Comments on: Great J – Erina Yamaguchi

By: JustMeMike

JustMeMike — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 04:21:02 +0000

Yeah, she has great looks –

But we have not seen her since this release. Maybe her hjeart wasn’t in modeling.
Maybe she didn’t want to be recognized in the street.
And maybe she’s not one to be the object of a kazillion men’s dreams.

Yeah, I wished her career had continued.
Thanks for comment and for reading the columns.

JMM

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:52:21 +0000

She is “AWESOME!”
First reply to something like this! I just had to get my two cents in. This girl is simply “out of site, beautiful!”

By: Just Me Mike

Just Me Mike — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 04:01:20 +0000

Hey, I wish we’d all be in agreement about how great the video was – only it wasn’t the case. And I do hope that Bunkasha and the hired gun director will some how get wind of our perspective and comments and take that into consideration in future productions. If we are saying it, likely are others in agreement.

Although cdjapan lists this DVD as the 12th ranked best seller as of November 4th – it has fallen out of the top ten. Released in late Auugust it held strong in the top 10 for more than two months.

But take note of the fact that there are NO positive reviews on the cdjapan webpage for this video. What does that tell you?

By: linsey_fan

linsey_fan — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:31:24 +0000

Having seen this DVD just this week, I have to agree with both of you. This is certainly not up to standard with the typical idol DVD that I’ve seen up to now. The comparaison with some of Yoko Matsugane’s work comes to mind. Although not as spectacularly endowed as Erina, Yoko is almost always smoldering hot and has a way of looking at the camera that is extremely sexy and irresistable. As you say, you can’t reproduce that when you simply film a photoshoot and she isn’t even looking at the video camera throughout most of it. It’s not that Erina doesn’t look superb in some of those great outfits (particularly in that stunning black bikini, that very low cut black halter top and overflowing out of that purple bikini and that certainly show off her wonderfully amazing curves). Like you say, it’s simply that there’s nothing going on, no movement and she doesn’t look at the camera. Although it’s not really exploited well here, she really appears to have a nice personnality and I feel that if they tried a little more, she could be showcased so much better. I certainly hope that she’s not a one hit wonder and that the best is yet to come because she has the physical attributs and everything else to become of the most popular idol models.

By: Zatoichi

Zatoichi — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 01:50:56 +0000

And you said we disagree about everything in your reply to my comments in your Karin review – I think we see eye-to-eye on this one. Because she’s not playing to the video camera, any possible charm which she might have displayed is lost. Even as a fetish video, Great J is useless as the camera work is so utilitarian that even breast lovers won’t be satisfied.

The comment about eye contact and body movement are certainly more than justified, but I’m still waiting for Erina to work with a good crew and producer – at best, the ones on Amazing were competent, and they people she had here were certainly mediocre at best. Her photobook was solid though and was capable of some connection with the viewer, but then photography and videography (is that even a word?) are completely different things.

As I mentioned in our conversations, I’m beginning to think that Erina is a one-hit wonder: with absolutlely no new promotional material from her since the release of Great J (usually idols have photos released in the weekly rags or men’s magazines to keep them in the buyer’s conciousness), perhaps her talent agency has balked?