Type of Site: Asian, Bondage
Address: www.tokyo-whores.com 
Price: 
$24.95/month
Date of Review: 
January, 2006
Pornreports Rating: 

    

Review:

It's kind of weird, but we haven't seen that many great Asian porn paysites. Why is that? God knows they've been at this for a while. You'd think they'd be putting out a better product. Maybe Asian porn consumers aren't that picky. Apparently you can buy schoolgirl panties from vending machines in Japan. Perhaps that has something to do with it. But you'd think the country that brought us the Walkman and the PlayStation would be a bit more sophisticated when it came to online smut.

This isn't a sophisticated site.

In fact, it looks badly in need of some new design work. The layout and graphics seem borrowed from 1995. It didn't inspire us with confidence. A quick look around told us what kind of site this is. It's an Asian bondage site, which is more of a specialty niche than the name "Tokyo Whores" might make you think. It's not a hardcore or glamour or bukkake site, it's a bondage site. Just with Asian women getting tied up. And when we say Asian we mean something that general. Not all of these "whores" are from Tokyo, or for that matter even from Japan.

The Members Area starts off with a bunch of "Japanese Bondage Galleries." Looks like this is exclusive stuff, but it's hard to tell for sure. There are 10 "galleries", each of which has from 6-12 separate galleries in it featuring a particular model. Content here is pretty good, consisting of Asian models in a bunch of different bondage-style situations. The size of the pics varies considerably, but seems to be generally below average (a random sampling comes up with the following: 630x882, 446x599, 643x900, and 853x1154).

Moving along we're immediately have concerns about the organization. Next up is a single separate gallery of Koko Li. Why does she have her own area? Then there is an area called Exclusive Pics. Hmmm. Does that mean the stuff in the "Japanese Bondage Galleries" wasn't exclusive? What's going on? Anyway, there are two galleries in this section (Tokyo Whores Exclusive 1 and Tokyo Whores Exclusive 2). Each is filled with a selection of totally random pics. Random and non-exclusive. As we click through the first gallery we notice some stuff we've seen before. And since no one around here is an expert in this niche, that probably tells you something. Then we went to the second gallery and it was . . . the exact same as the first gallery. The same random pics even in the same order. 

Huh? What the fuck?

Next, a link to the Rotating Weekly Gallery. No fucking idea what the point of this is. It looks like they just take one of the Japanese Bondage Galleries and stick it in here. Maybe they change it every week. Maybe they don't. 

Are you starting to get the impression that this site is a bit of a mess? Hope so. That's the impression we're trying to give.

Next is a link to What's New/Site Updates. The last update had been just over a week previous to our visit (in early January). The update was the aforementioned Koko Li gallery. We also get this obscure message: "Over the next few days, I will be moving galleries around, to reflect the new year." Again, we are at a loss as to what this means. Why would moving galleries around be considered an update? Or a way to reflect the new year? Is something getting lost in translation?

Lost in Translation wasn't a bad movie. You might want to just rent it rather than get a membership here. But moving right along . . .

Asian Girl Galleries. Some other nationalities here like Korean and Thai. Also odd some galleries with names like Special and Mixed Bag. Given the presentation throughout the rest of the site, this is really saying something. Basically it just feels like browsing through a TGP.

Videos: Looks like about 60 clips. In zip files, for some reason. All bondage/hot wax/clothespins stuff. Consistent with the content elsewhere on the site. Playback on the ones we watched was 320x240 and 340 kb/s. Nothing to get too excited about. And it's not a lot of video either since the archives go back over 3 years. This made us wonder just what the update schedule was. We poked around a bit but couldn't get a read on it. Our guess: irregular and infrequent.

Also worth flagging is the notice on the video pages that you may experience difficulty watching the movies because the webmaster has had a lot of trouble with corrupt files. This is no idle warning. You will find that many of the video files require an audio codec patch to play, a patch that you have to download and install. 

This is unacceptable. Really: If your videos won't play, then you have to fix them, not your members!

Lower down on the main page we also find a load of webcams and streams and VOD stuff, some clips from a bondage studio, a bunch of ads for JAV Now, and even some SexTracker code at the bottom (fuck do we ever hate seeing that!).

Well, as you may have guessed we didn't think this was a "must see" site, even for fans of Asian bondage. It does have some good photo galleries, and some interesting short video clips, but the layout is a mess, we don't know how much of it is exclusive, we don't know how often it's updating, the technical specs are below average, there are significant problems with the presentation (the corrupt video files, all the 404 error messages we got), and it ain't cheap.

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