On June 19th, Miru Shiroma of AKB48 sister group NMB48 releases her first photo book “Love Rush.” As a preview and promo of what’s inside, the current issue of weekly tabloid Shukan Playboy has a double-sided cover with an alluring shot of the popular idol without a top on and her breasts covered by her hair.

Is this a kind of pun? As in, a “hair nude” without the nudity — just the hair? It’s also a sort of update on the usual “hand bra” shot.

There was already buzz about Miru’s “busty” debut photo book back in the spring when some images and details about the Australian shoot emerged. With the Weekly Playboy cover, though, we expect interest to go through the roof.

“Love Rush” also showcases Miru’s curvy butt, though her cheeks look a little red. Too much sun, perhaps. Or maybe from spanking? Those guys Down Under can get a bit rough at times…

We count ourselves lucky that we get to see and try a lot of adult toys every day. Most types and designs, of course, are familiar by now. But even after all these years, there are still some toys that make us stop and go “Wow.”

Tama Toys has done it again with the Life of a Beautiful Girl Onahole.

This quite incredible work of erotic art features a whopping seven holes. By penetrating these in turn, your masturbation charts the sexual lifespan of a single Japanese stunner.

From a student to Japanese MILF, she is always ready to receive you with open arms and legs whatever stage of her life she has reached. The Life of a Beautiful Girl Onahole by Tama Toys is a luxury masturbator toy with one of the most unique designs we have ever seen: it lets you experience growing older with your high school sweetheart, through all stages of her sex life. Take her virginity with the first, tight hole, before proceeding to a more experienced, firmer tunnel during her high school years. Watch her labia develop even further during her college years and as she develops into her sexy Japanese office lady self. The last two holes replicate her more mature love hole after marriage and childbirth. In addition, Tama Toys has also integrated an anal sex slot in the center. You will love each stage of the sexy life you spend together with this one-in-all masturbator!

Truly something for everyone then. (Hey, you could even enjoy plugging these holes simultaneously with a friend — or even six.)

To be fully accurate, this is not the only multi-hole toy on the market. If you have a long memory, you may remember the awesome Wet Sucker Setsugekka Orgy Onahole from many years ago. But the Life of a Beautiful Girl Onahole has a much better concept and design, not to mention the usual Tama Toys skill at creating memorable box art. This is a luxury masturbator toy (with an appropriate price tag, it must be said) — and one that will go down in the annals of onahole history.

The Life of a Beautiful Girl Onahole is available now from our friends at Kanojo Toys.

While there are plenty of adult toys endorsed by and made in collaboration with Japanese porn stars, various others kind of idols also exist out there. And not all of them are real.

Top Japanese adult brand Tama Toys was quick to see an opportunity when the virtual YouTuber DeepWebUnderground (aka DWU) started to attract fans.

The cute character has amassed tens of thousands of subscribers to her YouTube channel since it launched in 2018, helped by her moe looks and willingness to talk about sexy topics.

And now those fans can get closer to DWU’s videos than ever before with this series of tie-in toys.

First up is this Insert Air Pillow Futamata Cover #50 DWU Virtual YouTuber, made specifically for the bestselling Tama Toy dakimakura.

Next you need to try what is surely the staple component of any adult toy collection: a masturbator sleeve. Fortunately, the DWU Virtual YouTuber Onahole is more than just a regular toy with themed packaging. It replicates the blond curls of the digital character in the unique yellow shape and color of the toy.

The DWU Scented Panties are just what they sound like, which is almost too good to be true: underwear that has been accentuated with the virtual idol’s apparent aroma.

Continuing this theme, the DWU Fabulous Fragrance is a smell fetish spray that will come in handy for adding an accent to pillows, dolls, onaholes, costumes, and more.

Finally, if you are feeling horny now, then be assured that DWU is, too, hence she could bottle up her fluids in the DWU Love Juices Lubricant.

A gravure idol has landed herself in hot water by participating in a semi-nude photo shoot where the actual location was identifiable. Not such a bigger, you might think, except that it was the family-friendly, mega brand that is Disney.

