TGS 08: The Tokyo Arse Show

2:27 PM on 10.12.2008   |   Jim Sterling

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Earlier today, Dale North posted the obligatory booth girl gallery that our readers have come to expect from the Tokyo Game Show field team. I thought it was a pretty classy gallery, myself, and very professional.

Sadly, I am neither classy nor professional, and by day two of TGS, I had slipped into moderate insanity caused by staying awake for well over thirty hours. In fact, by the end of it, Koei had to take me to a back room where I quietly passed out. Before that, however, I decided to keep myself awake by being sleazy and covertly photographing the arses of the beautiful Japanese women. Because I could do that.

Despicable though this may be, I was not the worst man there. I have been told that certain photographers come to TGS and find their favorite models, then make them do weird things like eating toast to indulge their own fetishes. Yes ... toast fetish. You read it here first.

There was also a guy wandering around the show floor with a mannequin of a small boy holding a camera. What he'd do is set up the mannequin and make the booth girl pose in front of it, then take a photo of the boy "photographing" the girl. Bloody weird, and more than a little creepy.

Right, that's story time over with, on with the Arse Show -- little more than a poor quality collection of blurry, unerotic and frankly shoddy photographs taken by a semi-conscious idiot boy. Revel in the journalism.