(the) Road to the Deep East

Ameba news is reporting a very intriguing event held in Akihabara on July 26th. An idol kisses her fans who bought 3DVD copies!!
http://news.ameba.jp/domestic/2008/07/15663.html

Since I knew about the evil idol business exists in this country (musicians or pin-up girls who sell their CD or DVD copies trading handshakes) I'd been spinning the daydream of this kind of extreme service , but I hadn't imagined someone would do it actually. (*1)

The name of this pioneer is Inran (音蘭), 25 years old. It seems she is a little bit old as a gravure idol. Actually, she used to be a Racing Queen and became gravure idol changing her name last April. And this event is held for her latest DVD, '激写(gekisha) X Premium'.

As you can check out in your Japanese dictionary, 'Inran' has another meaning when it is spelled '淫乱'. It's the superlative of 'sukebe' or 'hentai', mainly used for women. So, this extreme challenge might have already been fixed since she changed her name like this.

But before you reserve the ticket to Japan and Akihabara, WAIT. Although it is advertised as 'Kiss', it seems it's just the one on your cheek. And the staffs takes a picture of you when you are kissed for your souvenir. And you can also think twice after you saw the picture of the girl from the link bellow.
(more details from the shop which holds this event)

Then, the story changes a little. 3DVD(3990 yens*3 = 11,970 yens) for 1 kiss on your cheek.
(actual image of this event)



Ameba news still concludes this 'Kiss Meeting' is better choice than to go to Kyabakura and spent 11,970yens there, because it's not sure Kyabakura girls would kiss you on you r cheek with the same amount of money. Certainly, some girls may do, but the 'top' Kyabakura girls won't do even after you spent 1 million yens.

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However, if you simply need a kiss, in Japan, there is another kind of sex service called 'Sexy Kyabakura' (Seku-Kyaba), or 'Osawari-pub'. In Seku-kyaba or Osawari-pub, you can touch girls' body as you like in a small cell for 40 minutes or longer.

Sometimes kissing is forbidden, but it isn't be so difficult to find the 'Kiss-OK' shop. In addition, there are some '指入れ(Yubi-ire)-Ok)' shops. (Ybi ire= to insert one's finger to private parts.) (*2) Sometimes girls will be automatically changed in 20 minutes in rotation, so you can kiss more than 2 girls if you are lucky enough.

And most importantly, the average service fee of these shops is less than 10,000 yens. So, my conclusion is before you go to Akihabara just to be kiseed on your cheek, you'd better try Osawari-pub. Of course, the probability that you can yubi-ire against prettier girls than this gravure idol is less than 100%, but I think it's not so hard to find the Seku-Kyaba girls prettier and younger than this lady.

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Anyway, now, this pioner lady broke the minimum embankment of sex in Akihabara. I think many other gravure idols will follow this movement. The 'kiss meeting(キス会)' will become popular to sell DVD copies, especially the ones from relatively old women, substituting 'Handshake meeting(握手会).

I won't be surprised even if some women start more extreme service like 'Yubi-ire meeting (指入れ会)' in the future. If some young attractive gravure idols like Kawamura Yukie-chan starts 'Yubi-ire meeting', it'll be the day Santos26 from 'Idolizing St. Anna' will be resurrected and go to Akihabara again. He will write a 2000 words of long report to describe how warm and tight the place was for all international wotas in the world.

(image of Yubi-ire kai).



(*1)Some AV(porn) actresses sometimes have this kind of events to sell their works, but I haven't heard about this kind of 'Kiss meeting'.

(*2)But when you do what is not allowed in each shop, you will be taken to a small room and fined 1,000,000 yens, threat by yakuzas. So, you'd better askk the girl or the staff of the shop about detailed regulation before you start kissing or yubi-ireing.

High school student girls' Top 5 favorite artists
1. L'Arc en Ciel
2. Porrno Graffiti
Bump of Chicken
4. Arashi
5. aiko

Amazingly, this result is not the one from survey 10 years ago, but the artists recent joshi-kousei selected.

Really?

This result just makes me tilt my head like a shiba dog. If it was the one from France or other European countries where v-kei bands arrived 10 years later after their peak in Japan, I could believe in this result.

But as far as my knowledge is concerned, L'Arc-en-Ciel, whose vocal is 156cm tall, is the band which made their debut before these high school students made debut, and members are as old as their fathers. Porn Graffiti is also the band which has a long history, and aiko is 33 year-old obasan whose career has already peaked out.

The names of Bump of Chicken and Arashi are relatively reliable, but do modern high school students really love these ossans or obasan bands or musicians??

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Actually, this is the research from Oricon, and as always, Oricon doesn't inform us of the numbers of the vote polled.
http://juken.oricon.co.jp/56283/full/#rk

So, the most plausible conclusion is that the staffs of Oricon just fabricated this research in Mainichi WaiWai style. And when we assume like that, some comments posted as the reason they love these groups look very fishy.

L'Ark en Ciel :
"This is the band which we can love for years."
"My life has changed after I met L'Arc."
Porno Graffitti
"Their style hasn't changed."
"It's 10th anniversary, but their sound is evolving day by day."

How old are you?... These words seems to me the ones from at least 26 year-old fans.

But if this is research is the genuine one, and recent Joshi-kouseis love the L'Arc-en-ciel or Porno, there will be two main reasons why they are loved by recent high school students.