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Leekspin Site

By: Alexis Hazelton and Carolyn Hall

The real Leek Spin Girl is a web site that is for people bored out of their minds. It was created for the Japanese show Bleach. The Leek Spin girl is also called Loituma Girl. She’s just a girl on a website who spins a leek, minus the hypnotic eyes.

Loituma was originally a quartet in Finland. Their general music was folk. The band was selected to be Ensemble of the year in 1997.

This Loituma Girl starred in the Bleach anime series, episode two. She represents Orihime Inoue, a young girl on the series. The episode is a joke about her cooking, something that you probably wouldn’t understand if you didn’t see the show.

The thing that she’s spinning has a series of names. The Japanese call it a welsh onion. Americans just simply call it a leek. A leek by definition is a large, green onion that has a strong onion flavor. They are often used in soups and are cooked as vegetable side dishes.

The song the Ievan Polkka (Ievan spelled with an i), which is the song that is played on the site with the Loituma girl spinning a leek, means “The hammer of Eva”. The song is telling a story about a girl named Eva. She goes to dance with this handsome, young man, but her mother opposes it. The song is sung in Japanese and is played over and over on the website.

So if you’re bored and wondering what to do, then go visit http://www.leekspin.com.au/