Plump, proud and popular -- Let's 'la farfa' fatties!

[Taro Toporific]

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In the new March 18 issue of Weekly SPA! magazine, we can learn of Japan’s new fashion fatties in the debut/デブ of the niche magazine, " la farfa."

Why can some chubby woman be popular, while others are not?
What makes the difference ?
Weekly SPA! No. 3/26, March 18, 2013) (NSFW banner ads)
{Giga-goofy Google Translate} ---In Japan, both men and women have thought in the past that a person cannot be both popular and fat...
...That may be changed with the recent launch of "la farfa" fashion magazine for larger women. In that new magazine interviewed Ms. Habayashi, a 103kg, self-proclaimed ‘Love Counselor,’ who said that, "…a decade ago, men who professed plump love were treated as fetishists." Recently however, …men can easily say that they like a woman plump…more…

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Linked to the Weekly SPA story were screenshots of a Japanese TV program showing the results of a survey of 100 people revealing that “chubby” popularity has overwhelmingly increased---88 to 12. SPA went on to say that women being "plump, proud and popular" has become, "rampant in society" and that this could be, "evidence of reverse brainwashing by the media in recent years...
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[MrUltimateGaijin]

The more fat people there are, the higher the 好き will go up.

[Taro Toporific]

Plus-size idol group “la BIG 3″ made a music video, and they do a lot of eating in it
RocketNews24 |2014/09/30
...<snip>...

some of the lyrics of the above music video
Plump, plump, positive!
Hamburg, fried chicken, yakiniku,
Pancakes, macaroons, donuts,
Delicious, happy!
Find happiness!

la BIG 3 aren’t Japan’s first “plus-size” idol group: back in January, Avex put together a group that, with breathtaking self-awareness, they actually called “Chubbiness”. It’s worth pointing out, however, that Japan has one of the lowest rates of obesity in the world, and their “plus-size” models often don’t look chubby at all by western standards...
...Conventional idol groups exist to sell things like records, concert tickets, and more generally the brand – merchandise, tickets to meet them at handshake events, and other products through extensive commercial tie-ins. But la BIG 3 weren’t put together by a record label. They were put together by La Farfa, the plus-size magazine which all three girls model for as dokumo – (semi-)amateur “reader models”.
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[matsuki]

Not very brave, where's the mizugi dance?

[kurogane]

Not to mention that only the pug faced one on our left (in blue?) is actually a pig. The middle one looks a healthily built Double, and while she's not really My Style, she's hardly fyat. The one on the other side (in Yellow) is just big, and she'd never need panties again if she let me help her work off any excess fat she might think she has.

For those of us who like a healthy build on a girl, this reductive equation of relative size with obesity is Very Very Uncopacetic. I suppose it might even mean some native competition in my niche market.

[matsuki]

Recently, there seems to be something of a "it's ok to be fat" fad in the land of fax...

[IparryU]

It's called fat shaming... And yes you can sue as it has an official PC term now

[kurogane]

Yeah, I was accused of that on a BBS where I attacked (well, ridiculed...) the people attacking the dolphin hunters. All the fat cat ladies went ballistic. Apparently my crime was more heinous than their meddling with peacable people that don't share the same values just trying to live their lives.

BTW, exactly WTF or HTF is that fat walrus man doing that??? Whatever it is it looks sort of fun, even for piggy peoples.

[Taro Toporific]

BTW, exactly WTF or HTF is that fat walrus man doing that??? Whatever it is it looks sort of fun, even for piggy peoples.

Waterjet boots aka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyboard

[Mike Oxlong]

Give the poor Canook some context!

[kurogane]

I think I could make those with a couple of old canoe paddles and some duct tape. Fer cheap, eh!????

tanks, eh!

[Taro Toporific]

...Japan’s first “plus-size” idol group: back in January, Avex put together a group that, with breathtaking self-awareness, they actually called “Chubbiness”. It’s worth pointing out, however, that Japan has one of the lowest rates of obesity in the world, and their “plus-size” models often don’t look chubby at all by western standards...
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“Chubbiness” is actually called Pottya. They have been working hard to put some weight on so they can live up to their name since they have a new single out Jan. 15.

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[matsuki]

Pottya? Cause...katakataing words just isn't enough? Are they based out of Sinjuku?