
Top ona-hole brand Tenga is promoting a manga based on its products, closing the gap between onanism and manga further still.
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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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Hinomoto Oniko, the moe personification of the “Japanese devil” racist epithet so popular in China of late, has been picked up by a Taiwanese newspaper.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Oct 28, 2010 20:04 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Anthropomorphisation, Bizarre, China, History, Image Gallery, Moe, Otaku, Parody

Japanese otaku have fought back against Chinese propaganda by turning the favourite anti-Japanese insult of the Chinese into a moe character.
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Even elections are not immune to moe marketing – the image above shows a recently spotted poster exhorting inhabitants of Fukushima Prefecture to vote in the upcoming elections for prefectural governor.
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After introducing adorable Windows 7 mascot Madobe Nanami, Microsoft has followed up with an official mascot for Silverlight, Hikaru. She is being hailed as even more charming than Madobe…
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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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This manga seems to indicate there is not – behold the the struggle of the adorable little cockroach Gokicha-chan as she struggles to make friends with humans after moving to frigid Hokkaido to escape the unfortunate reputation her species enjoys in the Kanto region.
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Japan’s budgetarily challenged public broadcaster NHK has taken to providing moe anthropomorphisations of the seasons in its weather reports, the star of the show being the lovely Haru-chan (Spring-chan), who can be seen in a variety of curious illustrations on national TV once again with the onset of spring…
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Classic PS2 giant monster scaling simulator Shadow of the Colossus has received a C77 doujinshi focused on moefied renderings of the titans of the title.
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Tired of the relentless attacks on freedom of expression launched by anti-free speech feminists, anti-censorship group Yes to Freedom has been formed to defend the liberties of artists, and they have just created their new mascot Freedom-tan.
Appropriately enough, she is a schoolgirl…
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Delicious nectar, fresh from the flower. Very special nectar, as you can see…
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