That has changed in recent years, and the two primary awards given at present (which are covered in separate articles) are the AV Grand Prix for retail and internet videos and the Adult Broadcasting Awards for programs broadcast on Japanese satellite TV.
This text is focused on the various earlier Japanese adult video awards given in the period 1991–2008, none of which are presently active.
Awards are given in the Performing Arts but from the start they have included categories for adult video work.
", is the website of the Kuki Inc. conglomerate of adult video producers which includes Alice Japan, Media Station (Cosmos Plan), Max-A, SexiA, VIP and others.
[8] For a time it sponsored a fan vote based competition called the Adult Video Grand Prix (or Grandprix) which gave awards in various categories.
Voting was done at the official website usually in November and early December for works and actresses nominated for that year.
As usual with studio awards, prizes were given to actresses and staff from the SOD group of companies.
Best Video[20] The 2003 SOD Award (SOD大賞) ceremony was held on November 26, 2003, at the Century Hyatt hotel in Shinjuku, Tokyo, a 40 million yen party with 500 attendees mostly devoted to professional wrestling with AV awards and actresses as a side attraction.
[21][22] Hostess for the awards ceremony was future AV superstar Nana Natsume making her first appearance for SOD.
The SOD awards were subsequently replaced by the broader based AV Open competition.
There was also an open audition for 60 aspiring porn actresses as part of the award ceremonies held on December 29, 2007.
The party and award ceremony were held at the 'NEPUSHISU" Restaurant in Shibuya, Tokyo on December 27, 2001, with 217 participants.
Also represented at the party in addition to Moodyz were AV studios Attackers, Madonna and IdeaPocket.
1 Style, IdeaPocket, Attackers, Madonna, Cross, Premium, Opera, Yellow, Hajime-Kikaku and Goro Tameike, all associated with the Hokuto Corporation and selling their products via the DMM website.