In the photos taken of Mika Tanaka (田中みか) posing alluring in a hotel room in her underwear or in the buff, you can make out the location through the window.

When images surfaced online, netizens were quick to point out that it was clearly shot at a Tokyo Disneyland hotel.

The media even went so far as to contact the hotel operator, who responded by asking guests to refrain from such activities because it causes a “nuisance” to others at the resort. Well, in our eyes, at least, this kind of photo shoot is anything but a nuisance.

Tanaka posted the images on her Instagram feed, which enjoys some 450,000 followers, on June 18th.

After the images went viral on Twitter, Tanaka deleted the pictures and apologised for any offense. None taken, Mika! Keep it up, is what we say.

Here are some striking shots of Mika that proved less controversial.

Fresh from her nude sex scene on film, Moemi Katayama is continuing her gravure comeback with a new image video DVD release out this month called “take me, with you” (sic).

The 90-minute release sees Moemi lounging around in a sunny setting, showing off her tall body in a bikini and see-through black bodysuit, or bathing in a pool of red petals.

She also looks absolutely stunning in a wedding lingerie set as well as dressed as a mermaid.

Only the sales will decide if we get to enjoy more videos and shoots like this in the future. So if we more of this, we should probably go out and buy the DVD.

As Moemi edges towards 30, can we hope that she will take things one step further and shed those clothes again for another hair nude shoot like she did in 2017?

It’s hardly a secret that we love porn. Otherwise we wouldn’t be very good at our jobs.

But we also know the value of discretion. We wouldn’t, for example, wish the whole world to know about our viewing habits, not because we think there is anything wrong with them per se, but just because it’s one of all kinds of personal information we wouldn’t want to reveal.

It seems that not everyone is so circumspect.

This otaku was snapped, for instance, riding on the train. Not special about that. You can see people who obviously fall into the category of “otaku” in public all the time in Tokyo, especially around Akihabara. But this guy was keen to examine his most recent purchase. Was it a figure of an anime character? A video game?

No, it was a pretty hardcore porn DVD.

Apparently oblivious to all the other passengers standing around him on the crowded train, including the person who was taking a picture only inches away from his face, the ardent JAV fan had taken out the DVD from its discreet black bag and was seen closely perusing the details on the back of the box.

Netizens have expertly identified it as a 2007 AV release (1IESP00331) starring Haruna Ayase in the classic Mayaku Sosakan (麻薬捜査官) series by I ENERGY. She plays a narcotics cop whose investigations end up turning her into the sex slave of a gang of men. Less going deep undercover than deep under the covers?

Mr Anonymous Otaku, we salute you on your fine taste and your openness about it!

Males watching the 2019 Japan Championships in Athletics, held last month in Fukuoka, quickly expressed thoughts about their favorite athlete.

Without doubt, it seems that male viewers were keen to support the supple achievements of 18-year-old longer jumper Ayaka Kora (高良彩花).

Kora (sometimes written Kohra) from Tsuba University didn’t win her event in terms of distance jumped but she did win in terms of capturing the hearts of netizens. And with a body as toned and agile as this, it’s easy to see why.

A few years ago, it was a cute Waseda University student pole jumper who did something similar. Whatever happened to her?

We suspect that Kora’s fame will last longer, since she recently won silver at the 2019 Asian Championships and already has her own Wikipedia page in multiple languages.

Tenga just won’t stop. Japan’s most exciting and successful sex toys brand keeps on enhancing and updating its bestsellers according to the feedback it gets from users about what they want. And you should always give the people what they want.

In this case, it’s the Tenga Flip Orb, which first came out a few months back as a kind of new version of the classic Flip Hole. The Flip Orb, as the name suggests, retained the “flip-open” structure that allows you to apply lube easily and also, very importantly, clean and dry your masturbation toy properly. But now there were additional orb-like gimmicks inside to enhance the pleasure you get from penetrating the device.

So what’s new about the brand new Tenga Flip Orb Strong?

