- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Mar 11, 2010 09:16 JST
- Tags: Collections, Events, Hatsune Miku, Idol, Image Gallery, Music, Otaku, Tokyo, Vocaloid


Virtual idol Hatsune Miku’s latest live performance, “Miku’s Day,” has proven a huge success, with otaku attendees enthusiastically queueing by the the thousand and being driven into a frenzy by the spectacular performance the Vocaloids offered.
One particularly obsessive fan reported a virtual epiphany…
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Dengeki provides what its users consider the top animated movies of (fiscal) 2009, a list which may prove controversial amongst Haruhi fans…
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Higher intelligence causes people to be left wing and reject religion as they are more highly evolved, science says. They are even less prone to adultery.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, International, News
- Date: Mar 10, 2010 20:11 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, China, Exhibitionism, Guanzhou, Marriage, Pantsu, Relationships, Voyeurism


A group of eight Chinese girls trying to find husbands opted to eschew conventional dating and instead strip off in the street whilst proclaiming their availability.
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The latest data on that most fraught of Japanese economic institutions, marriage, indicates a woman’s preferred salary for their husband is in the region of at least ¥6,000,000 annually, even though actual husbands generally earned as little as half that.
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Japanese are aghast at Australian plans to kill millions of stray cats, with many perplexed at how a nation which sanctimoniously lectures them at every opportunity about their whaling and tacitly supports eco-terrorism can simultaneously destroy millions of lovable felines.
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Some ravishing and erotic illustrations by mildly known artist Buriki (“Tin plate”), mainly focusing on the more popular characters of Touhou, and particularly Tewi, are sure to be of interest to both Touhou fans and non-fans alike.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Mar 10, 2010 01:07 JST
- Tags: Comparison, K-ON!, Marketing, Mio Akiyama, Moe, Otaku, Rankings, Ronery, Yui

Readers of otaku rag Animage can’t help but notice moeblob Yui Hirasawa‘s overpowering domination of the “Character Best” monthly wife rankings, only being edged out of the top spot on one occasion by Sheryl Nome.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Mar 9, 2010 20:44 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Bizarre, Guns, Mass Media, Suicide, Tennessee, USA, Weapons, Wii

A 3-year-old girl has accidentally shot and killed herself after allegedly mistaking a loaded pistol for a Wii controller.
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Some careful online stalking by manga fans reveals a wide variety of female mangaka have at times allowed themselves to be photographed – a look over the selection they have found will doubtless shatter a few dreams whilst making several new ones:
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One of Shining Wind‘s flawless heroines Seena Kanon, designed by famous artist Tony Taka, is set to have her own bikini-clad figure released in July 2010, by Max Factory.
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The chief priest of a 500-year-old Buddhist temple allegedly burnt down his own temple to fraudulently collect millions of dollars in insurance and so pay off huge debts incurred in the course of a lavish lifestyle, which saw him frequenting hostess bars and driving about town in a BMW.
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