Still, she has gotten to me: I’ve been scrounging around various store hunting down her photobooks and magazine appearances. In a way she remindes me of a much more-risque, smaller chested Takeuchi Nozomi. My budget’s getting stretched pretty thin for the next while with a bunch of new idol DVDs being released in December, I may have to stretch it a little more an pick this up. Looks like it’s going to be a soba/udon month for December….

On a sort of unrelated note: it’s kind of weird, but you can tell that Arisa doesn’t seem to be heading in the AV direction despite her pushing the envelope - she (or her producers) seem to chose her risque stuff a little more carefully/artisitically compared to idols like Karin or Kawase Yuna… with these newer idols, they get naked almost immediately and then… well… nothing. No on screen charisma, but “Hey, look at me! I’m nekkid!” That might have appeased me when Iwas twelve, but not now. God bless Arisa for having an actual screen presence and charisma to help things along.

Anyhow, the near-nudity isn’t new for her videos. Her second or so DVD had her wearing just a thong and chocolate syrup for one part, and another was just a thong and toothpaste (or something.) She’s never technically fully uncovered, but honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if in the next DVD she just uses a Sharpie to cover her nipples :p

to lolpatrol - I said not huge. Big is a few levels down:

Huge, Very Large, Biggest, Bigger, Big.

I guess I am not surprised with the dabbed on paint on Arisa. In my review of Yuka Sawachi’s Milk Chocolate - she used Hershey Chocolate sauce, and she used some greenish paint. They taped over nipples…but the chocoalte concealed. Just hadn’t seen a coverup like Arisa’s red paint before. Soap bubbles, whipped cream, tooth paste, shaving cream do not have opaque qualities.

Hey Z - I agree: Arisa has always pushed the envelope - but she has the zesty qualities of personality that offer an alternative to pure tease, or near to slutty. In short, even when she’s pushing that envelope, she still appears to be a regular and wholesome young lady. Nozomi is downright earthy and she oozes sex. Not so for Arisa. When you watch her walking up those stairs, your thoughts will turn to sex . But it is my opinion that her agents and managers have a great game plan in place for her. As I said - I think she’ll end up on TV - which is why she won’t be going naked.