Even if the manga and anime are done with for now, the notorious mania of K-ON! fans for high priced guitars has reached the usual frenzied levels, with an Azunyan guitar bearing the signatures of all 5 seiyuu reaching ¥5,081,000 in mere days. Such auctions have a certain reputation for attracting spurious bids , and indeed there are [...]

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, [...]