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Otaku "Singer" Flashes Akihabara
Posted by Brian Ashcraft at 11:00 PM on March 17, 2008
Every Sunday in Akihabara, it happens. Girls in maid outfits (and other costumes) sing, dance and stand in the Akiba streets and sidewalks. Some of them attract some crowds, some of them attract large crowds. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is starting to crackdown for "safety" reasons in accordance with traffic laws. "I have no real understanding of what standards they're using to drive the maids off the streets. I could understand if they were dressed in schoolgirls' swimsuits or costumes that flash a lot of skin, but maid outfits are nothing like that", says economic analyst and Akiba lover Takuro Morinaga. Thing is, it's not just maids.
Take this past weekend, for example. "Singer" and swimsuit model Asuka Sawamoto (link slightly NSFW) showed up in Akihabara, wearing a very short skirt and a pair of red underpants. Sawamoto proceeded to stand on the sidewalk and flash all of nerdom, which mobbed and took photo after photo. All this so Sawamoto could promote a live concert. Guess she succeeded! She also succeeded in giving the grounds for this police crackdown more weight. Good for her.
Hit the jump for the Dead Rising version of this pic that Luke was kind enough to PhotoShop for shits and giggles.

Maid Hunt in Tokyo [Mainichi via Dark Diamond]
Totally NSFW Pics Here [Akiba Blog]

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Video
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
Damn perverts pushing each other to have a pic of what they never will experience in their entire lives LOL....
Video
neojam
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
Those sex hungry guys are like shitflies...swarming like that, f*ing hilarious!!!
Looks like you could make tons of money with sex-biz at Akihabara. :)
neojam
mcderek3000
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
It's like our Christina Aguilera, only more honest.
mcderek3000
SolFalling
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
man...I am a complete pervert, sympathetic or party to all manners of deviance, but this... Jesus, what is that woman doing. What is that mob doing. The debasement, the desperation. I feel like they are ruining themselves--no, beyond that, I feel like they are already ruined, beyond recovery, lives unsatisfied, transiently satisfied, I don't know.
SolFalling
RedHotFunk
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
Only in Japan!
Hahaha this made me laugh, read the same thing on danny choo's. Seriously hilarious; oh japan, where would we be without your depravity!
RedHotFunk
xMaverick
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
*sigh*
This world is slowly going to destroy itself.
xMaverick
Gatzu
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
Wow... is there a word for the absolute embodiment of no class? Seriously, just by looking at her photo galleries I can tell her forte most likely isn't singing.
Gatzu
GrimaceXL
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
@Asper: The winner, its you!
GrimaceXL
beeporama (brian.j.parker)
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
@Brian Ashcraft: ...and we pop up as you post 'em.
beeporama (brian.j.parker)
Roller
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
LOLOLOLOLLOL < Thats all I have to say
Roller
joncoffee
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
@joncoffee: than*
joncoffee
joncoffee
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
At least shes more honest about how she wants to be promoted/portrayed, that the other "singers" that are just cockteases.
Meat to pirahnas is right. viva la nippon!!
joncoffee
tayaya
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
@Bakachan: Yes. It's the same store. It's one of the more seedy joints but sees a lot of cracker-traffic because it's one of the first shops you hit right when you leave JR Akihabara Station and meet up with the main street.
tayaya
D4RKH3ART
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
Flashing Swimsuit Models and enraptured crowds of Otakus - Only in Akihabara.
D4RKH3ART
ironice
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
I see a gropin'!
ironice
Bakachan
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
@Do Kesubei: Agreed.
Bakachan
sir_carrot
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
Haha. What the hell. She would.
After the link - gallery 8, picture one.
Moms would be summoning dust storms and great weighty clouds of anger if more singers took pictures like that over here.
sir_carrot
Joshiepoo
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
The pictures on this womans website shows that every stereotype I ever heard about Japan is true.
Joshiepoo
ManjiKengo
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
@Gambare: yes....study....
her "possible meat curtain exposure"
>.>;
ManjiKengo
Do Kesubei
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
What impresses me most is that she never fell off that guardrail. Way to go!
