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Let's celebrate idol day: Keiko Kitagawa by Karen Gellender, 11/14/2009 #Idols: Actress Keiko Kitagawa is so beautiful that it's downright distracting. While watching Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (shut up), I would often think "Rei is just so purty, she makes that miko o... |
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Let's celebrate idol day: I love Matsumoto Jun by Colette Bennett, 11/13/2009 #Ikemen: Of all the idols I've gotten crushes on, the story of how I discovered Matsumoto Jun is my favorite. After watching Hanazakari no Kimitachi e, I was instantly drama crazy and had to have more. I ... |
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Idol of the Week: Eriko Sato by Tim Sheehy, 11/13/2009 #Idols: Name: Eriko SatoBirthdate: December 19, 1981 Home: SapporoSizes: 90/56/91 cmShe might not be Aki Hoshino, but in my heart, Eriko Sato is definitely number one. With some pretty spectacular measur... |
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Master Asia's hot-blooded men gallery by Master Asia, 11/13/2009 #Idols: So it's Idol day, huh? Two can play at this game.I don't believe in celebrating that which is cute or sexy. These things matter not to a warrior! Simply look forward to those who will challenge y... |
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Let's celebrate idol day: I love Mizushima Hiro by Colette Bennett, 11/13/2009 #Ikemen: Didn't we already talk about how much I love Mizushima Hiro? Oh yes, we did. However, since it's idol day, I get to do it again. YAY! I promise to say some different stuff than I said the previou... |
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1212 Entertainment: the adaption company by Ben Huber, 11/13/2009 #live-action: Our good friends over at AnimeVice recently got an email from Joshua Long, a Hollywood producer who's been pushing for the Cowboy Bebop live-action film for quite some time. His company has been ... |
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Let's celebrate idol day: I love Yamashita Tomohisa by Colette Bennett, 11/13/2009 #Ikemen: I mentioned in my Oguri Shun tribute that I don't really need an idol to be ultra-talented to catch my attention. After all, idols are there to be pretty -- the talent is just a bonus! Yamashita ... |
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Let's celebrate idol day: I love Oguri Shun by Colette Bennett, 11/13/2009 #Ikemen: I misunderstood something Brad Rice said in an email yesterday and thought he meant to say that Friday was idol day. What he meant was that Idol of the Week was due on that day, but I immediately... |
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Ready to IDOL! by Brad Rice, 11/13/2009 #Idols: It's Friday. Work sucks, or you're just waiting for your friends to get home from work so you can have some fun. Well, let Japanator fill your day with something wonderful to look at.Today is Ido... |
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Get 19 seconds with Beckii Cruel by Josh Tolentino, 11/08/2009 #videos: ...in the LOTTE Fits's commercial above. Like Colette, I'm confused as to why they're calling this newest chunk of jailbait "the new Leah Dizon." I mean, when Leah started out at 19, ... |
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Gackt publicly outs himself by Zac Bentz, 11/08/2009 #music: ...as not only being a mortal man, but one likely to be a bit older than most would expect. But then again, who could blame anyone for thinking that Gackt, a shimmering slab of enigmatic man-meat... |
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Idol of the Week: Aki Hoshino by Dale North, 11/06/2009 #Idols: Name: Aki Hoshino Birthdate: March 14, 1977Home: TokyoSizes: 88/56/87 cmProbably the top idol in Japan right now is Miss Hoshino, the lovely, top-heavy, cute-faced face of any product or company ... |
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Kuroki Meisa's Bad Girl PV blows my mind by Tim Sheehy, 11/02/2009 #videos: I have to admit, I never thought I'd see her like this, especially after her role as a nun in the live-action One-Pound Gospel drama that aired the other year. I suppose I sho... |
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Idol of the Week: Nozomi Sasaki by Dale North, 10/30/2009 #Japanator Original: Name: Nozomi Sasaki Birthdate: February 8, 1988Home: AkitaSizes: 80/58/82 cmHNNNNNNGGGGGGGG. Nozomi is impossibly cute, but to be honest, I didn't know anything about her until I flipped through ... |
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Beckii gets production values, still dances in her room by Dale North, 10/28/2009 #YouTube: Beckii was fine, doing her thing all low-resolution and webcam, dancing around in her room for all the world to watch. Her new DVD, This is Beckii Cruel, soon to be released in Japan, isn't much... |
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AKB48 gets anime make-over by Jon Snyder, 10/27/2009 #Video games: Regardless of your opinion of AKB48's music *cough*ITSUCKS*cough*, you have to admit the girls that make up the group are quite cute. Of course, such cuteness has huge marketing power, and the la... |
