Known for her versatility and ability to adapt to different genres of music, TV program or movie, what sets this Hong Kong Queen of Canto-pop apart from the crowded Canto-pop scene in the early 90s was her fast and catchy upbeat songs.

She also underwent a complete image transformation in 1993, which fitted perfectly with her then new single, a remake of a fast-beat Japanese song.

A couple of years later, she crossed over from Capital Artists to Warner Music. This proved to be her big break to penetrate the huge Mandarin speaking market. Her first Mandarin album, ‘Worthwhile’ was an instant success, selling more than 300,000 copies in Taiwan alone.

Throughout her career, Sammi Cheng has garnered a string of music awards and even some film awards for her songs, featured in films such as ‘Needing You…’ and ‘Love on a Diet’. And it is certainly hard to take your eyes off this lovely diva as she appears in film like ‘Infernal Affairs’, ‘Magic Kitchen’, ‘Enter the Phoenix’, ‘Needing You…’, ‘Everlasting Regret’ , to name a few.

Considered one of the most bankable artistes in Asia, she will be playing a senior inspector alongside other superstars like Eason Chan and Richie Ren in her latest film ‘Investigate Her’. The film is scheduled for release next month.

Besides gracing the silver screen and stages, Sammi is also the face and spokesperson of popular watch maker Titus.

Catch her next performance at Genting Highland, Malaysia on September 26 and 27, 2008. Click Here.

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Hentai perhaps the most infamous anime genre – is known to be the darkest side of anime. Uneducated, non-Japanese people believe that all anime is hentai, or pornographic. This is a very common misconception along with the belief that anime is just for children. In Japan, hentai literally means perverted or a pervert. Other names for hentai are H-anime and eroanime.

Japan has a different understanding about the line between adult content and mainstream works than the United States and other countries; nudity is not as forbidden in Japan as it is in other cultures. They have communal bathing and in most anime they depict naked people, but not pornographically. For example, in Sailor Moon, the Sailor Scouts as they transform are nude, but no detail is shown.

According to Wikipedia, “The H material tends to use explicit pornographic content. As a form of expressing sexual fantasy, depictions can include those that are unacceptable in society, or run counter to social norms. Such fantasies can be depicted in the extreme, often demonstrating subconscious desires or purely carnal motivations. This contrast between accepted and in some cases legal behavior and primal sexuality is a primary motivation for many works of pornography, and H art is no exception.”

An example of hentai is the well-known La Blue Girl. Watch them here!

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Manga are Japanese comic books. The artists that draw manga are called manga-ka. Manga was developed from a mixture of classical Japanese art - ukiyo-e, and foreign drawing styles, which took its current form soon after World War II. Dr. Osamu Tezuka, creator of Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion, helped develop the manga drawing style the way it is today; he was influenced by Fleischer Studios’ and Walt Disney’s styles of drawing.

The majority of Japanese social classes as well as age groups read manga. It is common to see businessmen reading manga on the bullet train going to and from work.

There is a distinct difference between comics from Japan and comics from other countries like those found in the United States. Manga are black and white and can be as thick as a phone book while most comics are in color and much shorter.

Manga is read in the Japanese traditional style, right-to-left (unlike English’s left-to-right). Not only are they read right-to-left, but the panels and text are read from right-to-left as well. Many manga-ka are opposed to the widespread attempts to make published manga look and read like traditional American comics. Not just the artists, but the fans also played a part in keeping manga in their original reading style.

Where can you find manga? Good question. Try these stores: Barnes & Noble and Sam Goody.

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New Japanese words are creeping in the vocabulary of Western society. While many of them aren’t in English dictionaries yet, the Internet is flooded with them.

Type in “kawaii” (cute), “etchi” (indecent), “otaku” (fanatic), “bishojo” (beautiful young girl), or “onigiri” (rice ball), on Google’s search engine and you’ll come up with thousands of results for each.

Why have words such as these infiltrated the language? One reason, it seems, is the popularity of anime - Japanese animation characterized by colorful graphics and lively characters.

If you observed, you’ll find these are the top three words: “Anime” - Animation originating in Japan, “Manga” - Japanese comics and “Hentai” - Explicit sexual or pornographic content.

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