
In true Aya style sexy seiyuu Rie Tanaka is proudly proclaiming she will sleep with her fans for but a small consideration.
She delightedly announced the release of her first dakimakura, allowing creepy otaku fans to rub themselves to sleep using her image:

Fans keen on bedding her will have to wait – they can content themselves with the sexy gravure she has already published in the meantime however.
SInce i'm first to Comment here.
Obviously i Get First Dibs :D
Extra Diakamura perks considered ;D
So what is the fee for the original? ^_^
If she announces this publicly she goes for the quantity, not the quality.
How much would you pay for a mass production goods?
I don't care. I'd go for it.
Although I doubt xenophobic Japan would accept a customer who's a Malaysian born Chinese currently doing a degree in Australia =P
I am willing to sleep with her, for a fee
Which happens to be the exact amount of money she is charging me
What a coincidence~
I'd love to sleep with her to hear her voice 'Onii-chan' :3 directly
How much ?
How much to insert in her?
Let me get this straight; she's releasing her dakimakura and thus says she's 'sleeping' with others for a fee as a joke? Amirite?
Btw about that second picture... Is that the dakimakura, or the real Rie there? I can't seem to differentiate anymore - it's Japan! X3
welcome to sankaku twisted reality
I not sure if its a joke or not it sounds to good to be true.
HOLY MOT...IT IS A JOKE! what a hell is wrong whit you. DIE A VIRGIN!
If only you spent so much energy to properly spell dakimakura instead of making a first post.
Son i am disappoint...
On topic, i find this new fashion of otaku prostitution or whatever you want to call it kinda creepy, like anyone would think this to be normal i don't know... At least some would get to win of that, i have to admit i wouldn't mind "sleeping" with her with that body she got...
I see where you coming from. It is kinda creepy and a litte like a slap to the face to some otaku.
She SLEEP for a fee, she probrably wont make sex with you :D
I'd make a video "Sleeping with Rie" and get rich selling it. ^_^
Hidden cameras, son. They are cheap now, and they can put them inside teddy bears.
Fucking ugly... get the fuck out of my sight.
your face is ugly gtfo
Sleeping with Obaa-san?
>.<
smoexy obaa-san, please
sounds like a case of prostitution gone mainstream honestly i can see this as a win for both parties:
creepy otaku get to sleep with her while she profits from them talk about gold diggin'
Modern day Geisha, my friend.
Another fuckwad who considers geishas to be prostitutes. Oh, the ignorance...
they *were* prostitutes.
Just because the could play an instrument or make some comedy skit doesn't mean the wouldn't blow you in order to keep you as a client.
go read a book, chris chan.
I never said she was going to have sex with whoever paid her. That was just an assumption on your part Anon, that also doesn't mean a Geisha couldn't be bought off to do sexual favors for money.
It's not a defining quality of a geisha though. Saying that geisha were prostitutes is like saying professional athletes are steroid users. Yes, there are athletes who use steroids, and they are many, but this does not an athlete make. Also, I'm not sure how selling suggestive merchandise falls under the concept of a "modern day geisha."
Prostitution in feudal Japan was a closely protected industry, with taxes, licenses and near-thuggish administration. A geisha would have run into trouble if word got out that she was providing sexual services outside of the walled brothels.
You're an idiot. A better analogy is saying that north korea isn't a dictatorship cause they call themselves socialists. Moron. You're confusing the gift wrap for the gift.
It's pretty obvious the Japanese and their orientalist admirers have been trying to revise geisha into innocent entertainers. Prior to WWII the evidence seems to suggest they were merely at the top end of a complex spectrum of prostitutes and courtesans...
You need to work on your analogies, Anon 13:43.
Geisha you say? indeed it is in a way
Dude they were not harlots >.>
What happened to my Rie Tanaka?! She's gone so looowwww... I don't like her anymoar.
All that's left to like her is the voice, and that's all.
Incorrect. There are also the feet.
I came here expecting a saucy story.
I now demand a dakimura remuneration.
Rie Tanaka? Is she a somebody? Never heard the name in the same sentence with awesome characters.
She's done a fair few notable characters:
Chii (Chobits)
Suigintou (Rozen Maiden)
Morganna (.hack//sign) (this one qualifies as awesome)
Koyomi Mizuhara (Azumanga Daioh)
Ciel (Mega Man Zero series) (this one is also fairly awesome)
Plus a lot of work as side characters/background work. Her 3D galleries are enticing enough that I'm sure this pillow will sell just fine.
As I said: "Never heard the name in the same sentence with awesome characters." All those characters sucked more or less, including one I really despise: Lacus Clyne, the bitch.
I'll admit that morganna is a little awesome, but not in the way that I liked to sleep with her. She's voice-only anyway, as far as I remember.
oh, haha, I remember reading an awesome guro doujin with Lacus Clyne :D
didn't watch the Gundam Seed past a few first eps, tho, the plastic toyish style, meh plot and complete lack of credibility in battles turned me off quite a bit.
It has "Gundam" in its name, so what did you expect?
Well, there's Gundam Wing, Gundam Unicorn and 8th MS team for example. But I guess the anon is too proud to watch any of that.
Suigintou (Rozen Maiden) No way your saying she was a bad character. She was one of the best in the show.
Wait, I can sleep with Chii?
I wonder if you paid her extra, she'd act like Chi then.
Say "Chi?" to everything.
Don't forget "pantsu!" ^_^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aMKVtXS5cM
Her seiyuu skills don't matter with a body like that.
agreed
That is some refreshing honesty.
$$Cha-ching! The honest truth.
Wait until a creepy otaku shows up and ask her to sign the dakimakura.
If this is a marketing ploy, It's brilliant. Her whole career has been based around this type of stuff.
If you can make her into 2D I might consider it.
I don't think that would be very difficult. Somebody grab a sketch pad and get to work...
Or, you may also use a 2D live size poster in front of her with a hole drilled in the appropriate place.
That poster would cut you.
sounds like someone tried it xD
I had no idea they even made these things with real women. It's honestly fucking creepy. Creepier than they already were, that is.
i'll admit it threw me off too but eh w/e it's possible that there are "3D" fans in japan as well i presume?
I know it's probably hard to believe, but yeah. Some Japanese people actually like real women.
Of course, those people are crazy.
i would imagine it being fun
imagine the people out there thatare aesy to please even with fake friend, fake lovers, fake sex and now it is fake pillows of not so fake picture of a woman (at least more real than anime girl pics)
it just makes you smirk (o what a funny but messed up world)