May 13, 2005
Erogging
Found through Warren:
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“Eroggers, the name given to the mostly female participants who post saucy pictures onto their erogs, are the hottest current new trend on the (Japanese) Internet. While a lot of them may simply want somebody else to look at them in an erotic situation, in my humble opinion, I’d say there are a lot of eroggers who want people to look at them as ‘real women,” Kyosuke tells Asahi Geino. “I think a lot of them like getting comments from male readers telling them about how beautiful, or cute they are. Eroggers like the idea that there are guys out there who find their looks attractive and desirable, or who want to make love to them. These are things husbands or boyfriends may often feel but not express. Erogs make it easy for people to write stuff they may otherwise be embarrassed about saying out loud and they also allow for raw opinions from others.”
Read the entire WaiWai article here.
Jean Snow is a contributor to 
He will be contributing to the upcoming fifth editions of 
In Japan, the Internet can become a powerful
liberating force, and an alternative, against the very conservative Japanese tv.
By the way, yesterday, there was a BBC special:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3708098.stm
Conservative TV? Have you ever watched Japanese TV after midnight?
Most of those erogs are just fakes and used as a front for porn or deaikei sites.
Yes, I watch Japanese TV, only when I visit.
Yes, I watched TV after midnight, and see
a lot of “pixels” or “games shows”…
Talking about Design:
I also noticed when I was there,
that “tv stage design” and “tv graphics”,
especially for Japanese TV News, are very conservative – not modern or minimalist.
I call it, the “flowers and decorative” syndrome.
Do you agree?
Check
Forgot to mention:
The show with the “pink” van, going around the world,
with a “local” driver with a silly hat.
“Depressing”.
Never has the phrase “link plz” been more aptly used than: link plz!
I don’t know this show with the pink van.
As for the news, yes, in general it tends to be very conservative with it’s graphic design. HodoStation, on TV Asahi, is a big exception though. But I think that in general graphic design used in most TV shows is much more interesting than what you see in North America.
What I was saying about shows after midnight is that the content tends to be very sexual — of course, there’s no nudity. But you would never see that on late-night TV in North America.
pink van show = ainori ã‚ã„ã®ã‚Š
Jean, surely you must know ainori?
No, I don’t. Honestly, I don’t watch prime time shows. I just watch a few late-night comedy shows.
I will check HodoStation, on TV Asahi,
when I will visit Japan again.
( planning for July ).
I used to live in New York, and if you have cable,
some tv stations have nice graphics, but the
local news (or standard stations) was very bad.
Here in the UK, I watch BBC Three News, which
has very cutting-edge graphics.
Thank you Roy, about the “pink van” – Correct !
ps: total nudity (and else) on mainstream European tv, it’s normal, even in advertising. ( + NO PIXELS ! )
Oh, also:
The show, called the Desk, by the Canadian
Tyler Brulé
http://www.thedesk.tv/the_flash/frameset.html
It’s finished, for the season.
Ciao – Massimo