Easter Update & Welcome to Twitter, Erika!

Erika, now on Twitter!

First the big news: Blog favorite, the gorgeous IZM model Erika is now on Twitter. Friends and fans of hers have been welcoming her, and she's started posting some nice pictures. I quickly added her Twitter page to her IMDb profile. Follow this lovely lady at: https://twitter.com/erika_bbw. Now on to blog business:

Hitomi Tanaka's AV debut, now at Tumblr & IMDb

As I wrapped up my week off last weekend, I made an experiment to see how quickly I'd be able to post. Rather than work on entire series-- since that takes in some videos outside the main topic of my BBW/busty JAV interests-- I'd like to just post what I find that catches my eye. Since Tumblr allows me to attach 10 images to one image post, I grabbed ten DVDs at random, gathered data, translated, then posted them to see how fast I could do it... not fast enough, it turns out... I'll have to work on a way to speed up the process... I think this may be the best way to work though, at least for a while... The last morning of vacation I did the same-- 10 posts-- with some Hitomi Tanaka DVDs. I have 1,335 entries in the JAV archive already. If I could manage to keep posting an average of 10 a day for the rest of the year, that would give me another 2,750 for a total of 4,085, which wouldn't be bad... So far I've been able to keep up the pace. One night I'll grab a few dozen images, post them in sets of 10s in the image blog, each set representing one day's work. Then I gather the data, translate & upload the posts to the main JAV Archive during the week. So the work isn't done exactly 10 each day... but does come out to 70 a week...

Erisa Natsumi in her latest: ICD-269

I spent my online time today submitting the week's work to IMDb. I managed to get 32 submitted, and still have two days to go... The IMDb posting slows things down a little, but I find I can adjust that by uploading a set of non-IMDb-worthy videos so I can catch up-- videos without release dates, or with amateur/un-named performers... It would be nice to keep up this pace, but my attention will no doubt wander... The Actress database especially has me thinking about actually writing-- bios, descriptions of actresses and their works, etc. Even a general history of bustiness/BBW-itude in Japanese adult entertainment, writing more subjectively than any of the ~pedia projects would or should allow... All this data/image collection & translation will be valuable for such project if I ever do get around to it.

VCA's D-Cup label: VC-031

After my week of concentrated work on the JAV Archive, real life has kept me too busy this past week to do much online work. However I did finish up the VCA/D-Cup label project. I found a whole new section to the label I hadn't known about-- the VC- prefix videos-- so it turned out to be more work than I expected. I wouldn't be at all surprised, of course, if there were still a LOT more videos on the label out there that I don't have yet. In fact I KNOW there are several missing. But since these videos are almost 30 years old, it's pretty challenging finding information about them online. I know I have at least one-- maybe more-- of those videos in my own collection, in boxes somewhere in the garage. One of these days I should dig them out, scan them, and add them to the databases...

Game-changer Kimiko Matsuzaka in a compilation video

this takes a first stab at filling in Japanese "Big bust" entertainment in the days before Kimiko Matsuzaka's debut in February 1989. As can be seen from these video covers, "Big bust" before Kimiko wasn't anything to compare with today's BBW girls like Erika. Kimiko's career raised the bar on the big-bust genre, and Mariko Morikawa's debut in 1994 raised it even higher. Eri Kikuchi, who debuted in 1986, was probably the major big-boob actress before Kimiko. Ran Masaki debuted the same year, but apparently only worked for a year, while Eri has a very prolific career. She was still working a few years ago.

BBW icon, Yôko Koizumi in TFC-4093

This weekend, in preparation for the coming week's work, I've discovered a treasure trove of early BBW videos, some of which I'd known before, some of which are new to me. Most of these are not IMDb material, since the models are either anonymous amateurs, or one-timers, but we do glimpse the occasional BBW celebrity: Yôko Koizumi and Anna Watarai among them.

GAS-325-327

Last night, rather than make this post on time, I finished the first step in my next IMDb BBW JAV project: the Pocha Pocha Princess Pretty series. I first added new info to the existing BP articles-- the main thing was getting the name of the director off the DVD covers. They were not always listed at informational web pages, but they are on the DVD cover images. There seems to be only one director for the entire series. I am giving his name as Alto Joa, but he varies his name a bit. At the beginning of the series he calls himself just "Joa" (ジョア). From #6 to #10 he is "Ultra Joa" (ウルトルジョア), and from #11 on, "Alto Joa" (アルトルジョア - ''lit.'' "Arutoru Joa"). I have no idea what this name is supposed to mean, or if I am translating it correctly. Since the middle version of his name ("Ultra Joa") seems to refer to Ultra Man (ウルトラマン), perhaps the last version of the name should actually be "Altra Joa"?... but that doesn't make much sense... Previously, in IMDb/BP work, I finished the IZM/ICD project-- starting articles on the ladies in the video stubs which I had started last week.

