- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Oct 16, 2009 12:50 JST
- Tags: CG, China, Comparison, Eroge, Korea, Moe, Taiwan, Thailand, USA, Visual Novels

Japan is no longer the only country to embrace the visual novel as an artistic and erotic medium; now several other countries have been pursuing their own native developments to varying degrees of success, as can be seen below:
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When 10,000 Japanese men were asked what it is they found inexplicable about female behaviour, they came up with a list which might well be universal…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Oct 16, 2009 01:14 JST
- Tags: Ar Tonelico, Banpresto, Eroge, Marketing, Panchira, Pantsu, PS3, RPG

Science fiction RPG Ar Tonelico’s third installment is attracting attention for shameless panchira and some distinctly ambiguous dialogue…
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Japanese researchers striving to rid the nation’s trains of the menacing gropers who supposedly infest them have developed a novel countermeasure: a sticker victims can use to stamp the hands of chikan with a red “X,” allowing them to be readily found in a crowd.
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A schoolgirl has been arrested for running a “delivery health” business called “Thomas The Chikan Engine,” in which she recruited other underage schoolgirls to take part in indecent acts including group sex.
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A survey of Japanese women has found 87% of them are keen to bathe with their boyfriends at an onsen.
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- Author: linkinstreet
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Oct 15, 2009 11:06 JST
- Tags: Anime Goods, Asuka Langley, Auctions, Evangelion, Fender, Guitars, Music, Otaku, Rei Ayanami

Famous K-ON! goods maker Fender has announced an Evangelion collaboration, with Ayanami Rei themed ita-guitars set for release.
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Horo fans are aghast at the decision of the English publishers of sagacious wolf light novel series Spice and Wolf to dump the titular spicy wolf Horo completely in an effort to appeal to “fantasy audiences,” who presumably cannot be expected to buy anything without a scantily clad lady or dragon on the cover.
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Impressive and bloody details of new Fist of the North Star brawler Hokuto Musou have surfaced, and it looks as if another blockbuster entry into the Musou series is imminent, along with plenty of flying entrails.
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