(the) Road to the Deep East

It is Tanabata today, the only day in a year that a man and woman living separately across the Mily Way are allowed to meet up and make love. In Japan, children write their dream on a piece of rectangle paper and bind to a bamboo grass tree to make a wish.

And on this Tanabata day, a miracle occurred. But it was not for children, but for the adults who couldn't become adults, mentally, and maybe sexually.

Early this morning, one man who loves the video game 'the Idol M@Ster Live 4U ', the video game for Xbox with which people can produce a concert of 3D anime characters, found out a special cheat command to erase the background of the live concert scene.


Some may say, it's just a trivial bug, but we have to notice the character of this video game and how this video game became popular, and understand how important this discovery is.

It's sure this video game is designed attractively – especially for otaku people. Almost all essences of 'moe', or charm of otaku anime girl character – for example, tsundere, kyonyuu(big boobs), hinnyuu(small boobs), lolicon, binbou(poor) – are included in this video game.

(*Personally, I have never thought anime charaters are more attractive than girls in reality, but I have to admit, the things under their necks are attractive. And if I were still an idol otaku, I might have liked this song musically. )


However, it was not the company, Bandai-Namuco but fans of this video game that made this video game famous. A lot of 'producers' created fan movies of these characters to promote the characters. In fact , over 3600 copies are sold via niconico douga which broadcasts this fan movies, and this sales is as much as 10% of whole sales of this video game.

So, this new discovery to erase the background of the character can become an innovation of these mad movie makers. It works like a chroma key, and people can mix this movie with other movies or images.

Until this discovery, a lot of fan fiction producers had been cutting the character's figure out of every scenes of movies by hands, but this new technology enables them to reduce the time and cost drastically. For these creaters It must be equal to the invention of steam engine or plane in outr history. Some people began to call this discovery, 七夕革命(Tanabata Revolution).

Was this Tanabata Revolution born from just a bug ? I don't think so. It seems Bandai-Namuko had already prepared this hidden mode for the fan video makers.

It is very contrary to what happened anime industry few days back. (reference). Kadokawa began to certificate some clips on youtube 'official mad movies', but still the most of anime productions are negative about fan fictions.

On the other hands, this video game maker prepared the hidden command to encourage and motivate fan fictions.

Which style will become the winner in the end? Well, if they are Kadokawa and Bandai-Namuko, this Tanabata Revolution will become a true July Revolution of Japanese otaku industry.


[Updated]
Here's the outcome of Tanabata Revolution.

All I can say is,, we don't need Momusu or AKB48 anymore. Now anime characters can do better on your desk.

Women are always mysterious to men. They always have some secrets we can never know.

The mystery begins at elementary school. One day, while we are still children who love Nintendo products badly, they begin to use some instruments which we are never taught how to use them, and become very nervous once a month without any reasons. Then, they stop playing Nintendo products with us, and begin to talk about the ikemen persons they love, and never look at us anymore.

The mystery continues. The part of their bodies begin to swell, and strangely, we can not overlook the hills suddenly appeared on their chest. Some of us experience the expansion of human body parts then, but apparently, it is not the same place. And the mystery occurred then are concealed under the kawaii pair of clothes they begin to use then.

And they later, when they become more cunning, they begin to camouflage them with some cotton or silicon products, and the mystery becomes deeper and deeper. Those camouflaged mysteries attract us badly, but where is the truth? Only the thing we can do is just guessing, speculating, and making believe, lonesomely, and tiresomely.

But now, one Japanese genius create the wonderful device to undercover the one of secrets of women.

Oppai Maker
http://ohpai.com/

By inputting the name of the girls whom you want to undercover her mystery, you can see the truth usually hidden under the annoying clothes. The color of top, area of the circle around the top, and elasticity(pururun-do) of the body part . In addition, unbelievably, it can calculate how “H”(indecent,or pervert) the person is!!

