
The 40 semi-finalists for the “Miss JK Kanto” competition have been unveiled, and as usual with a gyaru-centric event their distinctive fashion choices and charmingly makeup encrusted features have been attracting a great deal of attention, not all of which is admiring.
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The Comiket organisers have announced their response to terrorist threats against the event is to ban all works featuring the subject of the threat – Kuroko’s Basketball – and hold Comiket 83 as normal, if absent the hundreds of circles comprised of Kuroko fans, a decision they blame on the police and venue.
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Fans of cars, cosplay and sexy ladies have been admiring the latest appearance of a quintet of Neon Genesis Evangelion race queens, easily eclipsing the cars they are supposed to complement, and – in the opinion of some admirers at least – almost eclipsing the charms of their 2D models as well.
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- Author: Leon
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Nov 27, 2012 21:28 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Anniversaries, Cake, Events, Image Gallery, K-ON!, Moe, Otaku, Ronery, Yui



K-ON! may have ended, but Yui Hirasawa’s innumerable fans are still ardently celebrating her birthday with as much enthusiasm (some would say creepiness) as ever, and sharing their tributes online:
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Nov 26, 2012 21:58 JST
- Tags: Bullying, Comiket, DS, Events, Love Plus, Marriage, Otaku, Relationships, Twitter


An otaku wedding where the bride arranged for the surprise destruction of her new husband’s (ex) virtual girlfriend Nene by ceremonially smashing the memory card with a mallet has prompted a wave of disgusted criticism online, with even non-Love Plus fans decrying it as “bullying” and “tasteless.”
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AKB48 imouto group NMB48 has courted fan ire after it was discovered that a sign in the background of a backstage shot of the group revealed they were throwing all the gifts their adoring fans gave them straight into the trash as a matter of course.
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As if enough doubts had not already been raised in response to the profusion of moe mascots for Windows 8, now Microsoft is attending Comiket 83, begging attendees to drop by their booth with the enticing prospect of “being able to photograph a beautiful cosplayer,” along with the rather less enticing prospect of being able to paw a Windows 8 touch PC loaded with a moe theme.
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China’s notorious motor shows continue to court controversy with their “artistic” displays – with non-existent outfits, nude bodypaint and bestial displays now joined by the kind of bikini-clad “babes” more normally associated with Japan’s junior idols or America’s creepy beauty pageants.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime Figures, H, News
- Date: Nov 14, 2012 14:19 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Dolls, Dutch Wife, Events, Image Gallery, Onanism, Otaku, Ronery



Top love doll maker Orient Dolls recently celebrated its 35th anniversary with its 3rd “artificial maiden expo,” and the scenes on display there look to have had even hardened doll fanciers agog.
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Azusa Nakano‘s legion of fans has been celebrating her November 11th birthday with more enthusiasm than ever, crashing TBS’s site repeatedly in their frenzy to get at her birthday goods, and flooding the Internet with their many tributes.
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Visitors to a recent Guiyang motor show were treated to the charming sight of a companion clad in nothing but pasties, pantsu and a snake, despite supposed efforts to reign in events which increasingly seem to be more about the allure of scantily clad girls rather than that of shiny blocks of metal.
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China quality Pikachu, Naruto, and Avatar statues gracing a Wenzhou anime event have lately been attracting attention – though more for the potential trauma they will likely inflict on the event’s little visitors than their artistic quality…
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