
A list of 9 hobbies which will purportedly cause any right thinking male to spurn any woman so deviant as to pursue them is currently the subject of much attention online – boys love, online gaming, visual-kei and, of course, anime figures, all seem to be regarded as shortcuts to spinsterhood…
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Japan’s ever increasing population of doll fanciers are once again busy spreading their fancy by the simple expedient of posting photographs of them online and telling others they can have one for as little as $500.
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The denizens of 2ch’s VIP board have been sharing pictures of their lovely wives – which of course can only mean their ball-jointed little friends, as exquisite as they are expensive…
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Summer is here, and as ever the denizens of 2ch are preparing to spend it sat in front of their PCs and surrounded by their collections and, in some cases, rather stylish interiors, in the best tradition of otaku everywhere.
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Fans of top visual novel studio Key have been rejoicing at the long awaited release of Rewrite – so much so that in one case a fan was driven to buy 20 copies, coming in at over $2000.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: May 28, 2011 04:32 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Bizarre, Collections, Idol, Mental Illness, Music, Otaku, Shopping, TV, Video Gallery


The crazed fan who spent over $100,000 on 5,500 AKB48 CDs seems to have been outdone – no sooner had he been exposed than an earlier report about a similar creature who spent 20 million yen ($250,000) on AKB48, though he only bought CDs in lots of 1,000.
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A crazed otaku fan of idol group AKB48 has been proudly showing off his ¥8,800,000 purchase of 5,500 of the group’s latest single.
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The female inhabitants of 2ch have been laying their creepy rooms bare for all to see, demonstrating in no uncertain terms that the chances of them entertaining anyone of the opposite sex are just as remote as with their male counterparts.
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The denizens of 2ch’s VIP board have been engaged in one of their periodic ota-room show-and-tell events, demonstrating the obligatory vast collections of anime goods, along with some rather tasteful layouts and, for some reason, quite a few nicely stocked aquariums.
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One fan of Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko was so taken with Shaft’s choice of heroine seating that he not only identified the designer chair in question, he went so far as to buy it and install it in his room for the full experience.
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A schoolgirl’s room which also doubles as a shrine to the pantheon of To Aru bishoujo has been attracting some appreciative attention on 2ch.
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Otaku pondering the dangerous levels of cuteness emanating from anime-styled dolls of late have assembled a selection of the most appealing, perhaps appealing enough even to turn a normal person into a creepy doll fancier.
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