- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Manga, News
- Date: May 31, 2009 21:29 JST
- Tags: Artists, Cosplay, Guro, Idol, Illustration, Image Gallery, Internet, Pixiv, Shoko-tan


Console marketing tool and cosplay idol Shoko-tan has a well known penchant for art, and has just created a Pixiv profile and uploaded a selection of illustrations.
Rather surprisingly, in addition to standard shoujo style art covering her anime and game favourites, she has submitted a number of guro works featuring blood and grisly dismemberment; you can see the at times disturbing art she has uploaded so far below:
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Cosplay is one element of Japan’s otaku culture that has spread precipitously through most corners of the world, with most anime related conventions in the last 15 years or so sporting flocks of cosplaying attendees, many of which have near perfected the art, although countless photos of cosplay fail are still in abundance.
If you have ever wondered what some native Japanese otaku make of those photos, here we have some pictures of less than successful cosplay attempts, along with “expert” commentary by a Japanese blogger:
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Details of Sony’s latest handheld have emerged, and the device seems to incorporate some interesting innovations.
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A gallery of ladies posing in a wide variety of fishnet tights, stockings and so forth, in just about every state of decency which can be maintained whilst still wearing what amounts to a handful of string, which is is none too decent in several cases.
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Strike Witches has finally become the victim of TMA, with their latest anime parody AV promising untold quality, as you can see from an eager looking Yosh-ka above.
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Just what is going on here nobody can say, but since it involves naked girls in public, it must be interesting.
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The girls of Saki appear to be engaged in an interesting game of strip mahjong, with Nodoka on a losing streak it seems, in more ways than one…
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These photos, circulated online for some time now, appear to show an otaku who is both somewhat older and significantly more devoted than most, quite possibly to the point of causing worry, although his extraordinarily high power level looks unassailable.
Could this become a common fate for otaku in future?
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A Certain Magical Index’s electro-idol Misaka Mikoto‘s clone Misaka Imouto features in this erotic one-shot (below), experiencing her first sexual encounter with the spirit of scientific curiousity…
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This idol appears to have been rolling around in the sand, with interesting consequences.
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Crime statistics and prison populations are usually dominated by male offenders, but UK statistics show one quarter of violent attacks reported in last year were instigated by women, a figure which has been precipitously rising in recent years and threatens unwanted female equality in violent criminality.
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An overly conscientious teacher has been subjected to disciplinary dismissal after he helped female students by giving them unscheduled breast examinations.
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