- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Mar 26, 2011 10:10 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Censorship, Courts, Crime, Fine Art, Law, Loli, Lolicon, Otaku, Sweden

Sweden’s dubious status as an enlightened nation is being further cast into doubt by the publication of some of the images it has been attempting to lock people up for possessing.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Nov 6, 2010 07:23 JST
- Tags: China, Fine Art, History, Loli, Mahjong, Military, Politics, Russia, Taiwan, USA

Recent events have prompted Chinese to re-examine the artwork shown above – not for its rather tasteful depiction of naked young girls, but instead for its hidden allegorical subtext, showing as it does with some clarity the power struggle over the future of Taiwan and the wider East Asian region.
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Photographs of naked girls as young as 6 are being sold in Akihabara, with signs in a shop challenging none other than Japan’s top moral crusader Agnes Chan: “Bring It On, Agn*s!” – the situation, and the photographs, can be inspected below.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime Figures, News
- Date: Aug 31, 2010 01:14 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Censorship, Fine Art, France, Onanism, Oppai, Politics, Statues, Tourism

An exhibition of anime art to be held at the Palace of Versailles has been condemned as being a blasphemous insult to the cultural glory of France.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, H, News
- Date: Aug 26, 2010 04:51 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Fashion, Fine Art, Gravure, Idol, Loli, Lolicon, Parody, Sukumizu, USA

None other than Britney Spears has been “reinvented” by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, which sees her “combining high fashion and Japanese manga” – in fact she is wearing sukumizu and a randosel, both major fetish items for Japanese lolicon.
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- Author: linkinstreet
- Categories: Anime Figures, News
- Date: Jul 17, 2010 17:24 JST
- Tags: Beijing, Bizarre, Cars, China, Fine Art, Made in China, Mecha, Statues, Transformers

What do you do when you want to copy another country’s efforts to recreate a giant robot that has been part of its identity for years as life-size statue-cum-tourist trap, but find you have none of your own?
In China’s case, simply copy some other country’s robotic icon, in this case resulting in an impressive life-size rendition of Optimus Prime.
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Kazumasa Uchio, or “ucchiey,” who modestly describes himself as “an old guy who loves dragons,” is an artist few would wish to remain ignorant of.
As with many such artists, his works exhibit something of a fascination with particular themes, in his case overwhelming that of dragons set amidst fantastic landscapes…
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Ne-on is a highly talented artist, generally painting Touhou characters in a gentle watercolor style.
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Vania 600, an unknown artist of great skill, is introduced below – his fine works cover a variety of subjects but trains and girls in uniforms seem foremost among them.
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Love Plus has joined the ranks of such wholesome titles as Strike Witches, for at the recent Media Art Festival, run by the Japanese cabinet’s Agency for Cultural Affairs, the schoolgirl sim was given an official endorsement.
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The winner of a newly instituted prize for disabled artists was stripped of her title after it became apparent she had plagiarised a Studio Ghibli character; the judges, including an art professor and two gallery bosses, apparently suspected but awarded the prize anyway, whilst the organisers pointed out that they had not actually explicitly prohibited plagiarism.
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