

The first episode of Freezing reveals plenty of nipple, pantsu and even guro action, and is receiving some cautiously positive evaluations.
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Nintendo’s CEO is being quoted as saying handhelds with a battery life of under 10 hours are “absolutely meaningless,” after his company just announced the 3DS only has a 3 hour battery life.
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Azunyan’s appearance on a package labelled “K-ON! Azunyan Pero-Pero Kunka-Kunka” (the contents apparently had nothing to do with Azunyan or K-ON!) is the latest example of so-called “delivery terrorism” to surface, with the distinction that both the receiver and the sender appeared in the thread to discuss the matter.
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TMA’s Ore no Imouto parody video was indeed the prelude to a full porno parody, to be entitled “My Little Sister-in-law Can’t Be This Erotic!”
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Nintendo’s latest promotional event for the upcoming 3DS reveals plenty of last minute detail, not all of which is being greeted favourably.
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Mystery anime Gosick has been well received, principally due to the cuteness of gothic lolita protagonist Victorica (“Victorique” in another rendering) – so far the only criticism she has managed to attract is her voice casting and her cosmetic similarity to a certain other bonnet-dweller…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Galleries, Japan
- Date: Jan 8, 2011 07:35 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Abandoned Places, Bizarre, Buildings, Gifu, Image Gallery, Kanagawa, Niigata, Shizuoka


An anonymous urban explorer has been sharing photographs of the many abandoned places he has been investigating throughout Japan with 2ch – the photographs hauntingly depict some of the most quintessentially Japanese of places, such as faddish theme parks and love hotels, ravaged by abandon and neglect, and in many cases still housing strange oddities – in one case a stuffed mammoth…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Japan, News
- Date: Jan 8, 2011 03:36 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Contraception, Exhibitionism, Idol, Mass Media, Talent, TV, Virginity, Voyeurism

TV announcer Miku Natsume has been fired after a particularly obscene photograph of her with a condom was leaked.
The shocking photograph at the centre of the scandal:
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Male Vocaloids Len, Kaito and Gakupo are cosplayed here by a trio of talented (female) Korean cosplayers, using costumes based on their “Imitation Black” MAD appearance.
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The latest title in the long-running Sakura Taisen series is attracting attention for the quality of its battle scenes:
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Of the season’s anime, so far only Shaft’s “Puella Magi Madoka Magica” (or “Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika” – the English title is actually the Latin translation of this) is receiving universal praise, and apparently not just from loli-loving mahou shoujo fans…
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Viewers of Infinite Stratos have tepidly greeted the arrival of yet another “generic harem anime” so replete with the staid elements of the genre that it is being derided as little more than a prolonged exercise in cutting-and-pasting elements from other series into one hopelessly bland whole.
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