August (and December) means only one thing if you’re a dojinshi or cosplay otaku in Japan: Comiket.

And so it was that Comiket 86 kicked off on Friday for a three-day bonanza of cosplay, otaku and clicking cameras. The internet has become replete with the shocking and scintillating pictures from the visitors, mostly taken outside the Odaiba venue as people, including professional cosplay models, posed and frolicked under the humid sun.

Here are some selections from the hot and sweaty images to be found on the Japanese web right now. Warning: contains extreme geekdom!

First of all, the sexy cosplay girls.

Now for the not-so-sexy otaku and their cameras.

And finally, some of the oddities.

According to this person’s message on Twitter, they became friendly with one cosplayer and ended the day at a love hotel.

And this girl is telling the world that she is heading to Comiket the next day and is recruiting some people for gang bang. Any takers?

And for something a bit different, there were reports on Twitter of a sex doll being spotted at a very different cosplay event indeed — the right-wing nationalist gathering at Yasukuni Shrine on Friday, August 15th, marking the anniversary of Japan’s defeat in WW2.

Cosplay comes in all shapes and sizes!

We’ve said it before and we’ll sell it again. Many Japanese girls have flat chests.

Some guys like that. In fact, data exists proving that Japanese men prefer girls with modest busts.

Our jury’s still out. While we like the cute, innocent-looking Japanese girl, we still ultimately prefer some curves and breasts to get our hands (and other things) on.

So-called hinnyu or tsurupeta Japanese girls have even inspired their own sex toys.

And their own underwear.

We don’t just mean A-cup bras. Feast is a whole range of stylish lingerie specifically designed for girls with very modest chests. It is created by Gomi Hayakawa and the concept behind the line is to help “Cinderella” women “discover their real cuteness” by transforming into “angels”.

Its two new products, Angelic Wing and Fairy Feather, proved so popular that they sold out almost immediately upon going on sale online recently. There is clearly the demand from Japanese women for this kind of lingerie.

New Feast bras will go on sale in September.

So look out for these angels around Tokyo soon, proudly displaying their chopping-board chests.

Ex-AKB48 member and now prolific model Kaoru Mitsumune has made a shocking annoucement.

Despite being one of the cutest of Japanese girls with boyish haircuts active at the moment, she claims she has never had a boyfriend.

While that wouldn’t shock us for an AKB48 member, given that the girls in the group are banned from having sex or relationships (except of course with the AKB management).

However, she left the mega idol group in 2012. Since she must meet a lot of people in her work and with her fame and looks, must surely have guys lining up to get more personal, can she really be telling the truth?!

“I don’t really know how you start dating someone,” she recently said at an event. “I haven’t held hands with a boy except for things at school.”

In other words, she is claiming she is a virgin!

Whether she’s ever had a boyfriend or not, 21-year-old Kaoru certainly isn’t afraid to get risque with her body… and even pose semi-nude with bread.

Actress Yui Ichikawa has become the latest Japanese model to strip off for magazine Anan in a series of sexy shots. We especially like the fluffy “tail”.

Though a mainstream actress, Ichikawa has previously teased her male admirers with Gravure shots that show off her slinky body… Take a gander below!

Ichikawa appeared in a big “sex issue 2014″ for Anan, on which we will be doing a write-up soon (it had a fun survey about sex, for one). Despite its ostensible role as a female fashion and lifestyle magazine, Anan frequently persuades famous models and actresses to appear in very sexy cover shoots and it likes to run content about sex on a regular basis. It’s the thinking woman’s porn mag.

Ichikawa has also shed her clothes for a new film, “Umi wo kanjiru toki” (When I Sense the Sea), to be released on September 13th and which is being overtly advertised as an erotic drama where you will get to see the 28-year-old naked.

The plot seems to be about high school kids having sex in the late 1970′s.

　
Looks good!

Japan has been shocked and amused by a scandal in the popular world of ice skating.

Daisuke Takahashi, the 28-year-old male figure skating star and much loved by female fans as a heartthrob as well as Olympian, has been sexually assaulted (kind of) by his old boss, a 49-year-old Seiko Hashimoto, a former skater herself and now politician.

Takahashi has long been rumored to be in a relationship with Japan’s other most famous figure skater, Mao Asada.

However, it seems that at least at a drunken party in February after the end of the Sochi Olympics, Asada had a rival in an unlikely form. Hashimoto apparently grabbed Takahashi and, whether out of a celebratory spirit or lust it is not clear, forced him to kiss her in front of others.

A picture has emerged of the drunken embraces and it doesn’t look pleasant. Takahashi seems to be turning away at one point.

