Japan’s creepy otaku have earned even more notoriety with the invention of “dakimakura nyotaimori,” with the inventor demonstrating the practice by eating sushi off his Lynette Bishop dakimakura cover for the full “Nyotaimori Witches” experience. The combination of nyotaimori – “naked sushi,” a supposedly traditional Japanese culinary art (in fact it appears to have been invented or popularised overseas) [...]

The penultimate chapter of K-ON! has induced outpourings of despair amongst the poor fans of the series, not least because there is no prospect of seeing Azunyan graduate. Early copies of the latest chapter announce the next and last chapter will cover the school festival, with no graduation and no guest appearance from the older girls [...]

The accidental popularity of Hatsune Miku’s Mikudayo-san persona has been making massive inroads online – with fans fascinated with both her classic kigurumi creepiness and what remains of her famed cuteness. For those not familiar with her,  Mikudayo (ミクダヨー – “It’s Miku!”) is the kigurumi (character suit) version of Nendoroid Miku, famed for her idiosyncratic looks, [...]

Chinese are outraged at the case of a teacher who punished a 3-year-old girl for not playing with other children by forcing her seed into her and leaving it there for days. The incident occurred in a Shanghai kindergarten when an unidentified teacher in her 20s decided to “punish” a 3-year-old girl by inserting a kidney bean [...]

An AKB48 fan boasting of buying 1500 singles has become the latest example of the unbelievable creepiness such fans have become a byword for. As usual, the primary motivation for this obsessive feat appears to be the extras the CDs contain – typically tickets which allow access to handshaking events or voting rights in AKB popularity [...]

Microsoft is bundling a free copy of Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN together with its ¥173,250 Claudia figure – or as Microsoft would have it, buyers of their VS2010 bundle also get a charming figure of Azure mascot Claudia Madobe. The limited edition Claudia figure will stand 15-20cm high, is made of PVC/resin as with [...]

The 9 articles of otaku paraphernalia most likely to creep out any girl – “even an otaku girl” – have been helpfully collated, and have been hailed online as an admirable guide to the path of perpetual virginity. The listing :

1. A “moe dakimakura” they actually sleep with 2. Creepy female costumes – who is going to end [...]

Hatsune Miku Project Diva f, Hatsune Miku’s upcoming “Next” Project Diva title for the Vita, has been exciting fans with its AR functionality – including the possibility of having a coy Miku seat herself on her master’s bed…

The Vita edition is due on the 30th of August – pre-orders opened recently.

A South Korean English language report on the launch of a “domestically produced” Korean satellite on a Japanese rocket which used footage of the rocket from which “Nippon” and the Japanese flag had been conspicuously removed have outraged many Japanese. The report, from “Korea Today,” uses CG footage of the Arirang-3 launch (aboard a Japanese rocket) [...]