Usagi Minagi in the Pocha Pocha Princess Pretty series: now on IMDb!

The big news at IMDb, Pink film-wise, is that they have finally added the major award ceremony for the genre-- the Pink Film Award. I asked for it to be added in January, and only this week was it added. Like all submissions at IMDb, the process is extremely mysterious, confusing, frustrating and difficult to figure out, and the instructions are absurdly unhelpful... I spent a few hours hunting for an adequate explanation on how to add an award type to the main award page (i.e., Best Film, Best Actor), and never found it. There are pages and pages explaining how to add an award but not one of those pages tells you the page to add it to... they all  say to click "Edit page" at the front page. From there-- apparently, at least some of the pages say so-- you go to an "Awards Master Form" to enter all the info on the new award. But instead, when you click on that, it gives you a drop down menu of awards to add to the page. And it says "No awards have been entered for this event", and instructing you to go back to the main page, click "edit page", and repeat ad infinitum... I finally just submitted a Best Picture for 2013, adding "Best Picture" as a new field to be added in the "Award" field. I will wait to see if I get any decent instructions on how to do it correctly. IMDb communications are notoriously slow and unhelpful though, so I'm not holding out much hope for the near future... While I'm waiting to figure out how to enter awards correctly, the next major BP/IMDb updating project I should embark on is Cinema Unit GAS... and speaking of which, let's look in on Akira Takatsuki's pet project and see what he's up to lately:

GAS-325

118cm-K-cup newcomer Hana stars in the first of GAS' trio of new releases, all due out on July 1. The title: Shinjin: Chikubi ijirare suki no K-cup zutto ijitte, ippai sutte (GAS-325), tells us that Hana-san enjoys having her nipples sucked and played with-- apparently even if she has to do it herself, as the next image shows.

"Hana" in GAS-325

Stills like the one above had me at first thinking that this was MAGURO's famed Masked Kaori, but it turns out that this is just the traditional face-hiding habit of amateur/first-time models. In other scenes, she's not wearing the mask, but she hides her face with her hands.

"Hana" in GAS-325

Besides an impressive bust-- typical of Cinema Unit GAS models-- New Hana also has what advertising promotes as being a "foreigner-style" big butt, which we can admire up above. A video clip showing Hana's front and rear in action can be downloaded in WMV or MP4 format.

GAS-326

Bakunyû chijo Kimiko kaodashi! Kanô Kimiko (GAS-326) stars Kimiko Kanô, whom we met in a post of a couple months ago on the occasion of her own debut in GAS-319. A video clip promoting this sophomore effort can be seen in WMV or MP4 format.

Kimiko Kanô in GAS-326

After her own face-hiding first appearance (she wore large, dark sunglasses), this enticing "jukujo" (MILF) goes bare-faced and takes the traditional next step in the career of the aspiring AV actress: Unleashing her previously-supressed erotic desires by playing the role of the chijo, or "perverted woman".

GAS-327

Next month's last-numbered release is a compilation video, which I usually don't pay much attention to, since they're just re-hashes of previously-released material. This one, however, is the most interesting release of the month. First, it is the second release in conjunction with GAS' tenth anniversary (first celebrated in the career retrospective DVD release, GAS-321), but this is a retrospective not only of GAS' output, but of the entire big-boob genre in Japanese AV over the past 20 years. A FASCINATING subject! Second, just showing GAS' own models would give a fairly wide view of this genre, but Takatsuki has engaged the cooperation of other studios who played a significant role in the JAV big-boob genre: Kimiko Matsuzaka-discoverer Tôru Muranishi's Diamond Video, Mariko Morikawa-debuting VCA, JHV, Atlas 21, and Moodyz. It is titled GAS 10 shûnenkinen sakuhin: Bakunyû no 20-nen, joyû 100-nin 8-jikan (GAS-327), and a video clip in WMV or MP4 format is available.