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Good video, bad music #25: We're back! by Dale North, 10/26/2009 #Idols: Long-time readers will remember the incredibly stupid feature I started back in 2006. The idea was to feature hot idol videos with insanely bad music in them. The juxtaposition of the two make f... |
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Idol mag Sabra stops printing magazine, goes web-only by Colette Bennett, 10/20/2009 #magazines: Today is not such a hot day for fans of beautiful gravure idols. First that news that idol Natsume Sano has decided to call it quits, and then I see over at Danny Choo that print mag Sabra (simil... |
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Gravure idols Natsume Sano and Keito Kawasaki call it quits by Colette Bennett, 10/20/2009 #Idols: I know that gravure idols have made many a fan's day over and over, and surely young ladies like Natsume Sano and Keito Kawasaki are no exception. As much as we might like to fap endlessly over t... |
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More Beckii vids for you: Hare Hare Yukai and more by Dale North, 10/14/2009 #videos: Oh, Beckii. You've won Nico Nico over, which is like being a world power somehow. You haven't necessarily won American otakudom over, nor have you won Japanator over (yet), but props for yo... |
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Why are people calling Beckii Cruel the new Leah Dizon? by Colette Bennett, 10/14/2009 #videos: Okay, I know that Japan loves to watch homemade videos of people dancing to music. I don't personally get it, but you know, I get it. What I do not get is how fourteen year old Beckii Cruel... |
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Japanese idol pens mystery novel by Dale North, 10/13/2009 #Idols: I'll read her "book," know what I'm sayin'?No, really, gravure idol Saya Kazuki is working on a mystery novel, to be published later this month in Japan. It's called Uranai x Tantei, an... |
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HRJK96 will instigate an all-out Idol Group WAR by Josh Tolentino, 10/12/2009 #weird news: In the grim darkness of the Idol industry's future, there is only WAR. Or so goes the prophecy that I cooked up just now, thanks to news that production company Sky Star is aiming to take out the... |
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Context-free images from an internet-based debate I had today by Dale North, 10/12/2009 #Idols: I won't get into what the internet-based debate was about, but I will say that I won. Naturally. |
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Japanese singing girls for sale by Zac Bentz, 09/23/2009 #Otaku Goods: Photo cards, books, towels, phone straps, fans, t-shirts and 244 more kinds of things! If it can be made, it can be made with a cute young girl's face on it! And it can all be yours! To have!That... |
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Becca returns to America 'Kickin' & Screamin' by Zac Bentz, 09/23/2009 #vocaloid: Fresh off trips to Japan to play at the huge Sumner Sonic festival, as well as WaterAid, Oregon native Becca is ready to bring her pop-rock sound back to American shores. In addition to her live ... |
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Arashi to take over NTV for an entire week by Tim Sheehy, 09/21/2009 #TV and Film: A few months back, I talked about Arashi's recent 10 year anniversary "best of" album. With the actual anniversary of their debut album coming up, the idol group is set to storm the air... |
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Aki Hoshino's screams of ecstasy over health drink by Dale North, 09/15/2009 #TV and Film: If you want someone to push your product in Japan, mega idol Aki Hoshino is always a good choice. Her emotive face and her...other assets are sure to draw attention. She's still the top-rated id... |
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Gokusen kicks off its own anti-drug campaign by Brad Rice, 08/18/2009 #japan: We've talked previously about Japan's anti-drug campaign, especially in the wake of the whole Noriko Sakai incident. Well, Visual Anthropology of Japan brought up the above Gokusen posters that a... |
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Oricon polls up the top 10 gravure models by Andres Cerrato, 08/14/2009 #Idols: Like beautiful women? Of course you do. Japan likes them even better when they're busty and pouring out of their swimsuits. That's the world of gravure modeling and I won't complain about it. Ori... |
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And now you know: Police put out drug use PSA in the wake of Noriko Sakai scandal by Josh Tolentino, 08/12/2009 #ZOMGWTFBBQ: Above you can see a drug awareness video put out by Japanese authorities in the wake of the recent scandal involving singer/actress Noriko Sakai. Sakai disappeared for a brief period following ... |
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Vote for your favorite person to be in a game you will never get by Josh Tolentino, 07/21/2009 #Video games: Fans of the Ryu ga Gotoku a.k.a. Yakuza franchise have been disappointed time and time again by SEGA's irritatingly stalwart refusal to bring the series' latest installments out of Glorious Nippo... |
