We continue our reports about Tokyo Game Show 2016. We are a little late on these reports but we were too busy to post. TGS always walks that fine line between the exciting big releases of the gaming industry and veering off into creepy (but to us, intriguing) world of virtual dating and sex. Here…

Virtual dating has long been a big part of the adult industry or quasi-adult industry in Japan. What with all the reports of sexless Japan and “parasite singles” still living with their parents well into their thirties, you might almost be forgiven for thinking that “virtual boyfriends” apps and digital idols were responsible for the…

Yet another article is claiming Japan is a sexless wasteland of virgins and singletons. In this case, the bold claim is that “almost half of young men and women are virgins”. These articles are perennials, loved by editors and journalists — but treated with some disdain by old hands. The other common trope is that…

Now that’s what we call tentacle sex. Some people really go that extra mile for their cosplay. Here is one example that’s going to be hard to beat for a while. Cosplayer Namada spent half a day with photographer Kazan Yamamoto and the results are incredible, not least because Namada is beautiful and she was…

As discussed on this blog before, Japan’s love hotels have increasingly become focused on amenities. In spite of the western stereotype of love hotels as gawdy, crazy lairs of kinkiness, the actual number of themed chambers and unusual rooms is low — and largely consigned to the countryside (notwithstanding the odd exception in Tokyo like…

Every year the Oppai Bokin “boob aid” event attracts plenty of attention, including lots of foreign press and visitors who use it as another “wacky” stick to beat Japan with. The truth of the matter is, those guys paying money to line up and touch porn stars’ breasts are helping a good cause, because the…

A new series of instant noodle ads use a gravure idol, music idol, go-go dancers, race queen, and well-known seiyuu. What more could you ask for? Kara-Ou is apparently pretty spicy — so hot, in fact, that they hired in-demand gravure idol Sayaka Tomaru and music idol Erina Kamiya as well as Karen and Kazue,…

Japan’s latest Twitter goddess is a 21-year-old college student with a penchant for foreign penetration — and we don’t mean interracial sex. No, this lady likes to penetrate herself with all manner of household item. And she was apparently more than happy to show the rest of the world online her unusual habits. She has…

If you think something is too good to be true, you’re probably right. That’s our advice, which should have been followed by the thousands of men who thought they had the chance to go on a date with Atsuko Maeda. A 38-year-old man was arrested earlier this month for operating a deai-kei dating website that…

Host culture in Japan is so big now that apparently even pre-teens aspire to look like the hirsute Kabukicho drinkers-for-hire. Ryuchalo is the son of a beauty blogger called Chiimelo (yes, the names are pretty wacky), and apparently he wanted to celebrate his 8th birthday as a host. In fact, he even celebrated his birthday…