While I have the Miri Hanai new DVD, I’ve watched only the montage so far. And I did not know that Miri’s video was directed by Momow at that time I watched the montage.

Zatoichi will be doing the review of the Miri solo – I am steering clear of it until I have his review up and published.

Well with all the JUNE RELEASES – we still have the July releases of Hitomi Kitamura, Hana Haruna, and the double release from Nonami Takizawa to look forward too.

jmm

If you take a look at some of the discs the sadly retired (or at least on hiatus) Takeuchi Nozomi, sometimes all she does is bounce around in scene. Yet it worked – she was a master at doing this and maining a level of sexiness and enthusiasm that just didn’t seem present in this scene. Nozomi knew how to work the camera in a way that Miyabi doesn’t (yet). It’s true that people buy idol discs to ogle the women, but sometimes a little but of acting and natural charisma makes all the difference.

And for anyone who thinks that JMM and I were being hard on Momow, the director – he (or she) is just that bad. He also directed Hanai Miri’s new one (which will be getting its own review soon) and lo and behold: even more mediocrity. Not only did Momow use the same location as Miyabi Iro, but he seemed to film the same scenes, just slotting in a different gravure idol. It does fair a little better than Miyabi Iro, but not much and only due to Miri’s experience in front of the camera. Thanks for nothing, Momow.

What can we say – the Miyabi was disappointing. I guess they try experiments to do a gravure DVD without a beach, and without a whole slew of bikinis. Some work better than others.

The JMM review of Seishun Dynamic Vol. 3 is up – I loved it.

As for your other Encore comments, it seems that there are many, many, many very beautiful Japanese women doing the JAV work. They must have their reasons is all I’ll say.

jmm

Well, despite my frustration about this release that wasn’t what I was expecting from Miyabi, I have/got to say that I had a real good time with this review in particular because your “work-as-a-couple” was excellent.

And talking about this huge return of Miyabi, we knew from the start that she has a powerful body so, the shoots would be very often on her boobs and the rest of her figure but, you know, she doesn’t look a fresh face like in her previous dvds and this time there’s an artificial face like she was doing something for money but not with her spirit into it.

Moreover, her costumes are not the best for her, I mean, if you have to work with a girl with a body like that you should take advantage an use your brain because the posibilities are endless but not this time and I’m not talking about Miyabi’s performance that lacks of creativity (Mr. Momow, you are a moron!).

I don’t know, honestly, I’m dissapointed with this release.

If I could be the director of a simple chapter with Miyabi, give a camera, a towel and that’s it, I could do a lot better work.

Anyway, thank you for this great review (talking about you and mr. Z of course) and I hope more like this in the future ^^.

Encore01. Just a comment. I got my “Seishun Dynamic 3″ dvd by Hitomi Aizawa, a very good release though it isn’t as good as the previous Seishun and, you know, this time Ms. Aizawa looks more “meaty”, I said that because I got hungry after watching it ^^. 4.25 will be my score and I hope that you can review it, I would like to know your opinion. And what I really know is that she’s still my number one idol.

Encore02. Just another comment. Like many of us (if not all), I was wasting my time on the internet looking for beautiful women and I found this one. Follow the link please…

http://www.dailymotion.com/user/KOYIORI/video/x7hcug_more24_sexy

To tell you the truth, I was in shock with such a beauty (her face reminded me to Kana Tsugihara ^^) and, like I should, I started looking for information about her and soon I knew that her name was Akiho Yoshizawa but almost inmediately and sadly at the same time I discovered that she is, in fact, an AV Idol ¬¬… … … and my face was full of deception (isn’t there a shotgun to shoot myself at?).

Why?… I asked myself Why a girl that beautiful should go into the dark side? C’mon I would be please to marry a girl like her (and who doesn’t @_@?) but it seems that sometimes is not enough for some girls.

Well, sorry for this two comments out-of-theme but I just wanted to share happiness and sadness with all of you.

BTW – I also reviewed both of Erina Yamaguchi’s two videos. The first one great, the 2nd one, her last, was called the Great J or something like that, but it wasn’t great at all.

Sadly for us, Erina left the industry for real life and hasn’t been seen since.
Life goes on.

jmm

Thanks for your long time readership. The last of my reveiws at the BEA in R&D was in March and April of 2006.

I’ve ordered a DVD with Karina Hart, and will likely do a review on that one. But in the main, I’m going to be a specialist in the Idol genre. I’m not absolutely stating that Idol videos are all I’ll do – as you know I’m still doing pieces on art with an occasional tie-in to American movies – but I’m fairly certain that I won’t be doing h/c or XXX either Japanese or American, or European.

But if the case is right – we will show nude bodies.

I did edit the Miyabi piece adding a shot of the edge of an areola. Was harder to find than I thought. This little snippet of an areola is not a major selling point of the video. But you asked, so I did my best.

Thanks for the appreciation of my efforts.

jmm

I guess Miyabi made me to blackout as now I remember reading them… I was jumping at the gun fearing Isshiki heading the same way, but I think that Yuna is one of the “lost gravure superstars” although Erina Yamaguchi seems to be the one most remembered, and I would hate Miyabi turning into another Ms Kawase.

Hopefully, Miyabi’s latest IV will do well enough to get her more work, although this seems to be a very crowded summer in terms of releases.

Z and I consider Miyabi as one of the best gravure idols out there. When she gets a 3.25 it doen’t mean she’s lost something – she’s as great looking as ever. This one was given a lowered rating because it’s (the DVD) just not that good. But watching Miyabi for for 70 minutes is still worthwhile.

As for Yuna Kawase – I reviewed her many times, you could have used the search feature on the page to find these reviews but here are the links.

Mannyu
http://www.justmemikesnewalsoonvideo.com/2007/05/15/yuna-kawase-mannyu/

Deka!J-Cup
http://www.justmemikesnewalsoonvideo.com/2007/03/18/deka-j-cup-yuna-yuna-kawase/

Bakunyu: Hami J
http://www.justmemikesnewalsoonvideo.com/2007/01/02/bakunyuhamij-yuna-yuna-kawase/

Rennyu
http://www.justmemikesnewalsoonvideo.com/2006/11/16/rennyu-yuna-kawase/

Milky
http://www.justmemikesnewalsoonvideo.com/2006/10/23/milky-yuna-kawase/

Deep Kiss
http://www.justmemikesnewalsoonvideo.com/2006/08/15/honyu-deep-kiss-yuna-kawase/

Unfortunately, Yuna Kawase had a fool for an agent (I guess), and he couldn’t get her work with the right production houses. As such, most of her video work was abysmal. In fact she got the all time lowest rating ever for one of her videos.

A 1.75

Personally I loved watching he,r but the DVDs were either bad or mediocre. The highest rating I ever gave a Yuna Kawase video was 3.75 bit only once.

I ‘m fairly certain that Miyabi Isshiki’s career will fare a whole lot better – but I have yet to figure out why no one has whisked her off to Bali, Phuket, Pattaya, Saipan, Guam, or Cebu etc., for a video.

As Argyle said, she’d look wonderful in a bikini on a beach.

jmm

I’ve been reading your reviews since the BEArchive days, and wanted to say thanks for your continuing effort. Do you have any interest/plans to return to doing non-idol video reviews? Or will you be sticking to offerings from our Japanese friends from here on out?

Also, you mention above at one point, “Of note is that her areola are quite obvious – even with the pasties…” but don’t include a screen shot? Very frustrating!

Thanks again,

ND