“The round, stimulating balls embedded in the gel structure of the Orange Crash and Blue Rush have been made even firmer,” Kanojo Toys tell us. “Thanks to that, you will feel the impact of the stimulating orb interior even more, leading to an intensely pleasurable penetration experience.”

So it’s primarily an “internal” update. After all, that Flip Orb exterior was pretty awesome and Tenga would have to have a very special reason to fiddle with that.

Indeed, for the Tenga Flip Orb Strong, the Apple of Japanese Adult Toys has “retained the easy-to-hold hourglass shape that also lets you add an extra squeeze of tightness in the center of the toy’s tunnel.” Sounds great. Let’s stop writing and try it out…

The Tenga Flip Orb Strong is now available worldwide from our friends at Kanojo Toys, your one-stop store for all things sexy about Japan since 2007.

Those authority figures may have much more colorful pasts than you realize.

An amateur porn performer credited as “Ayaka” who appeared in a Siro-Hame.net release a few years ago is now happily working as an elementary school teacher in Sapporo, Hokkaido.

We won’t write her real name here because we don’t want to get sued. But netizens have tracked the story down, and also the repercussions when it first leaked after the story got out shortly before the AV was released. An attempt was then apparently made to stop Siro Hame from releasing the video, to no avail. The producers simply exploited the scandal by marketing the release as a must-see because it might be taken down at any time.

Ayaka ended up getting married and changing her surname, hoping to avoid some of the scandal.

For these shiroto “amateur” performers in adult video who play the uncredited roles in those porn titles involving large numbers of women or who play main roles that are meant to be regular women off the street who get picked up, of course they have other jobs, because unlike a fully credited star they can’t guarantee getting another role and their fee is quite low. It is common for such women to be working as hostesses, call girls, bartenders in girls’ bars, and so on. And some are doing “ordinary” jobs, too.

It is not the first time we have seen a case like this.

Previous scandals involved a nurse exposed for her amateur porn moonlighting as well as a YouTuber and Miss Campus college girl.

Perhaps the biggest scandals, though, involved the alleged porn side careers of TV presenter Kayo Matsumoto and voice actress Emi Niita.

The illustrator and mangaka Seina Takeuchi has made a stunning swimwear gravure debut in the weekly magazine Shukan Young Jump.

The issue, which went on sale on July 4th, features the insanely cute-faced artist showing off her bust and incredible legs. And don’t even get us started on those lips…

Some of the shots are ostensibly nude with “drawn-on” clothes.

Though also a model and no stranger to posing for the camera, this is definitely a step-up in the career of Takeuchi, who is best known for the My Elementary School Student Younger Sister is a Bangya series.

Bangya, or bangyaru, is a type of female fan of visual kei music. Whatever your tastes in music, or manga, we think you’ll agree that Seina is a very welcome addition to the crowded gravure idol pantheon.

We recently shared the tale of the female elementary school teacher who was exposed for her amateur porn performer past.

This kind of things cuts both ways: male authority figures may also have their own secrets.

A male math high school teacher has apparently lost his job because former students found out that he had once appeared in a porn video with Mihono Sakaguchi (aka Mihono). It then spread like wildfire and resulted in his termination, according to unverified online reports.

In the 2015 release (WANZ00369) from WANZ, the unnamed teacher was one of the nameless lucky guys who gets jerked and sucked off by Mihono on a bus. The “game” she plays with them is that if they can hold back from climaxing for ten minutes, they can have full creampie sex with her. That’s quite a reward…

We haven’t seen the actual AV in question, so can’t confirm if our hardworking pedagogue was able to keep his juices in check for ten minutes.

The ranks of uncredited “amateurs” that appear in AV are filled by all sorts of types. One of the most chilling examples was the stalker who stabbed a music idol — he once appeared in an AV with top star Yui Hatano.

So take a good, hard look at your boss. Does he have something extra on his résumé that he wants hidden?

Weekly Spa! magazine has published a special “mook” featuring five gravure idols.

