Tenga has produced a new commercial for its Iroha vibrator series.

DJ and model Culumi Nakada stars in the ad, which specifically features the sleek black Yorukujira (“night whale”) vibe from the Iroha Plus line.

It shows a “typical” Sunday for a Japanese girl, relaxing at home with a long bath and then enjoying a solo session with her personal Tenga Iroha.

It claims that using a vibrator like the Iroha will release “brain waves” and help make you think better after your tension is released. Tenga actually teamed up with a neuroscientist to measure brain activity after a session with the Iroha, and could confirm a spike in alpha waves around the brain. Does this mean masturbation makes you smarter?

So there’s never been a better excuse to enjoy yourself.

Tenga has always prided itself on making adult toys look and feel better. After revolutionizing male toys through the Tenga Onacups, Tenga Eggs and Tenga Flip Hole, it has recently turned to the burgeoning female market.

As such, it is on a mission to show how using vibrators and masturbating are perfectly healthy activities for young, attractive women.

We reported earlier this year about the AV debut of actress and model Anri Sakaguchi.

To appear in “What a day!!” the 25-year-old Sakaguchi (now going by just “Anri”) is reportedly getting paid ¥120 million — a suspiciously high figure considering she is a B-list celebrity.

She made her JAV debut on the Muteki label, which specializes in these kinds of career switchovers from gravure, music idol or mainstream entertainment. Past successes include with Yua Mikami/Momona Kito and Shoko Takahashi/Takasaki.

Most of these stars, though, do one or just a small number AV releases before interest in them fades away. They either need to be super famous to start with or a good adult performer who can bring something to their new career.

As is common in these cases in order to promote their release, Anri Sakaguchi has also posed naked for a “hair nude” (full-frontal) shoot. While we weren’t so impressed by the looks of her porn debut, these images make her seem much more attractive. We like her hairy bush a lot — reminds us of the classic hair nude shoot of actress Saki Takaoka way back in the 1990s.

A new low-budget dramedy called Suki demo nai kuseni (Even though I don’t like you) stars a “mysterious” actress called Riko, about whom almost nothing is known.

One thing is certain, though: she is very willing to shed her clothes for her craft. And very well she does at it, too, as the lengthy, explicit sex scenes attest.

See her nipples get fingered, watch her ride in the lap of a lucky guy, and peep in while she get head.

In a rare move, there is even full-frontal nudity that doesn’t seem to be censored.

This is essentially a pink eiga or soft-core porno. Directed by Kota Yoshida, Suki demo nai kuseni was released in September 2016 to minor online buzz. Still, we suspect it will have a good afterlife on DVD. There are plenty of places to pause and enjoy…

Although some have thought this “Riko” is none other than Riko Narumi, this is obviously not the case as a glance at her face reveals — not to mention this is, sadly, not the kind of role that girl-next-door-type would ever take. (Hey, going nude worked wonders for the likes of Anne Suzuki and Yuriko Yoshitaka. Why not give it a try?)

Japan’s futanari fetish just got a new toy to gratify all those urges that sadly can’t be easily satisfied in real life.

As we know, futanari are not newhalf transgender women or josou cross-dressers. The key difference is that they are genuine hermaphrodites with both sex organs. As such, futanari is normally relegated to the world of anime, eroge and adult manga, or AV with carefully placed dildos so the girls seem to have cocks.

The Ryosei Guyu Onapet Futanari Onahole has everything you could want — and it fits in the palm of your hand.

The name literally means “hermaphrodite onanism pet”.

There’s a pair of breasts and a slender waist, plus a butt hole to penetrate. And the icing on the cake is the large, erect cock standing ready for your attention.

A toy as good as this is almost enough to make you switch sides.

We’ve previously seen a futanari sex doll, futanari-themed dakimakura cover, and other futanari masturbator toys, and they always seem to get a response no matter if you’re straight, bi or gay.

Let’s hope Japan’s busy sexy toy industry boffins keep on coming up with new variations on this fantasy. We need more futanari in our lives!

The Crawler in the Attic is a 2016 soft-core porn film based on the frequently adapted 1925 novel by erotic mystery writer Edogawa Rampo. Directed by Shoji Kubota, the plot concerns a private detective investigating the love triangle between a rich family’s daughter, her fiancé, and his lover.

