The Japanese weekly rag Shūkan Asahi (週刊朝日), a popular general-interest magazine, weighs in on the Borat mankini being a hit in Japan with the full-page advertisement below. The Shūkan Asahi has been published since 1922 by The Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan’s leading newspapers.
The format of the publication usually combines soft news like scandals and affairs, some international rumours and relations, an occasional golf tip, a few comics that are a little erotic in nature and swimsuit models (usually on the front and back of the mag). The publication is generally targeted to Japanese salarymen.
As you can see in the image below provided by nateola from PinkNihon, it is full of high-quality content. This particular image is an advertisement that promotes a Japanese Adult Video (JAV) about a promiscuous orgy with the tagline “Sex–it’s supposed to be raunchy”. Here is the NSFW link to the vid イグイグ大乱交 (don’t click if you are easily offended).
Do you find it bizarre that, in Japan, these types of full-page advertisements appear in popular mainstream publications? I mean, are we too prudish in the West?
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By “the west” you probably mean the USA? Then yes, the “west” is too prudent.
In the UK you have “the sun” tabloid which has featured bikini models on page 3 since the beginning of time. Most other european countries news stands are bulging with “lads” magazines like FHM and whatnot.
fair point henk, although i wasn’t specifically talking about the usa. do european lads mags have full-page raunchy advertisements promoting adult videos? maybe they do.
i guess my real question is, do the japanese take it to the extreme? rather than asking “are the West is too prudish?” I probably should have asked “are the Japanese too salacious?”
I think it’s cool that they’re so open about it^^ It sure is an experience to walk by a window and see girls in bikinis and manga girls with “stuff” on their boobies xD
They should enter the International Mankini Challenge with these pics. Pictures from Japan haven’t been published yet! See http://internationalmankinichallenge.com/ for details.
Malph, respect for your crusade to mankini the world. I just checked your site International Mankini Challenge. Awesome stuff! I’m still recovering from seeing you in the mankini in ciuidad perdida, colombia with the assault rifle, oh, and the gun in your hand too.
I’m still recovering too…great pics though!! I’m considering donning one for some Peru endeavours
Cheers lads. Yeah wearing a mankini is never going to look good on a bloke – so apologies and hope I haven’t done your eyes any lasting damage. It deinitely looks better on the ladies it seems, though I’ve had no volunteers.
I thought the Colombian Military one maybe the most dangerous of my trip, but actually the zip line in Costa Rica and Volcano Boarding in Nicaragua had me more worried about my gear! Not sure if you saw the videos (http://www.youtube.com/user/Mankinichallenge#p/u).
Scott – defo get involved mate. The more the merrier. I only did one picture in Machu Picchu before the security there clocked on! Good luck!
Reesan – maybe you could Mankini Japan for us? I’m sure the girls in your article would be game for an accomplice ….
LOL Machu Piccu? Nice…i think a lack of mankini’s is what brought the Inca empire down. At the very least it would have boosted morale. Lee suggested some pics with llamas…i love it! If i can get my hands on one of these bad boys i’m in!
Yes, the U.S.A. is too prudish.
No mainstream publication would accept an advertisement from an adult video producer. They feel they would be subjected to an anti-erotica zealots group’s boycott campaign. And if the USA has a lot of erotic videos, it has just as many anti-erotica zealots.
What is more surprising about Japanese print publications is their mentions that a particular AV actress has an unmosaiced video in release “somewhere“. Now those are technically “illegal” in Japan – but people generally know where they can obtain it.
I think I’m in love with that red mankini girl *_*
I had a housemate who wore a mankini once. Not a pleasant memory.
Must have been a traumatic time for you.