
The February edition of Newtype promises “big news about the Suzumiya Haruhi TV anime” in the March edition. All speculation focuses on this being regarding the hugely anticipated and much belated second series.
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A federal appeals panel has upheld the 20 year sentence of a lolicon found to have received illustrations of underage sex by email, saying that “it is not a required that the minor depicted actually exists”, and so ruling art not to be universally protected free speech.
The court also insisted that purely textual email containing incest related material was not constitutionally protected free speech, and so also upheld his conviction on these grounds.
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You may recall we saw the release of a number of ToHeart erotic dakimakura covers a while ago; one of those, Sasara Kusugawa, is given a very thorough working over indeed in a recent review:
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A middle schooler has been arrested after forcing himself upon an older girl at a carpark, and then robbing her of ¥300 to buy cigarettes with.
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Vaunted artist Tony‘s latest work, an erotically themed Clannad After Story doujinshi entitled ぼたん鍋 / Botan Nabe, is with us, and Quen has provided a translation once again. It features both colour illustrations and a manga section as with previous volumes.
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The latest Vocaloid after the Gackpoid emerges in detail, set for release at the end of January; her name is 巡音ルカ / Megurine Luka.
She (her voice) is said to be “cool and husky”, a reasonable description as you can hear in the below demo song:
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The above image compares the various incarnations of the ancient Chinese classic “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” (三国志 / Sangokushi in Japanese) characters in anime, manga and games.
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An exceedingly weird MAD, this video treats us with the dulcet tones of the classic shoujo series Card Captor Sakura’s 1st OP, “Catch You Catch Me”, as sung by Haruhi‘s Kyon.
Not a MAD to be missed…
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Cosplay idol Shoko-tan has been busy making mischief; we hear that she made the three announcers pictured above give Kira☆ poses, and in addition has published a spot of Macross cosplay on her blog, and produced a rather skilful illustration of Ranka Lee, both visible below.
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Koihime Musou’s 4th DVD release has arrived, and aside from some gratuitous loli pantsu it appears to be nothing more than a chibi massacre, much as with last time, save without the benefit of service to offset the loss.
The comparison is still interesting enough, however:
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Doujin soft (or homebrew as we might say) Nintendo DS fan ports of both danmaku shooter Touhou and classic visual novel Fate/stay night have emerged, in both cases in English. Fans of such may wish to check them out:
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, H, News
- Date: Jan 6, 2009 18:27 JST
- Tags: Code Geass, Comparison, DVD Extras, Kallen, Marketing, Oppai, TV, USA

This unfortunate image of the state of Kallen‘s breasts in the Japanese DVD and TV versions of Code Geass, versus the American TV version, illustrates that although the currently popular tactic of censoring TV broadcasts to provide something cheap and saucy to put on the DVD is odious enough, at least nobody in Japan has any serious moral objections to oppai on their screens…
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