Hashimoto has three children and is a former Olympic speed skater and cyclist, and was in charge of Japan’s team in Sochi.

Shukan Bunshun, the weekly tabloid, published the pictures and broke the story this week.

According to the magazine, others at the party claim Hashimoto “pounced” on her prey and the kissing may have continued for some minutes!

Though his management is yet to make a formal complaint about harassment, it is very embarrassing for the high-rising politico Hashimoto.

She has responded that she did not force herself on the younger star and that it was a natural embrace at the time.

We’ll let you be the judge of that…

We all like a nice handjob. But as any connoisseur knows, there are various techniques and styles to a good handjob. Rigorous. Gentle. Swift and sharp.

But how about cute? Can you get jerked off in a sweet and innocent way? In Japan, yes.

The Beyz Kobo Handjob Idol Toy recreates this sensation with a super kawaii touch.

We’ve seen a lot of handjob masturbators in our time, from robotic jerkbot machines to “gloves” with a “woman’s touch” and more.

But we’ve never seen one with a finger like this!

If you like Japanese idol groups you will straightaway notice the parody here. “Beyz Kobo” is a reference to Berryz Kobo, a popular Hello! Project girl group. Japanese sex toys makers do this a lot, treading a fine legal line between paying tribute and exploiting fans of the original!

The Beyz Kobo Handjob Idol Toy is actually a collaboration with JAV porn brand Moodyz, which made a film with “Beyz Kobo” in 2012 in which the protagonist jerked men off with her finger extended in the unique pose.

As KanojoToys writes: “This innovative tekoki toy replicates the sensation and look of the idol’s hands and finger. Just slide yourself in between her gentle fingers for the tight handjob experience you’ve always wanted.”

Fun fact of the day: tekoki is the Japanese word for handjob.

The Beyz Kobo toy also reminds us of another “innocent” handjob toy, the Yojo Senpai Her Small Hands masturbator, where you get both hands gently cupping your member to bring it to climax.

Even better, if you like getting sweet blowjobs from cute Japanese schoolgirls, there is now a related toy in the same series, the Yojo Senpai Small Mouth Onahole!

The yearly contest to find the cutest (i.e., hottest) school girl in the Kanto area (the district with Tokyo and Yokohama and other neighboring prefectures) has announced its 2014 results.

In all there were over 22,000 votes and 8,000 comments, as well as nearly 40,000 retweets.

This is the girl crowned Miss High School 2014. Like all the candidates Maaya was a first grader and received the highest number of votes from members of the public.

The most page views was for Yuuki.

And the most comments was for Seri-chan.

The prize for the most retweets was Oryo.

The top number of Facebook likes was for Rimachosu.

Meanwhile snaggletooth charmer Akyannpui actually had the most number of overall points.

We also covered last year’s schoolgirl hotties with glee.

Japanese girls are clamoring to get advice from a sultry 22-year-old model called Ayame Tachibana.

Why? Because she is open about her very many encounters with men in Tokyo and claims to be an expert at hunting for guys.

Tachibana says she “has experience with over 100 men”.

She recently told all about her romances in a book published earlier this year, collecting together the columns by her and other models from the fashion magazine Soul Sister, which is aimed at gyaru and “no-good girls”.

She’s been hunting guys since she was 17 and started going to clubs.

“At that time my sexual needs were very strong so I would pick up men. It was like playing sports. The only scary thing was getting an STD. Sometimes I would be with three guys in a day. The guy wants to do it; I wanna do it, so my thinking was that it was all good, just a matching of supply and demand.”

The rampant girl’s needs wouldn’t be retained by geography either.

“It wouldn’t have to be at home or in a love hotel. I’d take them out of the club and then just find a spot to do it. I was a real kinky girl.”

And is she still pursuing some a busy schedule of men?

“I’m not like that now, though. After I’d gone past 100 guys I got fed up. That was when I had just turned 20.”

She says her current boyfriend is a regular office worker. She’s had experience with male models, CEOs and rougher types, but now she values someone who’s calmer and won’t cheat on her.

Saying that, they got together first as an affair while they were both with other partners.

Tachibana deplores the rise of the soushoku danshi, the “herbivore men” who aren’t interested in sex or chasing girls. If you want to hook a girl like Ayame, you need to be confident and show you have physical needs.

Wow, should be amazed, threatened or turned on by Ayame? One thing’s for sure. Perhaps only in Japan would a girl who openly admits to being a slut (we say that with all due respect) would be given a respected platform to preach to the masses!

