With movies like Speed Racer, Transformers and the future releases of Akira, Battle Angel and more, it would only be time when outside industries started knocking on the doors of idols and entertainers from the otaku world! We are proud to announce that our own Yunmao Ayakawa is one of the first to be noticed! 

This Saturday, July 19, Limanu Productions will hold their second annual Mid-Atlantic regional Ujena Cover Model Search event and they have asked non other than Yunmao Ayakawa to be a celebrity judge for their popular modeling event along side UFC Middleweight Fighter, Nick Quarry.

The Mid-Atlantic Cover Model Search/UjENA Pageant attracts beautiful and talented models from all over the mid Atlantic region and raises money for the continued support and research towards finding a cure for breast cancer. UjENA is one of the Worlds leading swimwear design companies and publishes Ujena Swimwear magazine and Swimwear Illustrated that feature models from all over the world. Their website hosts a community for models and photographers to meet up and keep up with related events.. Limanu Productions has the duty and privilege of selecting models from the Mid-Atlantic Region. 

Yunmao is excited for the opportunity to be part of such an event in the US. In Japan along with her busy otaku entertainment talent duties, she is also a Race Queen and designer for Race Queen costumes and acts on various international variety shows.  It was these qualities and their hopes to present something new and unique for their event that led them to Yunmao. 

Yunmao has many hopes to became a huge fixture in many fields of the US entertainment market but wants to assure all her otaku based fans that her heart will always have a passion for the Cosplay and maid culture-  Yes, she has vowed to cosplay for life!!

As for us, we hope this is just a beginning to what has been an exciting journey forYunmao since we introduced her to the US at Anime Mid-Atlantic 2006. She writes an on going article for Otaku USA magazine, she just got picked up to endorse the Kid Nemo Company, and of course, her new English Language U.S. website, yunmaoayakawa.com was recently launched!!!

By the way, if you haven't been to her site yet, what are you waiting for??? Lots of fun things to see there now, but by August you will be able to see what she is up to almost on a daily bases as we start posting her activities from Japan and America on her front page blog!! 

So if you are 21 or older, in the Maryland area on Saturday, July 19 and  have the chance, please come by Jetty's Restaurant: 201 Wells Cove RD. Grasonville, MD 21638 (410) 827-4959 and party with Yunmao and us. We will be delighted to see her fans.

Tickets to the event are only $20 and part of the proceeds will go towards the Suzan G Karen for the Cure Maryland organization for Breast Cancer research.

The new U.S. Yunmao Ayakawa website is LIVE!!

Japanese Cosplay Idol, Actress, Artist, Writer, Race Queen, and Stage and TV Personality Yunmao is a driving force in bringing Japanese and US fans closer together. From hosting Cosplay Cafe in Otaku USA to her con panel appearances Yunmao is eager to share her experience with fans everywhere.

Yunmao is back in the US July 19th for the UjENA swimsuit model Search competition in Maryland. And later this summer watch for her on the shelves of your favorite stores in collectable character form from Kid Nemo.

And now Yunmao fans can keep up with everything she's up to in English.

Listen to the DJ ASU A-POP MIX SHOW this Thursday night (June 12/08) for a night filled with music from Halko Momoi's new album "Sunday Early Morning" and an exclusive interview with DJ ASU from her recent appearance at Anime North 08!!  the DJ ASU A-POP MIX SHOW plays the best of Asian pop music and Anime and gaming soundtracks! It airs twice Thursday nights 8:00PM-10:00PM and 11:00PM-1:00AM Eastern Standard Time on Otaku Life Radio. You can listen in Here!