Do Kesubei
Gambare
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
I have to save those pics in my comp for later study
Gambare
Bakachan
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
Oh Akihabara... You so crazy!
I wonder if that Lamtarra store behind her is the same one the 'gaijin heroes' from Lik-Sang got their early PSP from on the day before release...
Man, I loved those videos... We need gonzo gaming journalism. On video. It'd be awesome. (I'd gladly do it, but I don't have the funding.)
A shame Lik-Sang bit the dust... I got my PSP-1000G1 CW from them... Oh well, the Gaijin Hero legacy lives on, I have those videos archived somewhere along with all their PSP dissection pics and stuff :D (I also have a Lik-Sang badge holder neckstrap and some logo stickers...)
Bakachan
fuchikoma
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
lol. Like raw meat to a school of piranhas.
fuchikoma
Edge of Blade
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
Yikes.
She's totally hot. But totally without class. Hence, she's a ho.
Those familar with japanese idols, do many of them have Britney Spears-level break downs after getting spit out by the industry?
Edge of Blade
Slatz_Grobnik
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
I wish the police around here would crack down on all the women dancing in costume on the Sunday, because that would imply there were women dancing in costume in public on Sunday. Instead, I only get to contend with all the drunken Trixies on Saturday, which is far less satisfying.
Slatz_Grobnik
NMC ONE WAY
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
@peztrip: agreed. I did the same thing though just looking at these pictures.
And now I need to clean out my desk.
Thank you Kotaku...
:(
/SIKE!
NMC ONE WAY
rainofwalrus [XBL]
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
I love Japan.
rainofwalrus [XBL]
Luuey
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
@Rinshu:
riiiight
Luuey
devilgoku
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
Damn you ashcraft, let us hope that fox news doesn't catch this new side of Kotaku!
devilgoku
cactaur
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
At first I thought this was just a panty flash thing, turns out the NSFW link has amazon.jp links to her nudie books.
Kinda sad so many girls get chewed up and spat out by the industry so they have to resort to more 'innovative' methods of marketing.
cactaur
SorenKier
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
"Here is my chuff, listen to my music please."
"...Okej."
SorenKier
Rinshu
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
I love how even with a crotch in their faces the Japanese otaku are still restrained and no not too touch. Quite respectable really. Just imagine the same thing in the US, scary.
Rinshu
topaz420
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
For me, they can never be too skinny, I love it! I'm talking Mary-Kate Olson pre-rehab skinny. I realize I'm in the minority, which is great because there are more for me :)
topaz420
The_Inquisitor
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
I dunno, that's not attractive at all, the way she's dressed just looks cheap and skanky.
Just no class.
The_Inquisitor
GameraTheGreat
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
@asper
yea, that's what I thought....
GameraTheGreat
GameraTheGreat
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
@Profwho
That's my point....some people like skinny girls. Not me.....they look like pre-pubescent boys to me (with long hair and make up of course....bleech!)....I like my women to have....well, to have the curves of a woman of course....They can keep their Kate Moss types...can't believe I had to explain that.....
GameraTheGreat
Trowble (XBL/PSN)
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
They swarm around just to capture the celebrity cameltoe... eh she really isn't all that easy on the eyes either and could use some meat, eat a sandwich.
Trowble (XBL/PSN)
peztrip
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
This is my favorite pic of the bunch; not for the under-panty finger diddle, but for the guy breaking his neck to look up her butthole.
[www.akibablog.net]
peztrip
Asper
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
@GameraTheGreat: She's two more purges from reaching that coveted Auschwitz Survivor weight.
Asper
ProfWho
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
@GameraTheGreat: "NAMBLA" She is a boy?
Oh, and why is there black bars on her eyes on the blog?
ProfWho
Americo
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
@Atheist Jew: I was thinking the same thing. First laugh of the morning.
Americo
GameraTheGreat
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
She looks far to skinny for "that" to be anything other than NAMBLA porn.....sorry, not my thing.
GameraTheGreat
ManjiKengo
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
:D
Do want!
