AKB48’s power has waned of late and it takes a scandal to make us sit up and take notice (though the recent sex scandals involving Nana Okada and Yuiri Murayama, culminating in the former quitting the group, added a little frisson to an otherwise dull media landscape).
Instead, we continue to follow what happens to the many members of the supergroup after they graduate. Though the majority vanish into the post-idol ether, a lucky few carve out careers in acting or TV, some keep on doing modeling and gravure work, and a small yet notable number move into porn.
Makiho Tatsuya (達家真姫宝) would fall into the middle category, though she’s a step close to porn now with her latest gravure photo shoot that appears in Weekly Taishu.
The shoot is provocatively publicized on the cover as “fully nude,” though initial pics seem to indicate that she is indeed naked but you only get to see her butt and back. That said, one great shot features her lying on her back with her hands covering her breasts and only the corner of a carefully positioned towel protecting her modesty regarding what’s between her legs (she’s presumably gone paipan for the shoot).
The 21-year-old is promoting her debut photo book, which comes out on January 19, 2023.
She debuted in AKB48 in 2013 when she was a young teenager, advanced to Team 4, and finally left the AKB juggernaut in December 2020.
We’re sorry about the quality of the images. These are hastily snapped photos of the pages that are doing the rounds of the Japanese interwebs. We hope better scans of the pages will become available in the near future. Watch this space!
