Gravure Idols Mayuka Okada & Junne Okada Become Singers

The Sankei Shinbun is reporting that gravure idol sisters Mayuka and Junne Okada will be releasing an album next month. Although the large-busted sisters are sweeping the gravure idol world with popular DVD titles such as Breast-Breast Paradise, they actually dream about being singers instead.
Their debut mini-album, entitled “Pink Pie JacK,” will be 5 tracks of spirited pop music, and is expected to hit stores February 14th (Valentine’s Day).

Gravure Idol Nonami Takizawa in Rural China

The story is covered over at Global Voices Online and FG, where I noticed that Chinese bloggers have incorrectly labeled Ms. Takizawa as an AV idol (porn star), when she is in fact nothing more than a gravure idol (swimsuit model). According to CNET Asia, the Chinese netizens upped a the promotional video to a video site, inciting outrage over an immoral “AV girl” polluting China with her photo shoot:

In the 7 short hours this video has been up, it has amassed almost 5,000 comments from mostly outraged Chinese netizens. Some insightful, some downright racist, some just plain old angry.

What Takizawa and her crew were trying to do here, I have no clue. This was a very insensitive thing to do, on so many levels. I certainly hope this is not a case of intentionally creating a controversy as a means of promoting their product. They are definitely getting the attention of Chinese netizens right now, whether they like it or not.
Story from Japanprobe.com