
It is our pleasure to announce the latest milestone in the growth of Sankaku Complex: the attainment of 25 million page views, a mere 10 months after the site’s inception, and not so long after the 10 million hit announcement.
The usual thanks are of course due to all those who have visited us, commented, contributed and linked to us. Our success is predicated on your support, for which we are most grateful.
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The blog of a well-known Good Smile Company employee has been updated with a surprise announcement of a new Hatsune Miku figure, based on a massively popular Nico video (shown below), very much like the excellent Black★Rock Shooter.
No information other than this lone picture is given, but it is enough to give Miku fans yet another reason to celebrate.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Akihabara, Games, News
- Date: Mar 5, 2009 10:28 JST
- Tags: Akihabara, Auctions, Eroge, Events, Fashion, Itaru Hinoue, Key, Little Busters, Visual Novels

A T-shirt bearing the likeness of Kurugaya Yuiko,of Key visual novel Little Busters, has just been auctioned off for an impressive ¥1,300,000, in what must be one of the most expensive pieces of otaku fashion in recent memory.
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A lady who attempted to order Chicken McNuggets at her local McDonald’s was shocked to discover they had run out, and felt she had no recourse but to summon police to the scene; with police already on the way assist her with this pressing crisis, she made three 911 calls, pleading for aid.
The dire straits she was in were summed up in her desperate 911 call, prompted by her failed attempt to order 10 McNuggets:
“This is an emergency, if I would have known they didn’t have McNuggets, I wouldn’t have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don’t want one. This is an emergency.”
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Anime and game themed tattoos seem to increasing in popularity, and here you can see numerous examples of such.
Unlike their Japanese counterparts, non-Japanese otaku seem ready to embrace the prospect of indelibly emblazoning the likeness of their favourite character onto their skin in an “ita-tattoo”, in much the same way as a monk might embrace his vow to celibacy, and with much the same effect.
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The Black Rock Shooter figure, darling of the WonHobi 9 event and recipient of more feverish attention online than any other figure so far this year, has just been revealed on Good Smile Company’s website to go along with the opening of pre-orders, although International customers will still need to wait some more time before it is available to them…
The BRS figure is based on illustrations of a warped, dark Hatsune Miku by artist huke for a tremendously popular Nico video, which can be seen below:
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A teacher shocked his school and was reported to police after it emerged that he coerced his female students into cosplaying maids for him to photograph, threatening to fail them if they did not comply.
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A gallery of girls playing games, with all manner of systems represented, particularly the PSP and PS2 for not entirely obscure reasons… Though gamer girls themselves don’t seem too popular a subject for illustration for some reason?
You can browse these and many more on the Channel.
The more explicit images are towards the bottom of the gallery…
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An enormous three and a half hour medley of Hatsune Miku classics is currently being extremely well received on Nico; 50 songs are included so it should keep you going for a while.
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Relatively obscure Touhou character Komeiji Satori (or Satorin) gets a very well made MAD loosely in the style of Usatei. Touhou has never been so colourful…
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An ingenious non-Japanese patron uses her camera at a kaitenzushi (conveyor belt sushi) restaurant, catching glimpses of the various Japanese customers and their reactions.
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A man faces necrophilia charges after it emerged that he had sex with over a hundred corpses, shocking investigators.
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