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Billboards offer dozens of male hosts, exotic yet commodified

December 4, 2012male fashion, Public spacebillboard, commodified, dozens, exotic, hair, Kabukicho, Make-up, male host, not cheaptokyo moe View all 4 comments

That hair and make-up cannot come cheap.

Wentz is in his undies in Ginza

February 9, 2011fetish, male fashion, men, Public spacead, ウエンツ瑛士, billboard, BVD, dim-witted, Ginza, Moe, pale, talent, thigh, underwear, undies, vulgarization, Wentztokyo moe Leave a comment

Walking in Ginza, I looked up and saw this BVD underwear ad. Wow, that guy looks like my favorite dim-witted but adorable Japanese talent, Wentz. Oh, that is Wentz!

I love how his pale thighs are adding to the vulgarization of this once sophisticated shopping district.

The Party is Over, or is it just starting?

February 6, 2011fetish, JR & Tokyo Metro, male fashion, men, Public spaceadvertisement, Bee TV, billboard, blanket, candidate, date, entertainment, 高岡蒼甫, fantasy, feminine, five, groom, Koide Keisuke, meet, mobile, Moe, phone, pioneer, platform, start, station, Takaoka Sousuke, The Party is Over, 小出恵介, 成宮寛貴tokyo moe View all 3 comments

I love how Japan is always pioneering feminine entertainment. The Party is Over is a new TV series about five fantasy dates with intensively groomed men.

For the past week, Tokyo’s JR stations have been blanketed with advertisements for this new series available only on the mobile phone channel Bee TV. They are bringing the ikemen of television onto the pocket screen.

Surely one of my readers is watching this feminine entertainment? The first date is with Narimiya Hiroki 成宮寛貴, the last with my favorite canned coffee idol Koide Keisuke 小出恵介. The husband likes best Takaoka Sousuke 高岡蒼甫 (his birthday is tomorrow!), he’s date #3 or top right in the photo below.

Here’s the online version of the billboard at the top of the post. It’s brilliant that the image is arranged to focus your attention only on the men. Doesn’t it help you feel like these are *your* dates?

Sex & the City, Part II, Now in Ginza Ad

May 22, 2010male fashion, Public spacead, ara-fi, Arab, アラフィ, billboard, cinema, Ginza, ladies, senpai, Sex and the City, softtokyo moe Leave a comment

So are you preparing yourself for this cinematic soft candy? I think of the four ladies as my ara-fi (アラフィ, around 50 years old) senpai. I am of course curious about the ladies’ encounters with Arab men and camels. I love how it’s opening quickly in Tokyo. Photo taken in Ginza.

Otomen TV show starts soon

July 6, 2009men, New slang, Public spaceBangin, billboard, BL, domestic crafts, feminine, Fuji TV, girly, herbivore, high school, judo, karate, kendo, masculine, Moe, Omootesando, otaku, otome, otomen, pink, pubic, secret, shojo manga, soshokukei, televisiontokyo moe View all 3 comments

A TV version of the manga Otomen is starting soon in Japan (August 1, 11.10 pm, Fuji TV), as revealed by this Omootesando billboard. The story centers on high school junior Asuka Masamune: manly man and judo/karate/kendo master on the outside, lover of caramel macchiato, shōjo manga, sweets, and pink things on the inside. Apparently he romances a (female) classmate by teaching her how to do girly stuff.

I first heard of this term from my otaku and moe language teacher Bangin. He prefers this term over “soshokukei” (herbivores). Otomen, he defines, as young men who like BL and otome stuff (note the pink flower in the billboard which refers to girls’ anime styles), who are skilled at domestic crafts, and who act manly in public but are secretly feminine.

Thank you, Japanese television. Anyone else looking forward to this show?