Karen Toudou, SND-01

The Video

Image advertising JAMS' "New Label" - the now legendary SND- series

I know, I know, I promised to review a more current DVD next, but my recent JAV submissions to IMDB put me in a mood to review some of those that now have IMDb listings, in order to add more hard data to them, through watching and researching the video, and to add more subjective content such as plot summaries and reviews. I decided to start with the first release of JAMS's epic SND- series, which was, as far as I knew until this review, also the first appearance of that vision of Japanese BBW loveliness, Karen Toudou. I note with some pleasure that-- quite unexpectedly-- the video's home page at JAMS has been added to the IMDb page. I include a lot of external links with these submissions just to prove that the video exists, and to back-up the information I give on it. I just assumed IMDb would not link to a porn site off the page though. But there it is!

Ultra boin! Akiba-kei chônyû joshi (2007; SND-01)

The video under consideration tonight is Ultra boin! Akiba-kei chônyû joshi, SND-01), which I translated at Boobpedia in April 2009 as Ultra Buxom Woman!! Akiba Super Tits Girl. JAMS released it on September 26, 2007. "Akiba-kei" or "Akibahara style" is supposed to imply nerdishness or otaku-hood, but I don't see how this fits into the theme of the video, unless it refers to the glasses the lovely Ms. Toudou wears throughout most of the action. I had previously thought this was her first video appearance, but it turns out she made at least one earlier, and she does not wear her trademark glasses in that one. So I suppose the first appearance of her "nerdish" glasses could be what the "Akiba-kei" in the title refers to.

The Content (Warning: Spoilers!)

SND-01 Title card

The video starts out with a list of credits which is fairly extensive for a Japanese AV. Most of the names, however, are only single-names, and ones I have never heard of, and will probably not be seen in other productions. I submitted the two that I recognized which already have filmographies at IMDb-- Shin-kichi (who is listed as one of the Assistant Directors), and Maguro (listed as one of the editors).

Title sequence

This opening credit sequence roles while Karen, in shorts, bicycles around a countryside building. (The above credit is for "Hair and Make-up: Nana"-- since I don't know of anything else "Nana" has done, I didn't add it to the IMDb listing. But I'll keep it in mind in case I see the name appear in further productions.) Substituting for the viewer, Timio's camera stares at Karen's boobs and butt as she pedals around. Queen's Bicycle Race/Fat Bottomed Girls would have been an appropriate accompaniment to this scene, instead of the bland, repetitive pop instrumental that we hear.

First scene: A tryst in the woods

The first scene starts with Karen marching out to the woods to give a hand job and fellatio to a small masked man she has tied to a tree. After playing with her boobs, she doffs her top and gives him paizuri. Once he has climaxed on her boobs, she gives the audience our first un-pixeled view of her beautiful, chubby chest, and the camera avails itself of some surveying of her splendid belly and thighs as well. With this first sex scene finished, at about 16 minutes into the video, Karen-- clothed again-- escorts her victim into the shed. He sits on the bicycle behind her while she pedals it and slaps his hands away as he gropes her ass. Once he gets to her boobs, she isn't so resistant, and we are treated to an extensive scene of boob-groping while on bicycle-- not something you see in every AV. This concludes the first 23 minutes of the video.

Laying out a feast

In another cabin in the countryside, two nearly nude gents are seated on a couch when Karen, in maid costume, enters the room. She takes out those big, fat titties of hers and lays them on the couch for the guys to nuzzle and suck on while masturbating, for the next thirteen minutes. In an odd touch, the two guys continue sucking and masturbating even after Karen pulls the two beauties back into her blouse.

Dueling droolers

Karen, still in maid costume, starts moving boxes around in another shed while a male co-worker sits watching her, literally drooling all over the floor. Karen finds this good enough reason to come over and smother him with her boobs, then perform fellatio and paizuri on the lucky guy until he cums in her mouth. She dribbles it out down her chin while he continues drooling, lying on his back on a crate. The point of interest in this twenty-minute segment seems to be the drool, and, though it's an interestingly novel touch, drool really doesn't hold much erotic attraction for this viewer.

