
Square Enix is reporting profits for fiscal 2010 to date are down 76% to a mere $22 million, a change it blames on “more discerning consumers.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Manga, News
- Date: Feb 4, 2011 01:12 JST
- Tags: Comparison, Ero-manga, Image Gallery, Oppai, Oshiri, Pantsu, Shonen Jump, To Love-Ru

The mysterious To Love-Ru sexy colourer has returned, colouring several particularly notorious pages of the manga with results that are even sexier than before.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Feb 3, 2011 20:19 JST
- Tags: Business, Copyright, DVD Extras, Internet, Marketing, P2P, Politics, Statistics, YouTube

Japan’s prestigious Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), a government-affiliated economics think-tank, has published detailed research suggesting anime piracy can boost disc sales.
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To Love-Ru Darkness’ 5th volume looks to be its most daring yet, as it features (the hitherto unseen) Mikan, Momo and Nana showing off their chests, and even a scene with Rito finally getting some action…
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Namco Bandai has announced its most recent Tales “mothership” title Tales of Graces F is set for a US release.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Feb 3, 2011 14:27 JST
- Tags: Amagami, Censorship, Events, K-ON!, Politics, TBS, Tokyo, Translation, TV

Ishihara’s anti-anime anime event has been rapidly denuded of top titles like K-ON! and Amagami after TBS was outed as attempting to hawk them at the event in defiance of publisher (and most probably creator) wishes – now TBS lists no anime at all for its booth at TAF.
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The “sexy” character design of PS3 superpower action game Infamous 2 has lately been attracting attention for embodying certain extremes in US gaming tastes…
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UK music and fashion rag Clash has featured holographic princess Hatsune Miku on its cover, but it is hard to see many fans being pleased with its choice of cover image, nor its unflattering description of her.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Feb 3, 2011 01:02 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Exhibitionism, Feminism, Fetish, Food, Guro, Mass Media, Politics, South Africa

South Africa’s ruling party has denounced the practice of eating sushi off the bodies of bikini-clad models as being “defamatory, insensitive and undermining of woman’s integrity” after a series of scandals.
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Asobi ni Iku Yo!‘s busty catian Eris (or Elis) arrives in figure form again thanks to Griffon Enterprises, showing off a particularly fine head of hair and an even finer body, and due for release May 2011.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Feb 2, 2011 20:29 JST
- Tags: Amagami, Censorship, Events, K-ON!, Politics, TBS, Tokyo, Translation, TV

Such popular anime titles as K-ON!, Amagami and Yumekui Merry are sullying their names by supporting anime-hating pro-censorship Tokyo governor Ishihara’s Tokyo International Anime Fair 2011.
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Beleaguered anime producer Gonzo has by way of its participation at the Tokyo Anime Fair announced its support for Ishihara’s policies of anime censorship, and has also announced a continuation to its hit anime Last Exile in the form of a new series.
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