After doing a “hair nude” full-frontal shoot last year, we wondered where the gravure idol and actress Bambi Watanabe would go next.

It seems she went to TV Tokyo and for a visually tame but nonetheless sensual sex scene in a late-night drama series.

In episode two of Kabukicho Bengonin Rinka (Kabukicho Attorney Rinka), which is about a female lawyer working among hostesses, Bambi is show stripping off in a love hotel room to reveal her largest chest, albeit hidden within a bra or under her arms. An old dude looks on with obvious interest. He then has sex with her, even though she is clearly not enjoying it.

This being mainstream Japanese TV, Bambi even covers her chest while someone is having sex with her.

Still, if you want to see what she looks like nude, you know where to go.

The same drama, which is based on a manga, has also featured semi-nude scenes with the smolderingly hot actress Aki Asakura in the lead role as well as the famously busty gravure idol Arisa Deguchi. Sorry, folks, this is about as risqué as regular Japanese TV drama gets. For anything better, we have to go to streaming channels.

The cast also includes favorites Mami Yamasaki and Mari Yamachi.

As we prepare for the extended Golden Week holiday in Japan from this weekend, we’re naturally looking around for adult video content to keep us entertained.

We spotted a porn debutant who really should be on everyone’s to-watch list.

Rena Kuroi (くろいれな) released her first AV from Kuki on April 2nd. “Hatsuhana” (ADZ327) is meant to be one of just two AVs that the 22-year-old Rena will make.

According to her official profile, she lives in Kamakura and is an “Earthling,” which is reassuring (though alien sex is a whole other subgenre of JAV). Her second (and potentially final) AV will come out on May 1st, the first day of the new Reiwa era, and will be a “gokkun” cum-swallowing fetish special.

Let’s hope she doesn’t stop there but continues to carve out a career in AV throughout the upcoming Reiwa period. Come up, producers, get those contracts ready for Rena to sign!

To be honest, when we first spotted her we got our hopes up. Is this stunner none other than gravure idol Ren Ishikawa? Though she does look a bit like her, it is apparently just a resemblance and Rena Kuroi is not Ren going under a new professional name. More’s the pity.

We stumbled upon this great Twitter feed detailing a report by Shinbunka, the publishing industry trade journal in Japan, about the decline of the much-loved porn magazine vending machine. It also cites from an interview with the photographer Tetsuya Kurosawa, who has documented the vending machines (visiting some 500 locations along the way!).

It’s true, we haven’t seen one for many a moon. Here’s why.

At the peak of the adult vending machine boom, there were some 50,000 machines nationwide in the 1970s. That lofty number has been reduced to a mere fraction now.

What are left are often contained in shed-like structures in the countryside. One up side of the vending machines remaining almost entirely only in rural areas is that they can exist beyond the long arm of the law to some extent. And so you will find black market (like uncensored) porn on sale at such vending machines, which you certainly can’t get from DMM.

Revised Fuheiho legislation in 1985 cracked down on peep shows but also led to a crackdown on vending machines. Once common even in residential areas, it all started to change from around this period, though selling videotapes ensured sales remain strong as the AV industry began to enjoy the fruits of this new technology (even as, paradoxically, it contributed to decline in other aspects of the adult industry — pink films and specialist porn movie theaters).

A further boost was provided by the arrival of DVDs, which could likewise be easily sold from vending machines.

But all these were blips along a declining curve as consumer tastes and choices inevitably evolved.

The ones that are lingering on often exist, it seems, in administrative gray zones near municipal borders. You can also find a healthy proportion of jukujo mature women fetish content among their wares, catering to the preferences of the generally older rural population.

Something the thread (and presumably, its sources) does not explicitly mention is the spread of convenience stores in Japan in the 1990s, which mades porn magazines and other adult content widely available, as well as the growth of video rental chains like Tsutaya, whose outlets usually have an adult section. All this had an impact on specialist stores and services.

Finally, the Internet has also made viewing and buying adult material only a click away, and even more discreet. It’s not hard to see why the vending machines are dying out. Since older consumers in the countryside may not shop online as much, it means there are still people who need such mini porn havens inside roadside sheds.

But as rural populations further decline, whither the humble porn mag vending machine?

