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One
of our favorite morph artists recently traveled to Japan from
his home in Germany. His mission was to come back with suitcases
filled with Japanese art featuring big breasts. You can find
his works in the BEA, and he calls himself JS. I tracked
him down and got him to talk about his travels. My report:
JMM:
Guten tag, Johannes. And may I say Konnichi-wa,
Johannes-san?
JS: Sorry
to take so long to get back to you - can you imagine where
I just came from?
JMM:
Not really... I though you went to the Land of the Rising
Sun?
JS: I
did go to Japan, but I am just returned from Mongolia! There
was an international music festival with concerts in the Gobi
desert and in monasteries - absolutely fantastic. The capital,
Ulaanbaatar, is horrible, though, but many young people
(70% under 35!) and cute girls who like to dress sexy in summer.
No sex industry at all, and you are not allowed to take a
Playboy into Mongolia! But what an impressive nature...
JMM:
I was thinking that the adventures of a gaijin (Foreigner)
in Japan on a search for magazines, comics, and videos filled
with big-breasts might make for an interesting article for
BEhavior.
JS: Okay,
why don't we do this as an interview?
JMM:
Hmm, my thoughts exactly. Most of our readers appreciate your
works in the field of morphing images...but I would love to
hear about what it took for you to get your hands on all this
manga and video material.
JS: The
main problem was to find all this stuff, because there is
no one big shop where you can get everything. It was more
like this: I found Blue Eyes part 1 in Osaka, part
2 in Fukui, and the next issue in a hidden subway store in
Tokyo. The first problem is to find the shops where you can
get what you want. Before I went to Japan I asked several
people who have been in Tokyo or other big cities. I spent
several nights in chat-rooms like #manga or #hentai or #Tokyo
and so on, but I couldn't get any reliable information about
good hentai shops.
JMM:
So your plane lands, and you don't have much of a game plan,
do you? Wakarimas ka?
JS: Hai
Mike-san, wakarimas! So I just went there and had to look,
and I looked a lot.
JMM:
So there you are, hat in hand, wondering where the hot stuff
is, eh?
JS: And
I asked many young people on the street: "Do you know any
manga shops around here?" Most of the time I received a stupid
grin and the answer: "Wakkanai, wakkanai!" ("Dunno,
dunno...") Maybe they were shocked that a gaijin asked
in Japanese, and maybe they were shocked that they'd been
asked, because Japanese people normally don't talk to each
other on the street.
JMM:
Ah, the mystique of the Far East, go on.
JS: Or
maybe they didn't know, because the shopping areas in big
Japanese cities are quite confusing; streets without names
are not easy to deal with, many small and hidden shops everywhere...
Anyway, I didn't get much information, so I had to look for
myself.
JMM:
But eventually you found something, somewhere?
JS: There
are not as many manga shops as I expected. I found some nice
"manga cafés" where you can sit, get a drink, and read
or lend some books. Almost every bookshop has a manga corner
with some adult stuff. There are some --but not many-- big
manga stores, but the hentai stuff is always only a small
percentage.
JMM:
Were there problems in dealing with the vendors?
JS: Not
with the vendors. Instead, it was most difficult because of
the lack of centralization. As I said before, you can never
find a whole set in one place. You troop from place to place
and city to city.
JMM:
Can you tell us about a specific place?
JS: The
worst city was Nagoya, an ugly business megapolis where I
couldn't find even one good manga shop.
JMM:
What's it like in one of the stores?
JS: It's
quite funny when you enter a shop in Japan: there's one guy
at the counter who screams: "Irasshaimase!" ("Welcome!")
at you as you enter, and then a whole choir of salesgirls
repeat: "Irasshaimase, irasshaimase!" Funny,
especially when you realize that they do this with every customer,
maybe ten hours a day.
JMM:
What about video shops? You knew I'd ask about that.
JS: Quite
often you find video shops in Japan. You can get a lot of
weird stuff there: hardcore bondage, upskirt videos, skat
videos, even pedo stuff.
JMM:
Have any problems with the salespeople?
JS: Sometimes
they don't like to see foreign customers: "Nihon no kata
dake desu!" ("Only for Japanese people!"). Don't ask me
why.
JMM:
Tell us about the Japanese porno vids.
JS: I
don't like Japanese hardcore porn so much. They have these
absolutely silly rules: they have to blur cocks and cunts,
but a face full of sperm... no problem!
JMM:
I did say the east was mysterious, didn't I? What else did
you find to bring back with you?
JS: I
got a lot of videos of my favorite busty idols: Yuko Aoki,
Mirei Kuroda, Yuka, Kaori Ohara, Reiko Kato, hmmmmmm......that
was something I hadn't seen in Japan when I was there three
years ago.
JMM:
And where did you keep all this adult entertainment material
while you were there in Japan? Did you leave it in plain sight?
JS: I
didn't want to leave it in plain sight, but that was no problem,
because everything you buy in Japan is put into a nice paper
bag.
JMM:
Is there a concern about the hotel employees seeing it lying
about in your hotel room?
JS: I
don't think it would have been very embarrassing for the hotel
employees if they had seen my little collection. It's quite
common in Japan to read adult manga even in public places,
in the subway for example.
JMM:
Uh, you don't see it that often in the New York City subways...
JS: I
left all the stuff in my suitcase, but after a week I had
to buy an extra bag!
JMM:
Did you stay at hotels with VCRS so you could check the tapes
out before leaving the country?
JS: I
stayed in 3-star-hotels, but they had no VCRs, so I couldn't
check out the tapes before I left for home.
JMM:
Any problems getting the stuff out of Japan or into Germany?
JS: When
I returned to Germany, my suitcase was so heavy that the taxi
driver asked me if I was carrying a corpse in it! Absolutely
no problem getting the stuff out of Japan and into Germany.
JMM:
Ha Ha! Thanks, Johannes, for letting our BEhavior readers
in on the life and travels of one of our very own big breast
enthusiasts. By the way, Johannes, do you wear a raincoat
when you go shopping for your items? (Don't answer that JS,
I'm just kidding.) Thanks for talking with us; domo arigato,
Johannes-san.
JS: Thanks,
Mike. Caio!
...And
that's about it. Talking with JS was a lot of fun. Come back
and talk to us again, guy. And readers, come back and be on
your best BEhavior again. Be here next time. Don't
even think about it... mai pehn rai.
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