
News of a live action film for the excessively gory horror series “Corpse Party” has arrived, bound to be rife with plenty of mind-bending atrocities and disturbing visuals – though hopefully it will not be plagued by low-quality special effects or overrun by wonky CG as such adaptations are notorious for.
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2D idol fanciers have rated their favorite shows, with some older titles surprisingly besting such modern classics as Idolmaster and Love Live!
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The popular Nintendo fighters of the next highly anticipated entry into the Smash Brothers franchise have been met with new challengers of (for optimists at least) the most unexpected sort – with the likes of AKB48 ready to pit their legendary self-defense skills against Nintendo’s combatants in their latest inescapable TV ad.
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The exposure of yet another AKB48 member’s “horrible ugliness” when bereft of the beautifying powers of makeup is again causing waves amongst fans of mass manufactured idol groups – the sacrificial member this time being 22-year-old Team B member Shizuka Ohya.
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AKB48 national idol Yuria Kizaki’s appearance as a schoolgirl sex slave locked in a cage and clad only in her underwear on prime-time evening TV has been attracting much controversy, even amongst her fans it would seem.
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A fan-created robotic version of AKB48 idol Yuki Kashiwagi has lately been
the subject of much attention, being acclaimed as “too realistic” and “creepily close – though whether this is down to the uncanny valley or her inimitable AKB aura is not clear.
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Mere weeks after one of them tried to saw off their hands, AKB48 are again hard at work shaking the hands of their creepy fans – who are now under such heavy guard that the entire process has been compared unfavourably to a prison visit or the more unstable kind of border crossing…
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The results to the 37th AKB48 general election have been announced, seeing something of an upset as super carnivore Rino Sashihara’s reign was ended by Mayu Watanabe with 159,854 votes.
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AKB48 “super carnivore” Rino Sashihara’s fans are as ardent as ever, with a strawberry farmer’s confession that he has to employ an assistant to separate all his thousands of votes from their accompanying CDs still managing to provoke awe online.
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The first AKB48 performance since two of their girls were maimed in a saw attack has finished, but with steel fences between them and the girls, body searches, metal detectors, police guards and physical contact banned there have been complaints AKB48 otaku are now paying for the equivalent of a prison visit – perhaps appropriately enough, as soon after an AKB fan was arrested for a series of arson attacks in the middle of Akihabara.
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The latest general election drama to grip the nation sees an outraged AKB48 begging for a refund of the ¥950,000 he used to buy 1000 vote tickets which had already been used – having appropriately enough been described in the auction as “second-hand.”
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An enraged AKB48 fan is attempting to sue the maniac behind the saw rampage which has led to the next handshaking event being cancelled, demanding the cost of the 330 CDs he bought along with payment for the emotional distress of the cancellation.
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