- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, H, News
- Date: May 27, 2012 01:56 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Dakimakura, Exhibitionism, Fetish, Food, Lynette, Otaku, Strike Witches, VIP Quality

Japan’s creepy otaku have earned even more notoriety with the invention of “dakimakura nyotaimori,” with the inventor demonstrating the practice by eating sushi off his Lynette Bishop dakimakura cover for the full “Nyotaimori Witches” experience.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: May 21, 2012 18:04 JST
- Tags: Architecture, Bizarre, Buildings, Food, Fukuoka, Image Gallery, Shinto, Starbucks, Tourism


The “harmonious” design of a Starbucks outlet located at one of Japan’s top Shinto sites has outraged the architectural sensibilities of many Japanese, although pleasurable feelings of violation at the hands of corporate America are sadly complicated by the fact it was designed by Japanese architects…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: May 16, 2012 21:53 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Courts, Crime, Food, Litigation, Nara, Osaka, Teachers, Theft

Even those familiar with the near legal invulnerability of Japanese teachers have been astonished by a court verdict which saw a teacher who stole ¥766 of food from a supermarket being awarded ¥18,000,000 after her employers had the temerity to attempt to punish her.
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K-ON! may just have been dumped, but this has not diminished the enthusiasm of Lawson for its regular K-ON! tie-ups, the latest of which has proved more extensive than ever.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Apr 19, 2012 19:30 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Censorship, Food, Idol, Marketing, Politics, TV, Video Gallery, Yuri

AKB48′s notorious mouth-to-mouth feeding CM campaign has come under fire for everything from promoting the evils of female homosexuality to putting innocent children at risk of infection with horrible diseases.
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Tony-designed fantasy anime Shining Hearts has surprised many by being not an RPG-derived heroic battle anime but instead a love comedy bakery anime (although this might be expected from its “The Bread of Happiness” subtitle) – and by many accounts the best one this season, not that competition for this position is all that intense…
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Japanese are outraged that mere foreigners would dare to criticise their culture of eating live animals after seeing a video of a vivisected squid struggling for life on a plate, even if many of them appear to be of the opinion that it is the very acme of bad taste.
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AKB48 fans are divided as to whether the group’s latest marketing stunt, a commercial showing the girls feeding one another mouth to mouth, constitutes hot lesbian action or yet more of the group’s notoriously controversial and slightly creepy efforts to exploit their equally notorious fans.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Galleries, H, News
- Date: Mar 1, 2012 12:48 JST
- Tags: Cosplay, Fetish, Food, Image Gallery, Inumimi, Lenfried, Maids, Oshiri, Paipan, Pantsu

Ero-cosplay legend Lenfried has discovered a very novel way indeed of pouring what it must be hoped against all the evidence is tea for her master – although it is not hard to imagine many of her fans will not be bothered either way.
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Such is the fame of anything associated with K-ON! that even a minor imouto like Ui Hirasawa can expect to have her birthday diligently celebrated by lonely otaku year after year – until the advent of the next ‘blob at any rate.
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Even the Chinese are aghast at their latest innovation – walnuts with tooth cracking cement fillings have apparently been recovered, the effort and cost of obtaining real nuts seemingly being greater than the trouble of making convincing fakes.
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Even the creepy otaku of 2ch have been speaking admiringly of the love their overseas counterparts have been lavishing on their fictional Valentines, particularly those of a mahou shoujo persuasion.
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