
Gaming rag Famitsu has issued an apology for publishing “inappropriate” depictions of Final Fantasy XIII in a manga it serialises, though many suspect that in fact Square Enix is upset that the rag failed to earn its advertising payments by being sufficiently worshipful to its properties.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jan 23, 2010 13:29 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Bloomers, Chikan, Crime, Gifu, Pantsu, Raep, Schoolgirls, Theft

Police are hunting a man who robbed a schoolgirl of her underwear in the street.
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Admirers of Japan’s long tradition of intimate tentacle invasion can’t help but note that the second DVD of omorashi anime Fight Ippatsu Juuden-chan goes even further than most actual ero-anime in its detailed depiction of an octopus forcibly probing several hapless girls.
The progress of the octopus can be inspected below:
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The title of world’s most obsessive Pokémon collector ever has been seized by a British lady.
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Sankaku Channel, now with nearly 700,000 images, has received a wide variety of significant upgrades to both site and server, detailed below.
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New Evangelion character Mari Makinami Illustrious is quickly becoming popular with fans and cosplayers alike, and this time cosplayer Shimizu Miki shows off the twin allure of megane and zettai ryouiki:
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Lantis has attracted attention for posting a trailer for the upcoming Haruhi movie which fans complained spoiled most of the film. A revised trailer with reduced spoilerage later replaced the original, but too late to spare viewers of the original.
Both can be inspected below.
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Recent survey results seem to suggest that skirts may not long remain a part of the archetypal Japanese school uniforms, with 80% approving of trousers, which have been gradually making inroads into school uniforms in recent years.
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Hideyoshi Kinoshita (Baka to Test to Shokanju), winner of the “male” character category of a certain annual light novel contest, is due for a standard double-sided dakimakura cover treatment.
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A “konkatsu” site controversially advises women looking for a husband how to check whether he is a “suitable” marriage candidate by using a free and easy technique any woman could try.
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Photoshop aficionados searching for speedy ways of erotifying tame images of their favourite idols have once again struck upon a new method of sexing up their targets:
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Capcom has been banned from 2ch for spamming political messages decrying the possibility of affording non-Japanese residents representation in Japan’s democratic processes, a measure which looks set to pass despite howls of opprobrium from 2ch in particular.
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