
Schoolgirl admirers have been less than delighted at the young lady recently proclaimed the “cutest high schooler in all Kanto” in a large-scale Shibuya beauty pageant.
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A female fashion expert has been sharing her sage insights into the “painful” fashion failings most likely to condemn any man to perpetual bachelorhood, and as is the way with such things, otaku fashion comes in for the obligatory drubbing.
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Japanese have been bemusedly confronted with the wonders of “anime eyes” makeup, supposedly “attracting much attention throughout America” and certainly attracting much attention in Japan (though perhaps not for the same reasons).
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Revealingly dressed passengers on the Shanghai subway controversially warned to cover up as they were asking for it seem to have responded by dressing all the more provocatively.
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Japanese Internet denizens have been left gob-smacked by some of the avant-garde hairstyles the nation’s more extreme fashionistas have been sporting of late.
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Japanese TV’s loving coverage of these charming 11-year-old fashionistas has been doing the rounds, with their precocious looks astonishing, and delighting, many – not least the TV station.
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Even purported heterosexuals are busily singing the praises of a crossdressing model who has not unjustifiably been dubbed “prettiest boy in the world.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Galleries, Japan
- Date: May 12, 2012 11:09 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Fashion, Gravure, Idol, Image Gallery, Mizugi, Oppai, Oshiri, Photoshop

AKB48 idol Mariko Shinoda latest gravure posing spree has been attracting not onanistic approval for its sexiness but instead ridicule for its unusually dreadful choice of fashion.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: May 3, 2012 06:13 JST
- Tags: Anime Goods, Fashion, Hatsune Miku, Image Gallery, K-ON!, Moe, Otaku, Touhou, Weather

Wet weather has prompted otaku to consider the merits of ita-umbrellas (“ita-kasa” or “ita-gasa”), which as their name suggests are umbrellas with anime designs, though as with other public displays of otaku identity there is some resistance.
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Harajuku’s latest and most extreme fashion tribes have been causing a stir online after recently being featured on Japanese TV.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Apr 24, 2012 03:29 JST
- Tags: Brazil, Comparison, Fashion, Greece, Korea, Plastic Surgery, Rankings, Statistics, USA

Statistics showing just which nations engage in the most cosmetic surgery demonstrate the rather impressive lead the likes of South Korea, Brazil and the US have over everyone else – something admittedly evident from looking at the less than natural wonders each of these nations is so blessed with.
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Not to be outdone by actual superpowers, Russia is fighting back with yet another mindbending fusion of what it can only be hoped is mostly Photoshop and makeup, all for the dubious cause of looking more plastic than plastic.
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