The film stars Yuki Mamiya (Yuki Mogami), demonstrating her continued enthusiasm for doing nude sex scenes. While not as wild as her bondage-themed outing in Sweet Whip, there is still a lot of Yuki’s radiant flesh on display here, especially her cute breasts.

It also stars Noriko Kijima, who previously co-starred with Yuki Mamiya in the soft-core porno Chotto Kawaii Iron Maiden. Along with Mitsu Dan and Kokone Sasaki, these two actresses are carving out quite a line in roles in these kinds of sexploitation films.

Noriko Kijima does full-frontal nudity in couple of scenes, including a bondage one where she is tied up and left at the mercy of her male companion. There is some rough sex, too, if that’s your thing.

It’s the video that launched a thousand imitators (and counting).

Pikotaro’s PPAP (Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen) video made “PPAP” one of the buzzwords of the year and inspired a whole meme industry.

No doubt it will blow over in a few weeks’ time.

Until them we can enjoy the variations, not least this eye-opening one by gravure idol Jun Amaki.

The busty gal is best known for her “I cup” chest and being a petite 148cm. That’s quite a combination. She’s also a former member of the masked idols group Kamen Joshi.

She has created a version of Pikotaro’s PPAP (Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen) that is memorably themed around her biggest assets.

Yes, behold POOP. Don’t worry, it’s not THAT kind of video. The title stands for “Pen Oppai Oppai Pen”. In case you don’t speak Japanese, we’ll let you guess the meaning of “oppai” from the video. It’s not hard.

Jun Amaki is not the first gradol to attempt a busty cover of PPAP. Here is Chika Yuuki’s version.

One of our ongoing interests is what happens to gravure and music idols after they stop being famous. Once they have faded into obscurity, how do they survive? Get married and become homemakers? Go into hostessing or even prostitution? Or a totally different line of work?

Some evidently advance into careers in AV.

We also previously looked at the case of Yuka Kosaka, who now runs a nursery school in Chiba.

Others make the unexpected leap into mainstream politics.

Here is another cautionary tale.

The tarento Hanako Takigawa is only 28 but already has had a troubled, up-and-down career.

She made her gravure debut in 2005.

In 2011, at the age of just 23 and after less than a year of dating, she got married to actor Masaki Nishina. After they divorced in 2012 (rumored to have been caused by Nishina’s liking for hostess clubs), he went on to date the incredibly hot model Haruna Yabuki, but she then came home to find him in bed with a hostess. He seems not to know what a lucky guy he is.

Takigawa felt humiliated by her “speed divorce” (they were married less than two years) and particularly ashamed for her parents. She recently revealed on a TV show that in her early career she had effectively coasted on the name of her mother, who was a successful actress.

To make ends meet, she started working part-time last year at a real estate office, earning an hourly wage of just ¥1,150.

Takigawa continues to act, though she now goes by the name of just Hanako. She appeared in A Courtesan with Flowered Skin, which starred a nude Yumi Adachi.
　

What’s better than getting a handjob from someone else? Getting jerked off by someone else while they use two hands!

That’s the beguiling idea behind the Tekokikko Double Handjob Masturbator, which is a sequel of sorts to the Tekoki Musume Handjob Daughter.

Imagine a cute Japanese minx wrapping both her hands around your erect member and jerking you off until you cum in her face.

It’s not just a sculptural gimmick, though. The inner design of the hands has been very carefully planned.

As Kanojo Toys says, “the inside of her palms are fitted with the folds and nubs that will feel just like you are passing through the contours of a real hand. Hold and rub her hands over your member in just the way you like it (tender, tight), and then finish inside her cupped hands that you can fill right up with your load.”

In a very crowded field, this sex toy really manages to stand out for quality and visual originality. We’ve seen many handjob-themed masturbators before, but not one quite like this. More please!

Condoms in Japan are an underused breed, judging by the rampant venereal disease and unplanned pregnancies.

As such, condom brands try all kinds of wacky campaigns to get young men and women interested in using their products.

This also includes free giveaways. Earlier this year, Tenga gave away complimentary condoms to newly enfranchised voters at the House of Councillors election.

You might be forgiven for thinking that otaku are the demographic with the least need for contraception in their lives, but you would be wrong. That is, if Comiket is to be believed.

A booth at the upcoming Comiket on December 30th will be distributing free condoms to visitors.

This isn’t as generous as it sounds: these prophylactic are advertisements.

They are themed around “Ueno-san the Love Hotel Employee”, which is a manga and forthcoming TV drama about, you guessed it, a Gotanda love hotel employee called Ueno.