Perhaps she could give some tips to the permanently boyfriend-less Kaoru Mitsumune.

The tattooed and slinky Tachibana now works as a model, dancer and DJ, and counts among her special skills “air sex dance”. We’d very like to see her demonstrate it!

Keita Motono, a 25-year-old teacher at a junior high school in Yokohama City, has been arrested for indecent assault. The charges are that Motono touched the body of a female high school student on her way home at 10:30 at night on August 13th.

The 17-year-old third grader was walking home in Yokohama when Motono apparently forced himself on her upper body.

The unnamed girl was left physically unhurt by the attack and Motono has admitted his guilt.

Motono approached the girl from behind. “If you make a noise I’ll kill you,” he threatened. “Give me your panties. Let me touch you.”

While the media is reporting that Motono was able to grope the student’s modest chest, it is unknown if Motono got away with the prized panties. As know, such used panties are the Holy Grail for a certain type of man here.

The girl remembered his face and this led to Motono’s downfall.

There have been 14 such incidents in Yokohama in the same manner since late March. Motono became a teacher in Yokohama in April this year. Is this just a coincidence? No doubt the boys in blue are putting their moves on Motono to get him to confess to being a serial street panty thief.

Perhaps appropriately enough, he teaches physical education. His employers have promised to “deal with it rigidly”, though we can expect that he only gets suspended. In these cases, sometimes the response by the education authorities is very lenient.

There’s been a lot of political tension over the last two years between Korea and Japan. Territorial disputes. Yasukuni Shrine. Comfort women.

But when all’s said and done, there’s one great unifier: sex.

Korea does not have a very vibrant porn industry and Korean men look to JAV to fill their needs.

“Yadong” means a porn video you watch online or on your computer. Whatever they think about certain rocks in the sea between Japan and the peninsula, almost all men in Korea love Japanese anime and Japanese porn.

Due to local restrictions you don’t have the major porn makers in Korea like you get in Japan and so most porn is Japanese. “Yadong” by default means Japanese pornography.

What Koreans like about JAV is how there is such a variety of narratives and situations, and how it ventures frequently into the abnormal.

And of course, they love the JAV actresses too… One website lists the most popular JAV stars of 2013, taken from YGOSU, a Korean forum site.

The most popular were Shion Utsunomiya, Minami Kojima, Akiho Yoshizawa, Minami Hatsukawa and Ai Uehara.

We wonder if it is a mere coincidence that there are two girls with the names “Minami” in the top ranking? “Minami” means “south”, obviously an important word for Korea!

Our lady this week is strictly speaking not a Gravure idol, though she has certainly done some very revealing photo shoots in her time.

Chinatsu Wakatsuki is a fashion model and tarento (generic TV celebrity).

In early 2012 she announced she was pregnant and was getting married — big surprise, the usual celebrity shotgun wedding style — and now she is presenting herself as a cool young mama in her thirties with good fashion tastes.

Born in 1984, she was scouted in Shibuya while still a teenager. Her slinky charms have been on our screens ever since.

Ever wanted to fondle a Japanese porn star’s breasts? Then get ready for boob aid!

Following last year’s successful event, 24-Hour TV: Eroticism Saves the Earth is back, including the popular squeeze-a-thon event where members of the public make charity donations for the chance to touch the breasts of porn actresses.

Rina Serino is one of the nine sexy JAV stars baring their beautiful chests for charity and letting random men grope them for a good cause, organized by SKY PerfecTV!.

All visitors have to show ID to prove their age, donate ¥1,000 to charity and sanitize their hands before they get their hands on the girls’ breasts. You are allowed to fondle each star’s breasts once.

Technically, as the squeeze-a-thon is televised, you are legally an “extra” in the TV show and so have to sign a release.

The event, which has happened every year for over a decade now, is taking place on August 30th and 31st at a venue in Kabukicho, Shinjuku. There are numerous other events during the 24-hour charity drive.

The money raised goes to the Japan Foundation for AIDS Prevention.

As everyone knows, Japan is the world of technology.

Sometimes that engineering gets applies to home electronics, sometimes to automobiles, sometimes to nuclear reactors. And sometimes to sex toys.

And the result is you get the sex machine.

The pioneer was the Hitachi Magic Wand back in the 1970′s, one of many electronic massagers that swiftly found extra unofficial uses. There have been a whole line of “wands” since, not least the Fairy.

But it’s a few years ago when the genre really evolved.

The Rends A10 Cyclone has long been the most sophisticated and satisfactory sex machine on the market here, loved for its power, sensitive motion, and reliability.

