

Not content with canned, cartoned, iced and hot, Japan’s latest coffee innovation looks to be moe – top Japanese brand Yukiin is celebrating its 50th anniversary with, of all things, a series of Pixiv-designed “Yukico-tan” moe cartons, and some of the entries are certainly looking more tasteful than the liquid they purport to represent…
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As if enough doubts had not already been raised in response to the profusion of moe mascots for Windows 8, now Microsoft is attending Comiket 83, begging attendees to drop by their booth with the enticing prospect of “being able to photograph a beautiful cosplayer,” along with the rather less enticing prospect of being able to paw a Windows 8 touch PC loaded with a moe theme.
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The many fans of much criticised yet strangely popular sexy/sexist RPG series Hyper Dimension Neptunia are rejoicing at the news that the title is to receive an anime adaptation.
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The latest entry in the notoriously “sexist” yet strangely successful Hyper Dimension Neptunia series, Hyper Dimension Neptunia V, looks to be more packed with more “disturbingly sexualised young girls” than ever – and it even has a new character with such improbably huge breasts that even macho western reviewers may be able to tolerate her.
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No less than the Embassy of Finland in Tokyo has interviewed the creator of Strike Witches about the inception of adorable Finnish witch Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen.
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Manga fans are now hailing “Crimsons,” a stirring shonen manga tale about the adventures of a young salmon, as possibly the most bizarre manga title ever to find itself published.
Naturally, there is a scene in which a female salmon is molested by a gang of shrimp…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Manga, News
- Date: Dec 7, 2011 08:01 JST
- Tags: 2D vs 3D, Anthropomorphisation, Comparison, Illustration, Islam, New York, Russia, USA

Russian observers have noticed an apparent similarity between the spectacle of the Twin Towers collapsing and the spectacle of a man having sex with a woman from behind, prompting even Japanese to concede that they may be “even more perverted than us.”
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2ch’s latest efforts to make the unmoe moe has seen them manage to moefy the entire national borders of the UK, on the basis that she “looks like a girl worried about the size of her breasts.”
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Concerned about the massive image problems it suffers from being a noisy cesspit of far-right racists, 2ch’s VIP board has decided to design a loveable moe mascot for the Internet right – and so Netuyo-chan was born…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, H, News
- Date: May 4, 2011 19:55 JST
- Tags: 2D vs 3D, Animals, Anthropomorphisation, Guro, Ika Musume, Moe, Oppai, Photoshop

Even the most ardent fans of cephalopod invader Ika Musume are having trouble accepting the spectacle of her transposed from 2D into 3D…
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A contract with loveable akuma QB is looking all the more appealing thanks to the anthropomorphising efforts of innumerable artists inexplicably drawn to the prospect of a bishoujo (or as it may be, shota or bishonen) QB.
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Japanese gratitude towards the US military’s earthquake relief efforts, dubbed “Operation Tomodachi,” has resulted in the flattering image above, prompting a delighted reaction from Americans and a somewhat more mixed response from Japanese…
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