
Low temperatures seem to have done nothing to cool off the hot cosplay on display at WonFes 2012 Winter, which rivals the event’s figures in quality (at times at least).
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Living up to its name, the 2012 Winter WonFes delivers many figure wonders to the attending hordes of otaku statue fanciers – not least a vast array of magical puellae and scores of fine figures from the latest series.
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Hatsune Miku’s crushing popularity has injured an old woman, when her Snow Miku statue collapsed on top of her for reasons unknown.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, H, News
- Date: Feb 6, 2012 23:51 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Events, Exhibitionism, Mass Media, Oshiri, Pantsu, Taipei, Taiwan, Ushijima


Ero-cosplay queen Ushijima Iiniku has been thrown out of a Taiwan’s “Fancy Frontier” event for serving as a booth girl whilst clad only in her pantsu after local media made a fuss and showed mosaiced pictures of her notoriously shapely rear on TV.
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Snow Miku, Vocaloid goddess of winter, has descended upon Hokkaido Family Mart stores to allow Miku fans the chance to more effectively impoverish themselves in a low temperature environment.
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The K-ON! Movie has been awarded an Academy Award – if only Japan’s knock-off domestic version, although this is still being hailed as quite the accomplishment.
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- Author: Leon
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jan 15, 2012 11:44 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Anniversaries, Events, Food, Image Gallery, K-ON!, Mio Akiyama, Moe, Otaku

Top moeblob Akiyama Mio‘s birthday is once again drawing hordes of creepy otaku celebrants, all keen to show off their ever more elaborate cakes and ever more extensive collections of Miorabilia…
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Hatsune Miku’s live performances may not long be limited to the stage – one particularly dedicated fan has succeeded in getting her to perform in his living room, and provided a video of the spectacle
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Anyone wondering why it is the hordes of creepy otaku photographers swarming about cosplayers every Comiket tend to have such large and expensive cameras need look no further than these images from the recent C81 – it would seem they are capable of photographing their hapless subjects in very great detail indeed…
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- Author: Leon
- Categories: Anime, Galleries, H
- Date: Jan 4, 2012 06:32 JST
- Tags: Comiket, Cosplay, Events, Image Gallery, Oppai, Oshiri, Otaku, Pantsu

So sexy was the horde of cosplayers on display at Comiket 81 that there are still innumerable photographs of their posing to be seen…
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Whatever they may lack in coding ability and innovation, thankfully eroge publishers can be counted on for fine artwork and fastidious (if not obsessive) observance of the New Year and 1st of April – as proven gamely by these brands:
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Jan 1, 2012 21:34 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Comiket, Cosplay, Doujinshi, Events, Otaku, Records, Statistics, Tokyo Big Sight

Comiket attendance numbers are apparently in long-term decline, prompting much speculation as to why – and some scepticism about the official position that lingering disruptions from the earthquake and the strong yen driving off barbarian attendees being the main cause of C81′s “low” numbers.
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