Some may not believe, but I think this device is very helpful, and credible. Let's look at an example, the best example to talk about this topic. Hosino Aki. Amazingly, through this oppai maker, we can see the truth under her mysterious boobs.

(Just in case, click read more after you confirmed you are legally okay to see some indecent pictures.)

As I reported days back, a woman who calls herself gravure idol was arrested in Akihabara on obscenity charges. And thanks to the Police investigation, it turned out this woman who had called herself 21 year-old was actually 30 years old.

This woman is still claiming that she is 22 years old on her blog. 'I can't be 30. If I were, nobody would offer me.' And to give the evidence that she is still 22 years old, she posted a picture of diploma from the university she graduated last year.


There are some mysterious points.

First, according to this picture, she was born on September 7th in 1985, and graduated university on March 26th in 2007. This means she graduated the university when she was 21 years old. However, in Japan, it is very hard to skip the grades even if he or she is a prodigy. Recently, some high schools are giving genius students the chance to skip the grade, but it is almost the only way to graduate the university at 21 years old.

There is still a chance that she is the case, but the university she graduated was the law department of Meiji University. I don't say Meiji University is a bad university. It's belong to a kind of top schools, and 85% of people in this country can't go. But it's bizarre that genius girl who could skip the grade at high school goes to Meiji. If I were her, I will wait one more year and go to Tokyo University. In addition, it's private school, so she can't save the money.

And one more fatally dubious point of this diploma is the name of the president of Meiji University. The name in this diploma Mr Yamada has already retired, and it was from 1999 to 2004 that Meiji students could get this diploma.

So... well, I reported about how idol agencies order photoshop engineers where to arrange photographs before, but it seems underground idols like her have to use photoshop by themselves, and they are very good at using it themselves.

And there is another clue that she is not 22 years old. The account of her blog is.. 'yukky1978.' I don't know what this number exactly means, but as a 30 years old man, I can say I was born in 1978.

It's still amazing a student who graduated Meiji university is doing such a stupid job now. But if is truely she is 30 years old, It's not so surprising. When she graduated Meiji, Japanese economy wa s at the worst situation in history, and it was very difficult to find a job even for Meiji graduates. (What is called Job-Searching Ice Age. ) She must be one of the casualties of this era.

By the way, after people pointed out these facts, she deleted the picture from her blog, and explained why she deleted the one.

"Meiji is not my final career. I wanna go to graduate schools from Waseda University or Keio University. What is called law school. It's very difficult to go with Meiji's level, so I want to study for one or two years. So, personally I think I haven't graduated it yet. "

... If she goes to law school, she should know there is a crime called forgery.

Recently, an instant recipe for a suicide is spreading among young people in Japan, and many young Japanese are killing themselves with this recipe. It is a combination of some detergents and bath cleaner, and the hydrogen sulfide caused by chemical reaction between them can kill a human being. But just like other kind of gas suicides, it can involve other people in neighborhood, hence this suicide is becoming a social problem in Japan. The Police had already forbidden to sell bath cleaner which includes sulfa to dubious customers. It seems I have to go abroad when I want to wash my bath.

And now, according to Tokyo Sports, it turned out one of casualties of this gas suicide was an ex-gravure idol who transferred to AV idol last February.

This 22 years old woman had been a stages actress when she was a high school student. Later, she entered in the show business world, and until recently, she'd been active as a gravure idol. However, she couldn't become so popular, and this February, she challenged to a porn video. And thanks to her past career, she could become one of popular actresses.

But it seems this change and transfer was a stress to her, and on March 18th, she killed herself in a bath room at her apartment. Before she passed away, it is rumored that she had notified her suicide on her blog, but her agency has already closed it, so there are no means to confirm it.

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Personally, for some reasons, I knew about this AV idol, but never knew that she was a genuine gravure idol before. Just like av gals recently(like Aoki Rin), I'd thought it is just a fixed and planned promotion activity that she was a gravure idol before her AV debut.

