Christmas Eve in Japan is all about couples having sex. Christmas in Japan is about…well, cosplay, KFC chicken, and strawberries.

Ever the nonconformist, we are spending our Christmas doing what we always do: checking out the latest developments in the world of Japanese adult video and gravure idols, while also keeping our beady eyes on the new arrivals in the sex toys market.

And what a Christmas present Tenga has given us — and everyone. The Apple of adult toys has launched its latest venture in masturbation pleasure with the Tenga crysta series of (currently) three sex onacups.

The Tenga crysta, available internationally from our friends at Kanojo Toys, is made with transparent gel. The famed Tenga Flip Hole was, too, but then the gel was encased in a hard shell, a structure since replicated in more recent toys like the Tenga Moova or Flip Orb. The crysta — which comes in a choice of three designs: Block, Ball, and Leaf — forgoes that and instead lets you see all the action. And this means more hands-on, direct control of the fun.

The “floating” elements in the gel offer a wealth of sensations all over your glans and shaft as you slide in and out, all the while adjusting the pressure and angle manually with your trusty hand.

The toy is compact like the classic Tenga Cups or the more recent Tenga Spinner, though smaller, more flexible, and, being reversible, easier to clean.

As always with a Tenga toy, the concept is simple yet effective, while the appearance is minimal yet chic.

Happy Christmas, everyone!

Christmas is done and dusted for another year. What better a post-prandial treat than feasting your eyes on the body of gravure idol Aya Kawasaki?

As we blogged before, Aya Kawasaki is one of several high-profile names in gravure who is retiring or stepping back from the limelight of the weekly magazines to some degree.

In Aya’s case, it’s supposedly a full retirement at the end of the 2019 fiscal year (end of March), which has been massively hyped with major photo shoots and an upcoming photo book. (Most gravure idols, rather, just find their careers fading away, their agencies not renewing their contracts when the magazines stop wanting to put them on their covers.)

Now her latest (but not last?) appearance really demonstrates how to go out in style.

In a recent issue of the magazine Flash, Aya Kawasaki has answered our prayers and stripped off nude for a special pull-out shoot.

She is completely naked at a beach, basking in the sun. This was either shot much earlier in the year or at an overseas location, since it’s frigid at the moment in Japan. Well, this shoot is certainly something that will warm us up in the winter!

It’s a full nude shoot without being fully nude. What we mean is that this is not hair nude or full-frontal territory. Aya has opted to show her pert butt and slinky body in all its glory, but without revealing her front side. So no breasts or bush on show.

That being said, there are still 3.5 months to go until Aya leaves the stage, so we reckon that’s plenty of time for her to take things further.

Damn, we missed this one. Now here is something that would have livened up our Christmas lunch and dinner!

We just heard about this fun promotional item made by everyone’s favorite Japanese masturbation aid and sex toys brand. For the holiday season this year, Tenga created a special party popper that resembles ones of its classic onacups.

If you want to advertise to your family members or friends your penchant for masturbating with the help of Tenga toys, this red popper is for you.

At any social gathering, just whip out this deceptively realistic Tenga Cracker and pull. (Despite the name, it’s not really a cracker, which is pulled from both ends by two people. This is closer to a party popper. But anyway…)

Fear not, though it might look like a Tenga Cup, you won’t splash the cum and other detritus accumulated from your masturbation sessions over everyone gathered around the table. Instead, gold-foil-colored party streamers will burst all over the room.

Well, we never need an excuse to pop our load.

Tenga is selling the popper individually or in a set of five. They are exclusive to Japan, as far as we can tell, but you could ask Kanojo Toys to procure some for you if you are desperate for a Tenga-themed party item.

For our final post of 2019, we won’t do the usual round-up of the year but instead opt for something a bit more fun: sexy Santa cosplay.

Here is a selection of some of the best Mrs Claus cosplay (a genre known in Japanese as Santacos) by various idols and models, as featured in recent seasonally themed photo shoots or selfies.

First up, here is the gravure idol Tomi (or Toumi).

This is cosplayer and idol Amatsu-sama.

And here is Rina Hashimoto.

AKB48’s Yuki Kashiwagi has chosen for the cute rather than sexy look, but that’s still fine.

