipated debut photo book. The semi-nude photo book shows off the model’s nipples for the first time, though...
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Newbie gravure idol Hana Takeuchi releases debut photo book
We’re rather belatedly catching up with some of the AV and gravure releases we missed last month. One was the first photo book released by the gravure idol Hana Takeuchi (竹内花). “Hana no Mitsu” (Flower...
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