But don’t discard these condoms as cheap merchandise. They are a mere 0.03mm, which is almost as impressive as other Japanese models. Okamoto, for example, has a 0.01mm condom.

There are only a few hundred condoms waiting to be distributed, though, so be sure to arrive early if you want to claim your prize. Head to booth West Re 25a.

Failing that, just go to an actual love hotel, since they always offer at least one free condom to guests. A typical hotel actually gets through around 5,000 condoms a month.

If you have a fetish for omorashi, there’s no shortage of adult videos or content for you to enjoy in Japan. There’s even omorashi virtual reality out there if you are so inclined.

Omorashi is different to other general golden shower and pee fetishes. It means when someone is wetting him or herself, and often refers to the pleasure gained from watching that person squirm with embarrassment as their clothes get wet or the pee comes out.

Perhaps it is something about the shame and the humiliation that appeals to people in a culture stereotypically associated with formality and rigid structures.

Whatever the anthropological roots of it all, omorashi is big in Japan.

And so it’s no surprise when we see sex toys like this Hanjuku Succubus Omorashi Peeing Fetish Onahole.

It’s actually the latest in the series of Hanjuku (literally, half-mature) Succubus onaholes by Kiteru that has been unfolding for some time now, though this is the first fetish entry like this.

As Kanojo Toys say, “her super soft skin texture is a delight to grope and massage, while you will especially love putting some panties on her so you can watch as she wets herself. Use the included enema syringe to create this brilliant omorashi effect.”

This is a thigh-and-butt-style masturbator, so it has a flatbed bottom that can be laid down on a bed, floor or other surface for ease of grip and penetration.

The hole is also a full air release hole type, meaning you will be able to clean it better so it lasts longer.

We want to introduce the work of Masaki C Matsumoto, a queer activist, feminist, and YouTuber working hard to challenge stereotypes about sexual minorities in Japan.

As he (perhaps provocatively) says:

“Hate crime is nonexistent in Japan,” “Japan only recently started having pride marches,” “homosexuality is accepted in Japan because of the traditional male-male shudo sexual/romantic culture,” “Japanese media are LGBT-friendly,” and “Taiga Ishikawa is the first openly gay politician in Japan” are all false!

In general, Matsumoto’s main point — and it’s a good one — is that LGBTQ+ is a broad label and covers a very diverse demographic, including in Japan. Far too much coverage of Japan’s LGBTQ+ scene and issues has tended to fall back on perceived ideas without adequate researching the context.

At Tokyo Kinky we may also have been guilty of that at times, though this is due to ignorance of the complexities of the scene and its history in Japan. We very much hope to improve by following the work of Matsumoto.

Matsumoto has a nice blog in English called Gimme A Queer Eye on which he examines LGBTQ+ issues.

Matsumoto doesn’t use his legal name online, though he does work as an activist with it. According to his official profile, he is “a freelance writer and bar owner from Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, currently residing in Tatebayashi, Gunma Prefecture.”

For a more in-depth interview, we recommend you check out this article on Anime Feminist. For some background, you could also read this write-up on Matsumoto on Global Voices.

Disgraced gravure idol and now one of AV’s top porn stars Shoko Takahashi/Takasaki has joined her fellow porn newcomer Yua Mikami (Momona Kito) for what must be the sexiest photo shoot of the year.

These nude shots, taken for Weekly Playboy in the autumn, really show off both their voluptuous bodies to the full.

What’s more, in a more recent subsequent nude photo shoot the two were joined by none other than Mana Sakura, who is already a major star in her own right. There was even a 30-minute video to accompany the “lesbian threesome” shoot.

Shoko Takahashi and Yua Mikami’s commercial success are anomalies. Many others have tried to move from more mainstream careers as music idols or gravure models into porn without establishing a foothold. Remember Rina Nakanishi? We didn’t think so.

In fact, every year hundreds of women make their debut in Japanese porn. In total, thousands of performers appear in the industry’s annual output. But only a small number survive the vicissitudes of the scene to appear in more than one or a few features, let alone maintain a large following.

There are far better financial awards waiting for those lucky few — far exceeding any reimbursement they might expect from a career in gravure modeling. Plus they can earn lots of extra cash by keeping rich lovers who pay for their time together, a practice exposed by the recent case of Yuria Satomi and her back taxes.

