Asian Beauty Appreciation

Source: Kotaku

One of the great things about ScanLover having its own blog is that I can take a particular news article and go into more detail about it.

Chiaki Takahashi, who is the voice of Litchi Faye Ling for the fighting game BlazBlue, will be getting her own mouse pad. I remember seeing an article on her a while back stating that she was lending her voice talents to the game, but it really didn’t click in my head until I decided to perform a search and see if there was a thread for her within the forum. And lo and behold, there is.

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Source: Kotaku

On Friday when I was looking at the latest video game news on Kotaku, I found out that Rio is now one of the sixteen finalists to appear as a hostess in the new Yakuza game by Sega.

I knew back in May that Sega was having a casting call for female applicants to appear as hostesses in the new Yakuza game, but it’s a surprise for me to find out that Rio is one of the finalists, as I had no idea that she had applied to appear in the game. I wish her luck and hopefully that she will be selected by Sega to appear in the game. If she is selected, then the new Yakuza game will definitely be on my list of games to import from Japan when it happens to be released.

Links: Rio’s Blog | Rio Discussion Thread | Photos