Actually, I don’t know whether that’s true. I don’t know what excites Risa, or whether she even knows there is a new TV series called The Playboy Club. What I do know is that like so many Japanese models, she has posed in a strange getup that includes non-standard Bunny costume. Like this:

And this:

And, uh, this:

What is that? You would never see that in the Playboy world. Bunny ears are part of the Bunny costume, not an accessory to be randomly slapped on a girl in naugahyde bra and panties. Or a girl in a bikini, like Yuma Asami:

If you’ve checked out a Wednesday Wasabi in the past, you might have seen other girls in ears — though I often avoid it because it’s a little too weird for American tastes. But with cleavage like this, I couldn’t not post this shot of a leopardy Yuri Kobayashi:

And Yuuri Morishita in an entire cow getup was just too weird to pass up:

Kirara Asuka as a cartoony tiger is Grrrrreat!:

And then we had a slew of Japanese cosplayers. Like this one, with not just ears but a tail:

Tail, or AK-47. AK-47 works too:

AK-47 or golf club, whatever:

I think it’s just about the ears, when you get down to it. Do the Japanese models and their admirers like Playboy? Eh, maybe. Do they like the look of the iconic Playboy Bunny? Eh, maybe. Do they just like silly animal ears? Bingo. Here’s more Risa Kasumi, and in most pictures she isn’t wearing ears.
8:31 pm on September 21st, 2011
That’s not an AK-47 in the second-to-last pic. It’s a M16, more specifically an airsoft M16 A2. You don’t need to know all that, but at least that it is NOT an AK-47.
3:13 pm on September 24th, 2011
Why is it that the only rifle a civilian can name is an AK-47, regardless of the actual model.