The others slide back into prostitution, hosting and other related occupations. And the relentless beast that is JAV marches on.

Keep in the Yuletide mood with some naked pictures of a new Mugi Kadowaki sex scene.

The up-and-coming Japanese actress is continuing to please us. While peers like Yoko Maki or Yuriko Yoshitaka only dared strip off once for breakthrough roles before going very boring and mainstream, Kadowaki has repeated her confidence with performing sex scenes on film.

She had a fairly graphic role in Ai no Uzu (Love’s Whirlpool), set in a swinger’s club in Kabukicho.

Her latest is in Double Life (2016), also known by its Japanese title Nijuu Seikatsu. Directed by Yoshiyuki Kishi, it stars the likes of Masaki Suda, Lily Franky and Naomi Nishida.

It is Kadowaki’s first film lead role and she has chosen a ripe one, playing a graduate student who gradually becomes more sexually adventurous as she investigates her neighbor’s life.

To be fair, you don’t see much flesh. Especially compared to her previous nude role it’s nothing to get too excited about, but there is a nice shot of Kadowaki’s butt being groped.

Kadowaki is really starting to hit the big time. She also played the female lead in Spark, the first major Netflix original drama series in Japan that was adapted from Yoshimoto comedian Naoki Matayoshi’s Akutagawa Prize-winning novel.

Since she seems more keen on taking interesting roles and, if the role demands it, shedding her clothes rather than signing up for facile and mundane advertising gigs like so many of her peers, we really look forward to see her career blossom.

Here is an awesome, belated Christmas present for you folks: nude photos of Moemi Katayama that have leaked ahead of the official release of her new photo book out next year.

The 26-year-old Katayama has become increasingly better known over the past 1-2 years. She released her first photo book in September and the new one, “Rashin”, comes out on January 5th. Since 2015 she has been a favorite gravure idol for weekly tabloid magazine shoots, and even appeared in a Kirin ad in May.

This, though, is by far the most explicit the busty G-cup gravure idol has gone.

It’s not quite “hair nude” full-frontal nudity territory, but it’s close enough for now. You can see some bush and nipples, and an awesome shot of her ass. (This seems a trend this year. After teasing us for so long, Manami Hashimoto also finally showed us her naked butt.) Next stop, AV debut?

Some of the shots are just grainy scans right now but we will be updating as better images appear.

For now, all we can say is — thank you. Moemi, 2016 has been a tough year, what with the deaths of great music and acting legends as well as the UK referendum, US election and all the shit going on the Middle East. Now here is finally something to look forward in 2017!

To round off the year with a bang, Tenga has generously given us a Christmas gift par excellence!

The Tenga Moova is the latest toy from the Apple of the Japanese adult industry. It looks amazing, feels even better — and is even designed with maintenance fully in mind.

Coming in two colors (Silky White or Rocky Black), the Tenga Moova is a masturbation aid billed as a “flexible spinning hole”. Tenga fans will be quick to spot that it looks like the cousin to the sculpturally designed Tenga 3D.

The beautiful, almost science-fiction toy offers pleasure through its lattice of folds all along the outside that twist with your hand movements. As Kanojo Toys note, inside you will feel the vacuum in multiple directions: from either side at the top and the bottom, and pushing in from both sides in the center.

There is an air hole at the end that you can cover or manipulate with your fingers to vary the degree of sensation. There are no buttons, unlike the Flip Hole, so this newbie is very much staying in the Tenga Egg and Tenga 3D territory — but there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that.

It is also very easy to maintain (indeed, clean and dry it right and the Tenga Moova can be used 50 times). You can take out the inner hole, turn it inside out, wash and clean it, and then dry it on the long stand that is attached to the cap. The cap itself can be turned inside out so you can stand it upright. When the hole is dry, slide on the case and revert the cap. And everything is back to the start again. The cycle of male pleasure is ready again.

You can order the Tenga Moova from Kanojo Toys, shipped direct from Tokyo to your home.

You’ve seen the movie. Now get the parody onahole.

The Kimi no Ana Your Name Kimi no Na wa Parody Onahole is — you’ve guessed it — inspired by Your Name (Kimi no Na wa), the Makoto Shinkai anime that has been the biggest film of the year in Japan.

This cheap but effective masturbator sleeve is called Kimi no Ana or “Your Hole”.

As Kanojo Toys says, it is initially ambiguous whether this is an anal or vaginal experience.

