
Top ero-cosplay idol Ushijima is to appear as the model for a saucy and soon-to-be published ero-manga, an unusual and possibly unique tie-up between cosplayer and ero-mangaka.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Aug 26, 2010 11:11 JST
- Tags: Adaptations, Anime Goods, Chibi, Haruhi, Haruhi-chan, Mahjong, Marketing, Otaku, PSP

Even hardened Haruhi otaku have been shocked by the announcement of the latest game in the Haruhi franchise – a thrilling PSP mahjong game of “less than doujin quality,” but with a $110 price tag.
Some screenshots from the game tell all that is needed:
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The latest example of Japanese school swimwear, or sukumizu, bears a convenient frontal zipper for those special moments of urgency.
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The obligatory swimsuit service scenes fill the 8th episode of oppai alien catgirl anime Asobi ni Iku Yo!, delicately positioned on the female cast’s bodies whether deliciously voluptuous or flatly delicious.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, H, News
- Date: Aug 26, 2010 04:51 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Fashion, Fine Art, Gravure, Idol, Loli, Lolicon, Parody, Sukumizu, USA

None other than Britney Spears has been “reinvented” by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, which sees her “combining high fashion and Japanese manga” – in fact she is wearing sukumizu and a randosel, both major fetish items for Japanese lolicon.
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Square Enix have finally clarified how their controversial “fatigue” system for limiting player advancement in Final Fantasy XIV works – players are not after all limited to 1 hour of play a day, but instead to a much more generous 8 hours a week.
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The bankruptcy of figure maker Taki Corporation has been confirmed – rather than wondering why, those confronted by their figure portfolio are wondering why it took so long:
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Reports that Final Fantasy XIV includes a “fatigue” system which involves limits on how long players can effectively play have been dismissed by Square Enix as “fabrication,” despite the fact Square Enix already admitted adding such a system.
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The developers of “Fighters Uncaged,” a motion controlled fighting game for the Xbox 360′s Kinect, says that a two player mode had to be taken out as it is just “too dangerous.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Aug 25, 2010 02:05 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Courts, Hawaii, Hikikomori, Internet, Korea, Law, Litigation, MMORPG, Otaku, USA

The makers of popular MMORPG Lineage II are facing a lawsuit accusing them of acting negligently by failing to warn a man that he could become addicted to the game, which he blames for making him “unable to function independently” and costing him 20,000 hours of his life.
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Nipple cosplay exposure of the most blatant and shameless kind has proven popular on the streets of Akihabara, with substantial crowds of otaku gathering to photograph the cosplayer in question – few could resist the chance to cop a feel, which organisers and cosplayer alike seemed indifferent to for some reason.
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The latest episode of zombie service anime Highschool of the Dead continues where the last left off (with huge breasted heroines wearing nothing but thongs and aprons, lest anyone forget), with a number of scenes open to rather broad interpretation.
Other scenes provide a not so subtle homage to The Matrix, but with the addition of wildly gyrating breasts in slow motion bullet time…
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