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{{Short description|Japanese men's magazine}}

'''''Urecco''''' is a popular men's magazine published in Japan. The title (売れっ子）literally means "girl who is popular" or "girl who sells a lot." It is published by Million Publishing. ''Urecco'' has several side publications, such as ''Urecco gal'', which focuses on kogals, a type of vain, overly stylish Tokyo girl famous for having loose morals.

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{{nihongo|'''''Urecco'''''|ウレッコ|Urekko}} was a monthly [[men's magazine]] published in Japan.<ref name="angelfire">{{cite web|url=http://www.angelfire.com/ms2/jav/magz.htm|title=Japanese AV Magazines|access-date=26 October 2010|work=Angelfire|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229134048/http://www.angelfire.com/ms2/jav/magz.htm|archive-date=29 December 2010}}</ref> The title is a play on the Japanese word {{nihongo|"Urekko"|売れっ子}} which literally means "popular girl(s)" or "girl(s) who is/are much sought after.<ref name="jlist2">{{cite web|url=http://www.jlist.com/faq.html|title=The Japanese Adult Magazine FAQ|access-date=27 October 2010|work=J-List|archive-date=28 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101228011305/http://www.jlist.com/faq.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> ''Urecco'' published nude and some non-nude photo layouts, mostly of [[adult video]] (AV) actresses, as well as AV reviews and actress interviews.<ref name="angelfire"/><ref name="jlist2"/>

==History and profile==

Urecco has been one of the top adult magazines in Japan throughout the latter half of the 1980s and most of the 1990s. While most other magazines are published by Japanese photobook powerhouse Bauhaus (also known as Eichi Publishing), Urecco is made by their arch rival, Million Publishing. It's gone through many redesigns over the years, notably adding bizarre English to its covers in the early 1990s issues, with dubious English phrases like "wriggling labias" that would probably not be understood by most readers. The magazine has always been very soft core, offering nudity and no actual sex.

''Urecco'' was first published in 1986. In the early and mid-2000s was rated by Peter Payne, proprietor of [[J-List]], as the number one selling magazine at that company.<ref name="jlist2"/><ref name="ureccogal">{{cite web|url=http://www.peterpayne.net/2004/12/yoi-otoshi-o-to-everyone.html|title=Urecco Gal Aug 2004|access-date=27 October 2010|work=Peter Payne}}</ref>

<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peterpayne.net/2005/11/successful-foreign-companies-in-japan.html|title=Urecco Aug. 2005|access-date=27 October 2010|work=Peter Payne}}</ref> The magazine went through many redesigns over the years, notably adding bizarre English to its covers in the early 1990s, with dubious English phrases like "wriggling labias" that would probably not be understood by most of its readers.{{citation needed|date=October 2010}}

{{nihongo|'''''Urecco Gal'''''|ウレッコギャル|Urekkogyaru}} was an offshoot of the main publication which focused on models dressed as [[kogal]]s, a type of vain, overly stylish Tokyo girl popular in the 1990s.<ref name="ureccogal"/> Both ''Urecco'' and ''Urecco Gal'' were published by {{nihongo|Million Publishing|ミリオン出版|Mirion Shuppan}}, part of the Taiyoh Group of companies, but neither magazine is now found in Million's list of magazines published although [[mobile web]] versions do exist.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.taiyohgroup.jp/group/company/million/|title=ミリオン出版 (Mirion Shuppan)|access-date=27 October 2010|work=Taiyoh Group|language=ja|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100724012056/http://www.taiyohgroup.jp/group/company/million/|archive-date=24 July 2010}}</ref>

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