
This interesting Nico video shows a mysterious man in a hockey mask carving (chainsawing ?) a wooden replica of Kannagi’s Nagi-sama, or more specifically the wooden statute Jin carved of the second-hand goddess from which she sprang back to life.
Not content with just one statue, the masked creator went on to make a second idol of Nagi, and last of all sculpted what might very well be his masterwork, a leek-bearing likeness of beloved Vocaloid virtual idol Hatsune Miku.
He calls these creations “Mokkoroids”, from Mokkou, meaning wooden (nendo means clay).
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This rather amorous, and apparently bisexual, dolphin was filmed attempting to have his way with a pair of humans. The humans and the dolphin all appeared to enjoy the experience…
Of course, the video is in the best possible taste, in so far as this is possible with a video of an excited dolphin attempting to have sex with a female human:
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As news has come out that shoujo series Shugo Chara! will soon be receiving an adaptation as a stage musical, it might be a good time to review past musicals based on popular anime: the Inuyasha musical and (of course) the Sailor Moon SeraMyu…
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School/Summer Days sequel Cross Days has been subjected to a significant postponement, of no less than two months, which surely signifies the title is shaping up to be a disaster as with previous titles.
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The latest consumer good to receive an upgrade via the otaku fine art of ita-fication is modern Japan’s favorite foreign dish, curry. Toradora, ef: a tale of melodies, Musubi of Sekirei and even dear Nagisa-chan of Clannad have received their own ita-curry products, catered specifically for otaku culinary taste.
Eroge illustrator Aoi Nishimata (Shuffle!), the same artist whose moe ita-rice became a huge marketing coup for a small town last year, has also lent her talents to the creation of moe curry, illustrating the cover art for the farming region’s brand of beef curry with the above image of a moe kimono-clad woman.
Apparently, the growing reach of Akiba (and moe) knows few boundaries.
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The first entry in Kotobukiya’s trio of Kannagi figures, Nagi-sama in nekomimi cosplay, has just been released. As always, the main difference between the pre-release official photos and the review photos shown below is that the latter is much less shy in exploring the figure’s important bits.
See our earlier coverage on the Nagi-sama / Zange-chan figures here, or perhaps the oft ignored Tsugumi’s inumimi figure here…
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This allegedly 22-year-old young lady shows off her ability to imitate the appearance of a 7-year-old via clothing and some very convincing facial expressions.
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Soon to arrive Japanese PS3 title, Ryu ga Gotoku 3 (or Yakuza 3), the latest in the series of highly acclaimed story driven yakuza simulators, will allow you to create your own 3D bar hostess as well as partake in numerous activities with her, to say nothing of the usual violence and intimidation the game faithfully promises.
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According to the latest commercial for anime rag Newtype, which had previously announced its announcement, the new TV series of the Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi will begin airing in April.
Fans are in shock, and are understandably having trouble accepting this news, but it seems genuine enough.
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A visual novel adaptation of one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, the Dream of the Red Chamber, made by Chinese and in the Chinese language, looks to be a work of considerable quality, as the CG presented below readily attest.
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As we have seen before in a variety of posts, the juxtaposition of 2D and 3D, especially with respect to idiosyncratic or erotic images, often provides interesting material.
You can see plenty of such images in this gallery, as provided by the Vippers:
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A fan of less than straightforwardly named copyright frenzy anime 宇宙をかける少女 / Sora o Kakeru Shoujo (or Sora Kake Girl if you rather) has succumbed to strange Photoshop related urges after the fifth episode, and insists upon sharing with us these wistful imaginings of a hoped for DVD or Blu-ray edition.
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