Race queen Yu Kikuchi (top) and model Chiyo Amano (bottom) look as alluringly slinky as ever.

Last but not least, model and former race queen Yuka Aoi’s body is almost too good to decorate with any kind of costume.

After doing the research for this post, we feel ready to pull our own Christmas popper.

Of course, there’s no reason you can’t recreate your own sexy Santa role-plays with a partner or doll. Our friends at Kanojo Toys stock a range of Mrs Claus cosplay items. We particularly recommend this Mrs Claus Sexy Santa Bikini Costume Set as a way to kick things off in the bedroom during Yuletide.

This is the grim reality for Comiket if you are a cosplayer. Sure, if you’re a popular cosplayer like Enako, no doubt you get your own team of staff to help manage the crowds, but for the amateurs and the small fry out there — of which they are many — you are nothing more than a toy or meat to be haggled over, parsed, and lensed by the snapping cameras of hordes of male visitors. And all at ultra-close proximity.

These two pictures widely shared online have once again revealed this situation, this time at Comiket 97 held at the end of December at 2019.

As is clearly visible, the men are inches from three women’s bodies and are hell-bent on getting upskirt-angle shots known as panchira. The swarm is practically swallowing the trio of young women, were not even that skimpily dressed (by Comiket standards).

We have been able to identify two of the women: Nana Matsuoka (松岡奈々) and Mumuda (無無田). Matsuoka herself shared photos and a shocking video from the incident with the caption “Please look at the darkness of Comiket.”

Last year, we blogged about a Chinese cosplayer at Comiket reduced to tears by the aggression of male photographers. Eventually her photo session had to be cancelled.

The was at the previous edition of Comiket. As the goings-on at the most recent one, such viral sensations evidently do little to affect the behavior of visitors at the event.

Oh, the danger of the casual, candid selfie.

Idols from groups like AKB48 have always sold themselves as regular girls that are not out of your league. They are “the idols that you can meet” — especially at hand-shaking events where fans pay to do so.

Part of this appeal is cultivated by their social media output.

It’s common for idols to post pictures and selfies showing their normal lives and what takes place behind the scenes.

When AKB48’s Kyoko Yamada recently took some backstage selfies in the dressing room before an event, however, she gave fans more than she (or her AKS managers) bargained for — though it was a very nice and unexpected bonus for her admirers.

The 17-year-old’s selfie shared a series of stunning panchira panty shots. Such upskirt glimpses are a major fetish in Japan.

While she has seen her popularity rise thanks to this accidental panchira, we suspect the Team 8 and Team K member will be more careful with how she poses for photos in the future.

Just when you think Tenga couldn’t get any more mainstream, along comes another development to prove you wrong.

Tenga is always a savvy one when it comes to promotion, as its Christmas popper recently showed. The Apple of Japanese adult toys (for men and women) has frequently engaged in clever stunts and campaigns to raise awareness and acceptance of its masturbation aids and other toys. But this is perhaps one with potentially the widest reach yet.

Behold the Tenga iPhone case.

Yes, now iPhone users will be able to advertise their love for Tenga and all the wonderful things the brand produces right there on their handheld devices.

It comes as no surprise that the cover design borrows the look of a Tenga onacup (specifically, the Deep Throat Cup) in the classic red.

On sale locally at stores like Village Vanguard and Tenga stores since December 26th, 2019, the case is compatible with the iPhone X and XS.

If we see any of these in the wild, being used by ordinary folks in Tokyo, we will try to snap a picture.

So, what’s next? A Tenga car?

The end-of-year period in Japan is a bit like Christmas in Europe and North America. Everyone has time off work and spends it with their family doing various traditional things like eating certain dishes or watching terrible TV shows.

In the prefecture of Kochi, though, some people instead chose to have sex in public parks.

At least, this couple did, since they were flagrantly filmed by a passerby and eventually had to be stopped by the party-pooping local police.

Photos of the incident, which apparently took place in Tsuitemae Park in the prefectural capital of Kochi, seems to show a man undressing a woman, giving her head, and then penetrating her — all wide out in the open. No skulking behind a bush for this intrepid, horny pair!