The concept for each shoot is that the viewer is on a date with the lovely women — something which is not impossible, the rumors say, along as you have enough money to burn…

On sale locally since July 4th, the mook cover is graced by Tokyo Kinky favorite Mariya Nagao, formerly of AKB48.

The other four “dates” are with Mayu Koseta, Yuki Fujiki, Asuka Kishi, and Shiori Usui.

In her alluring shoot, Mariya Nagao is pictured drinking in a stylish bar before retreating to a hotel room to pull up her skirt and show off her sexy panties and stunning legs.

And for a different kind of scenario entirely, Mariya once again reveals a sportier side to herself with a nice shot on a climbing wall. She previously showed off her athletic talents during an idol “sports day” TV show.

Popular, long-running British game show Countdown has attracted an unusual flurry of headlines and online responses by allowing a “pornographic” concept to win a round.

In the long-running TV show, contestants try to find the longest words from a random selection of letters within 30 seconds.

On Monday’s episode, Marwan Riach managed to find “hentai” and beat out his opponent’s “patty.”

The resident judge in the “Dictionary Corner” confirmed the validity of Riach’s somewhat sheepishly offered word: “Hentai is brilliant,” she said in a widely shared clip.

Well, quite.

With its customary subtlety, the mainstream media has reported that hentai is “a genre of sexually explicit or pornographic anime or manga.” Countdown did not mention the sexual nature of hentai, which is not a big surprise given its afternoon broadcast time slot.

According to the Oxford Dictionary, the definition, media explained, goes further:

…”a subgenre of the Japanese genres of manga and anime, characterised by overtly sexualised characters and sexually explicit images and plots.”

It originates from the Japanese words hentai seiyoku sha, which means someone who is perverted, and came into its current use in the 1990s.

Despite his knowledge of Japanese words, Riach nonetheless went on to lose the game overall.

We are delighted to see that hentai is winning props overseas, though as always the focus is a little off.

The word is a much more common one in Japan that many people realize.

In fact, according to the prominent queer studies scholar Mark McLelland, who has provided a very useful short history of hentai, the use of “hentai” to refer to a specific “genre” is essentially restricted to the English-speaking discourse.

Hentai is, says McLelland, a “Sino-Japanese compound term widely used in modern Japanese to designate a person, action or state that is considered queer or perverse, particularly in a sexual sense.”

A Yahoo search for “hentai,” for instance, produces over 7 million hits — more than twice that of better-known loanwords such as samurai, geisha or sushi. This astonishing number is evidence of the popularity of a genre of erotic manga and anime referred to as hentai or sometimes the abbreviation “H” (pronounced etchi in Japanese) by western fans. However, despite the popularity of the genre and its massive presence on the internet, the category hentai is not discussed in English-language studies of manga and anime. […]

Why is this so? The reason is not prudishness but rather the fact that use of the term hentai to refer to erotic or sexual manga and anime in general is not a Japanese but an English innovation. In Japanese hentai can reference sexual material but only of an extreme, “abnormal” or “perverse” kind; it is not a general category. The Japanese use of hentai refers to both same-sex and heterosexual activities which are considered unusual but also extreme. While in Japanese both “H”/etchi and ero [erotic] can be used to refer to manga and anime with sexual content, hentai is only used to refer to unusual or perverse sexual situations — this might be number of partners as in gang rape, or bizarre partners as in aliens or monsters or illicit partners as in children (rorikon and shotakon). Hence in the Japanese case, hentai manga/anime is a subdivision of the much broader category of ero manga whereas in English hentai has come to signify the genre of ero manga as a whole.

He concludes that hentai is, “in the context of western manga and anime fandom, no longer a ‘Japanese’ word but has become a loanword with its own specific meaning and nuance.”

McLelland continues his detailed yet accessible study, including a discussion on the idea of “hentai” in the Meiji and Taisho prewar periods. Though it is quite a few years old now and would probably need updating to reflect more recent shifts, his article is very recommended for readers!

Naturally we have similar issues when it comes to words like “otaku” and “lolicon” that are complicated and problematic enough locally, but which have taken on different lives after leaving purely Japanese-language discourse.