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Trap succeeds, sends Idolm@ster DS preorders through the roof, forever loses any chance at an English release by Josh Tolentino, 07/12/2009 #weird news: The Idolmaster (or THE iDOLM@STER, if you want to get stupid about it) is HUGE in Japan. The mix of moe, management and rhythm gaming hit all the right notes, and helped as a major force behind t... |
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Japanator (can't) Recommend: Perfume - Triangle by Zac Bentz, 07/07/2009 #videos: It's tough to listen to Triangle (officially "▵" but that's too much like the whole Prince name thing) for more than 30 seconds without crushing boredom setting in. Of course that... |
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Oricon names "freshest young stars" in recent poll, also, love letter by Colette Bennett, 07/02/2009 #oricon: My dearest Oricon,There's so many things I love about you, I'm not even sure where to begin. I know your obsessive love of polls always leaves my heart feeling a little sparkly, because you give ... |
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Sowelu signs with Avex, is still hot. by Tim Sheehy, 06/05/2009 #News: Just the other week, we reported that Sony cleaned house by refusing to renew contracts for several major artists. Those affected included names such as The Brilliant Green, Sowelu, and Mai Hoshi... |
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Hatsune Miku meets 8bit chiptunes on 8bit Prophet by Zac Bentz, 06/04/2009 #vocaloid: You're read the Japanator Review, now you can own the album!After weeks of two-song teasers, HearJapan.com has just released the full version of 8bit Prophet: TM Network Tribute - Generated by Ch... |
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Idol Aki Hoshino was carded at a Macau casino by Dale North, 05/19/2009 #Sex: It seems like I go on a weekly rant in defense of the Japanese and their youthful looks. As soon as I pass along a hot image of a Japanese idol or actress, roundeyes are quick to reply with somet... |
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SMAP's Tsuyoshi Kusanagi arrested for public indecency by Matthew Whitehead, 04/22/2009 #music: The ridiculously popular Japanese boy band SMAP needs no introduction, as most of you have probably heard at least one of their chart topping songs like "Sekai ni hitotsu dake no hana" somewhere ... |
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Japan picks for celebs they'd most like to marry (hint: they're all hot) by Colette Bennett, 04/20/2009 #Idols: The Japanese version of popular dating website Match.com recently took a survey asking its members which celebrities they would most like to marry. 500 men and women between the ages of 20 and 44... |
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Hyde and K.A.Z. to bring their band, Vamps, to the US by Eva Duenas, 04/17/2009 #music: If there hasn't been enough announcements about Japanese performers coming the US, then here's another one for you. L'Arc~en~Ciel's Hyde and Oblivion Dust's K.A.Z are bringing the Vamps to the US... |
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Visual Kei band An Cafe coming to California by Eva Duenas, 03/30/2009 #music: I'm so out of the visual kei loop that I didn't even know that Bou isn't part of their band anymore. Even if you're unfamiliar with the band An Cafe (short for Antic Cafe), you'll know them for s... |
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One million Japanese pop idols to feed upon Anime Expo's brains by Zac Bentz, 02/12/2009 #music: Ladies, lock up your boyfriends, 'cause a bevvy of buxom bikini beauties are about to squeeze out every last drop of their manly adoration juice. Oh, who am I kidding? We all know it's just goin... |
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Confession 1: Leah Dizon, I L O V E U <3 by Dale North, 09/05/2008 #Idols: Confessing to the one you love is an important first step. It can either kick off a relationship of mutual love or shut your one-sided love down, telling you to move on. And what better forum to... |
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Shokotan and her cicada-skin fashions by Zac Bentz, 08/19/2008 #weird news: By now, you should all be well aware of who Shokotan is. From eating cats to prancing around on stage in pretty awesome cosplay to blogging a million times a day, she's every fanboy and fangirl's... |
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Gackt to save the world...through his dog Ener by Zac Bentz, 04/15/2008 #weird news: We all know that superstars are crazy. Locked in their dust-free cryogenic chambers 20 hours a day, collecting their toenail clippings and cataloging their bowel movements are the least of their ... |
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Former Musume Kago Ai planning rise from the (figurative) grave by Zac Bentz, 04/07/2008 #Idols: It wasn't so long ago that we were mourning the loss of the career of Kago Ai, the smallest of mini-Musumes. (For those who aren't aware, Morning Musume, part of Hello! Project, is a huge mass of... |