There is also reasonably clear a video, in which the man licks and fingers his female partner and then prepares to penetrate her, all while she moans (presumably in pleasure, though it might have been the frigid temperature).

Still, if you think this constitutes public indecency, wait till you’ve seen what young couples get up to at Scramble Crossing in the heart of Shibuya!

At the end of last year, we reported on a batch of high-profile photo book releases, including by seiyuu Sumire Uesaka.

But as was generously pointed out by an eager reader, another major voice actress also released a photo book that is very worthy of attention: none other than the recently divorced, sexy jukujo Rie Tanaka.

Now in her forties and still as hot as ever, Rie has shared some highlights from her photo book (her fourth, by our count), which was released in Japan on December 23rd, 2019.

While we have yet to get our hands on an actual copy of her photo book, “Bisai,” or, failing that, full scans, these previews demonstrate what a stunning body the 41-year-old (still) has. In particular, her long legs and toned tummy are a real sight for sore eyes during these cold days!

Lots of women make their debuts in the Japanese adult video industry to relatively minor fanfare. After all, it’s a crowded market. If they are lucky, newcomers get a big marketing push and it helps boost their career prospects. And if you are someone making a well-publicized switch from another career — music idol, gradol, acting, TV presenting — you are guaranteed extra publicity.

But it’s rare for porn producers to have so much faith in their new star that they even create a sex toy to accompany her debut release.

That’s what’s happened with Runa Hotsuki (朋月るな), whose much-anticipated first AV release (61MDTM00597) in January from Uchu Kikaku is complemented by a paizuri titjob toy based on her amazing breasts.

The Former Idol Runa Hotsuki Bouncy Breasts H Cup are an immaculate replica of her bust.

Runa was originally a minor idol in the Kansai region but has now made the crossover to AV. You’d better rush, though, because Runa is apparently committed to a single-release contract, so in theory this 163-minute first porno should be the only one. Perhaps that’s another reason that her producers are hoping to milk her release for all its commercial potential through this oppai toy.

The Former Idol Runa Hotsuki Bouncy Breasts H Cup is available from Kanojo Toys now.

Busty Sayaka Tomaru (都丸紗也華) is one of the many idols releasing a new photo book this winter.

The 23-year-old’s third photo book release (and first in around two years), cryptically titled “Mee Tomaru,” comes out on January 25th and features the idol’s I-cup breasts front, right and center, albeit unfortunately without revealing any actual nudity.

All right, we don’t know if her bust actually qualifies as an I cup but that’s the official claim. These stats are frequently exaggerated and, besides, Japanese cup sizes are measured a bit differently to other systems.

Regardless of what size cup she actually has, though, Sayaka looks as sexy as ever.

The Apple of the Japanese adult industry, Tenga, is back with another hit masturbation aid for men: behold, the Tenga Geo.

In terms of color and sculptural beauty, this exquisite-looking remind us of the Tenga 3D, but the Geo is also brilliantly original, shaped like spheres or spores of masturbation pleasure.

There are three versions of the Tenga Geo to choose from (Aqua, Coral, and Glacier), each with a different design of gel that you can reverse and wrap around your cock while you tug and pull.

As our friends at Kanojo Toys write:

With an elegant wave pattern, the Aqua gently stimulates you from all angles with its ridges. Meanwhile, you can put the death of the Great Barrier Reef out of your mind with the elegant Coral. This stunning masturbation toy is already colorless, but you’ll soon fill it up with more white stuff when you use it. The Glacier’s geometric form of deep, triangular protrusions gives you intense stimulation as you stroke yourself and thrust deep into the unknown.

In addition, and with its usual aplomb and savvy, Tenga has opted for another superb marketing campaign to promote the release of the Geo.

The brand is giving away free sofas to a handful of people. These mini couches are designed for reclining and self-pleasuring while watching with porn — naturally, with some help from your Tenga toy, too.

They have washable covers — very useful, given their purpose — and are made with beads (in fact, they are essentially bean bags).

To be one of three lucky winners, just retweet the official campaign tweet by January 31st. (You have to be resident in Japan and over the age of 18.)

As spotted on Twitter by Unseen Japan, a recently announced survey about sex had some troubling results for people in Japan.