The gentleman offers the lady a seat

The next ten minutes witness a guy outside, lying on his back with his face in a box being treated to the wonders of Karen's butt as she sits on his face. This instrument of butt enjoyment has been seen in earlier JAMS productions, such as the JMD- series in which Karen appeared the same month that this video was released.

Karen oils up - the most satisfying part of this sequence

The next twenty minute segment starts out nicely, but is mostly unsatisfactory. A guy crawls into a thin, metallic sleeping bag. Karen comes in and oils up herself extensively and thoroughly, and this is a pleasing sight to behold, even if she has taken off her glasses. She then crawls into the bag, face-first, to fellate the guy. All we get to see of Karen during this part is her ass-- which is ample... She then crawls in with him face-to-face, in a sex scene which would no doubt be very fun to participate in, but which isn't much to look at. It's just a squirming bag, and we have to imagine the pleasure being had inside.

Thick-thigh-fucking-- often enjoyed by your humble reviewer, but first I've seen in a video

We now go into another shed where Karen takes one of the guys onto a couch and treats him to some boob-sucking. After about six minutes they move to a mat where Karen gets on top and treats him to some thigh/leg-fucking, a particular favorite activity of mine, which I don't think I've never seen in a video before. This goes on for quite a while. It's not much fun to watch, but with a fat-legged girl it is a lot of fun to experience. After about 10 minutes, she takes the lad out on the doorstep where she finishes him off with a standing hand-job.

Karen enjoying a brief time out of the driver's seat

In all the sex in the video until now, Karen has been the instigator, and in control of the situation. She starts out as the passive partner in the next sequence. She is back in her maid costume, tidying up a room, when an assailant in a black body stocking attacks her, throws her into bed and has his way with her. This is the first straight sex scene in the video. Unfortunately, though the attacker disrobes, Karen stays mostly clothed, even keeping her boots on. Since we get to see so little of Karen in this section-- only her boobs a little, and her butt sometimes-- this twenty-minute is much less enjoyable than it could have been. At the end of this part, the guy goes to the other side of the room to sit in a chair and masturbate.

Karen takes charge again!

A cut brings us back to the same room with Karen now taking charge. She is a little more out of that maid costume, and in mid-fellatio/paizuri on the chap. She throws him onto the bed, mounts him and the action picks up with her in cow-girl mode. After about ten minutes he climaxes again, and then Karen prolongs the session by resuming fellatio. The camera cuts to an interesting point-of-view outside the cabin, peeping in through a window as Karen again jumps on top of the guy. This ends the lengthy sex session, with the sex still in progress, seemingly never-enging.

Next we're back to the face-sitting device, this time with the man wearing a long-nosed tengu mask, which Karen mounts while playing with the guy's dick, which is also sticking out through a hole in another box. Karen reverses position, mounts the dick, then finishes him off with a hand-job.

Karen's model session

The video concludes with about seven minutes of Karen primping and posing, clothed in her bicycle-riding outfit, outside the building. Karen's dimensions at this beginning stage of her career are given on the video cover as 126(L-cup)-78-112 (50-31-44"), 159cm (5'2") tall, weighing 78kg (172lb), with a 24cm shoe size. 

Karen without her glasses in the earlier JMD-05

After the video proper has concluded, comes previews of JMD-05 and JMD-02. We took a look at the cover of JMD-05 (Ganki-mamire: Bakujiri onna niku jigoku (顔騎まみれ ～爆尻女肉地獄～ - "Smothering Face-Sitting: Huge-Assed Woman-Flesh from Hell") in a post back in December 2012. It features Karen along with a few other girls. This video appears to focus on butt fetishism and face-sitting, but several lovely glimpses of the young Karen can also be seen. The JAMS page gives the release month for this video as September 2007-- the same month as SND-01, and the Arzon listing gives the release date as August 3, 2007. Amazon further muddies the water with a December 1, 2007 release date. I had previously assumed SND-01 was Karen's first video, so this discovery leads to some necessary re-writing of the history books, as well as bumping that video to a higher position on the list of priorities for a future video review.