But no sex toy is perfect. The A10 Cyclone requires the R1 Base Unit to work. Not such a bad thing, since the R1 can also be used for a whole range of other vibrator attachments for fun couple play, plus there is a handy combo set you can get of both the A10 and R1 together like they deserve.

But Rends went back to the drawing board and decided to come with a whole new sex machine, one that worked as well as the original A10 but looked even better — and was also standalone.

Enter the Vorze A10 Cyclone SA.

We first spotted this beauty at Japan’s new adult expo, Pink Tokyo, much earlier in the year. It was released in May but was soon withdrawn after it wasn’t quite working up to the high standards that Rends imposes. They did some more tests and improvements, and now it’s back. However, it’s only being sold via one online adult retailer in Japan and overseas, the only place you can get it is KanojoToys.

All this shows what a special release this is.

It’s cordless and requires only itself (the “SA” refers to “standalone”). It can work with videos on your Windows PC via a DVD-ROM or with another device via Bluetooth, and uses customized hole attachments (the set contains one to get your started). Just charge it up for two hours and then you are away. It is very quiet but hasn’t lost any of the oomph of the A10.

The torque has also been enhanced. The Vorze A10 works smoother even at low speeds and also has better results for larger men. The original A10 Cyclone tended to get a little “clogged” when buzzing members with a bit of girth.

In the future Rends is promising more hole heads as well as Android and iOS compatibility.

Keep an eye on KanojoToys for more.

Korean-born model Youn-a (28) is marrying again this autumn, just over a year after divorcing a Korean businessman.

Her new partner and future husband is a Kotaro Shiba (40), head of office48, an agency connected to the company behind AKB48, AKS.

So far, not so Tokyo Kinky, you might think, though Youn-a is a bit of a hottie. Perhaps she will be appearing in the idol group in the future? That would be a real reason to listen to their “music” at last…

However, Kotaro Shiba is rumored to be connected to the Japanese mafia, the Yakuza, as we previously reported.

Entertainment people are worried that Youn-a’s choice of new husband will damage her clean reputation (she’s the kind of model who appears in very middle-class fashion magazines), since Shiba’s Yakuza connections have been heavily publicized in the tabloids.

Shiba has a checkered past, with a failed beauty salon on his resume before he got involved with black market financial services that are borderline extortion. He is also said to have his band in underground casinos and pachinko. And it was through casino gambling that he apparently met the other important businessmen in AKB, like Yasushi Akimoto. The money that Shiba subsequently invested in the AKB ventures is rumored to be funds gained from illegal enterprises.

While office48 responded angrily to these tabloid reports, it did not sue or take action against the magazine that originally published them.

Does Youn-a know about her partner’s history?!

Breaking news just in. Japanese teenaged girls are cute.

Take this 17-year-old idol, Mizuki Kimoto. Born in 1996, this year she has started to appear in magazines like Young Jump in various states of undress.

Is this wrong? Should we be even looking at these young girls dressed like this?

Well, the powers that be in the world of Japanese idols and Gravure seem to disagree — as do the girls’ legal guardians — since they have them disrobe for these kinds of photo shoots.

Here’s another 17-year-old hottie.

The good news is that Mizuki Kimoto is going to be 18 in September… and so it then becomes less creepy to look at her pictures.

There you have it. Proof at last that porn is good for the world.

As reported a few days ago, this weekend saw the 24-Hour TV: Eroticism Saves the Earth event in Kabukicho, part of which was a breast squeeze-a-thon, where nine hot Japanese porn stars allowed their chests to be groped by random men… all for a good cause, honest!

Well, these gals helped raised ¥5 million (around $5,000) for a charitable foundation fighting AIDS in Japan!

The girls had 6,000 pairs of hands on their assets, groping for a grand total of over 15 hours spread over Saturday and Sunday.

Apparently some of the men did so quite sheepishly. Media reports even said one guy did a Buddhist prayer before and after touching each girl’s chest (you were allowed to touch each of the girls once) if you donated ¥1,000 or over, and got yours hands disinfected. Oh, and there were some ladies among the visitors too, causing the porn stars to squeal, “Wow, I’m happy. I want her to touch my breasts!”

“I never thought my boobs could contribute to society,” pondered one of the porn actresses philosophically. Well, you’re wrong. They can do, and more.

AIDS/HIV is a growing problem in Japan, where safe sex is rarely practiced among the young. While the overall numbers are a fraction of the worldwide total, there are said to be 1,500 new patients every year.

There has been some mild panic in the local media after reports of school kids catching Dengue fever from mosquitos in Yoyogi Park in central Tokyo on August 21st.

