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It's no secret that Japanese companies use celebrities and popular bikini models to promote their goods. Sony has done it for PSP, Nintendo has done it for their games, and let's not forget the booth babes and show girls that appear at many gaming expos.
These girls are usually paid to look good and act excited while playing a game or console, no matter how awful it might be.
But if you take a look at many Japanese celebrities' blogs, you will often find them talking about their favorite game, console or hardware. They aren't paid to do this, though no doubt companies would be thrilled to know that their products are being unintentionally promoted by such big-name stars.
The newest example of this is the blog of popular bikini model and actress, Yuuri Morishita. She recently got her hands on a Bape DS and couldn't wait to talk about it and snap some photos of herself holding the DS to post on her blog.
Meanwhile, Nintendo are jumping with glee at the free promotion.
Additional sources:
- via kotaku.com
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Most recently commented on by on May 29, 2008
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Lots of people have random blogs like this. Celerities aren't much different.
And she is pretty hot.
Granted I never got the whole "asian chicks are hot" thing. I believe otherwise.
/instathumbsdown
english is spoken by like a billion people and is second only to chinese in the most spoken language in the world, making it way easier for people to relate to western celebs than eastern ones
And the ones that do break out in Hollywood end up with stereotypical roles in martial arts movies or Japanese horror movies.
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Shutter is a Thai film, by the way. Not a Japanese film. It actually won a fair few awards - The original is a pretty scary movie.
Most Asian horror movies don't suck - Their American remakes do, however. As "weaboo" as that sounds, it's usually true. Asian horrors usually revolve around themes that don't translate well in America. That, and Hollywood always tries to make the story easier to understand while also going out of their way to explain why Americans are in these situations in the first place. -_-
I have nothing against Japan, one of my favourite football players is from there.
Japan, in terms of celebrities in the West, are pretty much a non-entity. And like tracemastax said, it's the language barrier.
I look forward to Guti or Krunal or whoever restoring my comment.
Celebrities from other countries (especially non-english speaking ones) just stick to entertaining their own countries. It's easier than spending years trying to make it big in America.
The point I'm trying to make is that Japans popular culture is very localised. It's not as if most Westerners could list any Japanese model never mind a few models.
Meh, I'm a bit of a cynic. While I'm sure not ALL celebs post about how cool something is for $$$s on their personal blogs, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Kawaii girl though....
But free publicity for Nintendo.
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