And will we see something happen with convenience stores happy to offer porn? After all, the pre-2020 Olympics crackdown has already started…

The Japanese adult industry loves to be topical, hence the large number of up-to-date parodies you can see in both porn and toys.

That being said, we haven’t so far seen anything notable about the imminent end of the Heisei period and the start of the Reiwa era on May 1st. Perhaps we just haven’t looked hard enough. Please share in the comments any ones you have spotted.

Either way, we did find this great (and useful) example: the Heisei and Reiwa Lubricants.

As the name suggests, these recently released lubes from top adult manufacturer SSI are inspired by the two Japanese era names. Reading between the lines, the lubes are effectively the same but they come in a choice of two commemorative labels to mark the change in imperial period.

For use with adult toys like onahole and masturbators, or with a partner or just yourself, this lube lets you take it slow and gentle, perhaps while you wax nostalgic about the zeitgeist. The Heisei lube features a glittery gold label and the Reiwai a silver backdrop. Both have quintessentially Japanese artwork. Choose which of the two eras you want, or the timeless option of getting both!

The Heisei and Reiwa Lubricants are available now from Kanojo Toys, your best one-stop store for all things adult about Japan ever since the Heisei period and continuing through into Reiwa for many, many years to come!

Today is the final day of Heisei. As the emperor abdicates this afternoon, we are remembering the past three decades and all those lovely ladies that have passed through our lives (in actuality or through the lens of gravure and adult video).

We should put together a proper “adult Heisei” post soon but it might be too mammoth an undertaking. In the meantime, we are recalling recent good times and looking forward to the future with these two ladies.

The dancer and model Karen Kimijima has made a comeback since her drug arrest in early 2018, which is a very fine thing because she has frankly the best ass that Heisei Japan has to offer.

And now she is locked in a lesbian embrace with Lisa M, who seems to be an interracial and intercultural (Japanese, Korea, American?) nude model. In a series of alluring images generously posted to their respective Instagram pages a few days ago, the two ladies slide their alluring naked bodies on top of each like the most delicious meal to be served in this corner of East Asia.

Presumably this was done for commercial appearances and will pop up in some magazine or online media at some point. Or it could be simply the kind of lark these ladies pull with their (lucky) photographer chums just for the fun of it. In which case, it’s even more awesome.

Lisa M is the current belle of our lives, and we find ourselves frequently checking out her Instagram for her latest sexy shots. Four prime examples are below.

Thank you, Heisei, for this last one last triumph!

It’s May 1st, the inaugural day of the new Reiwa era. And what better time to take a gander at some old porn from this cache of images recently shared online?

Strictly speaking, we reckon these adult magazines come from the Showa period, which ended in 1989, rather than the past three decades of Heisei, but there might be some overlap. Online searches seem to reveal nothing, so they are probably quite obscure.

We just love the titles: from “Visual Communication Magazine for Young Adalt” (sic) and “Fucky-up” (sic) to “Rape me” and “Sexual Les Girls.” The shoots themselves range from the tender to the down-right crazy (is that a man in a kind of monster mask have sex with one woman?) and lesbian.

Though we sadly can’t identify any of the specific models in the shoots, they are pretty explicit and show full-frontal nudity, even while respecting the Japanese custom of censoring the actual genitalia. Plenty of bush still on display.

The Reiwa era has got off to a bang in some ways. For starters, the popular gravure idol and actress Mai Hakase announced her marriage.

The documents were submitted to a ward office in Tokyo on May 1st, the inaugural day of the new Reiwa era.

They have been dating for just ten months, which will surely lead to speculation that 32-year-old Mai is pregnant, though nothing of the sort has been announced.

The man is apparently a doctor and three years older than the G-cup goddess.

Congratulations, Mai, though we can’t help but feel sad that someone got to you before us!

Continuing this trend, former AKB48 member Minami Takahashi also announced that she got married on the first day of Reiwa.

This was not a wholly unexpected development, considering the now 28-year-old was spotted with a boyfriend almost as soon as she graduated from AKB48 in 2016.

Girlfriend and boyfriend “rental” services are one of those “wacky Japan” narrative favorites, though they do actually exist. They are also not as crazy or sleazy as they might sound — after all, if you want someone to date and then sleep with, there are countless prostitution services or “compensated dating” clubs out there.

