Welcome back. This time I’ve something different for you. Not only are these commentaries about Idol DVD’s, but they are new Idol Video models – meaning new to me as in not previously seen in my column before. These will be short-takes instead of in-depth reviews; the point being to introduce some new faces and figures and to get you interested, because I definitely am. I reserve the right to do full reviews at a later date.
Our first model is the sexy Mai Miyashita who has two DVDs that we can look at together. The first is from the folks at Kazoo Planning and is entitled Milky. These are the same folks that produced the Yuna Kawase Milky reviewed here. Mai is a healthy looking package of pulchritude, and she sports a 95cm I-Cup pair. Kazoo’s comments on the box cover are Mai’s Dynamite Body. And there’s no dispute over that. By the way, this DVD surpasses Yuna’s Milky, and Mai is prettier. Yuna gets the kudos for bust size only.
Lucky Mai got a trip to Pattaya, Thailand whereas Yuna got to do her ‘milk run’ in a studio shoot at home. Toss in a variety of outdoor scenes, plus some creative poses, and you’ve got a pretty good DVD.
Mai also appears in a DVD entilted Scramble (on the box cover) but over at cdjapan, they’re calling it AiCup. Since my ability to read Japanese script is an impossibility, we will stick to Scramble.
This one has some extreme variety. Among the highlights, we will see a sleeping Mai teased with a paint brush, a shower scene, a bath tub scene, plus a very nice scene with Mai dressed in a traditional kimono. She’s quite tasty in my opinion. I wonder if the omelet she cooks for someone in the obligatory cooking sequence is also tasty.
Our next model is the cleavage queen and full-lipped Hitomi Hoshi, and her video is called Fortune Colors from Bunkasha’s First Kiss Series. Actually she’s been on the scene for three years but I hadn’t discovered her until recently. Evidentally her earlier videos hadn’t made much of impact. But it has all changed this time.
This DVD has some remarkable images, including a lengthy underwater sequence. Aside from that I think she’s just great. I will do a full review of this one, but wanted to give a introduction immediately.There’s plenty of pool sequences with the requisite bikinis. They’ve done these with superb panache. The images seem fresh and original. Kudos to the director.
Kana Kurashina is next. She’s one of Miss Magazine’s select group of models for 2006. The video series is produced by Tokyo Broadcasting System in conjunction with Miss Magazine. They’ve made some superb choices including Yuri Kobayashi in 2005, Ourei Harada in 2004, and Rio Natsume in 2003.
The 2006 series was shot in Bintan, a resort island 55 minutes by high-speed ferry from Singapore. I went over to Bintan myself for a day trip in 1999 and it is a grand place. Spectacular in fact. Kana has a different kind of charm. Like Yuri she’s bouncy and energetic – filled with high spirit. But unlike Rio and Ourei she’s doesn’t have a huge bustline. Still, she’s very photogenic and we expect her to have a few more DVD credits on her cv before she hangs up her bikinis.
Ando Sayaka is an alluring and sexy woman. She’s tall, leggy, and just oozing with that special kind of aura that makes you want to know her instantly. The DVD is Healing Venus from Line Communications I-One Series. In truth Ando has a large following and has been making DVDs since 2004.
This is the first of her DVDs that I’ve had the pleasure of watching and I’m happy to present her on my pages. Most guys go ga-ga for this babe, and’s she quite a looker in a bikini. Despite her less than AoV size bustline, she’s very worthy of your attention.
Our last ‘New Face – First Look’ is Mizuki Horii and the DVD is called Physical. She’s not only quite busty but she’s high energy as well. Its a rather well done video that includes a good number of the standard or generic Gravure Idol scenes; but there’s also a special spin applied for Mizuki.
For example – there’s often a romantic feel to a scene – almost like you’re being seduced. Or they go for a sporting motif. But whichever direction they start with, you can count on the unifying theme which is that the model is big busted.
Ok. That’s it. We’ve done the something old and something new bit. All of the idols in the this particular column are new to the column, or new to the industry. And just maybe they are a new vision before your eyes. Last looks will be Ando Sayaka. Hope you enjoyed this column.





























You wouldn’t happen to know if Hitomi Hoshi is related to Alice Hoshi by any chance would you? There is a bit of a resemblance, especially with the lips.
I’ve no idea if Alice Hoshi 1s the sister or not . A good question for one of our Japan based readers.
JMM
I dunno. Aside from Horii Mizuki, I haven’t been really impressed with any new idols recently, and even my enthusiasm for Mizuki is somewhat dampened by her seemingly articificial enhancements (one of the reasons I think Aizawa Hitomi is vastly overrated).
For me, I think the Golden Age Of Gravure Idols has passed on: new idols are blurring the lines between gravure and softcore (and in more extreme cases, hardcore) more and more which IMO really weakens the genre. If I want to watch porn, I’ll watch porn. When I get a gravure idol product, that’s what I expect and what I want, not wannabe AV stars prancing around.
That being said, I really enjoyed Mizuki’s Physical quite a bit and it prompted me to buy her first photobook, Double Moon. Not bad at all… kind of an early Hanai Miri vibe going on with all the undercleavage shots.
Okay, I’m done with my Grumpy Old Man impression for now…. (^_^)
From one Old Man to another – your points are absolutely correct – the luster of the so called Golden Age of Gravure Idols (as we refer to the period of 2002-2005) is getting dimmer and dimmer.
The models are either in the show more and more but not everything mode or they are in porn. I’ll have a new review of Yuka (Yuuka) Sawachi’s Milk Chocolate later today. She’s 31 and her DVDs definitely have the edge to them.
On the other hand – there’s the business end of it all – the titles have to sell or they’ll stop making them. Even today’s newer and younger models have adopted the less is more style. By less I mean “less clothing”.
I can’t speak to the pre-2002 days as I got my first look at the Gravure idols with MEGUMI, Yoko Matsugane, Rio Natsume, and Harumi Nemoto. Later Miri Hanai joined them making up the pantheon.
I can’t think of 5 other models, who taken as a group, have surpassed these five. I guess we will have to wait and see which way the industry goes –
JMM