Chiaki Takahashi, who voices Litchi Faye Ling in BlazBlue and character Azusa Miura in Namco's THE iDOLM@STER, is not just a voice actress. She is also a pin-up model. No, make that, she was a pin-up model.
She is also 32 years old. Pin-up mags she's done in the past listed her at 23 years-old. That's... lying.
On her blog, Takahashi announces that she is retiring from cheese cake modeling. That is, after she releases her upcoming photobook and DVD. She gave pin-up modeling a go, but says she realized, "I am not a pin-up model". She also notes that like many other pin-up models who begin voice acting, she is a voice actress who went into modeling.
Perhaps she got tired of people on the Japanese internet making fun of the fibbing about her age? Or perhaps she's a savvy marketer and has just created demand for her upcoming book?
Chiaki Takahashi's first and last photobook, Juicy Dancing, will be released February 10. She will also be appearing in the March issue of men's magazine Sabra (think Maxim). There is nudity, it seems.
Previously, she appeared in a Sabra pictorial. Feathers were involved.