[2][3] Influenced by the sophisticated designs and contents of Monthly Playboy, a number of magazines were launched to imitate it.

"Monthly Playboy was an interesting magazine with cutting-edge contents that attracted relatively young readers in their 20s and 30s, rather than older, and it also had a good advertising strategy".

[7] Mika Okuda, one of the 1988 Playmates, was an original member of Onyanko Club, the biggest female idol group of the 1980s, and was membership number 1.

[9][10][14] After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan Kurume High School (東京都立久留米高校) in 1987, there was talk of her making her debut as a singer with Polydor Japan, but it did not come to fruition.

[9][10][15] Her nudity was revealed in the October 1988 issue of Monthly Playboy for the first time after she was named runner-up in Playmate Japan 88.