Hooray for Boobies, Shinjuku, Tokyo

Amazingly, Hooray for Boobies is an actual name of an album, the Bloodhound Gang's third studio album, released in 1999.  From that album, you may remember that song, "The Bad Touch" with great lines such as:

"So put your hands down my pants and I'll bet you'll feel nuts
Yes I'm Siskel, yes I'm Ebert and you're getting two thumbs up"

If not, check YouTube for the video, which is an absolute classic.  It has three elements that have been historically deemed as funny: 1. full grown men running around in monkey costumes (monkeys), 2. mimes, and 3. little people.  Even in 1999, poking fun at little people was considered bad taste, but it is obvious that the song is aimed at the fratboy crowd.

Back to Japan, I was in Yodobashi Camera to buy primer for my models this weekend when I ran across the picture above as the cover of a magazine.   Japanese culture is no different than other cultures in its men's obsession with large- breasted women.  However, unlike other cultures, I have a feeling that many Japanese men would actually prefer a comic book/cartoon (manga/anime) version of the foregoing over the real thing.  In this regard though, I can't imagine a cartoon girl getting mad at you for spending too much money at the casino, or spending too much time at the gym, or even for forgetting to take out the trash.  Maybe the cartoon girl isn't so bad afterall...

The above picture is actually so comical, that I had to take a picture of it.  The cartoon big-breasted girl is doing the whole touch your shoulder blades joke that most guys tried to get girls to do in junior high school.  Not only that, I'm not even sure if her proportions are physically possible.  The pose is just so hilarious as it screams- I'm showing off my large cartoon chest!

Pictures like this are the norm here and there's entire district called Akihabara (秋葉原) where one can buy comic books, cartoons and little figurines of girls like in the above picture.  Sadly, it is a multimillion dollar business in Japan.  Is this the reason the childbirth rate has decreased to alarmingly low levels in Japan!?  Have real sweethearts been replaced by their cartoon counterparts?  Has the guy next to me on the train with this picture as his main screen on his smartphone given up on real girls? The above being said, perhaps today's post should be called Hooray for Cartoon Boobies.