Actually, she was a kind of famous gravure idol who had a certain number of fans, and she transfered for real. When she made her AV debut, some fans who had supported her from her gravure-era felt that they were betrayed by her. And those ex-fans began to accuse her on the Internet. And it seems she couldn't stand this bashing.

If I were Christ, I would say: 'How did you use her photo books? If there is a person without onanie among them, let him first cast a stone at her...' First, I couldn't understand why her fans had to get angry about the av debut of gravure idol they love.

But later, as an ex-idol otaku, I could understand. These fans may be wishing more than gravure idols on her, and they were just wishing her to become an actress or a famous TV star, just as many successful gravure idols do. But this too much love killed her in the end.

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In addition, and not only fans' accuse, it seems she was not belonging to a good agency in AV industry.

Usually, AV gals starts from moderate ones, and challenge to hardcore later. For example, there is a 18 years old AV gal named Itagaki Azusa, who also transfered from gravure world to AV world recently. Her debut work was very moderate one in which Azusa makes love as if she does with her boyfriend , and even after 6 months since her debut, she hasn't experienced gang-bang rape yet.

However, as for this transfered gravure idol's case, she debuted in a bizarre work in which she had to have sex while her female friend is watching her, and had to challenge to gang-bang rape in the second work. So, just like fans' anger, her career was not controlled propery by the agency.

To make the matter worse, even after her death, this agency is selling her videos publicly on the Internet, although they deleted her blog from the same Web site. When somebody purchase her videos, will the money go to her bereaved family? I don't think so. I remeber this happened when another famous AV actress was found dead in 2000 in a very mysterious way. (details).

Only the thing I can say is, 'Don't become an AV girl, women.' I wish all AV were yakuza free, and all AV idols could become happier in a garden of love.

As many knows, an ex-member of Morning Musume, who was taking a leave of absence after a scandal, Kago Ai, 20 year-old, has already come back to show business. After she confessed her painful memories during her break in some TV shows, she started her blog, and it looks she is wishing to become an actress now.

However, recently, a tragedy ocurred on this blog. She mentioned about the movie 'Almost Famous' (Japanese title 'Ano koro Penny Rain to') she watched , and she compared herself with the main character in this movie.

Then, one reader noticed that what she described on this entry was exactly same as the review from the official Website of this movie.

Kago says:
'It's very difficult to become an adult. I still have an anxiety. Sometimes I have rush it when it is no need to be in such a hurry. But 'the main character in this movie is always trying hard, and trying to be honest. And adults around her are attracted by her fairness with love.'

And Sony Pictures says:
'(She is) Always honest. And her fairness and honesty with love attracts adults around her. '

Some evil people regarded this as plagiarism, and now Kago-chan's blog is being closed for too many accesses from these people.

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...Personally, I don't think this is plagiarism. Many people enjoy watching movies, but not everybody thinks about it in its own words. Most of the audience just thinks about the theme exactly same as some reviewers or commercial films say. 'Oh, certainly, the main character is honest!!' ... and felt like he or she could understand the philosophy of the work.

Look around, and talk with your friends who are not interested in arts, about some artistic works. How many people will talks about an art in their own words, from their own perspective? Many common and sane people don't have enough time to delve into the arts. Official reviews provide them the words to enjoy instead of them. If they call this kind of reference plagiarism, movie companies have to ban all the comments from common people who talk about the movie with these words.

Of course, if a professional writer does this, he or she should be blamed as a plagiarist., But it's just a comment from a woman, who hadn't graduated even a high school... so, what's wrong? Just overlook it or laugh at her silliness, if you want.

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...But the scandal actually intrigued me was not this plagiarism, or nit-picking. In another entry, Kago-chan said, 'I don't have money', with some pictures. However, one reader found that the washer in Kago's house is actually 380,000 yens.($3,800) And then he shouted, 'Hey!! You are not poor!!'