

The 8th Nipponbashi Street Festa looks to have been the biggest ever, with 220,000 cramming the streets of Osaka amidst scenes of outstanding cosplay and creepiness.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Mar 19, 2012 13:15 JST
- Tags: Anime Goods, Bizarre, Events, Idol, Lolicon, Marketing, Otaku, TV, TV Tokyo


Much criticism has been directed at creepy otaku who swarmed an event for little children in order to get a chance to touch the show’s adolescent presenters, buying up all the goods on offer and leaving none for the little kiddies in the process.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Mar 14, 2012 15:20 JST
- Tags: Crime, Drama, Drugs, Gaikokujin, Rape, Talent, Theft, Tokyo, TV, USA, Yokohama

An American actor has been arrested for robbing and raping a Japanese woman, having broken into her house and drugged her with chloroform.
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- Author: Leon
- Categories: Galleries, H, Japan
- Date: Mar 9, 2012 13:15 JST
- Tags: Bathing, Fuji TV, Image Gallery, Onsen, Oppai, Oshiri, Pantsu, TV, Voyeurism



Motto Onsen ni Ikou, Fuji TV’s profoundly edifying guide to Japanese bathing culture, has been continuing to delight lovers of murky sulphurous pools and wet naked girls alike…
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Bleach is to finally end – although only the anime version, the manga original still apparently having a few decades left before finally drawing to an end.
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Persona 4 has been branded a “symbol of immorality” by Japan’s top TV watchdog, after daring to show a scene in which minors are present at an establishment “resembling a nightclub or love hotel.”
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The supposed popularity of K-ON! amongst actual schoolgirls is once again the subject of incredulity and wonderment amongst fans, with TV introducing a group of high school girls who joined their school keion-bu and started a band for good measure – all thanks to K-ON!.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Feb 11, 2012 11:53 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Fuji TV, Internet, Korea, Marketing, Mass Media, Politics, TV, USA, VIP Quality

2ch has taken the unusual step of fighting back against the wicked Korean fifth column it believes is behind most of the ills of Japanese society by producing some English language propaganda of its own, targeted at American anime fans.
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The fact that the little girl pictured above is actually a 22-year-old woman has been greeted with incredulity online, although it has also been hailed by creepy lolicon as a glorious example of “legal loli.”
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Japanese TV has been investigating what has been hailed as the (second) creepiest train ever – the “maid train,” offering the complete maid service experience and the overpowering combination of maid fanciers and train spotters all in one carriage.
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Top premium anime channel AT-X (depending on the viewer’s point of view, either the only anime broadcast venue powerful enough to stand up to Ishihara, or else expensive enough not to need to cut all the juicy bits out…) has provided its official ranking of the top anime of 2011, according to its elite viewership.
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Otaku hankering after even more of the same have been busily voting for the anime of 2011 which they are praying get another season – apparently without regards to any plot-related inconveniences, such as the entire cast being massacred or the story being tied up so tightly no sensible continuation is conceivable.
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