My son dragged me to see
The Hunger Games. I went in having no idea what it was about and not knowing what to expect. I began to realize it was supposed to be a (serious) political satire, but couldn't grasp its targets until it dawned on me what the cultural touchstones were here: Reality shows + Iraq = the United States of the past 20-30 years or so = the culture from which I have become so alienated I feel like a foreigner in my own country... Add to that the most nauseating of new camera techniques: constantly moving shaky-cam, random close-ups obscuring the action (during one fight, I didn't realize until it was over that the opponent was a girl), etc. And top it off with ludicrously obvious plot holes, glaring inconsistencies in character and motivation, heavy-handed audience manipulation, a stifling lack of humor, and I had one miserable time at the theater today. I could mention the obvious (and much better) sources stolen/borrowed from to concoct this social commentary (
Lord of the Flies,
Battle Royale, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery", etc., etc., etc.), but that's an awfully cheap trick, one too low even for me... My son liked it, and I guess it would speak to a brooding teeny-bopper, which I can remember being once, about a century ago, so I watered down my complaints for him during our post-film discussion. Two stars out of Ten for me. Much higher, probably, if you are a young teen.
Given my taste in ladies, however, and the title of the film, it could have been much, much worse: Imagine if it had been a story about pouty, snotty anorexic models. I would have probably run out of the theater. As an antidote to that appalling vision, please join me in a visit with some lovely ladies of the past who, thankfully, appear not to have recently suffered from long bouts of hunger. And without further ado, Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you now The Anti-Hunger Games, Dekkappai's Plumper Games!
We begin our survey with a tribute to that classic, pioneer of the Japanese BBW genre,
Yoko Koizumi, above left.
IZM's
Erika (right) made only a couple of original DVDs for the studio (there is a more recent one which appears to be made of old material), but those few made an impact.
The diminutive
Usagi Minagi (left), with her long background in the field is an essential pleasure in any discussion of the Japanese BBW.
Oppai label claims their
Hitomi Matsumoto (aka Mozuku and Yumi Miyaoka) sets records in the bust department, but she is most obviously recognizable as an incredibly gorgeous BBW.
This year's games wind down with a four-part offering on a Wagnerian scale from another earlier Japanese BBW figure,
Anna Watarai at left. And we conclude at the right with one of the grandest finales of all time, from the same model.
Here we come to the second early BBW celebrity in the series, Anna Watarai. I haven't dug into the history of her career yet, but she must have started, at the latest, by the late 1990s or early 2000s. It's a bit surprising that a lady of her substantial girth was around at the very beginning of the Japanese BBW video industry. She's actually a bit much for my own taste, but, as in the scene from the "Horny Fat Woman" video at right, she usually shows a charmingly cheerful enthusiasm in her work which wins me over. The painful, enduring-something-unpleasant look that so many Japanese AV actresses show during sex is not at all to my liking. Come to think of it, it seems like the majority of the BBW models smile and otherwise appear to enjoy the sex during their performances. Maybe that's one more reason I prefer them... I'll investigate Anna's career in a later post.
Maintaining the appropriate figure necessary to remain a big, beautiful Japanese BBW takes a lot of fuel. Today we peek in at a few of our favorite ladies, and a couple unknowns, as they are building up bulk. First we drop in on Yuuki Manaka and Tamaki Yasuoka as they dine together in the prelude to the DVD Mother and Elder Sister Big Boobs (Madonna; JUC-206).
Gorgeous cosplayer LUU enjoys a midnight snack at left. 
At right, in a photo from her blog, recently-retired goddess of Asian BBW-hood, Miyabi Hayama, tempts the viewer with the forbidden fruit nestled in her ample cleavage.
A couple of unknown beauties decorate this paragraph. 
First, on the left, in a screenshot from a news program, what appears to be a breathtakingly beautiful housewife prepares a feast fit for a king. And on the right, a cute bespectacled lass enjoys a candy bar. Sweets for the sweet...
More sweeties for sweeties, as eternal sweety Minagi Usagi is offered a plate of... something or other that looks sweet... in an image from her blog.
At right is an image, big and feisty Masaki Amamiya posts at her own blog. 
She admires a plate of meat she's about cook and devour... and on the left, after the main course, she finishes the meal with a little dessert. I wonder if she could use any help with the morsel in her left hand...
And we finish up our feast with a little milk and cake with super-abundant Anna Watarai in the 2003 release, Sandaime Aoi Marii no hakke yoi no kotta shijô saidai-kyû daiichiban! (三代目・葵マリーのはっけよいのこった 史上最大級 大一番!; AHND-01; 2003).
