
The tale we heard of ardent Haruhi fans booking into Saitama business hotels to catch the very earliest airing of the new season appears to have been true.
For one very special fan, this entailed booking into the hotel, constructing a mobile Haruhi shrine around the TV, and then proceeding to upload pictures of his viewing, along with celebratory comments like “It’s here!” and “Gratz!”, to 2ch’s Haruhi board in realtime.
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In a few hours, it will be known whether the latest episode of the Haruhi rerun will be a new episode or not. But it seems the prospect of waiting days for the episode to air in their own region, or having to wait hours to see it by other means, is just too much for Haruhi otaku.
We hear this from a 2ch denizen:
“I work in a Saitama business hotel. Since yesterday we have been having all kinds of calls asking whether the hotel has reception of Saitama TV [which carries one of the earliest airings of the episode]… I laughed.”
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A man has been arrested for plotting to bomb the house of the characters of Lucky Star, formerly the home of the manga’s creator Kagami Yoshimizu, but was apprehended by police before causing any harm.
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A woman who had the gumption to tell another passenger on her train that his mobile phone gaming was a nuisance was viciously beaten for her trouble, leaving her with a broken jaw, we hear.
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A man who robbed a convenience store with a knife is being praised for his integrity after he gave back ¥5,000, having asked for ¥10,000 and received instead ¥15,000.
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An 83-year-old man has been arrested after he offered a group of schoolboys classes in the finer points of onanism. He had also apparently been offering impromptu instruction, by way of exposing himself to the school’s younger students, on a charitable basis for a number of years…
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An unemployed man desperate for schoolgirl sex has been arrested after he pulled a fast one on a schoolgirl, passing her an envelope full of flyers instead of the $750 agreed.
Claiming “I was tricked!”, the young strumpet reported him to police for non-payment after having sex with him unawares of the deficient payment, and police threw the book at the cheeky man.
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Washinomiya, the real life location of Lucky Star‘s Kagami and Tsukasa‘s family shrine, received a flock of otaku pilgrims celebrating the Japanese New Years tradition of hatsumoude – visiting a shrine/temple on Jan. 1.
Good Smile Company, maker of Nendoroids and Figma, took the opportunity to join in by releasing limited edition Miko cosplay Nendoroids of the 4 main girls at the gathering, the latest of many such events to happen at the small town since Lucky Star turned it into a moe version of Mecca for otaku.
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Washinomiya, a site held sacred for being the real-life location of the Lucky Star‘s Hiiragi twins family temple, has seen the official opening of a Lucky Star themed cosplay cafe.
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A group of four train molesters who gathered en masse to overwhelm their hapless female victim were found to have been organising their actions on an underground forum, where they coordinated their assault and discussed tactics. It transpired that they did not in fact even know one another.
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A man who instigated a media frenzy after he stabbed and killed an elderly former vice-minister for welfare, and his wife for good measure, and then hunted yet another ex-minister, stabbing his wife, has finally been arrested.
He explains his motive for the spree as being infuriated over the killing of his dog at a government facility.
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Police have arrested two men for sharing sexually explicit videos featuring underage participants over the eMule P2P network, the first such arrests for using an international P2P network in Japan.
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