
After its catastrophic showing at E3 and humiliating drubbing at the hands of Sony, Microsoft has finally caved in and conceded gamers the right to share games and buy them second-hand on the Xbox One, freed them of the need to be continuously online to use the console, and allow removed all regional restrictions on where the console can be played.
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The latest extra chapter of To Love-Ru Darkness gives Mikan’s classmates a chance to meet her much-talked-about older brother for another overly erotic encounter sure to excite the envy of readers, and quite possibly their exasperation at his improbable insistence on chastity…
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Japan’s population of NEETs continues to burgeon despite the supposed success of Abenomics, with the proportion of young people now engaged in providing “home security” now at record levels.
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The finale of this season’s top harem anime Date A Live begins with imouto dating, continues into a harem battle, and ends with the possibility of a second season – much to the delight of fans, the series having been praised for the designs of Tsunako and a unique deadly twist on the normally absurdly staid harem genre.
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Orchid Seed’s newest Soniko figure provides an alternative version of her last nurse figure – this one swapping black for white, whilst still carrying the same intimidating syringes, and will be obtainable by fans come November
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Adorable .moe domains look well on the way to becoming a reality, as ICANN has just approved their creation.
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Yandere may be potentially murderous, but that has not stopped fans from voting for their favourite psychopaths in this new disturbing ranking of killer girlfriends…
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Crawling chaos anime Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W manages bedroom service of another kind, for once managing an episode which is largely free of both romance and trips to the beach…
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The latest suspicious male to menace Japan’s womenfolk was found to have determinedly shadowed an innocent schoolgirl on her way home for no less than 10 metres.
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The latest salaryman to trade one form of oblivion for another on the nation’s rails has horrified many with his spectacular plunge through the train’s window and straight into the arms of its doubtless even more horrified driver.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jun 16, 2013 20:07 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Crime, DPJ, Ken Akamatsu, Law, LDP, Loli, Lolicon, Politics

Lobbyist and mangaka extraordinaire Ken Akamatsu reports that Japan’s proposed ban on 2D material deemed to feature minors in compromising or explicit situations (i.e. quite possibly most of it) is facing difficulties and may well fail to pass.
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Between the enduring willingness of Japanese players to queue for hours in a virtual world, the ineptitude of Square Enix for still not having fixed the game to stop them having to, or the howls of rage echoing through Eorzea as the zone they were all queuing up to get into bugged and had to be taken down, Final Fantasy XIV’s rebirth is shaping up to be as controversial as ever.
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