Japanese TV Loves Miho Koga

Here she is with Momoko Ueda. Imagine anyone from the LPGA getting this much air time on an American news program!



Koga's also a regular on talk shows. Here's a short clip from a sports show:



A long one from an Iron Chef-esque cook-off:



A girl-talk lunch where she gets drunk fast:



Last but not least, a recent appearance on one of the big Christmas shows with Sanma and SMAP, in which Nakai-kun digs himself in deeper while trying to explain earlier comments on beauty and body image and Koga is at ground zero.

Golf's Top 50 Earners

Golf Digest's list of golf's top 50 earners (including both on- and off-course income) doesn't contain all that many surprises. Tiger's #1 by far ($117M+), Phil's #2 (although Vijay's win at Tiger's Chevron World Challenge puts him within half a million of his $44.85M total), Arnie, the Shark, and Jack are still in the top 10, and Els, Garcia, Harrington, and Furyk round it out. But only 8 guys made more off the course than Annika Sorenstam, who moved from 15th in '07 to 11th in '08 (almost $14.5M in all). Michelle Wie dropped from #12 to #24 overall (just over $7M, all but small change in endorsements and appearance fees, where she was 15th overall), but she stayed ahead of Paula Creamer, who jumped from #37 to #26 to pull within a half a million or so of her. (Before you complain, consider that John Daly came in at #30, with a similar imbalance in on- and off-course earnings.) Ji-Yai Shin beat Lorena Ochoa out for the #44 spot, even without her KLPGA winnings counting toward her on-course earnings. (As if Ochoa needs more motivation for 2009, she was also runner-up to a WNBA rookie for the AP's Female Athlete of the Year award after winning it a couple of years in a row.) It'll sure be interesting to see if more than 5 women can break through in 2009--and how many of them, if any, can surpass Annika.

And a Very Animated Hanukkah

I haven't found anything on youtube to help us celebrate Hanukkah Mostly Harmless style that beats last year's finds. Well, there was this one that I chose not to use:



So, reruns and leftovers for Hanukkah. Some miracle of lights!

Have a Very Ojamajo Doremi Christmas

I mean, QSMS!









Special bonus: one of the Ojamajo Doremi Christmas episodes!



With friends like these, who needs Pretty Cure, right?

QSMS Has Come Early in Japan...

...at least for fans of the Pretty Cure franchise. Behold the trailer for the March 20, 2009, release of Precure All Stars DX, a movie that brings together the casts of every season of onechan's formerly favorite anime...if you dare!



Hat tip: moetron, which is breaking teh intertubes today, apparently.

Oh, and onechan can't take the fighting in Pretty Cure any more--runs out of the room screaming, usually. It seems the magical girl genre has become a lot more Dragonball in recent years. Speaking of which:



Why even try turning anime into live action? Meh.