The survey asked “What’s the most pleasurable thing for you?” and, not surprisingly, sex came out top in most countries, though “delicious food” was the top-ranked response in Japan. Any quick glance at the food porn that comprises most of the content of TV shows in the nation will confirm the veracity of this, perhaps, but is it a bad sign? Or rather, just what we already knew from previous research?

Sex was bested in Japan by spending time with a loved one, holding someone, and laughing. Sex came in at a meagre number 5.

More cause for concern, however, than the ranking of priorities is that the Japanese respondents to the survey also expressed the lowest level of satisfaction about sex with their partners. Just 9% said that having sex with their partner is “extremely satisfying.” A fairly sizable 30% percent said it was not really satisfying or totally not satisfying, only just beaten by the 32% who said it was “quite satisfying,” while another 30% said “none of the above.”

It should be noted, though, that the results were not much better for the South Korean respondents. People in the outgoing nations of America and Spain seem to have the most satisfying sex with their partners, while the UK, France, and Germany are not too far behind.

The survey is by Tenga, which also conducts serious sex research alongside developing its own range of bestselling masturbation and adult toys. Tenga is on another one of its headline-grabbing runs, following the Tenga Cracker last Christmas, the Tenga iPhone case, and, most recently, the newly released Tenga Geo and its tie-in promotional masturbation sofa.

The survey was quite extensive, covering 10,000 people in nine countries across the West and Asia. However, it has been rightly probed how certain questions were translated into the respective languages, which would quite likely affect the responses.

Buzz is building about 18-year-old gravure idol Rio Teramoto (寺本莉緒), who will release her first photo book very soon.

Crowned with the prestigious gradol title of Miss Young Magazine 2018, the teenager has a busty and curvy body that belies her youth.

The as-yet-untitled debut photo book will come out from major publisher Kodansha on March 25th, pushing the idol and actress’ career to the next phase.

Rio and her toothy grin already have a million followers on Instagram.

Could she be the next Nana Asakawa?

Here’s a fail that will become something of a classic. McDonald’s Japan has promised customers an “adult cream pie” experience for its latest release.

Is this some fantastic adult video that takes place inside branches of Mickey D’s? No, it’s a creamy, sweet pie.

But the unfortunate choice of naming has given this new dessert snack a whole other meaning.

McDonald’s calls the treat the “Otona no kuriimu pai” (大人のクリームパイ), which is available in two flavors from branches in Japan since January 15th. The name literally means “adult cream pie,” so you can imagine the response on social media when it was announced. Since the launch was announced, major international news outlets have also picked up on the story.

Did no one at the chain think to Google the phrase in English or Japanese? “Cream pie” is known locally in katakana, though it is not as common a sex slang phrase (“nakadashi” usually covers that meaning). Nonetheless, with “adult” (otona) next to it, the connotation is very strong. Surely a Google search would have rung immediate alarm bells!

The Adult Cream Pie is available for a limited time only. Right now we aren’t sure if the brouhaha and amusement over the naming fail will hurt sales or boost them.

Still, there have been worse and more costly fails. A university in Japan once had to change its name because it realized it literally had a “kinky” meaning.

When you’ve got it, flaunt it, as the saying goes.

Sometimes known as the Japanese Paris Hilton, Sari Kato (加藤紗里) is a woman of many talents and careers: grid girl (race queen), cosplayer, actor, model, YouTuber, and even dog trainer. Now 29 years old, she’s an all-round tarento (talento) who pops up on television for reasons no one quite knows other than that she is famous for being famous.

While she hasn’t (yet) gone down the path of adult video, she’s is definitely aware of her sexy (and slutty) looks and exploits them constantly.

Perhaps the most overt examples of this now are her contributions to the Japanese sex toy market with two masturbation aids.

The Sari Kato Body Onahole is “cloned” from her pussy and also features her immaculate bust (she is legendary for having an I-cup), allowing you to enjoy both vaginal penetration and a paizuri titjob with Sari.

Completing the official onahole is this Sari Kato Face Onahole, a brilliant blowjob masturbator that replicates Sari’s mouth, teeth, and throat — and even the trademark mole above her lip.

Both toys are newly available from our friends at Kanojo Toys for global delivery.

