Our pal Julie went to DeskTopLive.xna "live programming battle" event held last week in Tokyo SuperDeluxe club.  She even won a 360!! Ahh.... the beutifull life of akiba idols...



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Timothy R. Gleason, Ph.D , an american university professor, wrote an essay on Julie and Mariko Mori photos. The Paper was presented at the annual convention of ACEJMC on August 6, 2008:

http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/7/0/9/4/pages270944/p270944-1.php

Our otaku idol/photogrpher Julie (aka Amano Ai) will be on ga-cha tv this afternoon! You can watch the show online on ga-cha tv website.
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Our photographer (gravure Idol, VJ, writer, otaku philosopher) Julie just recorded a track for the cult otaku hardcore compilation that will be released on 26 december by the Japanese label HobiRecords.

『真・凌辱HARDCORE ～エロスの饗宴～』
■No：HBCS-106
■JAN：4520424250233
■2,500(Tax in)
■Release：2008/12/26

Who is the real figure? Julie (aka Amano Ai) or the Revoltech Dunboard?!

(via Samurai Girl) For less than 10$ Julie bought a very special fukubukuro box from Super Potato. She found a total of 76 Famicom, VirtualBoy, Saturn, Dreamcast, Super Famicom, Playstation, Gameboy, Pc-Engine games in the box! I think this is the best fukuburo ever found in Akiba!!


If  you like  a post on Beside Games you should click on the  GOOD button. You can click one time to 16 times! Of course for this I gave to Julie 16 clicks!!

Beside Games is an "invite only" community with a lot of famous people from TV, Music, Design and Underground worlds and I just found out that our friend idol and "otaku Photographer" Julie got a blog on it.

As always Julie is posting really cool staff from her trips in the otaku underground (like the Vocaloid 2 Miku doujin DS game I posted last year). Beside the super cute Julie, there are also other friends on this community like Japanese super star designers like Ani "Nendo" Fujimoto and Tei from FuriFuri. If you can read some Japanese I think Beside Games will be a regular read during 2008!

7.1.2008 Update: Today Julie is number 3 beside a member of the legendary Japanese group Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra.
If you visit her page on Beside Games don't forget to click the orange button under the High Score of each post (limit is 16 clicks for each post) .

  Our super otaku photographer and idol Julie (aka Amano Ai) has just finished shooting The Metal Princess Cuo (メタルプリンセス　キュオ): her very first tokusatsu movie. Tokusatsu (特撮, Tokusats) is a Japanese word that literally means "special effects." The term is a contraction of the Japanese phrase "tokushu satsuei" (meaning "special photography") and It is primarily used to refer to live-action Japanese film and television dramas that make use of special effects. The Metal Princess Cuo DVD will be released at the end of the year and we look forward to see Julie wearing her yellow sexy costume!
The director of this new "super heroine" master piece is Takauji Motoharu from the legendary Shin Iizawa's Zen Pictures.


This is a sample video of Gravure Heroine DVD's.

Samurai Girl photobook from Julie (aka Amano Ai) is nearly sold out on Amazon.com 
Seems that the success of Ai chan new Idol DVD is pushing a lot of idol fans to buy her
photobook too. We hope that sooner or later Julie will produce Amano Ai DVD cause it would be really cool to watch an idol DVD  shooted in places like the toys room or geisen featured in these photos instead of exotic places like Bali or Hawaii...
 

We love Julie's psychedelic otaku World. She is our Alice in Otaku Wonderland!

Today we found some links to japanese media coverage of Ai Chan first DVD Release:

Ascii.jp: “逆輸入アイドル”天野あいは、ちょっぴりMな電脳系!?

Sponichi: 天野あい　逆輸入アイドルが初ＤＶＤ

Akiba Keizai Shinbun: 「オタクアイドル」天野あいさん、秋葉原でDVD発売記念イベント


Exciter Magazine featured one page deciated to Amano Ai DVD and Julie art photos.
There are other magazines and newspaper who coeverd the event but I can't find out all the names... damn, I should study more kanji!
Anyway I'm pretty impressed by Ai Chan because she is getting a lot of coverage without the support of a big media company. I think her really cool artworks  are helping being noticed by magazine editors and journalists.