
Momo‘s dream has finally come true (at least in figure form), with the lusty princess of To Love-Ru Darkness wearing erotic bridal lingerie for her induction into harems this November, courtesy of Max Factory.
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The latest findings about the romantic interests of the Japanese to be inspiring interest are the not entirely surprising statistics that 60% of Japanese men are interested in females of any age, as long as it is as young as possible.
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Findings that 30% of Japanese men surveyed report never having dated anyone in their entire lives have been causing consternation (and some relief) online.
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In response to foreigners questioning their considerable backwardness, the Japanese have been pondering why it is so many of their women still aspire to and succeed in becoming housewives when the rest of the world is now enlightened enough to make both man and wife slave away at a workplace equally.
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One of China’s burgeoning legion of otaku has been attracting a great deal of attention for holding a cosplay wedding in which he married not only holographic princess Hatsune Miku but Arthurian damsel Saber as well.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jan 22, 2013 19:00 JST
- Tags: Adultery, Bizarre, Crime, Law, Marriage, North Carolina, Rape, Shotacon, Teachers, USA

In a brilliant legal shenanigan, a teacher who faced rape charges for having sex with one of her pupils has escaped a possible 15 year prison sentence by divorcing her husband and marrying her victim.
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Japanese are yet again aghast at the results of surveys demonstrating marriage in Japan is rather less monogamous than might be suspected.
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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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It would appear the only thing capable of knocking Taiga and Ryuji off the top of an anime couple ranking is cunningly restricting it to husband and wife couples only – although Kirito and Asuna’s booming popularity might yet give them a fighting chance even without this distinction.
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The majority of Japanese women think men who take their dates to the venue using a train rather than a car “deserve to be single for life,” “have no right to love” and are “abusing women,” according to a recent article – which has predictably proven highly incendiary amongst Japan’s increasingly carless men.
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Appealing anime maidens who it would be wise to avoid at all costs were they real girls, whether thanks to their endearingly horrendous personality defects or other dubious qualities, have been subject to rankification – with the prospect of a Bobbitt moment trumping even the monomania of Haruhi…
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Concern is growing about a new class of “herbivorous” men whose disinterest in sex has reached new lows, with these ageing virgins being dubbed “fasting herbivores.”
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