Tetsuko-san Cosplay Expo

Recently Seth Roberts blogged about “Totto-chan–The Little Girl at the Window”, a famous book by Kuroyanagi Tetsuko, after I sent him a picture of one of the trophies from Sports Day which occurred at my junior high school yesterday. Sports Day was mentioned in his book “The Shangri-La Diet.”

Upon further research into “Totto-chan,” this adorable-looking book I had never heard of, I looked up information about the author, Kuroyanagi-san, and literally yelled “oh, it’s HER!” at my computer screen.

Kuroyanagi-san is probably one of the most famous TV personalities in Japan, and I have seen her countless times in a variety of programs and commercials. She’s been around since TV existed in Japan, and she was absolutely adorable in her youth; a bit of an Audrey Hepburn look-alike.

Now “Tetsuko-san” just clearly stands out among the young, thirty-something TV talents she usually appears with in programs as a wise, charming elf-like woman, and the most memorable program I’ve seen her in was a quiz show in which teams of entertainers guessed the origin of various international customs. She blew the rest of the contestants out of the water with her intuition on human behavior.

A little more research unearthed this amusing video in which Kuroyanagi-san cosplays as Sailor Moon. Because you just can’t be an entertainer in this day in Japan without a little cosplay.

The woman with the massive crown-like braided hair is Kuroyanagi. Because there is alot of background noise from the studio, this is a rough translation:

Announcer: And now, please have a look at Tetsuko-san as Sailor Moon.
Studio: Ee, I want to see it…ooohh! Wow!
Kuroyanagi: I am Sailor Moon! In the name of the Moon, I punish you! [Sailor Moon's line from the original anime]
[lots of noise from the studio and something about the costume being a bit embarrassing and the heels being high]

Q: Why did she cosplay?
Kuroyanagi: When Ozawa-san gave me a phone call about a series he was doing, he said “How about becoming the main character of an anime series? I’m going to be Crayon Shin Chan.” and I thought about it and said “Well then Sailor Moon sounds good.” So I became Sailor Moon.

Announcer: We will leave the decision up to you as an audience, whether or not Tetsuko-san looks good as Sailor Moon…

“Totto-chan” is now on top of my list of most-wanted books.

A Pictorial Ode to Shangri-La Diet

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Shangri-La Diet

I am greatly indebted to a man named Seth Roberts. I imagine that in time, the world will be as well.

Over the last 20 months I have lost 61 pounds. The easiest of those were the last 13 pounds, which were shed using the Shangri-La Diet. Before that, I was just not eating. Painful, but possible.

Now I don’t feel the need to eat. And my body accepted this non-desire as truth, and now I am 13 pounds less than before I started, with virtually no inconvenience. This is because every other morning after waking, I swallow 2-3 tablespoons of Extra Light Olive Oil and wait one hour without ingesting something with flavor, toothpaste or coffee for example.

This meets the only requirement of the diet: one hour with no flavor, ingest flavorless calories, one hour with no flavor. Breaking up dosages doesn’t matter and neither does time of day. See the website here.

Dr. Roberts has concluded that the body’s set point weight is regulated by calorie-flavor association; and that a high association (high calorie, high flavor) raises the set point to make us store energy, and that a low association (high calorie, no flavor) lowers the set point, causing us to reserve energy, or not eat. This is based on rat trials and theories about caveman lifestyle.

I only eat a normal-sized lunch and a small dinner. I no longer have unstoppable cravings for anything, chocolate or pizza for example. Some people have suggested that this effect that oil has on one’s body is a placebo, but to call this a placebo is laughable in my opinion. The weight I lost before SLD was extremely painful regardless of what I convinced myself of while ingesting any foods or liquids. My appetite is too strong to be negated by placebo.

And because I’m a punk, I don’t even own the book yet. (it’s in the mail as of yesterday…)

Funny and revolutionary what a little oil can do.