Earlier this year, the first annual  Moehaku 萌え博 2010 show was held at the Makuhari Messe Convention Center in Tokyo. Moehaku is an exhibition of itasha decorated cars. Itasha is a Japanese term for an otaku fad of decorating cars with  anime, manga, or video games characters.

At Moehaku the car decorations usually involved paint schemes and stickers and while decorated cars  are called itasha, decorated motorcycles are called itansha while decorated bicycles are  itachari.

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Squadron Venus 5 Goddess 女神戦隊ヴィーナスファイブ is a low budget sentai power ranger DVD flick aimed at otakus featuring sexy Japanese gravure idols Yuuri Morishita 森下悠里、Maya Koizumi 小泉麻耶、Asami Tada 多田あさみ、Haruka Mori 森はるか、Io Aikawa 相川イオ、Rio Natsumi 夏目理緒、and Ako Ito いとうあこ

The venus 5 gals help police solve a spate a murders and in doing so battle the Evil Empire’s black tights Assassin girls.

Venus 5 videos

Azusa Yamamoto 山本梓 has that pretty girl next door look that has earned her a legion of fans.  The 29 year old gravure idol and actress is from Chiba prefecture debuted in 2001 as a model for teen fashion magazine Cawaii.

Azusa is a talented pianist and ballet dancer which helps explain how she keeps so fit. She has appeared in 9 photobooks and 16 DVDs, TV commercials for Suzuki, DoCoMo, Lawson, Mazda and J-pop station. Otaku fans will reconize her from her TV and sentai films like GoGo Sentai Boukenger vs Super Sentai, Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, Bakuryuu sentai Abaranger vs Hurricanger and Ninpuu sentai Hurricanger vs Gaoranger.  Read more...

For Japanese otaku learning English, there is more concentration when there is a cute anime school girl involved.  In the diagram above, you can learn all the names of the body parts in English by just looking at the school girl.

Don’t forget to  check out the hilarious Mari-tan way of learning English through vulgar US Marine slang.

Pretty Japanese fashion model and race queen Nanao Arai 菜々緒 has made her gravure idol debut with her first release Four  O’clock.  Filmed in Yokohama, the 21 year old Nanao 菜々緒 attended the PR event last month in Akihabara and appeared in a sexy  string blue bikini to the delight of her otaku fans.

In one of the DVD scenes, Nanao dressed up as a sexy home tutor which gives new meaning to studying hard.

For those of you who have access to Japanese station NNN, Nanao can be seen on the TV show 『ブランディア～うれしいことさがそう!』(日本海テレビ).  Read more...

Here are the top singles from Japan based on CDTV charts for May 9, 2010.  Amazingly, the top two Jpop  singles are from the popular  anime K-on which should make all the otaku very happy!  Other climbers include Shoko Nakagawa’s  “RAY OF LIGHT” to number 8 and  Hilcrhyme’s “Daijoubu” to number 6.

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Lotte’s ロッテ latest TV commercial for their ACUO brand of chewing gum which started airing last month features otaku favorite, Haruhi Suzumiya 涼宮ハルヒ (and her friends) interacting with actor Toma Ikuta 生田斗真.

Lotte Acuo TCVM featuring Haruhi Suzumiya

Haruhi Suzumiya OP Super Driver

Japanese Mini skirt fashion has evolved over the last few years: leggings under dresses (2008), leggings and mini skirts (2009) to the current bare legs and mini skirts.   As the Japanese summer season approaches,  Japanese  girls  want to wear mini skirts again but they have to put up with the admiring eyes of oyaji, otaku and salarymen.

One new trend this summer might be these 100% cotton mini skirts that have shorts on the inside that prevent any upskirt opportunities.!

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Team Evangelion Racing エヴァンゲリオンレーシング (Team Runa) made its racing debut at the 3rd round of the Super GT スーパーGT (formerly known as the All-Japan Grand Touring Car Championship Japan GT), held at the Fuji Speedway Circuit earlier this month.

The anime themed racing team entered under the GT300 category of this prestigious racing series fielding a Toyota Corolla Axio with Evangelion logos.  The cars and drivers garnered alot of attention but there was just as much attention by otaku fans to the two beautiful race queens in sexy cosplay outfits.  Read more...

Rin Takanashi 高梨臨 is a pretty 22 year old actress and gravure idol from Chiba prefecture who was scouted in trendy Harajuku district of Tokyo. In 2005-6 she was part of the idol group, Pink Jam Princess ピンクジャムプリンセス before appearing  in the 2007 film adaptation of the Japanese novel Goth as one of the lead characters, Yoru Morino.

She’s also appeared in 5 TV shows including Detective School Q 探偵学園Q, Drama – Emina Ogura (2007), Rookies ルーキーズ ,Drama – Yukino Inomata (2008),  Tetsudō Musume: Girls be ambitious! Drama – Raika Tachibana (2008) but she is probably best known among otaku for her role in 2009 Super Sentai series  Samurai Sentai Shinkenger 侍戦隊シンケンジャー, and Kamen Rider Deccade as Mako Shiraishi/Shinken Pink (2009)  Read more...