So what’s different about this kind of rental service? What do you get for your money?

Asian Boss, the awesome YouTube channel behind interviews with porn stars Emiri Okazaki and Taka Kato, tried out one service to demonstrate what it is like.

Host (and handsome haafu) Max takes “Shihomi” on a date in Tokyo one rainy day.

Shihomi is actually a model whose real name is Minami Aoyama. She has a minor following on Instagram.

Either way, for the duration of the “date,” Max and Minami call each other Bae and Shiho-chan. Things start off a bit awkwardly, not least because of the umbrellas, but then they start to relax and enjoy themselves.

Minami/Shihomi can speak some English and, with a little help from her phone, is able to communicate with Max, though her choice of fish semen as a dish for lunch threatens to derail the date at one point.

During their meal in a Shibuya cafe they talk in detail about how the girlfriend rental system works and the rules, so there are lots of insights here. Sorry to disappoint any cynical readers but there is no happy ending to finish off the date.

By way of comparison, Asian Boss also rented a girlfriend through a similar service in China last year.

Aya Omasa and Mariko Shinoda are shown smooching in the recently broadcast third episode of the NHK television drama series Mistresses.

The lingering lesbian kiss scene apparently lasted 40 seconds. Fans were on hand to count them all. Mariko seduces Aya by stroking her face and going in for the kiss. Aya then reciprocates passionately.

It’s pure bliss to watch.

The series (a remake of a British show from the late 2000s) also stars hot jukujo actresses Kyoko Hasegawa and Miki Mizuno as well as Hyunri and gravure model Miwako Kakei.

Fans of Aya Omasa are surely already tuning in to (be turned on by) the adultery-themed drama, which previously featured the buxom 28-year-old lounging around on bed in her panties… before her impatient male lover asks for her attention.

Mariko Shinoda has struggled to establish herself after leaving AKB48, despite being one of the top idols at the time. This is certainly one way to relaunch a career! Hey, it worked wonders for the likes of Anna Friel back in the 1990s.

Ero-manga (erotic manga comics) is associated with sex, of course, but not just any old sex. Great sex. Strange sex. Fetishes. And, let’s be frank, non-consensual sex.

But is that reputation justified? How much sex in ero-manga is actually non-consensual?

At the recent Niconico Chokaigi event, statistician Midori Makita presented a list of different ero-manga magazines along with the results of a survey examining what percentage of the sex they portray is non-consensual or consensual.

Here is the breakdown (first percentage is non-consensual; second is consensual):

Angel Club: 76/24
Comic KURiBERON: 50/38
Magazine Siberia: 44/56
Comic Yumutensei: 31/69
Comic Taka: 21/79
Men’s Gold: 21/79
Comic X-Eros: 17/83
Comic Anthurium: 17/83
Comic Aun: 13/81
Comic Europa: 11/89
Web Manga Bangaichi: 10/90
Comic ExE: 10/86
Comic Kairakuten: 10/86
Penguin Club: 8/83
Action Pizatsu: 8/92
Comic Naman: 6/94
Comic Lo: 5/90
Comic Bavel: 5/95
Magnum X: 0/100
Total: 19/79

So, in fact, consensual sex greatly outnumbers depictions of sexual intercourse as rape.

However, we are not sure what criteria was used to determine if sex was consensual or not. A lot of adult video porn and softcore porn (pink film included) features sex that sounds or looks, to many Westerner’s perspectives at least, like rape.

Needless to say, the choice of magazines is also relatively mainstream. The percentages would surely shift when taking less mainstream and famous titles into consideration.

There was quite a lot of stir about the Japanese teen drama River’s Edge when it came out in local movie theaters early 2018 because it featured the first nude sex scenes with popular actress Fumi Nikaido.

The nudity showed off Fumi’s butt and breasts in a bed scene.

We already showcased the merits of that nudity. There is actually another sex scene — outside this time — and you get to see Fumi’s breasts again.

However, the really good sex scenes are courtesy of lesser-known actress Shiori Doi, who plays the friend with whom Fumi’s character’s lover is cheating in — mainly because she is willing to do things in bed that Fumi won’t. Fair enough.

There are three hot scenes.

