
Veteran Final Fantasy designer Tetsuya Nomura, of Square Enix, is here pitted against veteran Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski, of Epic Games. Both now have careers on rather similar footings, though their design styles could not be further removed from one another.
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How to draw two sexy poses at once? Most artists would take the trouble of making two separate illustrations, but not this one…
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Washinomiya, the real life location of Lucky Star‘s Kagami and Tsukasa‘s family shrine, received a flock of otaku pilgrims celebrating the Japanese New Years tradition of hatsumoude – visiting a shrine/temple on Jan. 1.
Good Smile Company, maker of Nendoroids and Figma, took the opportunity to join in by releasing limited edition Miko cosplay Nendoroids of the 4 main girls at the gathering, the latest of many such events to happen at the small town since Lucky Star turned it into a moe version of Mecca for otaku.
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The first DVD volume of Macademi Wasshoi!, recently released, has dispensed with the clay doll service in favor of the more mainstream nekomimi loli service as shown below:
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The Touhou anime has proven a resounding success, much to the delight of many and the irritation of some, but it seems Maikaze were not quite as vigilant as we might hope in the production process, for we notice some fairly large errors, documented below.
Of course, nobody is seriously castigated the otherwise excellently produced doujin OVA on this account…
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This interesting compilation covers all manner of grisly (or merely painful) scenes of agonising torture, violence and similar occurring in mainstream anime. Naturally, all those being subjected to such torments are ladies (although anime probably still kills off more male characters than female in total)…
Rather than just reproduce fifteen minutes of Ga-rei, a wide variety of anime are featured:
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Hiroyuki Nishimura (pictured), 2channel founder, NicoNico Douga CEO and gravure idol, has transferred the world’s largest forum 2ch to an unknown Singaporean company, in a move which has taken observers largely by surprise.
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This picture of an edible Strike Witches’ Gertrud Barkhorn nori (seaweed) decorated rice comes to us via Danny’s.
Fears of Photoshop tend to arise from similar photos, but in this case the texture of the nori and only a simple cut-out stenciling job required might make that unlikely?
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The latest activity on the Disgaea front has recently come to light in the form of 魔界戦記ディスガイア2 PORTABLE / Makai Senki Disgaea 2 Portable, a PSP port of Disgaea 2.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 2, 2009 12:37 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Cars, Cosplay, France, Mario Kart, Nintendo, Remi Gaillard, Sports, Wii

A 3D cosplay rendition of the ever popular Mario Kart series, complete with kart, Mario, and banana skin tossing foul play in the midst of (real) traffic. A brief police car chase is also included by way of an extra:
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Fans of KyoAni’s Clannad have reason to look forward to March, when this ita-mouse aimed at the otaku market and decorated with a moe picture of the show’s popular Nagisa Furukawa will be released.
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One of the many interesting items to come out of the last Comiket was this doujin Aisaka Taiga ona-hole (dutch wife), advertised to be “Taiga’s Pussy“, certainly the focus of many an otaku’s private fantasy.
With the Comiket now over, many fellow otaku have been able to acquire one of these onanism devices and take photos of their newly acquired partners, allowing us to examine Taiga’s Pussy in greater detail:
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