Boring puddings are a thing of the past, thanks to Kyary Pamyu Pamyu!
The model/singer brought signature eclectic style to Pucchin Purin’s latest CMs by wearing a pudding-inspired outfit topped with an actual confectionery hat. If the puddings alone aren’t enough to brighten your day, try eating them while doing Kyary’s version of the twist.
Utada Hikaru (28) is currently on hiatus from activities, but she still posted a tweet on the day of her 13th anniversary on the 10th. She wrote, “Yesterday was the 13th anniversary of my debut! Even though I have been on hiatus for a year already, I received a lot of congratulations, thank you so much “(`(エ)´)ﾉ彡☆ !!”
Shortly afterwards fans …
French actor Jean Reno has picked up the role to play ‘Doraemon’ for Toyota’s new CM!
Last week, Toyota released the first-ever live action adaptation of the popular anime, “Doraemon“, through their CM, which also stars Tsumabuki Satoshi as ‘Nobita’ and Ogawa Naoya as ‘Gian’. Joining Jean Reno, Yamashita Tomohisa will play ‘Suneo’ and Mizukawa Asami will play ‘Shizuka-chan’.
The …
We previously reported that Japan Post would begin selling stamp sheets bearing the faces of popular idol group, AKB48. It’s being reported that once they were made available on November 8th, the influx of traffic caused the Japan Post homepage to crash.
Fans rushed to the site all at once in order to grab a sheet, as it was …
Konami’s Kojima Productions have enlisted AKB48’s Kojima Haruna to help promote the game Metal Gear Solid HD Edition. The company has been using the phrase, “Spring (Haru) has come to Kojima Productions”, which is a play on Kojima’s first name; Haruna.
This teaser video shows Kojima sneaking into a building and rewriting the last kanji in “Kojima” to match …
Before & After
Before & After
Talento Shaku Yumiko cracked up her fans after she revealed that she accidentally bought an iPod Touch instead of an iPhone.
On October 18th, the star blogged her excitement about buying an “iPhone” by writing, “Finally! I made my official smartphone debut!” She continued, “I remembered a famous saying that goes ‘Kaitai toki wa kaikae doki’ (The time …
Actress Yoshitaka Yuriko is going to star in the new commercials for the Japanese fashion label ‘United Arrows green label relaxing‘, where she’ll recite well-known lines from some classic TV dramas.
The label’s new PR campaign has the title ‘Koisuru Label‘ and features Yoshitaka quietly standing on the platform of a small train station. While waiting for her train, she can’t …
On September 28th, SKE48’s Matsui Rena attended a special preview event for the animated film, “Rango“.
Since the movie follows the adventures of a chameleon named ‘Rango’, Matsui watched the movie with a real live chameleon. Matsui, who says she loves reptiles, showed her excitement by saying, “It’s my first time actually touching it, but I’ve grown to love it even …
On September 6th, AKB48’s Minegishi Minami attended a press conference for Kaspersky’s 2012 security software, “Kaspersky Internet Security“, as their CM character.
The conference began with an official apology from Minegishi herself, who felt sorry for the confusion caused by her “takeover” of AKB48’s photos and videos. Minegishi had replaced every member’s faces with her own, and they were …
Recently, MAX member NANA (35) posted a picture from before her debut, when she was 15 years old.
That day, NANA had gone to see the play “Himitsu. 3” (Secret. 3), so in relation to that she posted the picture of herself as a 15 year old in her karate uniform and revealed her own “secret”. She wrote, “My …
China’s Agency for Cultural Affairs has recently put a ban on various songs. Users in China will not be able to search for these songs or download them from music sites, as the country will be removing them. In total, this ban will prohibit people from trial listening to the songs, hearing them on broadcasts, and downloading them.
Most of the …
On August 19th, Satoda Mai confessed that she took someone else’s umbrella from a shop she was visiting.
Writing on her official blog, Satoda explained, “It was raining, so I left my house today with my large plastic umbrella. I saw a little shop I wanted to check out, so I put my umbrella in the umbrella stand. Around …
Nara Prefecture’s record high is 35C (~95F), and just this month they’ve already had three days that were extremely hot. To conserve electricity, Sento-kun, the mascot from Nara’s Prefectural Office, decided to give out a special fan to it’s residents.
He ended up giving the fan to Renka-chan, Katsuragi city’s official mascot. The prefectural office has already begun a PR campaign …
Starting in September, some fans will have a chance to experience life alongside some of the central members of AKB48… sort of.
This is all possible thanks to the power of ‘AKB48 Voice Rooms‘ which are special rental apartments that will feature the voices of members such as Maeda Atsuko and Oshima Yuko. They will be available across Japan and will …
On July 30th a thief trespassed at the AKB48 Theater stealing a wall-mounted picture of CG-idol Eguchi Aimi in the process.
The official AKB48 blog writes, that the person who stole the picture probably did it on a whim and meant no harm. They also note the thief is probably feeling regret right about now. Since the culprit may be feeling remorse, …
