A Wild Reon Appeared!

Some of you may remember my post about legendary cheesecake idol Reon Kadena, where I reminisced about how great she was back in the day…and wondered whatever happened to her!

Well, I got a bit of a  happy update when she made a surprise cameo in an episode of the saucy Rio Uchida drama Raise de wa Chanto Shimasu as the bartendress (owner?) of a Lesbian Bar that Uchida’s Momoe blunders into with Ume (Lina Ohta) when Ume is trying to see if she might be gay.

Turns out she isn’t, but while they are there, they are met with several people including the bartendress who offers words of advice to an awkward Ume:

When she came into screen, my first thought was, “This lady looks SO familiar! Who IS she?” 

Funny thing, though, I was running through older ladies in my head and never once though she might be an ex—idol, so I was HAPPILY surprised when I looked up the cast credits and found it was Reon herself!!!

I wonder…is Reon gay in real life? seems so odd to have her cameo as the owner of a Lesbian bar, and the advice she offers Ume is a cryptic “Your sexual preference is one thing you can’t lie to yourself about…nor can you change” which makes me wonder even more!

It was so cool to see Reon again after all these years, and my GOSH, though a bit older, she still looks as pretty as ever!  

A Ribald Reon Remembrance

"Hadaka No Reon" Photobook and Poster

There was a time there in the early 2000’s that busty idol Reon Kadena was one of the most popular pin-up models on the internet,  along with other contemporaries like Tamao Sato and Natsuko Tohno, she was a girl that even friend of mine who had no interest in Japan pop at all would download!

And so it was quite a buzz when in 2004 Reon got together with photographer extraordinaire Kishin Shinoyama to release her first NUDE photobook!And from then it was all everyone could do to scour the j-pop gravure forums (R.I.P. SCANLOVER, you were the best!) to find what pics they could of this holy grail of Japanese Cheesecake perfection!

 Of course, Idol popularity of any kind is mercurial and the girls who are the rage today are ultimately replaced by upcoming talent in a never ending cycle, and so it was that I slowly forgot all about her…

 Just recently I was on facebook chatting with some old buddies of mine, and, talking about big-busted idols, I said, “hey, remember that one gal who was so popular that even guys who didn’t know Japanese stuff would download her pics?”. They couldn’t guess. “Wracking my brain, I said, “She even did a nude shashinshuu that was all the buzz…you remember?” But no name came forth readily.

It was only later that evening it remembered. “REON KADENA!” I posted, and everyone kind of went, ‘Huh, yeah, OK, I remember her…” Intrigued, I went online to see if I could find any infor about her book- and not only was I surprised to find it available, but wildly afforadble as well!!! When I saw that vendors were selling it for a mere 24 bucks (US dollars), I knew I just HAD to get it!

The book came in just the other day, and as you can see, it is quite lovely indeed! This was Reon at the peak of her career and she looked as stunning as I remembered! All the photos captured her pretty features (and curvy body), and  the book even came with a cute pin-up poster!!

 Ahhh, these pics just take me back…naturally, MOST of these pics i’d already had from downloading 'em off forums back in the day, but it is a thrill to see the pages in real life and OH! so crisp, clear and COLORFUL!

Here's just a mere sampling of what the book has, at least some of the more PG rated pictures from the book. anyway! Oh yeah, this photobook has really stood the test of time, and one can easily see why so many of us were so crazy about her back in the day!

Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com