=\ I've got a final in 30 minutes. God damnit I'd rather sit here and look at these photos!
ManjiKengo
Mr. Fap☆Fap!
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
I got a work boner from her Now I have to sit and slouch a bit at my desk until it goes away.
Mr. Fap☆Fap!
zerokoolpsx
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
This made my morning. Anything that references Dead Rising is awesome, but it should say something like Erotica.
zerokoolpsx
Billkwando
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
Woah, her page is less SFW than the blog....lol.
*open browser* "Uh oh, pantsu!" *close browser*
Billkwando
NoFunShogun
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
hahaha, wow..... I clicked that NSFW link, and I've got to say that all those cell phones out to take pictures in one of the images has to be one of the creepiest things ever.
C'mon, people! Just use the damn internet!
NoFunShogun
Witzbold
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
I wonder who bothered to go up on the 2nd floor to get that shot? haha
Witzbold
rezlow
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
She's kinda... nasty. o.O
rezlow
ProfWho
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
I would hit that every which way till Sunday.
ProfWho
OtakuboyT
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
SLIGHTLY? NSFW I`d say very NSFW
OtakuboyT
BLiNk
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
FANTASTIC!
BLiNk
jmb8504
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
Oh, so it was the "bottom half" kind of flash. I guess Americans lean more towards the top half kind.
jmb8504
Infradead
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
*beeep beeep*
Dammit Otis, NOT NOW!
Infradead
Dannon
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
Ahhh..... so that's what NSFW stands for *lowers and shakes head* I'm an idiot.
Why do I always have to learn things the hard way?!
Dannon
iRloading
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
if anything, that crowd's got discipline. had it been in any part of the world, I'm pretty sure "mob rape" would've been prevalent :P still, it's funny... like it's a normal everyday thing, had it been in america I'm sure CNN/BBC would be all over it :D
iRloading
KirbySS
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
Pantsu.
KirbySS
thaKingRocka
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
i always thought the "maximum risky" tag made little or no sense, but now i'm wondering if what was actually meant by it was "risque". ... ?
thaKingRocka
Zaxxon Q Blaque
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
Gawddamnit, why can't I see the pics?! >_<
Zaxxon Q Blaque
GM08
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
Uhh... Wow. Japan.
GM08
Brian Ashcraft
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
@ZeAvIs:
Luke is a PhotoShop genius.
Brian Ashcraft
ZeAvIs
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
The Dead Rising version of that photo is pure win.
ZeAvIs
Billkwando
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
Awwww, the NSFW won't load on my phone. I guess it's NSFP too huh?
I went there.
Billkwando
elagothro
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
@Brian Ashcraft: It's okay. You can admit it. But seriously . . . why doesn't America have "Maid Hunts" as they are described. They look delightful. :-D The previous comment was not a derision by any means--you're my favorite poster on Kotaku; it is just amusing that since you got Duel Love you're Maximum Riskyness has increased approximately tenfold.
elagothro
Atheist Jew
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
The Dead Rising reference? Awesome.
Atheist Jew
RPGr
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
Well, if she's a gravure (just an assumption based on the "swimsuit" model thing) model she's probably exposing less than her actual photo shoots. I clicked the link (working from home wins with these posts) and all she did was lift her skirt, not exactly naked flashing, just your usual "pantsu" and I've seen tons of accidental flashing of those anyways.
RPGr
icepick314
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
aah...i MISS Akihabara!!
icepick314
Mr. Garcia
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
ahhh Monday Morning...
:P
Mr. Garcia
Zaxxon Q Blaque
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
Uh... where th' pics at? O_o
Zaxxon Q Blaque
onidavin
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
Man. That is some classy promotion technique.
onidavin
Brian Ashcraft
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
@elagothro:
I post 'em as they pop up. :/
Brian Ashcraft
Shiryu
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
We should start calling Mondays "NSFW Mondays: Maximum Risky links for Maxium Risky Kotakuites!".
Shiryu
elagothro
Posted 11:06 PM 19/3/08
You really are in the . . . ehm . . . nsfw mood this morning, aren't you, Brian?
elagothro