
Seiyuu fans of both sexes have come together to vote for the voice actors and actresses with the voices they find most pleasing to the ear in this unusually balanced ranking…
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Tomodachi ga Sukunai’s author Yomi Hirasawa has not only confirmed that a live action movie adaptation is due, he also concedes he authorised it despite thinking it “unsuited” to 3D, and politely asks fans to stop trying to get it cancelled…
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Photo Kano shifts into drama mode in its latest episode by focusing on the long-time relationship between the main protagonist and the series poster girl Haruka Niimi, even leaving out most of the snapping service for once…
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Supernatural harem anime Date A Live‘s first Blu-ray boasts a “director’s cut” edition with redone visuals, new scenes – and, of course, a thorough decensorisation.
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Sonico, the ever popular mascot of Nitroplus continues to receive more figures, with her latest boasting a barely adequate bikini based on an illustration from her PC game, ready to make a big if unseasonable splash this December from Orchid Seed.
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Japan’s latest teaching scandal, involving a youthful teacher who worked part-time at a “health” establishment in order to pay off her vast card debts, is currently exercising the imagination of many.
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Aku no Hana’s capacity for controversy continues to increase – police are reporting the arrest of two schoolgirls for destroying their classroom in a copycat crime they say was modelled on a scene from the manga.
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Aku no Hana, Japan’s best ever (and only) rotoscoped TV anime, has exposed the original film used as a basis for its much loathed visual style.
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A live action movie version of Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai set for a 2014 release is reportedly in production, causing some profoundly mixed feelings amongst the show’s many fans.
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Queen’s Blade’s voluptuous elf Alleyne returns as a large cast-off figure with a sheddable leaf bikini fitting her wood elf frame, and is due to hit stores this January, from Orchid Seed.
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The latest chapter of ultimate ero-harem manga To Love-Ru Darkness sees the addition of maid molestation to the roster of perversions, including some unconventional uses for a bamboo blade…
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Japan’s PM has been praising Islam for “teaching Japan tolerance,” after having been dragged into cleaning up the diplomatic mess left by the Tokyo governor’s undiplomatic if accurate appraisal of Islamic nations as “fighting each other because the only thing they have in common is Allah.”
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