


The endlessly incendiary Final Fantasy XIV’s relaunch and PS3 port is still proving controversial, with some rather convincing complaints about its overpowering UI being too much even for PC gamers, let alone those on the PS3.
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In the interests of fairness, efforts to list the anime most loved by girls and yet hated by guys have been complemented by the reverse ranking – the titles men love but women cannot for whatever reason stand, which seems largely to mean harem, mahou shoujo and all-girl moeblob shows – with harem titles in particular singled out for merciless opprobrium…
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Staying true to form, supernatural harem anime Date A Live places its hero in a triple dating scenario with generic moe archetypes, moderate service content and a deranged maniac…
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The immunity to prosecution, job security and legendary perks enjoyed by Japanese teachers are again in the news, in the unusual case of a teacher who actually managed to lose his job by having sex with one of his pupils at school, also taking her home for good measure.
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The latest scandal to surface around “national idol” group AKB48 may be the most damaging yet – it has emerged that the group’s founders apparently enjoyed close relations with the yakuza, leading to the profoundly unsavoury conclusion that the Japanese government has been using public funds to subsidise a yakuza-connected idol group in order to promote Japan’s image overseas…
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One-shot wonder social gaming publisher GungHo Online’s days of outstripping Nintendo in market cap look to be well and truly over – the company’s value has plunged by over a third in mere days, leaving nobody in any doubt as to the permanence of social gaming’s ascendancy.
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Another Photo Kano means another voyeuristically featured girl, with this week’s lens falling on tsundere glasses girl Aki Muroto, the show having apparently settled on the formula of one generic anime archetype a week…
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Accompanying her Nendoroid figure release, is this stately figure of horny demon queen Maou donning her signature flowing gown (and also featuring her detachable horns), which is expected to arrive this October from Kotobukiya.
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AKB48′s latest “general election” sees sex scandal idol Rino Sashihara leading the pack even as the group’s creepy otaku fans have succeeded in driving their sales to record levels.
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Louis Vuitton has followed up on its notorious Hatsune Miku outfit with a “life-size” (158cm) figure of her wearing the same ensemble.
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Elaborate nail art may be a staple of girly Japanese fashion, but that has not stopped the vast majority of men quizzed about it reporting that they actually hate it – much to the consternation of nail salons throughout the land.
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The steady succession of hit anime the 2000-2013 period has yielded has again been subject to rankification – demonstrating once more that the tastes of fans still maintain some balance between A & B even over a 13 year period…
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