Posts by  Alafista OTAKU

For the past couple of months, I had been working on a small project, to create a set of AKB48 uniform based on their song "Iwake Maybe (言い訳 Maybe)" for my daughter. Now that the uniform has been completed. I thought I would share it with you folk...

As I had earlier shared, at this coming weekend's Anime Festival Asia, I will be conducting a simple sharing session on figurine photography. On Saturday, I will share some tips on how to take good shots using a compact camera, while on Sunday, I wi...

Photography and collecting figurines are two of my biggest passion, and of course I also enjoy figurine photography. Recently, I wrote a short article for the IXUS Style Magazine on Figurine Photography so I thought I would share it with you folks as...

Last weekend, I had the opportunity to bring Mari-chan out to the beautiful Telok Blangah Hilltop Terrace Garden

Last fall, AKB48 fans had a chance to experience the feeling of falling in love with their favorite oshimen in the PSP game “AKB1/48 Idol to Koishitara (AKB1/48 アイドルと恋したら)” released by Namco Bandai. A new sequel for the game has been announ...

While I had the chance to visit meido cafés (メイドカフェ) as part of event coverage, I didn’t really had the chance to experience for myself how it would be like as a customer. As a member of the Canon IXUS Experience Style Council, I finally had th...

Suntory has gathered many celebrities to come together and sing the opening of the popular Japanese song, ”Ue wo Muite Arukō” (上を向いて歩こう) or better known as “Sukiyaki”. The heart-warming series of CM was done in a effort to encourage the folks...

The rainy has been rather moody today, so I though t would be good to invite the sexy Anri Sugihara 杉原 杏璃 for our weekend gravure feature to cheer you folks up who are stuck at home. Name: 杉原 杏璃（すぎはら あんり) Birthday: 12 June 1982 Height...

This weekend, we will be joined by the the voluptuous Mai Nishida 西田麻衣 for our weekend gravure feature. Regardless of how many photso we have seen so far, we just can't get enough of her. She looks so cute with those large puni earmuffs. Name: 西...

Since we are celebrating Chinese New Year, I thought it would be good to introduce a gravure idol never featured previously. Hence, for this weekend, I will be featuring Ayaka Sayama 佐山 彩香, a relatively young gravure idol that only debut back in...

The weather has been really cold because it was raining all over the weekend. To warm things up, I thought I should share with you folks some lovely photos of Akina Aoshima 青島あきな, a popular gravure idol and top race queen that has appeared in ma...

I thought it would be good to start off the first weekend gravure feature of 2011 with the voluptuous and beautiful Anri Sugihara 杉原 杏璃 – whom I had featured quite a number of times. Name: 杉原 杏璃（すぎはら あんり) Birthday: 12 June 1982 Height...

For this weekend gravure feature, I intended to find some photos of Santa babes but there was none available for 2010. Hence the best I could do was to find this set of photos featuring the voluptuous Mai Nishida, where it had one instax shot of her...

For this weekend gravure feature, I’ll be introducing gravure idol and former race queen – Sayuki Matsumoto 松本さゆき. I first came across her while watching this season late night Japanese dorama Jyouou 嬢王 3. Name: 松本さゆき (まつもと さゆき) Bi...

For this weekend's gravure feature, I have invited the gorgeous Aya Kiguchi. The photos were taken from a shoot she recently did for Sabra Strictly Girls. Name: Aya Kiguchi (木口亜矢) Birthday: October 11th, 1985 Height: 158cm 3 Sizes: B89/W57cm/H86c...

It's been raining heavily for the past few days and the weather has gotten rather cold. So to heat things up for the weekend, we will be featuring the uber Kana Tsugihara, who is probably one of the most popular gravure idol in Japan. Name: 次原 かな...

One of the highlights of Anime Festival Asia has always been the Regional Cosplay Championship. For this year, four outstanding cosplayers were invited to be the judges: Alodia Gosiengfiao, Clive Lee, Kaname and Aira. So amongst the four of them, whi...

A collection of shots of the kawaii meido-san from Moe Moe Kyun ♥ Maid Cafe, and the suave butlers from Atelier Royale Café

Is everyone already pumped up for the exciting weekend of Anime Festival Asia 2010? Early this afternoon, I had the chance to preview the star-studded line-up of 33 guest for this year AFAX. So here are some of the photos taken at today’s media previ...

Been quite a while since we last saw Aki Hoshino for our weekend gravure feature. She still looks so fabulous despite being one of the fewer gravure idol that is aged above 30 years old in the industry. Name: 星野亜希 [ほしの あき] Birthday: March 14...

Today is my birthday and it seems like my daughter has made a special surprise birthday card for me. Danboard and Domo-kun also helped me to make the card. They were good assistants ^^

Dear comrades, I need your help to brainstorm for ideas. At the upcoming AFAX event in Singapore, I will be making a 45 minutes presentation on figure photography. I'm currently working on my slides, and only managed to come up with a few topics. Si...

It seems like Glico Japan has the grand plan of turning everyone in Japan into “Pocky converts” on 11 Nov – Pocky Day ポッキーの日. “Pocky Day” supposedly falls on 11 Nov because 11/11 looks like sticks of Pocky.

For this Halloween weekend, we will be featuring Wakana Matsumoto 松本若菜, a Japanese actress and model from Tottori Prefecture. Tokusatsu fans would be able to recognise her as Airi Nogami (野上 愛理) as Ryotaro’s elder sister in Kamen Rider Den-O....