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Is it really still 2015? Some Japanese netizens must be living in the future because over the past 18 months, they’ve had their hearts throbbing for “once-in-a-thousand-years” and “once-in-two-thousand-years” idols in Japan, a “once-in-four-thousand-years” idol in China, and now a gravure model from Vietnam has been crowned to join the millennia babe ranks.

Rocketeers, meet Japan’s latest “thousand-year” sweetheart, Elly Tran Ha.

Born August 6, 1987, Elly Tran Ha is of Vietnamese and Chinese, holds American citizenship, and is active as a model, gravure idol and actress in Vietnam, China and Korea. She has been on the radar of babe fanatics in Japan for several years now, and has recently returned to the cyber limelight because some netizens have started hailing her as a “once-in-a-thousand-years haafu beauty”.

Regardless of nationality or heritage, mixed-race individuals (collectively known as haafu, which means “half”) are generally seen as “exotic”, and are more often than not considered to be very attractive in Japan, so much so that some Japanese women are proactively looking to reel in a foreign catch solely for the purpose of having a haafu baby. Be it on variety programs, crime news, or even in these dubious “thousand-year” titles, if the person in the spotlight is a haafu, you can bet on it to be mentioned.

What sets Elly apart from other “once-in-a-thousand-years” beauty Kanna Hashimoto is, apart from her haafu status, her stunning body proportions. Net users have been bowled over by her sweet smile, but even more so than that, the contrasting combination of her angelic looks and her devilishly ample bosom.

After seeing four of these “thousand-year” babes, we think we’re seeing a trend here. The cyber citizens of Japan have a fondness for sweet-looking cute girls with big doe eyes, long hair, flawless fair skin and a vibrant smile…plus extra kudos if she has an impressively sized bust. We can understand what they’re going for. What we don’t get is, who decides how many thousand-years-rare these girls are, and based on what criteria were they “graded”?

Placing aside the fact that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, surely these titles are just an exaggerated expression and we don’t literally expect such beauties to surface only once in a millennium, but we’d expect them to be fairly few and far between, not one every couple of months! It was intriguing once or twice, but that series of millenia titles is starting to get stale, especially since we honestly can’t tell why one girl is a few thousand years rarer than another. Really, they’re all beautiful in their own ways, aren’t they?

Source: Game Over
Top image: Facebook (Elly Tran Ha Official)