Yes, I love idols photobooks since the early 1990's. And love to collect the ones from my favorite Idols, especially from the powerful agency Hello! Project, like Airi Suzuki, Reina Tanaka, Maimi Yajima, etc. Doing nice photo shoots from Japan's scenes like cities, countries, mountains, beaches and show the female beauty from them.
However I don't accept the nasty reality of the anti-japanese influence in the gravure entertainment and mostly hate the infamous U10 category.
All started when I discovered some during the early 1990's and I fell for some models like Emiri Nakayama, Kyoko Fukada and others. But of course I found the darkest side of the gravure paraphernalia that are sexually explicit and got disappointed when idols like Rye Miyazawa and Sachiko Suzuki (two idols I admired in the late 1980's) done nude photobooks.
Believe it or not, I'm not into that thrash like the JAV because of the vile concepts in sex and more especially when it's about Japanese girls which I have another way to see them.
As far as I learned in the late 1990's maybe around 1997-1998 that the pornographic industry, one of the highest consumption between the Japanese people and foreigners is controlled by an foreign group inside Japan. I should dare, according what some Japanese friends told me before: Korean and Chinese mobs are behind that industry and not only JAV but the gravure media too.
The most disturbing thing I've seen at that time is the most infamous U10 models that for some reason I cannot explain, that's kinda authorized by the governments in the last 30 years, maybe more.. I don't know. One of the latest cases that made me feel sick was with two idols, Rie Kaneko and Rei Kuromiya, two former members for LADYBABY, the unit I stopped listening after discovering that they made more than 50 videos of that kind.
There are two realities in Japan about the Gravure and Japanese Adult videos industries in the eye of the western people: 1. Japanese people are bond to that kind of “goods” , and they are liberated in the sex worldviews which redefines their own principles to justify their perversions. In other cases, those are common topics between young generation and the adults so they are culturally accepted inside Japan, so no one outside can understand and should not judge. 2. Because of the Korean and Chinese invasion with their anti-nationalist and anti-Japanese ideologies, they are making a new concept on Sex and moral principles and promoting inside Japan through the pornographic industry and of course the gravure. The woman is being hiper sexualized in a way beyond of all senses. There are conservative Japanese people that are against that.
I'm at the second point. I don't accept how the JAV concept enviles the woman in a way that they are destined to rape, humiliation, abuse and violence. The nasty idealization of the female body in the gravure with such nonexistent attributes the man would look after a girl in real life. Especially the U10 shit... that's pure evil that feeds the vilest misery of the man and especially dishonors the children in Japan.