

In August 1986, she even appeared in the photo magazine Emma ( Emma).This magazine was published by Bungeishunjū, the same company that publishes Shūkan Bunshun, the magazine that forced her to be fired. after starting the second trimester in September, she worked another part-time job after school. She had a part-time job at the amusement park Toshimaen during the summer vacation of the year she was fired. She admitted that there was a time when she was a delinquent girl before becoming a member of Onyanko Club. Therefore, she had to start her second grade all over again in April (schools in Japan start a new grade in April). She had dropped her high school credits in March 1985. This scandal led to Okuda's dismissal from Onyanko Club. However, only two weeks after the group was launched in April 1985, she was photographed by the weekly magazine Shūkan Bunshun smoking in a coffee shop with five other members. 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. Main article: Shūkan bunshun smoking scandal Pop artist Keiichi Tanaami was the magazine's first art director.

The magazine ceased publication with the final January 2009 issue, due to a decline in readership. "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". Kazuhiko Torishima, known for bringing Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama to the world, commented as follows. As such, it is essentially unrelated to Weekly Playboy.

However, this was a magazine that translated and re-edited Playboy published in the United States for the Japanese market. Influenced by the sophisticated designs and contents of Monthly Playboy, a number of magazines were launched to imitate it. Monthly Playboy was first published in July 1975. Monthly Playboy ( 月刊プレイボーイ, Gekkan Pureibōi ), also known as Geppure ( 月プレ) or MPB, was a franchise of Playboy magazine in Japan. JSTOR ( November 2009) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources. This article relies excessively on references to primary sources.