Is it a vagina? Is it a butt hole? The only way to find out is to insert yourself and explore! The third section has a spiral-like structure with rings around the exterior for ease of grip and squeezing.

Onahole aficionados will know that Tama Toys often makes these (very, very unofficial) parody toys, complete with a knowing title and cover. One notable example was the awesome DanMachi Hestia onahole last year. We wonder, though, how the hundreds of thousands of fans of such a mainstream movie will react to being exploited for commercial gain as a sex toy.

Saying that, the film depicts school students who swap genders. Given that Tama Toys is at the heart of the otoko no ko cross-dressing cosplay trend in Japan, perhaps the film is an appropriate choice for an adult toy after all!

Let’s start the year as we mean to go on: with some nude pictures of Korean actress Bae Doo-na.

The Sense8 star was back in the Christmas one-off special of the Netflix sci-fi drama. She previously showed off her curvy butt for the first season of the American series. Could she go one further?

In the Christmas special Bae Doo-na has a couple of scenes that give a glimpse into a newly toned, sporty body as she does what she does best: seduce a weaker male and show him she means business when it comes to getting her way with sex.

She throws a man down in a locker room and clambers on top of him, riding him for all he’s got to offer. New Year’s Solution #1: be that man.

A new season of Sense8 is coming in 2017. Here’s hoping for more skin from Bae Doo-na!

Bae Doona is a Korean actress but has gained most prominence through her appearances in English-language and Japanese productions. Her past nude roles in Korean movies include Plum Blossom and Sympathy For Mr Vengeance, while her international sex scenes include Air Doll and Cloud Atlas, in a memorable sex scene as a cyborg with then boyfriend Jim Sturgess.

Recently we’ve been admiring a nice trend for weekly magazines in Japan to produce fantastic photo shoots featuring a host of stars showing off their naked bodies.

We saw it in the 51 naked porn stars in Weekly Playboy and then 50 semi-naked gravure idols last year. More recently we also blogged about the great “threesome” shoot with former music idol Yua Mikami, ex-gravure idol Shoko Takahashi/Takasaki, and Mana Sakura.

Mikami is back in this new shoot, which is a naked “feast” also starring Kirara Asuka, An Tsujimoto, Miharu Usa, Riku Minato, Moe Amatsuka, Arina Hashimoto and Minami Kojima… which is more AV stars than you could probably ever fit in your fantasies. Too much of a good thing? Not in a million years.

Feeling hungry now?

The inclusion of Mikami (formerly Momona Kito of SKE4) in this lineup only further cements her place among the top echelon on big-name JAV stars.

Unfortunately, as is typical for these print magazines, the actual nudity — even nipples — is censored but you still get a very nice view of their flesh on display.

It’s always a sad day when we spot news that our favorite gravure idols have got hitched.

Back in 2015 Yumi Sugimoto produced probably her sexiest and most naked photo book ever. “Chiamata” showed off quite a bit of flesh, even if it wasn’t quite full-frontal stuff.

Well, enjoy those images for all they are worth, folks. That photo book may well be her last, assuming the common pattern repeats here. Sugimoto has now gotten married to a man four years her junior after around a year of dating, it emerged at the end of December. Typically gravure idols stop working as glamor models after they wed or revert to a very mainstream career as television “tarento”.

Also adding to the end-of-year marriage rush was Manami Marutaka, a more minor gravure idol but still a favorite of ours since around 2012. The 26-year-old married her boyfriend, the soccer player Yoichiro Kakitani, in December.

It’s going to be a lonely January!

Is Shoko Takahashi/Takasaki the perfect soapland sex worker?

She certainly looks and acts the part in her latest AV release from Moodyz, aptly titled “Gravure Soap”. The former gravure idol with the mega bust, whose switch to a career in porn last year was one of the highlights of the calendar, demonstrates how an awesome soapland experience should look. We have to use our fertile imaginations for how it feels, though.

After all, she certainly has the breasts for paizuri and a curvy body that is ideal for rubbing herself all over a very lucky, prone male customer.

That being said, this looks like the most decadent soapland venue we’ve ever seen! Normally there is hardly enough room to turn around in the room, let alone spread yourself out in a luxurious hall like the one in this AV.

Judging by her skills here, if her AV career ever starts to decline — not looking likely at the moment — Shoko will definitely be able to pick up some work in Yoshiwara or any of the other soapland districts scattered around Tokyo.