
4chan’s anime and manga image board “/a/” has organized its top 10 anime of 2014 into a convenient list, with the top spot surprisingly being taken by one of the year’s less respected shows – and the list bearing some similarities with 2chan’s top picks.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jun 27, 2012 19:10 JST
- Tags: 4chan, Copyright, Crime, Hacking, Ibaraki, Internet, Law, Moe, Politics

The campaign of Anonymous to free Japan from the bondage of unduly harsh copyright law has got off to a less than auspicious start after the group bumblingly hacked the wrong site, thinking it was humiliating the central government by defacing their site only to find it had instead ruined the site of a river works office in Ibaraki.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jun 27, 2012 00:53 JST
- Tags: 4chan, Copyright, Crime, DPJ, Hacking, Internet, Law, LDP, Music, P2P, Politics

Hacker collective Anonymous has declared open season on the Japanese government for its passage of a draconian ban on illegal downloads and ripping, briefly taking down several government websites in a series of cyber-attacks.
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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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Katawa Shoujo, the “4chan developed” English language visual novel so long in production, has finally been released after a mere 5 years of development, much to the delight of cripple fanciers the world over.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Sep 15, 2010 13:27 JST
- Tags: 2ch, 4chan, California, Cosplay, Events, Loli, Lolicon, Pedobear, Police, USA

A Californian police department has published a warning to the public entitled “Public Safety Information Bulletin: A Seemingly Innocent Menace: An Introduction to PEDO BEAR.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Feb 9, 2010 05:21 JST
- Tags: 2ch, 4chan, Canada, Internet, Marketing, Mass Media, Pedobear, Poland, Sports

Lolicon mascot Pedobear (or Kuma in his original 2ch incarnation) has been dubbed the 2010 Vancouver Olympic mascot by one factually challenged newspaper.
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- Author: Quen
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jan 14, 2010 14:11 JST
- Tags: 2ch, 4chan, Aria, Comparison, K-ON!, Moe, Nagato, Sora no Woto, Strike Witches

The result of otaku mental calisthenics, this trio of images attempts to profile the moesome 1121st Platoon of Sora no Woto, already considered K-ON! descendants.
The logic involved might seem a bit sketchy at times, but as always, there is never a bad time to look at images of anime girls, so a closer look may be in order…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Jan 7, 2010 10:15 JST
- Tags: 4chan, Doujinshi, Eroge, Internet, Oppai, Russia, Video Gallery, Visual Novels

IIchan.ru, the Russian answer to Internet cesspit 4chan, has distracted itself from posting pictures of naked girls for long enough to create its own doujin eroge, simply entitled “IIchan Eroge.”
A demo has been released for those curious about its content; those not curious can simply view its pretty OP below:
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American ISP giant AT&T has incited a storm of criticism for blocking parts of Futaba Channel clone 4chan, with users launching a hateful campaign against the company’s “censorship”, even as it appears that the move was a technical measure taken in relation to sustained DDoS attacks against the site.
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Not satisfied with making their founder into the world’s most influential person, 4chan has flooded cat video sharing site YouTube with pornographic videos, declaring it “International Porn Day.”
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TIME Magazine has announced the most influential person in the world in 2009 to be 4chan founder Moot, or Christopher Poole as he is sometimes known.
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