Diamond Visual's Kimiko Matsuzaka

Though the 20-year mark would be the anniversary of the legendary Mariko Morikawa's debut-- the first JAV BBW star, in my book-- it's good that this will cover Kimiko Matsuzaka also, since she was the real start of the "Big Bust Boom" (kyonyû boom), with her debut in 1989. (Some emphasis is placed here on the Kimiko Matsuzaka-era term "kyonyû" as opposed to "bakunyû" era introduced with Mariko Morikawa's debut in 1994). Having lived through those eras, and followed them from inside and outside Japan, I can speak with a little knowledge myself. I remember opening up a magazine in a Japanese bookstore in 1988 and being hit between the eyes by Kimiko's magnificent bazooms, and realizing that JAV would never be the same again-- and thankfully, Kimiko was just the beginning! She became a star in Japan, appearing in mainstream media and TV shows. The big boob movement was underway, and all the studios searched out bigger boobs to display.

VCA's Mariko Morikawa

The caption above calls Mariko Morikawa Japan's first "bakunyû"-- "Bomber boob" or huge-boob-- model. GAS/Takatsuki no doubt wants to emphasize the term bakunyû, since he is the one who coined the term, which has since become a common word in Japanese boob-related vocabulary. Also, Mariko was literally the first bakunyû girl, since she was the star of the first video in the "bakunyû" series-- The Bomber Tits Vol. 1: Bomber Girl. Though her boobs certainly were the most impressive and promoted aspect of her body, I see her more as the first step towards true BBW acceptance in the JAV. As luck would have it, I was in Japan in November 1994, right at the time that Mariko Morikawa made her debut and shook up the JAV industry with her ultra-voluptuous body. I bought a copy of "D-Cup Japan" at that time, and was as impressed with her as I had been with Kimiko five years before. No actress before Mariko had been so chubby, and yet popular. This was the dawn of the BBW genre in JAV that we so enjoy today.

GAS' own Hana Uehara

In this DVD, one hundred big-boob actresses, including GAS stalwarts Chiharu Mizushima, Maria Tachibana, Shinobu Hosokawa, Yûri Kimitsu, Ellen Jo, Seri Ishiguro, Mitsuki An, YUNA, Kira Namikaze, Mei Kobayashi, Reiko Nakamori, Hana Uehara, and Mona Yûki  all get their due.

Alice Japan's Anna Ohura

Major non-GAS big-boob legends who are covered here include Anna Oura, Shiori Fujitani, Miki Sawaguchi, Ayami Sakurai, Marina Matsushima, Sayuki Kanno, Ai Kurosawa, Shiori Tsukada, Chichi Asada, and Hitomi Tanaka. Not only will this DVD give the fan of Japanese big boobs an interesting historical perspective, it should truly be a feast for the eyes!

Sexual Game: Kimiko Matsuzaka- DVI-027D (1/2)

Tonight let's take a look at a video I acquired through grabbing streamed videos-- a technique new to me. I got this video from an Xhamster link entitled Kimiko Matsuzaka full movie. That's a misleading title, since it is, in fact, only half the movie, and the movie isn't a movie, but a video. It does, however, feature early big-boob AV legend, Kimiko Matsuzaka.

The Video

 DVI-027D

The video cover (as well as conventions of the time) show that the full video is 60 minutes, while this video is only thirty minutes. But Kimiko, besides being a major early big-boob star, is a true beauty. so let's go ahead and look at this example of classic big-boob erotica even if we only have half of it to review.

Given the English-language title Sexual Game (セクシャルゲーム; DVI-027D), it was released on October 1, 1990, and was was apparently Kimiko's last video. It was directed by veteran Pink film actor/writer/director Daikei Shimizu and co-stars Saori Miyuki, and Kaoru Kuroki, who was the first break-through AV star. Diamond Visual, her studio, had been releasing Kimiko's videos on the first day of each month since her debut in February 1989. They named this day, "Big Boob Day" (巨乳の日 - kyonyû no hi). So what we are looking at here is the last "Big Boob Day".

The Content (Warning: Spoilers!)

The clip starts with a view of Kimiko's beautiful, white, tattooed body from the rear, tied to a post in a bedroom. The video's title then appears, by which I surmise we are looking at the first half of the video.

Note Kimiko's un-fogged bush

A nerdish guy, trying to act like a yakuza comes on the scene, praising Kimiko's body, He unties her from the post and proceeds to start barking out orders, and have his way with her. I notice from the video cover that AV legend, and Kimiko's discoverer/director Tôru Muranishi is listed in the cast, so it's possible the guy is the maestro himself. Also, you will note from the image above, that we do get a quick, unfogged look at Kimiko's big, hairy bush.

