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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.

Always texting

December 29, 2011fetish, men, Public spaceangel, bigger, garbage, hair, male host, Moe, night, texting, Tori no Ichitokyo moe Leave a comment

This young man has an obvious talent for two things: making his hair bigger, and texting on his telephone. The festival is ending, and the street is full of garbage. Yet, our angel of the night is in another world.

Amazing portraits of male hosts

March 27, 2010fetish, male fashion, menenka, festive, gyaruo, host club, kimono, Kimutaku, male host, Moe, Numata Manabu, Visual Keitokyo moe View all 4 comments

CNNGo has a fun interview with Numata Manabu, a Tokyo photographer who has been creating commercial and artistic images of male hosts for five years. I love these group portraits. Numata-san wants the viewer to see the hosts as individuals, and believes that many are smart and hard-working.

Numata-san also describes a progression in male hosts’ visual style, from old-school enka, to Kimutaku look-alikes, other popular Johnny’s boys, gyaruo and visual-kei. I think the kimono look is extra-festive!