>| One thing I never figured out thought, what's her history? A search 
>| for her on google only seems to return web stores, picture 
>| galleries and other dodgy sites.

> Ogura Yuko is a swimsuit model for the weekly manga magazines.
> One of the most popular ones.  She also appears (as a guest)
> in some late night TV shows.

I've seen her on three television programs that have been 
broadcast in Hawaii this year.  She is a really funny, moderately 
bizarre girl.

A few months ago she was on a Fuji Terebi program titled "Lion 
no Gokigenyo".  She said that she had fallen in love with an 
ouji-sama while visiting Sacramento, California...

A few weeks ago, she was a guest on a Fuji Terebi show titled 
"Uchi Kuru!?" and, while I don't know when the show was originally 
broadcast in Japan (probably eight weeks ago), she said that she 
was 20 years old and is from Chiba.  In the show, she took Hide 
and Ai on a tour of sweets shops in the Chiba area.  (The reason 
that I "watch" the show is to hear Mitsuishi Kotono do the narration.
She uses lots of different voices...)

I've also seen her twice on an NHK show (via TV Japan) titled 
"Beat Motion" performing "Koi no Shoobidooba" and "Vitamin 
Love".  Her performances are hilarious!

Wayde