He begins by licking her nipples into splendid erection, and then he forces her to fellate him. This is where the advantage to fogging shows itself: Shots of the truly beautiful Kimiko alternate with unattractively hardcore shots of fellatio. We get long looks at his unattractive dick, and only that one fleeting glimpse of Kimiko's pretty pussy.

After about 10 minutes, he takes her in standing doggy-style. Throughout the sex scenes, he continues bossing Kimiko around, mostly ordering her to look at him.

Next, they get in bed, with Kimiko on top-- this is the most satisfying part of the video clip. We can see Kimiko's full body, and there is a good deal of excellent boob-bouncing to be enjoyed here. Rather than the submissive role she has in the rest of the sex, here she takes control of the situation, and shows herself to be a pretty enthusiastic performer at that.

The clip, and presumably the first half of the video, ends with the man's climax in a missionary position. Since only Kimiko has been seen in the entire half hour, I would guess that this is the extent of the section featuring her alone. Neither of the other two AV idols mentioned on the video cover are busty-- Kaoru  Kuroki, in fact, was flat-chested, but known for her manic S&M performances and the intelligence and wit with which she spoke for the then-new AV medium on TV talk-shows.

The Opinion

As with most early AVs, this is like a Pink movie, except that the sex is real. Coming from 1990, this one has a lot more sex than the earlier AVs did. It's kind of a hybrid between current sex-only AVs and a Pink film. Basically nothing but one long sex scene, there is some real acting, at the start, and dialogue throughout. Apparently this was written out and learned by the actor.

Also, very surprisingly, this video shows genitals. The one advantage the AV had over Pink film in those days was that the sex was real ("honban"), even if it was fogged, so the viewer couldn't really see it. Showing the genitals was absolutely taboo in Japanese videos of the time. I suspect this un-fogged recording comes either from a release outside of Japan, or from an underground copy. I've also heard rumors of a digital technique by which a fogged video can be un-fogged. This could also be an example of that process. Unfortunately-- and this is the reason I prefer Japanese fogging-- along with the display of Kimiko's pretty bush, comes the very unappealing sight of the man's genitalia. I, for one, can do without that interfering with my enjoyment of this beautiful lady. This is what ruined American sex films for me in the early '70s-- hardcore, and the resulting change of focus from the woman to the man.

Final Verdict

Model: Highest ratings. Kimiko Matsuzaka was a movie-star level beauty combined with a figure of unprecedented voluptuousness in Japanese erotic entertainment of the time. She also had charisma, and could have probably gone on to a Pink film (she made one) and mainstream career. Her early retirement was a real, serious blow to the AV industry, but her popularity set in motion the acceptance of busty and BBW models in Japanese erotic entertainment which we enjoy today.

Video: High rating. Professionally done, with interesting camerawork, never distracting, and giving us plenty of views of Kimiko's pulchritude. A slight bit of story and dialogue give some context to the sex-- a couple engaging in yakuza role-play, I assume. My only complaint is the hardcore nature of this copy I have. It is really hardcore, in that we see un-fogged genitalia, but, except for one brief glimpse of Kimiko's bush, we only see the very unattractive male genitalia. Who wants that?!

Rafureshia / Après Kimiko le déluge

I spent my afternoon session online adding some Arzon / Amazon data to a new Cherry series, prefix OHO-. According to Arzon it's put out by Crystal Eizou, an important early AV company. They discovered Kaoru Kuroki, who helped make the AV "respectable"... well sort of respectable... with her appearances on mainstream talk shows. Also, director Tôru Muranishi started at Crystal, then went on to found Diamond Visual. This short-lived studio created the "kyonyuu boom" with the discovery of Kimiko Matsuzaka. We see her at left in what I believe was the first image I ever saw of her, in 1989... and I have not recovered yet... Several more recent JAV girls outsize her in every way, but Kimiko still retains her beauty, that pale skin, and that innocent, earthy charm...

