Is he hot or not? World pizza-eating champion Kobayashi Takeru not only proudly focuses viewers’ attention on his tight stomach, but provides a rare come-hither gesture.
To review his Google Image search is to savor delinquent defiance with ever changing bleached and processed hair. Kobayashi’s riot of punk excess and competitive hedonism, his massive hot dog eating, and his all-American image making is alluring and repulsive.
So many questions arise. What is it about classic American food that lends itself so easily to who-can-eat-more contests? Can Americans not compete with Japanese in our most popular national sports? Is Kobayashi a good or bad representative of Japan. And finally, is he hot or not? What do the readers say?
You can see he charmed at least one Alabama member of the collegiate royal family.
Some other fun facts: his arch-rival is Joey Chestnut, he’s eaten 59 hot dogs in 10 minutes, and 5 and 3/4 P’zones (cross between a pizza and calzone) in 6 minutes, competitive food eating involves “jaw capacity and stomach capacity.”
Tokyo Moe 
That’s Kobayashi? ^^ He’s HOT.
A while ago I was sitting in front of the NBC station in NYC (after spending all of my money at Kinokuniya on magazine’s with Kazuya Kamenashi and Tomohisa Yamashita on them) and I saw a headline that said something about Kobayashi winning some eating contest only to lose it cause he threw up.
I always imaged that he’d be fat and gross.
MM: Glad to be able to dispel that misconception. Are you getting ready for your Taipei fellowship?
Hahaha, I never saw this till now. Gomen!
Anyways, what do you think about him?
NOT
Haha. I think the upper photo is kinda “yankii” hot, the lower photo, not so much!
and he’d be all eatin my pizza 😦
True. It might be slimming to have KT around ^^