
With the recent court decision to quash the sale of DS hack devices, or “majikon”, Nintendo has been celebrating a “victory over piracy”, but voices are not unanimous in supporting the move, with some even suggesting it may hurt Nintendo more than it helps them.
Nintendo themselves claim a 3 billion dollar loss to the piracy…
Quoth a report on the subject by ITmedia:
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An elementary school teacher who forced himself upon 21 of his charges over a three year period has been sentenced to death. He kept some of them quiet by paying them the equivalent of 70¢, others he menaced with threats.
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The heartrending gameplay of the insanely difficult and sadistically designed game “I Wanna Be the Guy: The Movie: The Game” is amply demonstrated through this gameplay video, currently enjoying a great deal of popularity on Nico…
Even hardcore masochists are advised to avoid playing and simply wince and grimace as the intrepid player resolutely faces up to the probable impossibility of final victory:
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Tora no Ana, the well known purveyor of all things otaku, is advertising a revolutionary new method of using your dakimakura – instead of merely filling the cover with a pillow as is normally done, the new idea is “to join” with the moesome girl printed on the sheet by entering her innards for what is billed as “the ultimate dakimakura experience”.
Pictures of the intended use as demonstrated with the dakimakura included in this month’s Dengeki Moeoh are included below…
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Bikini idol and occasional seiyuu Aya Hirano drove Malaysian otaku into a wife-capturing frenzy when she visited Malaysia for reasons then clouded in mystery; it was though she was shooting scenes for one of her productions, but it in fact transpires she was civic-mindedly promoting computer sales to civil servants:
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Star Ocean 4 seems to have been influenced by the producer’s unfulfilled desire to make a full on eroge, and appears to have the most erotic themes of any Japanese RPG in recent memory. The game in fact bears some striking similarities to moderately ero-themed anime…
The usual genre staples of shower peeking and similar are visible in the scenes collected below:
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Continuing the tradition of random background cameos, the twenty first episode of Index anime A Certain Magical Index has included a background pair fans can’t help but identify as being interlopers from papist anime Maria-sama ga Miteru.
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This image presents a truly mortifying prospect – an unending cascade of sukumizu-clad maidens unleashed from the skies to rain death and destruction upon the poor residents of whatever place the terrible weapon’s creators have deemed deserving of loli induced annihilation.
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Some truly lovely images of the vast Touhou Project cast of characters have been put up by one talented artist, とむそおや / Tomusooya, onto his site with regularity for some time now, some of which we have seen before.
Collected here is a small gallery of his artwork depicting many more of the Touhou bishoujo, as well as some of his art from other series such as Clannad:
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Japanese magazine SPA! has recently published an article regarding the threat of foreigners in Japan.
Coining a new term, the piece rails against “monster gaikokujin” (doubtless hoping to catch an echo of the furore over “monster parents“), and goes on to refer them in amusingly abbreviated form as “monga”.
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The umbrella gets an interesting redesign in the form of a katana shaped handle, complete with a sheath-style carrying case (or saya if you must).
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Chibified Nendoroid Yoko, of Gurren Lagann, has just been released, and none can help but be impressed by her intense moe. A closer look is thus in order…
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