Sunday, April 12, 2015

Easter Update & Welcome to Twitter, Erika!

Erika, now on Twitter!
First the big news: Blog favorite, the gorgeous IZM model Erika is now on Twitter. Friends and fans of hers have been welcoming her, and she's started posting some nice pictures. I quickly added her Twitter page to her IMDb profile. Follow this lovely lady at: https://twitter.com/erika_bbw. Now on to blog business:
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Hitomi Tanaka's AV debut, now at Tumblr & IMDb
As I wrapped up my week off last weekend, I made an experiment to see how quickly I'd be able to post. Rather than work on entire series-- since that takes in some videos outside the main topic of my BBW/busty JAV interests-- I'd like to just post what I find that catches my eye. Since Tumblr allows me to attach 10 images to one image post, I grabbed ten DVDs at random, gathered data, translated, then posted them to see how fast I could do it... not fast enough, it turns out... I'll have to work on a way to speed up the process... I think this may be the best way to work though, at least for a while... The last morning of vacation I did the same-- 10 posts-- with some Hitomi Tanaka DVDs. I have 1,335 entries in the JAV archive already. If I could manage to keep posting an average of 10 a day for the rest of the year, that would give me another 2,750 for a total of 4,085, which wouldn't be bad... So far I've been able to keep up the pace. One night I'll grab a few dozen images, post them in sets of 10s in the image blog, each set representing one day's work. Then I gather the data, translate & upload the posts to the main JAV Archive during the week. So the work isn't done exactly 10 each day... but does come out to 70 a week...
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Erisa Natsumi in her latest: ICD-269
I spent my online time today submitting the week's work to IMDb. I managed to get 32 submitted, and still have two days to go... The IMDb posting slows things down a little, but I find I can adjust that by uploading a set of non-IMDb-worthy videos so I can catch up-- videos without release dates, or with amateur/un-named performers... It would be nice to keep up this pace, but my attention will no doubt wander... The Actress database especially has me thinking about actually writing-- bios, descriptions of actresses and their works, etc. Even a general history of bustiness/BBW-itude in Japanese adult entertainment, writing more subjectively than any of the ~pedia projects would or should allow... All this data/image collection & translation will be valuable for such project if I ever do get around to it.
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VCA's D-Cup label: VC-031
After my week of concentrated work on the JAV Archive, real life has kept me too busy this past week to do much online work. However I did finish up the VCA/D-Cup label project. I found a whole new section to the label I hadn't known about-- the VC- prefix videos-- so it turned out to be more work than I expected. I wouldn't be at all surprised, of course, if there were still a LOT more videos on the label out there that I don't have yet. In fact I KNOW there are several missing. But since these videos are almost 30 years old, it's pretty challenging finding information about them online. I know I have at least one-- maybe more-- of those videos in my own collection, in boxes somewhere in the garage. One of these days I should dig them out, scan them, and add them to the databases...
Game-changer Kimiko Matsuzaka in a compilation video
this takes a first stab at filling in Japanese "Big bust" entertainment in the days before Kimiko Matsuzaka's debut in February 1989. As can be seen from these video covers, "Big bust" before Kimiko wasn't anything to compare with today's BBW girls like Erika. Kimiko's career raised the bar on the big-bust genre, and Mariko Morikawa's debut in 1994 raised it even higher. Eri Kikuchi, who debuted in 1986, was probably the major big-boob actress before Kimiko. Ran Masaki debuted the same year, but apparently only worked for a year, while Eri has a very prolific career. She was still working a few years ago.
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BBW icon, Yôko Koizumi in TFC-4093
This weekend, in preparation for the coming week's work, I've discovered a treasure trove of early BBW videos, some of which I'd known before, some of which are new to me. Most of these are not IMDb material, since the models are either anonymous amateurs, or one-timers, but we do glimpse the occasional BBW celebrity: Yôko Koizumi and Anna Watarai among them.