Sari is notorious for her rumored affairs with various men and a free game was even released on this theme with Sari’s cooperation. Incidentally, just a few days ago Sari announced her divorce from a man she only married in September last year. She gave as the reason for the breakup the fact that she had used too much of his money (as in hundreds of million yen!) and she no longer had any interest in him. Ouch! That’s harsh! Well, her former husband knows how to console himself if he wants to remember what it was like having sex with Sari…

Japanese pornography is never slow to miss a chance at making a parody adult video, from Weathering with You to One Cut of the Dead or even a notorious assault incident.

Just in time for the Academy Awards, where it is nominated in multiple categories, Joker is the latest bold choice of source material for a JAV release. This time, it’s Yui Hatano who is the titular villain, taking over from Joaquin Phoenix.

In the 130-minute, aptly titled “Woman Who Becomes a Clown” (bda111), released on February 19th from Bermuda, Hatano is a woman who becomes a clown and becomes the submissive sex slave of a man dressed up as Batman. There’s Joker makeup, a red costume, green hair, and shibari rope — and the results are glorious.

From the looks of the preview images, the second sex session seems more conventional, but when gorgeous Yui Hatano is the star, nothing is ever boring!

Late last year, 27-year-old gravure idol Yuka Someya posed for another nude shoot to cement her recent return to the world of gravure for the first time in two years.

The results, published in the weekly magazine Flash in December, are frankly as stunning as ever, showing off Yuka’s curvy, busty body in an office lady outfit, lingerie, bondage restraints (she looks particularly fetching with a collar and leash), and her birthday suit (though, as before, unfortunately stopping short of full-frontal hair nude).

We have covered Yuka Someya’s previous nude shoots here and here.

With the sad departure from our lives of idols Yuka Kuramochi, Mitsu Dan, and Manami Hashimoto, perhaps there is room for a sultry, curvy goddess like Yuka Someya to break into the mainstream.

For her debut photo book, Mizuki Yamashita of the idol group Nogizaka46 has gone for the provocative, almost-nude approach that fellow and former members like Misa Eto and Seira Miyazawa did successfully.

In the photo book, “Wasurerarenai hito” (Unforgettable Person), which was released January 21st from Shogakukan, the 20-year-old idol is seen nude behind a cloudy shower door. She is also pictured in the bath (again, the water is unfortunately cloudy) in a couple of shots, clutching her dripping bust with her arms. Another photo shows her naked, with a sheet held casually to her front and the top of her butt visible.

On the cover, Mizuki Yamashita shows off her pussy. Okay, we mean an actual cat. She is holding up the furry feline to cover her apparently naked body. Oh, the lucky life of the domestic cat!

Meow!

The new Evangelion movie, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0, will come out in June in Japan.

To celebrate, a Japanese adult toy brand has come up with an unofficial marketing strategy: a series of parody dildos!

The Ene Evolution dildos imitate certain aspects of the much-loved mecha anime franchise, as well as the look and even font.

First up, we have the Ene Evolution 00 Anal Dildo, a yellow and white toy modeled after Rei Ayanami’s EVA Unit-00.

Based on Evangelion EVA Unit-01, as any Neon Genesis Evangelion fan will instantly recognize, the Ene Evolution 01 Anal Dildo is, of course, purple and green.

Inspired by Evangelion EVA Unit-0, the Ene Evolution 02 Anal Dildo is red and orange.

What do you think? Brilliant tribute and a great anal toy in its own right? Or shameless, disrespectful, and exploitative?

I think we can assume that there are more than a fair few Evangelion enthusiasts working in the adult toys industry in Japan. And there are certainly a lot of anime fans among adult toy users. So is this a match made in heaven?

It is certainly a provocative parody and we wonder what the legal status on such commercial items is.

Though this Ene Evolution series comes from Tama Toys, an adult brand very well known for its parodies, it’s actually a bit unusual to see a parody dildo. Such cheeky designs are very common, of course, among onaholes and adult videos. We recently blogged about the brilliant Joker parody as a porn starring Yui Hatano. Among masturbator toy parodies, one similar one to the Evangelion dildo is the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure parody onacups.

The Evangelion parody Ene dildo series is available now from Kanojo Toys.