
Famed vermin moe manga Gokicha! is to receive an anime adaptation, and as if the adventures of these adorable cockroaches were not enough, the show’s insectile heroine will be voiced by none other than Rie Kugimiya.
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Anime fans in both Japan and the barbarian nations have been pondering the rather pronounced differences in animal character design between the USA and Japan.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jan 3, 2011 20:52 JST
- Tags: Animals, Bizarre, China, Chongqing, Crime, Drugs, Fraud, Inu, Made in China, Shopping

Chinese pet shops are apparently injecting sick animals with drugs such as heroin in order to conceal their illnesses and make them look more lively to potential buyers, with the result that many of the animals drop dead shortly after purchase.
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Yet another interspecies face-off displays entirely unexpected results – this time between a cat and a river full of alligators.
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The latest animal video to captivate Japan’s vast population of cat-lovers proves to be something of a thriller, pitting the age-old enemies of cat and bird against each other with traditional roles reversed, whilst introducing a shocking twist and giving the whole thing a rather epic score.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Nov 24, 2010 11:42 JST
- Tags: Animals, BDSM, Bizarre, China, Crime, Fetish, Guro, Image Gallery, Internet, Usagi


The outrage which surfaced over videos of a Chinese woman crushing live rabbits into a bloody pulp led to Chinese Internet users uncovering her identity, and the fact that she is part of a group producing scores of such videos for sale – the pictures made public show that squashing a rabbit flat is amongst the tamest of the group’s gruesome antics.
However, China has no laws against torturing animals to death for sexual gratification, so the only punishment she and her group look set to face is a stream of insults from angry Internet users.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Nov 22, 2010 05:41 JST
- Tags: Animals, Bizarre, China, Crime, Fetish, Guro, Internet, Oshiri, Usagi, Video Gallery


Internet users have been outraged by a woman posting a video of herself crushing rabbits to a pulp by sitting on them.
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A teacher is in hot water for misleading a schoolgirl into eating cockroach poison-laced “cookies.”
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Once again demonstrating that there really is nothing Japan cannot make moe, loveable cockroach Gokicha-chan is back, as adorable as ever, if not more so.
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2ch’s legion of cat connoisseurs provide what are in their estimation the very cutest specimens their feline overlords have to offer.
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Kotobukiya has created a new figure version of top game and anime martial (to some, marital) heroine Alicia Melchiott, of Valkyria Chronicles, coming along with a rifle and Hans, her winged pig.
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A woman who dumped a cat into a bin is reportedly being guarded by police after cat-loving Internet vigilantes began threatening her and a mob descended upon her home.
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