The Opinion

This video is of highest quality for a JAV, and director Timio Juvorenup shows in this one why he has become one of the most prolific in the Japanese BBW genre. He is known mainly as a big-butt specialist, being the creative force behind HypderEdge's "Ketsu-gaku" (Butt-study) blog, and starting his own Dekajiri ("Huge butt") label in 2010-- but he gives the viewer plenty of looks at Karen's other attributes as well. Timio-san is clearly a man who loves his work, and his camera-work shows that he shares our main subject of interest in this video: Karen Toudou.

But beyond fulfilling the basic requirement of showing off his model to her best, Timio-san also infuses this one video with more interesting touches than probably all the others JAVs I have reviewed up till now. These little touches do not interfere with the main action, they just add a little flavor to it. The lack of this kind of thing is what I complain about in more run-of-the-mill videos. For example, like most JAVs, this one is basically, at its heart, just a bunch of unrelated sex scenes. Yet these scenes are given some unity and context by countryside setting-- Karen walking from one shed to another, or going out in the woods for another encounter. There is not the slightest character development either, of course, yet the nameless bodies having sex are still given a relationship with the setting and the costuming involved.

Some of the unique touches-- the thigh-fucking scene for example-- are good and interesting experiments, but don't quite work on video. As I mentioned, this is one thing I really love about fat-legged girls-- that rubbing between the thighs for a while before the main action. It is tremendous fun to experience, but not very much to watch. The metallic sleeping bag scene also-- this kind of thing is a lot of fun with a girl, but watching it, all you see is a squirming bag. It's not very cinematically interesting. The boob-groping while on bicycle scene, on the other hand, could have been interesting to watch, but it is filmed in a dark warehouse, and the lighting makes it much less intriguing than it should have been. The drooling scene, on the other hand-- in which a co-worker drools while watching Karen's extraordinary body, and then she drools back on him-- might have been an interesting concept on the written page, but it's not very erotic to watch.

The separate sex sequences are not just joined by straight cuts, they are punctuated with scenes of the shacks outside, giving the camera the POV of a voyeur, which is an interesting touch in itself, and also often showing us some rain, which is soothing, and also links up thematically with wetness/sex. While this doesn't provide a plot-- there is no plot, and a plot would have interfered with the point of this sex video anyway-- this does give character to the sexual activity, and provides the video with a rhythm. We know when each section starts and ends, yet they are buffered with brief connecting interludes. And these are very brief, just a few seconds, so they never become distracting.

In this video, Karen-san, naturally, is younger and not as full-figured as she became later in her career, but she's still a very satisfactory eyeful for any fan of the Asian BBW. How many butts in the history of Japanese AV can compare with the one we see above? Not just for size, but for pure, aesthetically-pleasing shapeliness?

My only real complaint about this video is that there is surprisingly little full nudity for a modern-day JAV. Karen remains at least partially clothed-- sometimes nearly fully-clothed-- throughout. True, she is an absolutely beautiful girl, and she looks gorgeous in clothing or out, and some of those costumes-- the busty maid costume particularly-- do actually emphasize her loveliness... but still... you know... Come on, Timio-san! We want to see the whole package a little more!

Final Verdict

Video: Highest quality. Expertly shows us what we want to see: Karen, plus provides several unique touches to hold the JAV aficionado's interest.
Model: The highest. Karen Toudou is in the highest level of Japanese BBW beauty, on a par, in my eye, only with very best: Tamaki Yasuoka, Minagi Usagi.
Rating: At the IMDb page, I give this video a respectable eight stars out of ten, and I encourage any readers of this review who have also seen the video to click their own rating to this video's IMDb page. Since it is my recent IMDb work which inspired me to review this video, I will use this post as an experimental first step in the next stage of my JAV work at IMDb. I will boil down the main points of this post to make a plot description and user review for the IMDb page, and will report on the results of that on Wednesday night.