Born in 1992, Shiori Doi is shown getting licked out in the 69 position and then screwed from behind while she wears a blindfold and the lucky guys gets to hold her breasts.

Another scene shows her giving a guy a blow job and then sliding off her clothes to reveal her bare butt. The guy then screws her from behind, because frankly it would be rude not to.

The third and final scene is the most explicit. Shiori Doi is seen riding a man on a bed in a theme room in a love hotel. You get to see her fully nude as she rides cowgirl and then close-ups of the guy kissing her breasts while she sits in his lap.

Perhaps it’s not surprising that they didn’t ask the main star to do these sex scenes, even if male fans were disappointed.

Tenga’s “Transparent Tenga Sleeping Bags” and gave them away in a competition in April.

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Back in the 2000s, when we first start doing this blog, one of our favorite gravure idols was Chisato Morishita.

Now 37 and officially retired from gravure, the ravishing Chisato has nonetheless been tempted back to glamor modeling for a new photo shoot.

It’s her first gravure shoot in ten years and it’s a triumphant homecoming for the lady who has now gloriously entered jukujo territory. It was recently showcased on Japanese TV.

Chisato was a race queen and then a gradol, before moving into mainstream television presenting and some acting. Her career has dried up a little of late. She did, however, write a novel. These days she seems to focus on working as a Pilates and golf trainer. Perhaps that explains why she looks in such great shape.

The shoot was apparently done specifically for the TV show on NTV. The media reports suggest this is a one-off and not a full return to gravure, but perhaps the buzz might mean the shoot will appear in a weekly tabloid or even as a photo book.

Regardless, we think Chisato looks better than ever and we hope that she uses this as a launchpad to drop the Pilates and make a full comeback.

Another Bakusute Sotokanda Icchome idol has made her adult video debut.

Continuing a trend that has included countless former AKB group idols and Bakusute Sotokanda Icchome ladies like Nana Nanase and Yu Ito, Rina Iijima (飯島里奈) will release her first AV as a digital download from May 25th and then as a physical release on June 1st.

The former fourth-generation Bakusute Sotokanda Icchome member Iijima has now become Yui Nagase (永瀬ゆい) for the 150-minute Yui Nagase, the 149-cm Cute Girl Who Came from Sotokanda — Fuck Stage (MIFD00070) from Moodyz. The title echoes the debut of Nana Nanase, whose name ironically sounds a little like Yui Nagase’s, though Nana’s porn performer moniker is actually Honoka Kinami. It is also a reference to the idol group, which is often shorted to Bakusute (Back Stage).

According to the publicity, Yui Iijima/Yui Nanase — who was also a member of the AKIHABARA Backstage pass cafe in 2013 — is a cute, 149-cm, 19-year-old young lady with tiny breasts. Since this is Japan, where hinnyu is seen as a selling point!

In her porn debut, Yui/Rina wears an appropriately AKB-style uniform and gets manhandled by two lucky guys.

Somewhat confusingly and despite the Moodyz marketing, Yui/Rina actually already made her industry debut with a one-off release (MMND00168) for Miman that came out on April 27th.

Do we have another gravure star here?

Netizens are currently buzzing about the gravure debut of Asami Ota (太田 麻美). Born in 1990, Asami has got people all excited not for the usual gravure reasons: big breasts, curvy body, and a cute face. No, she’s got absolutely amazing legs and is really determined to show them off.

The slinky Asami is a race queen who won a prize at the recent Japan Race Queen Award in 2018. The prize was sponsored by Weekly Playboy, who then featured Asami in an issue in April. For which, history is forever grateful!

While motor show fans have already had the chance to ogle Asami in skimpy clothes, let’s hope she gets offers to continue doing gravure shoots so that everyone can enjoy her stunning assets.

Cosplayers surely know what they are doing when they wear short skirts and let fans surround them at events.

They know that those lens are pointed in a certain direction and will inevitably capture a certain thing. And so naturally they prepare their nether regions for that express purpose.

If you have ever wondered what kind of shots fans really want to get, it’s something like this.

Gorgeous cosplayer Yutori definitely got her you-know-what into the right paipan fully-shaved state in readiness for those copious amounts of panchira upskirt shots.

Close-ups reveal that she did a mighty fine job down there.

