Just when you think Yasushi Akimoto and his minions cannot go any further... they do.
AKB48's latest sell-out, a TV commercial for Puccho, sees them dancing to the sounds of their own "music" as they eat the product being advertised. But, this being AKB, nothing is simple and everything is queasy.
The heads of the young girls are pasted in the Most Obvious Photoshopping of the Year Award-winning style onto the bodies of dancing children. Yes, children. This time there is no mistake.
We simply cannot fathom what ad agency chicanery came up with the concept that the ...
This week's key word in the erotic Japanese dictionary is zettai ryouiki (絶対領域) -- often translated as "the absolute zone".
A major part of otaku and moe culture, zettai ryouiki refers to the area between of the upper thigh when it is being exposed by a nubile and sexy girl, particularly when she is wearing a skirt and knee socks.
The phrase also occurs in Evangelion and so possibly became slang from there.
It's not just about the exposure of naked flesh on the leg. The amount and proportion of sock and skirt is also very important in framing and emphasizing the ...
One of the most interesting trends in Japanese adult toys is parody or the way it uses other media as inspiration for "unofficial" adaptations.
This is particularly the case with anime or otaku-themed onaholes.
A new example is inspired by Papakiki!, the popular anime and manga series, and known by its full title as Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father! (Papa no iu koto wo kikinasai!).
Taking the schoolgirl virgin characters and converting their tight pussies into handy holes, the Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Horny Father! is a new series of three holes.
Here's how ...
AKB48 handshaking events, when fans can "meet" their idols, have come into attention again.
Team B's Rie Kitahara (21) -- and probably only one of the only two genuinely hot AKB48 members -- has fallen under the obsessive attention of one male fan, who wrote on an anonymous message board:
We argued about her hair [at a handshaking event]. It's bad of me but I think of Rie-chan totally as my think. It pains me that other people are appraising her.
Countless otaku believe they are the actual boyfriends of the girls, which is why they react so ferociously when Rina Sashihara ...
Forget the summer matsuri festivals, the fireworks and even the music festivals. The place to be this August is the Tokyo Idol Festival 2012.
Happening out at Odaiba in Tokyo Bay, this event has been taking place since 2010 as Japan's first mainstream idol festa and must be the best counter-programming to mainstream summer events.
The packed line-up includes a host of idols and otaku girl groups, including SKE48, and also top sexy model appearances, like Risa Yoshiki.
Okay, we're be honest, some of the idol groups are basically girls who can't be even 13 yet, which is hardly ...
In the same week that the AKB48 moneymen claimed victory in the amount of hype and advertising cash their well-greased PR machine could turn their "election" campaign into -- comes a scandal that proves just how controlled and fake they are.
A minor member of the band, Rino Sashihara (b.1992), has sort-of admitted to the rumors started by a tabloid that she seduced one of her otaku fans.
Shock horror! A girl exploiting her fame to get some fun and pleasure for herself?!! Well, it's okay if it's men (unless you go as far as, say, Edison Chen), but with an idol, and especially for ...
It was the last time that Atsuko Maeda would be appearing -- though she wasn't actually "running" -- and inevitable the latest AKB48 "general election" has been an insane blitz of publicity, with massive ads on TV (in collaboration with Google+) and on major websites.
It was shown live on TV for several hours and streamed online too. However, given how anemic viewing figures for AKB48-starring dramas and movies have been, and, compared to the advertising and hype, how, despite being touted as "top-sellers", the music sales have also been relatively modest (compared to market leaders, say, ...
We've been trying out some examples of the big trend in otaku onahole toys recently.
Meiki masturbators and clone onaholes based on top sexy JAV stars always guarantee to set your imagination on fire.
But sometimes you need something a bit different to get the juices literally flowing.
Me and Tadashi are not what you could call otaku, though we do like to watch anime and read manga on occasion. But Kazuki is a big geek and so he jumped at the chance to tell us about the joys of these new kinds of adult toys, based on the otaku subculture characters, real or otherwise.
Take the ...
The Japanese like public baths (onsen) and they also like technology and otaku culture. Imagine mixing the three in the same way some hot springs allow mixed gender bathing!
Just released for Android phones, the Moe-yu app takes two concepts (moe and bathing) and lets users enjoy sensual bathing with special bishojo character Momori. Naturally Momori also talks to you (voiced by Asumi Kana) so you can, well, think you are having a conversation with a real girlfriend.
You can change backgrounds, and use the camera and augmented reality technology so that it even seems that the girl ...
As we know, there are plenty of people in Japan with oedipal fetishes enough to make lactating milk a major subculture in the porn and sex industry.
Well, this otaku took it a step further.
He wanted to squeeze breasts and pump out milk so bad that he designed a computer software system that lets him do that to 2D images on a screen!
Using a camera and a PC to pinpoint the spot of "milk discharge", he crafted a program whereby he can touch the breast on the screen and then it produces an instantaneous fountain of milk!
Here's the video... Keep watching for the really creepy ...
