
Anime fans in both Japan and the barbarian nations have been pondering the rather pronounced differences in animal character design between the USA and Japan.
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It transpires that Bioware’s hit cover-shooter Mass Effect 2, which sold millions of copies and became the recipient of innumerable perfect scores and game-of-the-year awards, sold a pathetic 8,864 copies in Japan, being outsold by such blockbusters as Arcana Heart 3.
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The boy-band which brazenly plagiarised a Vocaloid tune only to be outed by angry fans and a distraught creator has finally admitted its shameful conduct and made amends with its victim.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jan 20, 2011 02:31 JST
- Tags: Anime Goods, Fashion, Kirino, Kuroneko, Makeup, Marketing, Moe, Ore no Imouto, Otaku

Ore no Imouto’s adorable heroines Kirino and Kuroneko have both released perfumes seeking to recreate their charms solely through fragrance.
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Police have arrested 2 hobbyists for the grievous crime of modifying a figure to look like another character, charging them with criminal copyright infringement.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 19, 2011 21:34 JST
- Tags: DS, Famitsu, Microsoft, Nintendo, PS3, PSP, Rankings, Sony, Statistics, Wii, Xbox 360

Famitsu’s ranking of Japan’s top 100 best selling games of 2010 has found its way online, and seems to reveal the Japanese gaming market has devolved into a staid mixture of endless RPG franchises and Mario games…
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Mio Akiyama seiyuu Yoko Hikasa recently discovered K-ON!’s popularity apparently does not extend to IdolMaster fans – she was humiliatingly snubbed and even given the cold shoulder by fellow seiyuu at a recent event.
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Aya Hirano repertoire of scandalous and provocative utterances has been expanded to include huge spoilers about the anime she is recording.
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Fortune Arterial‘s Haruna Yuki joins Wave’s beach queen series wearing a cute one-piece and due in July 2011.
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Square Enix has announced Final Fantasy XIII-2 as being due for the PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2011.
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Love doll fanciers are starting to wonder whether their plastic goddesses are really a pale imitation of the real thing after all…
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Kore wa Zombie’s favourable initial reception has dissipated with astonishing rapidity, with the anime now being panned as unfunny rubbish, although the characters on the other hand are being hailed as “the most moe of the season”…
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