
The details of SP2 for 3D Custom Girl have been released. The previous patch certainly added some useful functionality, but this goes even further. Rather than being a mere bug fixing patch, functionality sure to revolutionise the creative potential of this title is added. Now you can realise cake of any dimensions, to say nothing of being able to create custom girls as slender or as voluptuous as you care to. Copious screens follow.
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Strike Witches pantsu again. If you were thinking it was only the international editions of anime which get butchered by censors, think again. Lately, the various networks in Japan have been particularly keen to assert their sensibilities on the anime they carry, with the result that the more risqué anime can expect to have several different versions.
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Queen’s Blade & Queen’s Gate and the general phenomenon of “game” books seem to be picking up steam lately, but one area in which they have been strong for a while now is in excellent figure adaptations; here is one of the latest, catching my eye admittedly due to flatness, but also due to some rather strikingly executed design. Behold, the One who Opens the Gate: Alice.
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A 12-year-old girl camping in the Hokkaido countryside got a rude awakening when a bear attacked her tent, though she soon beat it off and put it to flight with a good kick.
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Lolicon are said to be rejoicing over the fact that in one school, parents were so outraged at the immodesty of traditional Japanese school swimwear, that they banded together to force the school to abolish school swimwear entirely, instead opting to allow the children free choice, with the predictable result of the children opting for a variety of the most colourful, fashionable and/or stylish swimwear available.
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Six types of fundoshi modelled by delicious cake. Top right looks most interesting but least practical; middle and bottom right look to have the best balance of aesthetics and functionality. Unfortunately (?), traditional Japanese practice generally has ladies not wearing any underwear, with fundoshi especially being the province only of sweaty men.
I am still hoping to put together a fundoshi gallery, but it is rather difficult and will take some time… Open invitation is open.

With the recent announcement of a new 苺ましまろ / Ichigo Marshmallow OVA (or Strawberry Marshmallow), now is perhaps as timely a moment as ever to post some fine images of Miu and her playthings. Most of these look to be adaptations of Barasui originals, and most appealing they are too.
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Tired of resting your wrist between some curvaceous parody of a lady’s bosom? Noting that lovers of delicious cake are neglected by the prepondence of such well endowed mouse pads, packaged with the just released 電撃G’s Festival! DELUXE Vol.3 電撃リトルバスターズ!エクスタシー / Dengeki G’s Festival! Deluxe 3 Dengeki Little Busters! Ecstacy (catchy title there) is just such a pad; sure to appeal to both fans of underendowed young ladies and Little Busters (if indeed there is any difference between these groups). “Faithfully reproduced”.
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Announced at Rondo Robe 2008 are new Ichigo Marshmallow and Ef: A Tale of Memories titles; the all important Ichigo Marshmallow title is set to be an OVA series of indeterminate length (excruciatingly short would be my guess), with no release details as yet, and Ef will be getting a new season, due to start in the autumn (actually leaked yesterday).
I’m afraid this information is so fresh there isn’t even any groundless 2ch speculation with which to pad things out, so I’ll leave it at that. From the site of some no-name magazine, via Moonphase.