Links

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Some of sites listed below contain nudity and/or pornography. If that sort of thing offends you, be careful.

Gravure idol official sites/profiles

Nemoto Harumi at Yellow Cab
Nemoto Harumi works for a company called Yellow Cab - basically a gravure talent agency (MEGUMI used to work for them as well). Really mundane page. Just a profile with a small headshot. They do have a schedule of TV and other appearances for their tarento, which is mildly useful. If you live in Japan. And can stand Japanese TV. Which is unlikely.
M-Gram: Official Hanai Miri Website
Crap - Miri's official site - a Flash bloted nightmare. It's also not finished yet, so I have no idea why she mentioned in on her blog recently.
Natsume Rio Offisial Website
Yes. That's right. Offisial. Don't ask me... I just work here. Anyways, there's a few nice (if somewhat small pics) of Rio-chan. Her site also reveals that she has appeared on a TV show called Pooh!
Takeuchi Nozomi Official Website
Woo hoo! They spelled "official" right! In anycase, this is an example of typically bad Japanese web page design. To it's credit, there is a rather large picture gallery, but most of the images are rather small.
Takizawa Nonami Offical Site
Well, it's Nonami-chan's official site. It looks like it was designed by a fourteen-year old girl. Seriously... what's with the pink heart wallpaper? Not too exciting, and not much info here.
Oda Arisa at Anchor
Another bland idol profile on her talent agency's site, made slightly more amsuing that they have misspelled their own client's name. Arisa. Not Aria. Got some sharp guy working over there, appearantly.

Gravure idols' blogs

Happy Life!!
Miri's new blog. Uh... yeah. New location, same content as her old blog. For some reason, she seems to write about food a lot.
"Gane" Massan Ero Michi
For reasons I have yet to determine, a lot of idols a switching over to abeblo.jp. First Harumi, then Miri and now Yôko. Suspicious concidece or evil conspiracy? Don't know, don't care.
Nemoto Harumi Naminori Nikki
Bloody hell Nemo-chan writes a lot. At least she only posts about food every once in a while, comparatively speaking.
Takeuchi Nozomi To LOVELOG Kojô
That title alone makes this best blog on the net bar none.
Jewel
This blog has nothing to do with either precious stones nor the singer. Rather, it's Rio's blog. I've read through some of it and have yet to figure out why it's called Jewel. Ah, well.
Oda Ari! Blog
I'll give this blog some extra points for including my girlfriend's name in the title. Anyway, typical idol blog, although there are less food posts compared to Yôko or Miri.
nttb Nonami No Kabu Life
A somewhat low key blog, comparatively speaking, although Nonami Really like to post pictures of herself making funny faces.

Gravure idol fan sites

Matsugane Yôko Maniacs
Lots of dead links, but has three (count 'em) Pic BBSes!
BSI: BustyIdols Special Investigation
Pic BBS, mostly with gravure idols, but AV idols also occasionally pop up.
TAoD - Image Gallery - Megumi
More incorrect capitalization! Nevertheless, this an excellent resource for MEGUMI scans, even if some of them are pretty tiny.
Untitled Matsugane Yoko gallery
Some really good pics, and all are decent size, but the the server is really slow. Use the links on the bottom to navigate. Thanks to Chris for the heads up on this one.
Nonami-tan Private Image Uploader
Takizawa Nonami pic BBS... you can occasionally find some fairly rare pics here, so worth checking out once in a while.

Gravure idol related

JustMeMike’s New Also on Video
The show must go on, so after the tragic loss of JMM's partner over at Research and Development, JMM has set up shop with a new site dedicated to reviewing gravure idol and other adult oriented DVDs, proudly hosted here at GIJo. If you're looking for an alternate take on gravure idol DVDs, this is an excellent place to spend some time with lots of insights and screen caps.
Model Project
If you want to do some serious downloading but don't feel like wading through all the crap you have to put up with on most forums, this is the place to go. A huge selection of downloadable photobooks (conveniently zipped) is only a few clicks away.
Forest of Breast
If nothing else, one of the funkiest names on the net. But it also happens to be a great resource for gravure idol pics (go to the White section). The site is free: the username and password are always listed in the right column, so, like GIJo, don't get in a huff if a prompt appears.
K's Galleries > Models/Idols
A huge number of galleries organized by web sets. Gentlemen, start your download managers.
DJ JustGeoff's Master Mix
Has an asian picture section with lots of gravure idols, race queens and assorted actresses. The pic's aren't sorted though, so you kinda have to dig if you're looking for something in particular.
Yahoo! Japan > Entertainment > TV personalities > Gravure idols
Good 'ol Yahoo! It's all in kanji, so unless you can read Japanese, expect to do a little hunting.
Name List - Japan Female Idol/Gravure Idol
Consider this the companion page to the above listed Yahoo directory if you can't speak any Japanese. Just cut and paste the kanji into your favorite search engine and watch in wonderment! As you get online store after online store.
Research & Development (closed)
R&D will no longer be updated... visit JMM's New Also On Video for great new reviews and smarmy feedback from yours truly! Like a good 90% of the internet, this site mostly deals with porn, but they have some decent reviews of gravure idol videos. The video reviewer, JustMeMike, has kindly donated some of his reviews for reproduction on this site. Thanks, JMM!

Gravure idol forums and groups

Asiansthetic Forum
A forum with a focus on the aesthetic side of idol photography from Asia. As opposed to a lof of forums out there, the main gimmick of this one is that it focuses on complete photosets as opposed to people posting individual photos.
ScanLover Community
Quite a large forum mostly for posting pics and videos of gravure and AV idols. An excellent resource with tons of pictures, among other things - you'll be busy for a while. I'm also told there's a main ScanLover site, but I can't access it for whatever reason... my Japanese ISP maybe.
The Rio Natsume Shrine
A Yahoo! Group for dear Rio-chan... if you're a Rio fanatic and want to be surrounded by like-minded individuals, you've found your home.
Yoko Matsugane Exclusive
According to the blurb on the front page, the unofficial fan club of Yôko. As opposed to the official one I guess. If it exists. In any case, the board owner runs a pretty tight ship here and is quite the Yôko otaku.

Retailers

Amazon.co.jp
This is the least friendly site of the bunch if you can't understand Japanese, but the only one I can personally vouch for: Amazon.co.jp generally has good prices and are generally quite quick when it comes to delivery. Within Ôsaka, anyways. If you know some Japanese (or are willing to tough it out), this is the place to go.
CD Japan
While I've never used them, CD Japan generally get high marks from everyone I know who uses their services, plus everything's in English if you can't read Japanese. Minor point: they occasioanlly get the titles of the releases screwed up, but as long as you get what you want, who cares?
Play Asia
They sell gravure idol DVDs in English. Go nuts.