Two gravure gyaru. What more could you want?!
Yukipoyo has been joined by her younger sister in a gravure shoot for the first time.
The 20-year-old Yumichi poses with Yukipoyo for a shoot in the October 22 issue of Flash magazine.
Yukipoyo (full name Yuki Kimura) is 27 years old and, though now known more generally as a celebrity, got her start in the gyaru fashion magazine egg. She overcame a drug scandal to make a comeback a few years ago. Stripping off helped.
Yumichi (Yumi Kimura) is very much following in her older sister’s footsteps. She made her debut this February as a model in nuts, another gyaru magazine.
The Kimura girls, who come from Kanagawa, are biracial: their dad is Japanese and their mom is Filipina.
The Yukikopo-Yumichi shoot is pretty tame (especially by the older sister’s standards): just the two siblings embracing while dressed in slinky swimwear. There’s lot of tanned skin and dyed hair on display, and not an inch of body fat.
It also got us thinking of other gradol shimai (gravure sisters).
Examples we can think of include Tomoe and Mayumi Yamanaka, Yurina and Iroha Yanagi, Marina and Erika, and Sayaka and Akari Tomaru.
Of course, there’s the Michibata sisters, but they’ve never really worked as gravure idols, more as fashion models. Likewise for Yuka and Kiko Mizuhara.