My IMDb submissions for the day were:
1979-06 Seifuku kyôhaku okashi (制服脅迫犯し) Shintoho Company; dir: Kiyoshi Nakayama 61分
1979-01-20 Semi-Documentary: Fake GYN Doctor (セミドキュメント　にせ婦人科医 - Semi document: Nise fujin-ka-i) (Banmei Takahashi; prod: Den'ei [jp])
1978-09 16-sai no koukishin: Onna ni shite! (１６才の好奇心　女にして！) Shintoho Company; dir: Kaoru Higashimoto (Kaoru Umezawa (as Kaoru Higashimoto)
1979-03-06 Zetsurin Toruko mansion: Mitsugi (絶倫トルコマンション　密戯 / 絶倫トルコ・マンション　密戯) [Seinen Gunzô] dir: Kô Hayasaka
1978-10-07 Ganbare chikan: Yubi zeme (がんばれ痴漢　指ぜめ; Shinya Yamamoto (I) Y.S. Enterprise / Nikkatsu;
1978-10-21 Harassing Perverted Girl (おさすり変態娘; Osasuri hentai musume) (Genji Nakamura; Watanabe Pro / Nikkatsu
1978-10 Hatsujô apaato: Rangyou shûdan (発情アパート　乱行集団) Shintoho Company; dir: Minoru Inao
1978-10 Hikô joshigakusei: Nure hajime (非行女子学生　濡れはじめ) Shintoho Company; dir: Mamoru Watanabe
1978-01 Jokôsei maruhi seihanzai (女高生（秘）性犯罪) Shintoho Company; dir: (Kaoru Umezawa (as Kaoru Higashimoto) Kokuei Company / Shintoho Company
1978-07 Jôfu okashi (情婦犯し) Shintoho Company; dir: Giichi Nishihara

And my old submissions that went live today:
Semi-dokyumento: Meiki no kenkyû (Tadashi Yoyogi, 1975)
Osanazuma: Shoya no wananaki (Mamoru Watanabe, 1976)

I returned to the wild world of Pink cinema for my evening's viewing pleasure last night: Hisayasu Satô's Rafureshia, or Slut Wife: While Husband's Away (すけべ妻　夫の留守に; Sukebe-zuma: otto no rusu ni; Kokuei / Shintôhô; 1995). I haven't found a poster to this film yet, but here it is on a Japanese VHS double-feature with Toshiya Ueno's Best Film of the year at the Pink Taishô: Keep on Masturbating: Non-Stop Pleasure (連続ＯＮＡＮＩＥ　乱れっぱなし; Renzoku onanie: midareppanashi; Shintôhô; 1994).

Satô is a director with whom I've had an odd history. I learned about his work in Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser's Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films (1998). Weisser paints him as some kind of madman, with a "bitter, sledgehammer style". He claims Satô's films are "difficult to watch, filled with savage brutality, rape and sexual abuse," etc. The pictures in the book of Satô, and his films similarly show a criminally insane crackpot at work. I do enjoy a rather more extreme type of cinema than most people, but I was repulsed by what I read, and had no desire to see Satôs cinematic atrocities. However, when some of his films were made available to the U.S. DVD market, I gave them a look just out of curiosity. After that my opinion changed completely. I have found the few films of his that I've seen (four or five out of over 50 that he has made), to be thoughtful and well-made, if, yes, shocking, radical and experimental. It's possible I have just seen his "tamer" films, but then one of those I've seen is Naked Blood (1996) which is often cited as one of his most extreme. (For a hint of this film's content, IMDb lists as a Continuity Goof: "After frying and eating her hand, in another scene she uses cutlery to cut bits of herself off and both hands can be seen.")... I have found Satô himself, in interviews, to be an intelligent, enthusiastic and humorous artist, and I have found all his movies that I have seen to have just this sort of character.

Rafureshia was made towards the ends of Satô's first run in directing, roughly ten years during which he made over fifty films. He would take a break from filmmaking a couple years after Rafureshia. Though still amazingly low-budgeted, this one had a higher budget, and a longer shooting schedule than his previous Pink films. So he had five days to shoot instead of the usual four. Satô says his intent in this film was to show, in a darkly humorous style, three characters locked in unsatisfying lives, all making the jump to a new, freer existence. Satô's most notorious films were scripted by Shirô Yumeno, but this one was by Taketoshi Watari, a younger screenwriter with more interest in fantasy and manga than realism. Satô claims Watari is a more adaptable writer than Yumeno, which is why he asked him to write this atypical manga-based comedy project. Watari appears in the film as one of the group of homeless men who find and rape the cooperative Alisa after she has escaped from her incestuous father.

Though the film features the inter-locking stories of three women, the main character is probably Alisa, played by the actress Kinako, who made her film debut here. This is the only film she made with Satô and Kokuei studio, but she went on to act for several other major Pink directors like Satôru Kobayashi, Minoru Kunizawa, and Kinya Ogawa. She gleefully performs one of the more outrageous scenes in the movie, in which she goes overboard at a sex club where she has been hired to play chainsaw-wielding Sadist to a Masochistic man in a diaper sucking a bottle and whimpering "Mummy, mummy". Them chainsaws can be dangerous, you know...

