Shocker: Schoolgirls are more than just eyecandy?
292 views | jamie | June 27, 2007
Who~da thunk it? Another random group of schoolgirls, otherwise known as relatively lame j-pop / idol group AKB48, have been applying their short-skirted talents to promoting an equally lame DS game, Kanji-something, which involves a patented learning method of circling kanji parts you don’t understand using the stylus.
Hit Kotaku for the original story, and a music video from the girls entitled “I wanted to meet you! Yes!”.

On a side note, I find it interesting how many Kanji learning software titles are available, not for foreigners trying to learn Japanese, but for Japanese themselves to learn Japanese. A university level Kanji ability (~2000) means you can read the average newspaper. Japanese people themselves can spend their entire lives trying to remember the rest of 20,000 odd kanji that are very occasionally used. Famous authors are known to invent new Kanji when the whim takes them. In a word, Kanji suck … discuss!
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The funny thing about Japanese porn is the censor - it’s illegal to show down there without some kind of blurry censor job. Japanese officials even go to great lengths sorting through foreign imported porn with a black felt pen to make sure no foreign penises make into the Japanese market either. On the other hand, Japanese porn destined for export only is exempt from the censor restriction, hence why you can usually get uncensored j-porn on various foreign hosted sites. The censor was introduced during the Meiji Era to “protect public morals”, but when WWII was over, it was one of the few laws the Americans decided to keep.


Recently on the rise and now seen prominently on the shelf-space of any akiba porn store is beast-on-girl action. Bestiality porn is not unique to Japan by any means, but what is unique is that in Japan, it is sold over the counter just like any other meat and-two-veg porn. Also remarkably, dogs are not afforded the same “covered bits” censor dignity that human penises are subjected to, as this DVD sleeve shows (sorry, any bigger and it would probably be super-illegal, and that’s worse than just illegal). It’s a sequel too, so thats a good indicator that the market liked part 1! Japan is also home to the first ever lesbian dog scene, with a female dog wearing a strap on. Quite.


