It’s election season in Japan, which means posters of candidates everywhere as well as election broadcasts on TV. Pretty soon the streets will be filled with the soundscape of the trucks trundling around, calling out the local candidates’ names to all and sundry.

As always, though, it’s the more unusual candidates vying for a well-paid position in the House of Councillors that make the most impact in a gray field.

Takashi Tachibana is standing for election as a member of the Party to Protect the People from NHK (NHKから国民を守る党) — a long-running libertarian-esque stance that opposes NHK for legally compelling people to pay for it.

In his recent party political broadcast, he went on a rant condemning the national public broadcasting organization NHK.

Incredibly, this was shown on NHK itself, which has to allow these political broadcasts to go out uncensored and unedited.

One reason for Tachibana’s hatred of the broadcaster, though, seemed a bit out of the blue. “NHK’s presenters have car sex!” he declared. Huh?

No one was named in Tachibana’s speech but a little online research revealed that he was talking about Mina Hayakawa (早川美奈), who was snapped having sex in a car with Takanobu Saito, a fellow “announcer” from a local branch of NHK in Kofu. Photos emerged in the tabloid Shukan Friday in July 2016. They both lost their jobs over the affair, not least because Saito was married.

The Japanese are relatively tame in public. Though times are changing, it’s still less common to see couples holding hands or kissing outside.

But there are always exceptions — and perhaps inevitably these occur in places where there is such a flow of people that the participants presume or hope they won’t be noticed.

From the woman fellating her driver on a highway to the couple having full sex in a corner of a electronic dance music event, look hard enough and you will find examples of nudity and sexual activity.

But even we were a little shocked by this one.

Someone spotted a young couple having a very intimate moment in central Shibuya at night. As in, right in front of the famous Scramble Crossing.

Apparently after having consumed a fair bit of alcohol, the youngsters are embracing up against the entrance to the subway.

The man is seemingly unable to control himself and starts fingering his female partner, his hand visibly jabbing with furious energy inside her clothes. He seems to stop, perhaps at her urging.

Instead they kiss, with some tenderness.

He is then overcome with horniness and reaches into his own pants to jerk himself off for a few desperate seconds. Whether or not those handful of fast strokes are enough to climax is unsure but he stops abruptly.

The people walking by do double-takes but continue essentially walking over the crossing, whether out of politeness, incomprehension, or shock is unknown.

One person, though, was watching and filming the whole episode.

Hey, guys, next time — get a room. You could have been having great, full and uninterrupted (and unobserved) sex in a love hotel if you had just walked a few minutes up Dogenzaka.

The whole video, which lasts around 45 seconds, can be viewed here.

Pleats in Japan are probably most famous in the Pleats Please series of clothing by Issey Miyake.

But how about inside a masturbator toy?

While you might not see it on the catwalk at the Paris Fashion Week any time soon, the Nure Nure Pleat Pussy Girl Onahole nonetheless seems set to win wide recognition among masturbator fans for its novel and effective design.

The soft material offers realistically textured stimulation that combines a host of nubs and an inner cave packed with “string pleats.” Not only will these special features entangle and wrap themselves around your horny shaft, they will also provide stroking tickles to your glans with each penetrating thrust.

So who needs tentacles when you can have pleats?

The special string pleats come initially with a plastic tube inside, keeping the pleats from entangling during transit. Take it out — and then lube up and slide in your own “tube” to enjoy…

The Nure Nure Pleat Pussy Girl Onahole is available now from our hardworking friends at Kanojo Toys.

Tenga won’t be new to regular readers of this humble blog. Just in case, know that Tenga is the top adult brand in Japan in terms of mainstream exposure, quality, and sophistication of design. It is the only adult brand to have made it big in markets globally and its amazing toys are now sold worldwide, though some are only available in Japan.

It has changed over the years, though, and is now a subsidiary of Soft on Demand, affecting the internal freedom — or so we have heard down the grapevine.