The famed Tobita Shinchi red light district in Osaka will close down during the upcoming Group of 20 summit in late June, according to media reports

Tobita Shinchi is a rare example of an old-style red light district (yukaku) in Japan, similar to how Yoshiwara used to be in Tokyo, featuring rows of licensed establishments in which young ladies sit in open doorways waiting for patrons.

This time it’s not the authorities actually doing the closing; it’s kind of a case of self-censorship. Apparently the Tobita Shinchi association itself has agreed to “restrain” its activities during the summit from June 28th to June 29th.

The association of 159 members said it would close all the businesses to “avoid causing disruption in the area.”

It is the first time the quarter has closed like this in 30 years. The last time was for the funeral of Emperor Hirohito died in 1989.

The whole move is ridiculous, in our honest opinions. It is highly unlikely that the dignitaries or world press would wonder into Tobita Shinchi, which is not in the center of Osaka — and even if they did, so what? It hardly matters in the grand scheme of things, not least the terrible wars and violence that the G20 nations wage around the world. Moreover, just because you temporarily close down Tobita Shinchi, it doesn’t mean there is suddenly and magically no prostitution in Osaka. Quite the contrary! Namba and other districts are filled with places where you can pay for sex — just not as flagrantly or traditionally as Tobita Shinchi.

And, let’s be frank, we are quite sure that at least some of the powerful suits gathering for the summit will have some fun during their visit, presumably from higher-class services than those on offer at Tobita Shinchi, and probably delivered direct to their hotel suites.

Similar to the move to ban porn from convenience stores during the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, this is about shifting “bad” things out of sight as if they don’t exist rather than addressing any real social or moral issues there might (or might not) be.

We expect the operators in Tobita Shinchi are censoring themselves to anticipate an actual police crackdown, presuming in the hope that a temporary closure will ensure their long-term survival.

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Never one to shy away from controversy and stoking social media, the model and actress Kiko Mizuhara has revealed a recent episode from her glamorous, globetrotting life in which she was mistaken for a porn star in Paris.

According to her tweet, she was riding in an Uber in Paris when the driver asked her what job she does. When she replied she was an actress, the driver bluntly asked whether or not it was porn.

She wanted to vent and share the incident to highlight how disgusted she felt by the man.

Others have pointed out the high reputation that Japanese porn has overseas, which might well contribute to a taxi driver assuming (or even just joking) that a Japanese “actress” must be working in adult video.

Mizuhara’s haters, of which she has many (perhaps especially because she is partly of Korean heritage), have stated that her penchant for explicit photo shoots don’t exactly contradict the Parisian’s question.

Some netizens also took Mizuhara to task for implying, in her offence at the driver’s assumption, that there were “ranks” of actress and that being an AV performer was somehow beneath her status. She later clarified that it had not been her intention to discriminate, but rather to highlight how she was made to feel uncomfortable by such a personal assumption in the space of the car by someone she was meeting for the very first time.

Japanese love hotels, as we know, come in all shapes and sizes, with every manner of themed room imaginable seemingly available somewhere, though the most adventurous examples tend to be found out in the countryside rather than central Tokyo.

They also increasingly offer a wide range of amenities, especially bathing and food items, though also karaoke, video game consoles, WiFi, and tanning beds — and even Dance Dance Revolution.

Twitter user Zoe recently spotted an interesting service available at a love hotel in Uguisudani, the east Tokyo neighborhood with a particularly high concentration of cheap and dirty love hotels.

Guests can rent replica schoolgirl uniforms. The 18 different outfits are based on actual uniforms from schools around Japan, so you can live out your fantasies of a session in a love hotel with a student from one of the elite schools by dressing up your partner.

The first uniform is free, while extra uniforms are available at a cost of ¥500 each. You order from the room by calling down to the front desk. Unfortunately, Zoe did not specify which Uguisudani hotel he was staying at, though searching in Japanese for hotels in that area that offer cosplay options seemed to bring up only one — Hotel Savoy.

As observers have pointed out, the uniforms are labeled with the thinly disguised names of actual elite institutions like Shirayuri Gakuen High School in Tokyo’s Chiyoda ward or Ferris Girls’ Junior & Senior High School in Yokohama.