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This woman leads a double life. Her boyfriend thinks she’s a secretary. In fact she is one of Japan’s new breed of professional seducers, hired by embittered spouses to entrap their straying partners. And she’ll stop at nothing to get the desired results.

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Kana Tsugihara, born on 25 August 1984 in Tokyo, Japan. This 158cm beauty is a Japanese Gravure Idol. She’s got a dozen DVDs to her name since 2004 and she enjoys shopping and playing badminton during her free time. Also, she’s was featured and appeared on quite a few magazines in Japan and was also hired to promote the “Xbox: 360″ during the launch in Japan.

If you liked this post, please check out my other Idol postings. You may also be interested in my 2D girls category (check it out to see if it something you like).

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Weird and sometimes controversial videos on the internet is practically a common occurrence nowadays. It is not too far fetched to say that because of the controversy there are obviously some people who feel offended, yet at the same time there are others who believe it to be nothing more than an entertaining video at best.

This video below has been causing quite a stir on the Japanese Inter-web. The video shows two female Nagasaki University students who perform a dance (and flash a little upskirt) to a tune from the erotic game “TimeLeap” in front of the Atomic Dome in Hiroshima. Some individuals are saying that this is insulting to the souls of the people who died on that tragic day the bomb was dropped. Others are saying it is no big deal. The question is, what do you guys think?

News Via: Japundit

A third season of the anime adaptation of Coharu Sakuraba’s Minami-ke manga series has been reportedly green-lit in Japan. Minami-ke tells the story of three sisters who live on their own and depend on each other to solve whatever problems may arise. The first season of Minami-ke ran on TV Tokyo in 2007, while a second season ended wrapped up in March. Another Sakuraba title, Kyo no Gononi (Today in Class 5-2), has been made into a video series and is being animated for television this October as well.

News Via: Anime News Network

This September, the company behind Art Jeuness will be organising a huge exhibition for a limited time period only at Akiba Square, the event space on the second floor of UDX. It is their biggest exhibition to date and they will be showcasing illustrations from various artists. The ticket costs only 500 yen but if you buy in advance it costs only 400 yen. Better still if you go as a group of more than five (you get a group discount and each ticket costs only 300 yen). The physically disabled, senior citizens and junior high school students and younger get free admission with presented ID.

For more information regarding this exhibit please visit Akibanana.

It seems that Kobe, Japan has plans to create an artist enclave to revitalize an area of the city that was ravished by earthquake, according to Daily Yomiuri.

Merchants in Kobe’s Nagata Ward, which was devastated in the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, plan to revitalize the area as a “cartoon town” by renting vacant rooms in buildings constructed after the quake to young cartoonists and establishing a museum featuring a popular anime created by a Kobe-born cartoonist. The merchants hope buildings erected after the earthquake will function like the Tokiwa-so apartment building in Toshima Ward, Tokyo, in which many talented cartoonists, such as Osamu Tezuka, Fujio Akatsuka and Fujio Fujiko, stayed and drew in their early days.

In the new buildings, they aim to nurture young, talented cartoonists by providing workrooms and opportunities for them to publish their work. The merchants also plan to invite shops to sell items related to popular cartoons and comics as well as figurines of popular anime characters.

Whether or not this particular plan will be a solution for long term sustainability is yet to be seen, however, many artists (starving artists) will be happy to hear such news and will probably enjoy this for the time that it remains.

[And in the image above, Yup I drew that stick figure on there! Amazing, Right? Best Stick Figure Ever!]

News Via: Daily Yomiuri

For all Otakus, conventions is a place to gather, share, and to see new things. Despite the fact that the Summer Anime Con Season has ended, there are still a number of Anime Conventions throughout September in various parts of the world.

Here is a list of upcoming September based Conventions in various parts of the world, for those who live in that area, I hope that you will have a good time in these particular gatherings. Click the title of the Convention to visit the original site to find out more details on that particular convention.

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