
A hikikomori has brutally attempted to murder his entire family of 5, attacking them with a kitchen knife and successfully stabbing to death his father and a 1-year-old baby girl, and seriously wounding the others, after which he burnt down the family home.
The cause of this rampage was the family cancelling his Internet access after he became massively indebted using his father’s credit card.
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Square Enix has released an American comic based on upcoming futanari action RPG NieR Gestalt, and the rather striking comparisons between the Japanese and western character designs are sure to elicit a strong response, particularly when it comes to the hermaphrodite Kainé…
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Evangelion’s newest and generally very well received character Makinami Mari Illustrious has received one of scant few figure renditions of her to date, clad in her saucy pink plugsuit.
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Anime rag Animage presents its 32nd annual ranking of the top anime of fiscal 2009 (April 2009 – March 2010) – K-ON! fans will doubtless weep bitter tears at their placement, whilst fans of penis chopping will undoubtedly be delighted…
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Shonen Jump has published an editorial threatening those who illegally copy its manga on the Internet with legal or criminal sanctions, and decrying all who would “wound the souls of mangaka.”
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Japanese asked what they think the strangest and most odd things about the nation’s capital are in comparison to the rest of Japan gave a list likely to be familiar to residents and visitors alike…
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In a rather unusual Q&A session, a mother explains she is having trouble getting her 2-year-old daughter to stop touching herself.
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A report condemning Microsoft for using Chinese suppliers who employ children in sweatshop conditions to make its hardware products has recently surfaced.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Apr 16, 2010 16:16 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Crime, Haruhi, Hyogo, Idol, Minori Chihara, Nagato, Seiyuu, Video Gallery

Obsessive Haruhi otaku engaged in a pilgrimage to a school location used in a music video accompanying the recent Haruhi movie, and featuring in the anime proper, have so plagued the school, apparently feeling they have the right to trespass freely in pursuit of good photography, that the school has had to post a warning advising them that trespassers will be prosecuted.
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The evolution of the otaku room from 1985 to the present is tackled in the below series of illustrations, showing just how far otaku have come (or, possibly, fallen).
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Cat lovers the world over, not least in Japan, have been entranced by the spectacle of a cat playing with Apple’s new iPad.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Apr 16, 2010 04:48 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Copyright, Crime, Eroge, Fraud, Hacking, Internet, Sites, Viruses

A cunning virus which masquerades as the installer to various pirated releases of popular software, especially adult games, was in fact part of a wider scheme to blackmail the pirates it caught into making payments if they wanted to have incriminating personal details removed from the web.
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