The 3rd Mobile Phone Novel Awards have been announced. About 3,350 works were submitted to the competition, but the grand prize went to the painful love story "Atashi Kanojo," written by 23-year-old author Kiki. It was a clear favorite among the judging committee (headed by producer and writer Yasushi Akimoto), as it also won the Tsutaya Award and Joysound Award.

Excellence Awards were given to "Kokuhaku -synchronize love-" by Eru Natsuki and "Rental na Kankei" by Rei Mizusawa. Male writer Akinashi took the Genre Award with "Boku ni Ki ga Otozureru," while Aoi Yaguchi earned a special prize for "LOVE BOX ~Hikari wo Sagashite~."

Female comedy duo Moeyan is teaming up with the six members of Korean group Super Junior-T to create a temporary unit. On November 5, they will release a song based on a chart-topping single that Super Junior-T released in Korea last year.

The collaboration is a project supervised by the Nippon Broadcasting System radio show "Ginga ni Hoeru! Uchuu G-Men TAKUYA." The idea was suggested by Super Junior-T, who were planning to release their debut single "Rokugo!" in Japan. To help them localize the song into Japanese, they presented an offer to Moeyan, whose act combines comedy with song and dance. However, this will mark the duo's official debut as singers.

X Japan leader Yoshiki is producing more than just music these days. On Wednesday, he unveiled his newest undertaking, a jewelry brand known as Yoshiki Jewelry. He showed up at the press event wearing a 5-carat red and green diamond necklace worth approximately 120 million yen. Other products revealed include a crystal drum set and piano.

Yoshiki also said he is working on a new song inspired by jewelry. Meanwhile, his jewelry brand will be available in Takashimaya stores nationwide starting on October 1.

51-year-old talento Yuri Adachi (the mother of Yumi Adachi) held a press conference on Wednesday to announce that her two-month cosmetic surgery plan turned out to be a success. She revealed the results of the process, which cost more than 6 million yen overall. As part of the treatment, she increased her bust while slimming her waist and hips.

Taking advantage of her "regained beauty," she revealed that she will release her second nude photobook on October 10. She previously posed nude for a photobook in 2006. Adachi also mentioned that she has been given her first lead movie role in Masao Kasahara's tentatively titled "Mebius," due out in May 2009.

A recent Oricon survey asked 300 teenagers (ages 14-19) to name the most interesting manga series they had read. The long-running adventure manga "One Piece" was ranked #1, followed by the classic basketball manga "Slam Dunk."

"Dragonball" and "Death Note" tied for 3rd, while the comedy series "Gintama" took 5th. "Lovely Complex" split the #6 spot with "Nodame Cantabile."

At #8 was "Detective Conan," beating out "Hana Yori Dango," which tied for #9 with "Fullmetal Alchemist."