The luscious and intelligent Yumi Yoshiyuki plays Harumi, the put-upon housewife who is the "slut wife" of the theatrical title. Yoshiyuki debuted in 1993 and was a major Pink film actress throughout the '90s. She won Best Supporting Actress at the Yokohama Film Festival for her roles in the mainstream films Murder on D Street and Daikaijû Tôkyô ni arawaru (both 1998). She began directing in 1996, winning several awards at the Pink Taishô. She continues to act and direct, and she remains a gorgeous woman. We see her at left in director Tôru Daimon's (no entry for him at IMDb yet?!) 1999 Xces film Misoji dôsôkai: Hageshisugiru seiyoku (三十路同窓会　激しすぎる性欲; re-released in 2009 as 三十路の痴女たち　浮気妻・セレブ妻・恥じらい妻).

Harumi's nagging and perverted mother-in-law is played by Satô's favorite actress, Kiyomi Itô. Itô had debuted in 1984, and began working with Satô when he was assistant director to Academy Award-winner Yojirô Takita. Itô starred in Satô's directorial debut in 1985, and stuck with him until she retired from full-time film work to run a Tokyo bar.

The main actor, Koichi Imaizumi, is also a frequent collaborator with Satô. Despite his roles in more than 100 straight films, Jasper Sharp, in his DVD commentary, reports that Imaizumi is flamboyantly gay. Critical of the way gays are portrayed in Pink films supposedly geared to a gay audience, he began writing his own gay Pink film screenplays. At least one of these was directed by co-star Yumi Yoshiyuki by the way.

Anyway, Rafureshia, like many Satô films, has to be seen to be believed or understood. It is very imaginative, and giving away the bizarre plot will spoil most of the surprises. How many "Porn" films contain a refutation of Einstein's Theory of Relativity? The plot, while completely lucid when seen a couple times, is not presented simply and linearly, but disjointedly, having the characters each follow their own stories, which then tie into each other. Uniquely, as far as I am aware, for a Satô film, it is a comedy, but it is a very black comedy. It gives few out-loud laughs, and those are more from the outrageousness of the situations rather than traditional comedy. Nevertheless, the bizarre but whimsical tone does make it a comedy... If any US Pink film DVD producers are listening out there, give us more Satô, please! The guy is a wacky, perverted genius, and we need more of his stuff! I see I gave this film a phenomenal nine stars at IMDb when I first saw it a few years ago... and who am I to argue?... Let's conclude this day's discussion with another glance at the beautiful Ms. Matsuzaka. She was in the spotlight all too briefly-- less than two years, but made a hefty impact on JAV style. Before her, nothing but skinny girls. As far as the big-boobs and the BBWs, Après Matsuzaka le déluge. Gone but not forgotten.

À la Recherche du Boobs Perdu

Spent the morning session picking out screenshots for the Boin Box series. Did #54 - 88. Gathered Amazon numbers for series in the afternoon. Looks like I'm drifting towards my next project: Boin Box series. Nice-looking models, but not especially attractive to me, most of them. Probably more popular than what I like though. These are all young, thin, model-pretty girls. I've always liked mature, plump, earth-mother types which were very rare in Japanese erotic entertainment until recently. Naomi Tani was the best I could find to match my ideal during the '70s...

I remember having to pick my eyes up up from bouncing around on the floor of the Japanese bookstore, after they'd popped out when I came across Kimiko Matsuzaka (left) in a magazine in 1989. Hard to believe today what a shock it was to see a Japanese model with a little plumpness, not to mention bazooms of that size.


And then Mariko Morikawa came along in 1994! After Morikawa (seen at right), it was a steady escalation in the appreciation of kyonyuu, and with it a gradual realization that the BBW body-type that came with the kyonyuu was not necessarily undesirable. Now pocchari is a real genre unto itself. These days, there are so many gorgeous new BBW models you'd never have seen in the '90s or before... Favorites of today? Tani, Matsuzaka and Morikawa were the reigning queens of each of their eras.






I guess I'll have to put together a list today's top ten eventually. A few of them have already been posted here, although of all of them, motherly Tamaki Yasuoka (left) is pretty close to the Dekkappedian idea of perfection...













...as is Karen Toudou (right)...










...and Mitsumi Nanao (left)...

...and...