

PSP dating game “Marriage Royale” has been attracting some not entirely approving attention after it became apparent the 12 characters present in the game are all seem to be identical colour and hair variations of the same face:
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Galleries, H, Japan
- Date: Jan 18, 2010 19:21 JST
- Tags: Aoi Nishimata, Cars, Events, Gravure, Idol, Image Gallery, Itasha, Tokyo

Both sexy car companions and moesome itasha were on display at the recent Tokyo Auto Salon 2010, with the girls in particular putting most idols to shame with their beauty.
The girls and even the occasional car can be scrutinised below:
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Prominent illustrator Aoi Nishimata is well known for a wide variety of high profile character design, including a wide array of ridiculous moe products, but amongst such artists she has an uncommonly large number of detractors, for reasons which are plain from looking at the comparisons reproduced here.
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Top Clannad artist Aoi Nishimata has been known for some time as an illustrator of bags of rice, but this is but the tip of the iceberg, as the below illustrations show, adorning as they do everything from batteries to watermelons:
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Manga, News
- Date: Sep 2, 2009 09:52 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Aoi Nishimata, Artists, Comparison, Illustration, Image Gallery, Photoshop, Tony Taka

Illustrator Urasora has been the subject of an investigation by 2ch, which found him guilty of egregious tracing. Rather than face 2ch’s wrath, he opted to retire from the business…
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The small town of Ugomachi, whose fortunes skyrocketed last year following the introduction of ita-rice packages featuring moe artwork by Navel eroge illustrator Aoi Nishimata, will be following up its huge success by employing the same otaku-oriented marketing approach to another staple crop – watermelons.
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Artist Aoi Nishimata, renowned as the artist behind Shuffle and a variety of adult games and visual novels, has been at the centre of a storm of controversy as it became known that she was selected as a “representative” artist for Japan, to contribute an illustration to a Lucas endorsed commemorative art book. Non-fans fulminate that the opportunity should have gone to someone else…
For her part, she describes how excited she was to have no less than George Lucas himself look over her contribution, and apparently like it.
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Several months ago we reported on the introduction of what could be called “ita-rice” – bags of rice decorated with a moe illustration by well-known female eroge artist 西又葵 / Aoi Nishimata (Shuffle!, Final Approach, etc.)
This unique approach to selling rice has since turned into a huge marketing coup for the small town of Ugomachi (Akita Prefecture), with reportedly 2 entire years’ worth of sales of rice being sold in only 1 month.
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In what may be a first, a regional variety of rice, Akitakomachi, as well as local strawberries, have had their packaging illustrated by talented female eroge artist, 西又葵 / Aoi Nishimata (Final Approach, Shuffle!, etc.), with the above tasteful illustration now gracing the rice packaging.
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