
The trend for hit anime to receive movie adaptations rather than the more traditional OVAs continues – To Aru Majutsu no Index is now due a movie adaptation as well.
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Ore no Imouto fans have been delighted to learn goth loli princess Kuroneko has finally disposed of unworthy rival Kirino, and will be appearing in her own spin-off manga.
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Japanese gamers asked to rank their most anticipated games of 2011 yield up a list headed not by some blockbuster RPG as might be expected, but by none other than Ore no Imouto, backed up by plenty of other anime-based games.
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Dengeki readers provide a ranking of the top 10 game characters they feel would make good friend material.
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Dengeki readers supply a ranking of the top 10 anime characters they would like to befriend – the results are certainly vastly different to the typical bishoujo lineup.
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Shaa, an illustrator widely suspected of tracing the illustrations of other artists, has now been the subject of plagiarism himself in an unusual case of reverse (or possibly revenge) plagiarism.
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The US subsidiary of top Japanese bookstore Kinokuniya has stopped all sales of popular anime pin-up magazines, saying it thinks the innocent pictures of anime girls they are famous for may contain “illegal and inappropriate content” – or in other words, that it thinks they might be considered child porn in the US.
The store has cancelled the subscriptions of all customers subscribed to the magazines, which includes fan favourites Megami and Nyan-Type.
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Dengeki’s unrivalled reputation for employing and even awarding prizes to flagrant plagiarists continues to worsen, with yet another major incident – in this case actually involving a well known title, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu (pictured with a pool cue above).
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Japanese gamers share a ranking of the most enjoyable games of the first half of 2010, revealing the Japanese gaming market truly seems locked in desperate times.
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Dengeki readers continue their dubious efforts at punditry by listing the most likely anime of the coming summer season, and what they fancy as the best of the passing spring.
Notably, the ranking reveals Angel Beats has unseated even K-ON!, possibly suggesting even the previously unassailable heights of moeblob anime may be under siege by anime daring to include actual plot.
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Major publisher Dengeki have apologised and withdrawn all copies of a light novel which 2ch discovered plagiarised “Baka to Test” in the most egregious manner imaginable, reproducing entire passages with minor changes in wording and even copying the author’s postscript address to readers.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Mar 13, 2010 04:30 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Artists, Comparison, Copyright, Dengeki, Image Gallery, Photoshop, Pixiv, Plagiarism

Award-winning illustrator Shirokitsune has been found guilty of first degree Simmonsing by 2ch’s Plagiarism Police.
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