- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, H, News
- Date: Nov 25, 2009 09:49 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Comparison, DVD Extras, Food, Kanokon, Loli, Oppai, OVA, Shota

Kanokon’s Great Midsummer Carnival, Kanokon – Manatsu no Daishanikusai, attracted a great deal of attention (and even some cosplay recreation of the key scene) for its unusual food sex shota action, but the TV version was heavily censored – now the OVA proper has been released, it can be seen in all its considerable erotic glory, and it is more considerable than ever before…
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Nintendo’s much maligned DSi LL has sold 104,000 units in two days, according to Enterbrain estimates, double what Sony’s nogoing PSP Go managed in three weeks of release.
However, the DSi LL itself barely managed half the DSi’s two day sales of 170,000…
The tale can readily be told in release day queue comparisons:
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Precocious loli manga Kodomo no Jikan has delighted its fanbase with the usual pushing of boundaries, this time depicting in vivid anatomical detail the act of applying a female hygiene product for the first time, even going so far as to include a helpful cross-sectional diagram.
The less usual act of having a tampon inserted by someone else also seems to be depicted:
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Top eroge producer Circus, famous for Da Capo and others, recently suffered a major fire at one of their facilities.
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Idolmaster otaku have been celebrating Miki Hoshii‘s birthday (November 23rd), some going so far as to construct shrines to her replete with cake and fancy decorations…
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2ch denizens provide these To Aru Kagaku no Railgun spot-the-difference images; there are five differences in each.
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A ranking of anime by their level of magazine exposure for the month of October yields some interesting, if at times puzzling, results…
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The top heroes of Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 are arrayed together in this pair of images.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, H, News
- Date: Nov 24, 2009 06:17 JST
- Tags: Azusa, DVD Extras, K-ON!, Mio Akiyama, Ritsu, Sukumizu, Tsumugi, Yui

The cast of K-ON! appear clad in obsolete school-issue swimwear in this official illustration, showing once again that Kyoto Animation knows its audience, and how to market DVDs.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Nov 24, 2009 01:53 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Disney, DLC, Internet, Kingdom Hearts, PSP, RPG, Sony, Square Enix

Disney has apparently ruled out online distribution of its upcoming Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep on “copyright grounds,” a decision which certainly comes as a blow to Sony’s ill-received PSP Go…
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To Aru Kagaku no Railgun demonstrates the sometimes disheatening cleft between reality and schoolgirl yuri moe.
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A recent survey of what professions Japanese parents would like to see their children undertake seems to suggest that the nation’s parents overwhelmingly have it in mind to raise a generation of civil servants…
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