Tenga is not just content merely with producing some of the most sophisticated and best-designed Japanese adult toys, and achieving the distinction as pretty much the sole Japanese sex toy line to have global distribution in its own right, the brand also continues to market its products in unique and fun ways.
The latest iteration of this is Tenga Rocket, a project that sees brand founder Koichi Matsumoto in the same territory as other captains of industry like Richard Branson and Elon Tusk.
Tenga Rocket is pretty much what it sounds like: a venture between Tenga and civilian spaceflight company Interstellar Technologies, aiming to launch a Tenga rocket into space in summer 2021 from the northern prefecture of Hokkaido. (Another flashy, famous entrepreneur, Takafumi Horie, is behind Interstellar Technologies.)
An incredibly expensive, if effective, advertisement, the Tenga-themed red MOMO rocket will fly 100 kilometers (62.1 miles) into the air, before dropping back down into the ocean. As it descends, it will release Tenga-shaped pods filled with the written messages of a 1,000 people.
Oh, and on board the rocket is a Tenga Robo figure as well as a prototype of the Space Tenga, a new masturbation aid that the maker hopes to create for people to use on space stations. A sex toy to help astronauts jerk off? Yep, that’s the elevator pitch. The publicity image makes it look like a special kind of Tenga Cup.
The prototype will gather data on what happens to it during zero-gravity. This is the more serious R&D side to the project, since Tenga genuinely wants to sell the Space Tenga one day.
It’s something you must have thought about at least once. Firstly, don’t astronauts get horny during their long sojourns up in space, surrounded by a small group of their peers, none of whom are wearing exactly flattering clothes? Secondly, how do you jack off in zero gravity? What happens to the cum? Well, if you have the Space Tenga, it will catch and contain all your juices for you.
It adds a whole other meaning to “blasting off in(to) space.”
Once again never able to resist a promotional opportunity, Tenga is raising a portion of the funds for the launch via a crowdfunding campaign, and is offering Tenga Rocket-themed perks to backers, and is also opening a Tenga Rocket pop-up store in Osaka at the prestigious Hankyu Department Store until March 2.
