Remember the Zettai Ryouiki Flashing Skirt? We blogged about it late last year as a cool gadget-cum-cosplay item that really draws attention to that sexy area of the upper thigh, known as zettai ryouki (“the absolute zone”). In this skirt, developed by Kiyoyuki Amano of Kayac Inc, multi-colored flashing lights have been added to a…

It just goes to prove: being an middle-aged otaku does not mean you stop being attractive to the opposite sex. Toshio Okada, the famous anime producer and writer, and co-founder of Gainax (Evangelion), has been exposed as a mass philander. The 56-year-old chubby otaku had his cat let out of the bag when a picture…

A few years ago people started talking about the “Chiisai Ojisan” — the “tiny uncle”. He was first reported in 2009 and is said to live around a shrine in west Tokyo. Apparently measuring no more than 20cm, the small man may be some sort of yokai (Japanese sprite). As we’ve written before, Japanese erotica…

Another day, another media article about sexlessness in Japan. This time it was an article by Jiji that got republished on The Japan Times. It focuses on a survey from last September by the Japan Family Planning Association about married couples. It found that 49.3% of people said they had had no sex in the…

The threat announced by ISIS to execute two Japanese hostages, Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa, unless the government pays them $200 million shocked many. But not Japanese netizens. They responded with amusement — by mocking the extremists through a series of composite images on social media. Yes, a Photoshop contest is apparently the best response…

Like that perennial stumper “Where do elephants go to die?”, the question of what happens to all the scores of AKB48 idols once they “graduate” is often on our minds. Sure, some go on to mildly successful acting careers. But for the most, there is only oblivion or a career in porn. Faced with this…

Amazon got busted! Not even the biggest online retailer in the world is safe from the cops. The Japanese police have raided the Amazon Japan office on suspicion of assisting the sale of child pornography. On Friday, cops raided the Tokyo headquarters of Amazon Japan, plus the distribution center in Chiba Prefecture (ironically, you can…

Fetish Festival (Feti-Fes) was held in Tokyo on Sunday January 25th at an inconspicuous venue near Harajuku. There were 96 booths, including cosplayers, idols, bondage artists, and more, spread out over six seriously packed floors, plus a basement showing the “Underground Fetish Film Festival” screenings. Feti-Fes was first held in January 2013, since then it…

Mineo is a mobile virtual network operator. It offers a range of services. As reported by Rocketnews 24, apparently one of these is making giant (and we mean, GIANT) anime hug pillows! Mineo is so big now they even have a mascot, Maineo-tan. In this video they showed off a new blow-up hug pillow of…

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. Move over, Gravure idols. Move over, music idols like AKB48. The sexiest and sexiest-dressed ladies we encounter in daily life are the tantalizing posters we see on the Japanese lingerie shops. In particular, Peach John and Ravijour, kind of the Victoria’s Secret of Japan, never fail…