

Top AKB48 idol Mariko Shinoda has expressed her dismay at one of her sweet cookies being sold for some $12,000 to one of her creepy fans.
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The behaviour of ardent ***48 fans is again causing waves of revulsion online – this time provoked by a SKE48 fan who spent $12,000 on handshaking event tickets in order to secure several hours of “quality” time with his favourite maiden, and another maniac auction in which a single cookie made by AKB48′s Mariko Shinoda reached a similar sum at auction.
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A Japanese man has bid $780,000 for the virginity of a Brazilian woman in an auction, stoking the usual disgust at the creepiness of virginity-obsessed Japanese men.
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A tiny strip of film from the new OP to the Puella Magi Madoka Magica movie edition has fetched ¥1,081,001 at auction – for reasons which are not hard to fathom, as it shows the already much cherished Madoka-Homura OP nuzzle.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime Figures, H, News
- Date: Sep 29, 2012 03:47 JST
- Tags: Auctions, Mods, Onanism, Oppai, Otaku, PVC, Shopping, Tomodachi ga Sukunai

Sexy figure fanciers have been astounded at the price a modified figure of Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukuanai’s busty heroine Sena Kashiwazaki has fetched at auction – ¥553,000 ($7,000) – to say nothing of what she is doing for all to see…
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6 mothers have been arrested for hawking lewd pictures of their daughters – one as young as 7 months – to creepy lolicon online, all of them claiming they just needed the money – although their unwillingness to work or even pursue similar avenues themselves seems to have ensured them very little sympathy indeed.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: May 27, 2012 07:43 JST
- Tags: Auctions, Azusa, Conbini, Guitars, K-ON!, Moe, Music, Otaku, Seiyuu, Shopping

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.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Mar 17, 2012 13:01 JST
- Tags: Aki Toyosaki, Auctions, Comparison, Fashion, Idol, K-ON!, Money, Otaku, Seiyuu, Yui

Aki Toyosaki is once again offering loaded otaku the chance to pay to grab one of her cute bags, with the proceeds to go to charity – but thanks to her new-found scandal seiyuu status, cruel speculation rages amongst seiyuu otaku as to how much less than the $20,000 she received last time will be offered this time, and how badly she will be humiliated as a result.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime Figures, H, News
- Date: Dec 6, 2011 07:52 JST
- Tags: Auctions, Hatsune Miku, Marriage, Mods, Oppai, Otaku, PVC, Shopping

Even otaku are shocked that Hatsune Miku’s legion of admirers has some how managed to bid up the price of an unofficially created Miku bride figure to ¥389,000 – their astonishment in large part stemming from the fact that the figure was created simply by swapping the heads of two stock figures…
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Recent charity auctions held for earthquake relief have seen a number of mangaka selling autographed illustrations, with To Love-Ru mangaka Yabuki Kentaro topping the auctions with an impressive ¥1,223,000 – over $15,000…
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Masakazu Katsura, the legendary H mangaka behind such titles as I”s and Video Girl Ai, has held a charity auction of one of his sexiest illustrations, which fetched an impressive ¥1,141,000 – a figure almost as impressive as the illustration itself.
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Following on from the $6,000 success of nude Miku comes bridal Miku, unusually buxom and fetching an impressive bride price of ¥389,000.
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