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Bad news for Japan's Womb War: FFX-2 idol fires off stupid remarks by Aoi, 02/06/2008 #News: Remember that chick who sang "real Emotion" and "1000 Words" in Final Fantasy's first true sequel, X-2? Keep nodding: it was Koda Kumi, whose popularity took off with those re... |
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Meet Tomoko Miyake, the anti-idol by God Len, 02/05/2008 #weird news: There is nothing sexier than a girl posing on a bed of Wendy’s hamburgers. Say hello to Tomoko Miyake, Japan’s newest gravure idol making her debut in the March issue of Sabra. Now ... |
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Top Ten Seiyuus of 2007 by God Len, 01/25/2008 #Top Ten: I’m sorry, this is not a God Len certified Top Ten list. In fact this is an Anican certified reader choice list for the top ten seiyuus of 2007; which from what I heard, is a lot better t... |
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Official: Too much Ayumi Hamasaki causes deafness by Zac Bentz, 01/06/2008 #music: J-Pop mega-idol Ayumi Hamasaki announced to her fan club on Friday that she had gone completely deaf in her left ear. Her hearing loss was first reported in 2000 when she was forced to cancel a s... |
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Hikaru Utada + Glasses = Unison Squeee! by Dale North, 09/11/2007 #TV and Film: If you're anything like me, you have a thing for girls with glasses. Yep, the meganekko do it to me every time. On top of all of that, I've always had this thing for Japanese mega-pop st... |
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Too much greatness for one video: Leah Dizon dressed as a waitress in a Tsundere Cafe by Dale North, 09/11/2007 #Tsundere: First off, I apologize for the lack of subtitles, but this video should be easy enough for anyone to follow. The absolutely lovely American-born Japanese idol Leah Dizon and friends hit up ... |
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The Bible to be made into a manga series, starring bishonen Jesus by God Len, 08/24/2007 #Idols: Yes you heard right, that famous book known as the Bible is to be made into a manga series by Tyndale House Publishers. Five volumes in five years is their plan so far which includes the entire N... |
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Yuko Ogura makes my heart 'Rumble' (Update) by Dale North, 08/06/2007 #Idols: You know Yuko Ogura, right? If not, then you should. This lovely 23-year-old Japanese idol/model has the pouty, innocent look down pat, and her eyes can stop your heart. If you don't know ... |
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Kago Ai Follows Though, Gets Fired by Zac Bentz, 03/27/2007 #music: The intertubes are all a-twitter with the news that super cute Morning Musume and W singer Kago Ai (19) has (finally) been fired from Up Front Agency. Early last year she was put on notice for ... |
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Good Video, Bad Music #3 by Dale North, 01/20/2007 #Idols: Aki w/ boyshorts FTW. That is all. |
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Azusa Yamamoto promoting Korean MMO by Brad Rice, 01/19/2007 #video games: It seems as though sexy pinup girl Azusa Yamamoto has dressed up in classic fashion to promote a Korean MMORPG called Nostale. The game will be a fantasy RPG, with some new elements: In the ga... |
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Physical fitness requires motivation by Dale North, 01/18/2007 #weird news: Hitotsu, kore wa NSFW desu. Tabun. If there was some sort of a home version of this cycling game, I'd be in top physical shape. This game show lets contestants pedal for a visual prize, and is... |
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Good video, bad music #2 by Dale North, 01/02/2007 #Idols: The incredibly gorgeous gravure idol Oshiro Miwa knows she looks great in her pink sundress and shows it, but then quickly switches for the kill with a matching pink bikini. She has legs that w... |
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The second time is the charm? by Dale North, 01/01/2007 #Idols: I know I already posted a video of Aizawa Hitomi a few days ago, but they say that the second time is the charm. So here is a video I came across on the always great JapanSugoi featuring Hitomi... |
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Good video, bad music #1 by Dale North, 12/30/2006 #Idols: Gravure idol Aizawa Hitomi flirts with the camera in an outdoor shower in an ill-fitting bikini, and I'm thankful for that. What I am not thankful for is the horrid music coming from my laptop ... |
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Yuri Ebihara still wants me... by Dale North, 12/18/2006 #TV and Film: ...to buy the things she is paid to advertise. Yeah, she would never want me, although I would really like an Ebi Filet-O shrimp right about now. You probably already knew about her McDonald'... |
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