Nonetheless, it continues to release great items that continue the sex and masturbation revolution Tenga started with the Tenga Egg, Tenga Onacup, and Tenga Flip Hole series well over a decade ago. Its marketing campaigns are also still very novel, always trying new kinds of campaigns and promotions.

In short, Tenga is a legend in the industry. And now we can go inside its headquarters.

The always-reliable Asian Boss published this video report from a visit to the company, which includes an interview with Tenga boss Koichi Matsumoto.

“Our vision is to make everyone have a bigger sexual appetite, more fun,” Matsumoto shares. He explains why Tenga made a break from the standard for sex toys in Japan, not least in its chic and minimalist packaging that does not carry images of nude women: the toy aim to look “cool, positive, and safe.”

He also introduces some of the toys that were designed to help people with fertility issues and premature ejaculation.

Matsumoto doesn’t hog the limelight. The video interviews Tenga’s female employees who are part of the brand’s very successful push into the women’s toys market with the bestselling Iroha series.

The last word, though, belongs to Matsumoto. “We’re pursuing our philosophy of making people’s lives happy, and these are the products we’ve developed.”

The former AKB48 idol and now gravure model Rina Hirata (平田梨奈) releases her first DVD and Blu-ray, “Hirari Time,” on July 20th. To promote it, Rina has posed semi-nude, covering her F-cup breasts with her hands.

The 21-year-old joined AKB48 in 2011 and graduated in 2016. She previously released two VR videos in February of this year, in one of which she was shown in alluringly red lingerie amply showing off her butt. It was enthusiastically compared to porn.

By AKB standards, Hirata has a curvier-than-average body and boy, are we not complaining about that. We have noticed, though, that the marketing now says she is an F-cup, whereas before she was meant to be a G-cup.

She’s also unusual in that she’s a haafu — kinda. Her mother is Japanese and her Japanese-American dad is from Arizona. She was born in America and grew up in Fukuoka, but initially her English was stronger than her Japanese when she first came to these shores. And we are eternally grateful to her for sticking through those tough times and becoming an idol.

It’s a job that apparently one in four Japanese women have some experience of doing, but how well do we know the role of the hostess?

Meet Kurumi Hoshino (星野くるみ), who is described as the “number 1 hostess in Japan.” The 28-year-old Hoshino is currently based at Club Lalah in Roppongi, where she is the biggest attraction and earner at the club where 50 women are working each night.

For 15 minutes, Hoshino talks about her life and work, going from the rural sticks in Kumamoto, toiling away at a local karaoke joint, to earning nearly $1,000 a day in Tokyo.

She helpfully starts by clarifying the general difference between a hostess club and hostess bar, and then runs through the particulars of her shifts.

And on her relationship with her clients? There is this frank admission. “Every client wants sex. What do you expect? We’re human.”

Here’s the video.

We’ve seen similar profiles like this before, such as a notable one back in 2014 and another looking at Canadian hostesses in Tokyo, though we think the grim life of being a less famous and success (and older) hostess is also worthy of attention.

Oh, Japanese porn and your parodic tendencies, is nothing safe from your tentacles?

From a real-life sexual assault on a peer to a wacky TV commercial and even a hit zombie movie, AV consistently finds new subject matters to parody and imitate.

But this is the first kids’ show that we’ve seen parodied in this way.

Out this month on the Million label, a new AV starring Kizuna Sakura (84mkmp00284) shamelessly parodies the NHK TV quiz show Chiko-chan ni shikarareru! (Chiko-chan will scold you).

The appeal of the latter is mostly down to the central character, a five-year-old girl who yells at people with a signature catchphrase: “Don’t sleep through life.” She also has a unique kind of voice that you can copy if you use this “voice changer” toy.

In the 150-minute porn version, the catchphrase is “Don’t orgasm through life.” One of the contestants on the fake quiz show in the AV is none other than the hardworking actor Shimiken.

Unfortunately the preview images are terrible but we think you get the general gist of the proceedings. This is most definitely not a kids’ show anymore!

Is this a lawsuit in the making?