The cases have been increasing since then, with 22 confirmed victims so far. On August 27th the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare announced they were the first recorded domestic cases of Dengue fever in Japan in around 70 years.

A rather unlikely scenario has manifested itself, though, in that two tarento have also contracted the illness, it was announced today.

Eri Aoki (25) and Saya (20) were doing a TV shoot in Yoyogi Park on August 21st and they tried to catch some insects in the name of making quality television. During the course of their frolics they were bitten by mosquitos carrying Dengue and have since come down with fever, although their conditions are supposed to be fine.

Saya is much beloved as a young Gravure model with lovely curves and girl-next-door looks.

Parts of Yoyogi Park have been closed to the public since August 28th while the authorities try to deal with the outbreak with large doses of pesticide.

Let this be a warning to everyone: Don’t snap pictures of hot Japanese girls you don’t know. Anywhere.

Sure, we know we shouldn’t do this in the office when a cutie goes by. And we also know there are plenty of cases of people being arrested for taking photos under girls’ skirts.

But just an innocent snap of a pretty girl on the train. Surely this wouldn’t be a police matter, right?

Wrong.

On the evening of August 28th, a 40-year-old Kawasaki City employee was riding the Denentoshin Line, a major suburban train line between Tokyo and Yokohama. He glanced at a cute 21-year-old female college student sitting next to him. He decided to take a photo.

There was nothing salacious about it. No panties. No zooming up her skirt.

But the municipal environmental department worker found himself in Kanagawa police custody on suspicious of breaching prefectural anti-nuisance ordinances, facing a hefty sentence.

Police said that he had used a USB stick-shaped camera to snap a shot of the girl from head to toe.

There have been similar cases before. Someone who snapped a girl from behind while she was passing by in 2008 was found guilty. As was a man who snapped a photo of a sleeping girl on a train in Chiba in 2011. In Kanagawa, the anti-nuisance ordinance carries a potential penalty of a year in prison and a ¥1 million ($10,000) fine!

A lawyers has actually said that according to the letter of the law, all you need to do is simply point your phone or camera in a girl’s direction and you are in danger of arrest.

So… next time you are in Shibuya and see that hot girl standing in front of you at Scramble Crossing — think twice before reaching for your iPhone’s camera!

Sony has bizarrely chosen to show off its virtual reality headset Project Morpheus with this creepy demo Summer Lesson, to be exhibited at Tokyo Game Show later this month.

Sony, perhaps with an eye on its dismal sales of late, seems to want to attract the otaku dollar, since the demo, in contrast to previous ones that involved such exciting scenarios as a shark cage, is about leering at a loosely-dressed schoolgirl as she hangs around at home.

Here’s the demo, though you’ll have to wait until TGS to test it out.

Directed and produced by Katsuhiro (“Tekken”) Harada — who advertises his own tastes in 2D girls by his choice of t-shirt — the demo has not impressed Engadget at any rate:

“We’re expecting to feel suitably embarrassed and awkward when we get to test it out at TGS 2014 in a few weeks — but we’re also hoping to get a better grasp of why the team decided to go with something that could easily be so misconstrued for a very conspicuous, very early Project Morpheus showcase.”

So if you’re a young boy without a girlfriend, reach for this headset and get a virtual one instead.

I can see this being a huge hit in Japan among a certain demographic if they made it into a full-on commercial SIM game. The only question, then, is whether the spendthrift Akihabara crowd can save Sony from bankruptcy? One thing’s for sure — it won’t help reverse Japan’s declining population any time soon…

It’s not easy being in an idol group. Constantly shuttling from photo shoot to TV appearance to recording studio to media interview. No real private life. Always under the watchful eye of your minders and agency controllers.

And now we have the sad news yesterday that Korean idol group Ladies’ Code has lost one of its members in a traffic accident on a drive from Busan to Seoul.

EunB was killed and Sojung and Rise hurt, the latter critically, when a vehicle carrying all five members of the idol group crashed into a guardrail at 1.30 in the morning on Wednesday.

Other passengers were also hurt, including the group’s support team. EunB (real name Go Eun-b) had been with the group since its debut in 2013. She was 21 years old.

Ladies’ Code had just released a new single in August.

K-pop acts Infinite and Dal Shabet have also apparently been involved in traffic accidents recently in similar conditions, as idols try to cram in as much into their schedules as possible. Korea is said to have the second-worst safety record in the world, behind Mexico.

The #RIPEunB became the top trending hashtag on Twitter worldwide on Wednesday.