Tinacle – Tina Yuzuki (Rio)

Price: circa $45 USD

Hard to believe that this book is over two years old and it’s also as far as I know Tina’s first photobook. She has also appeared in the Chinkame series of photobooks as Rio. I saw this book some time back now but made no hesitation in purchasing it.

The book itself is nothing short of high quality, good hardback covers with glossy photo pages and the content must make it a real collector’s item. I even managed to scan one picture from it so far, hopefully I’ll get around to doing a few more.

The photography by Matsumoto Yuuji has been some of the best I’ve come across recently in comparison to other idol photographers and books. The images are pin-sharp, bright and some have dramatic lighting so the technical execution is pretty good and the subject herself seems to, judging from the photos, be reveling in modeling for the photos. None of the photos look flat, which can happen often under studio conditions.

The photos are taken on what looks like a small island, perhaps one of the many islands around Japan. We have photos taken in lush forests, to beaches, in water and in wooden huts – a pretty decent variety of surrounding to take in.

The photographer has also noticed the splendor of the surrounding also by taking landscape shots where Tina is quite small. Although I find that Tina should be the main feature of the book, the photographer hasn’t overdone the landscape shots so it doesn’t distract from her too much.

As I mentioned earlier, Tina revels in this book and looks so innocent (don’t they all…) but as many of you know from her videos she’s anything but. Most of the shots are around a beach so beachwear is pretty much the most featured items of clothing but there are a couple of school uniform shots making their way in too and there is of course full nudity, quite a bit of it too which should please her fans no end.

It easy to see why she has made such a meteoric rise in the JAV industry to become one of the most popular idols in recent memory. Looking through the book Tina does seem to be enjoying herself, sometimes you can get the impression the model just wants to get it over with in other erotic photo-shoots, but there is nothing that I see here that conveys such a impression which is good too see.

There is a good variety of shots of Tina, some close-up to her face, some full-frontal nudity, and a few shots of her perky buttocks. The ones of her in the water are a must-see in my opinion.

There is always something about putting a girl in water and she immediately becomes 10 times hotter. That’s why one of those shots is on the cover I guess.

The only minus point I can find is there is one shot of Tina crying. I don’t really understand what the meaning behind it is and it’s not the only photo book that has these kind of shots in, Kaede Matsushima’s last photo book, The Temptation of Iris, also had a few of these shots in. Just my opinion but I don’t like such shots and I find it strange.

Other than that, I can only recommend this photo book and would be worthy in anyone’s collection. If you’re a Tina Yuzuki (Rio) fan, you should have this one already!

Zanmato’s verdict: 9/10 – Highly recommended! A definite must of all Tina Yuzuki (Rio) fans and those of you that aren’t fans you could well be converted after seeing the photos that this book has to offer.

You are unlikely to see many photo books of this level of technical quality, the beauty of the surrounding area,  and Tina herself is at times, astonishing.

Meisa Kuroki showing off to the public of her first photobook titled “Love Meisa.”

~Darth Demon

Link: Meisa Kuroki