
The often terrifying commitment of otaku has been demonstrated yet again with the conclusion of a recent Yahoo auction, with a 35mm 4-frame film strip – a complimentary gift given to viewers of the “Love Live! The School Idol Movie” that debuted on July 18th – fetching an impressive 913,000 yen (some $7500).
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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 RX-93 Gundam model which fetched ¥926,001 over 311 bids at auction has amazed gunpla otaku and commoners alike – most of whom seem to think it might be worth the price.
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The bizarre otaku-driven economics of Japan’s best-selling “music” group AKB48 are again turning heads, with a vast torrent of unwanted CDs flooding the second-hand market at landfill prices even as the voting tickets they accompanied command top-dollar.
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Top AKB48 idol Mariko Shinoda has expressed her dismay at one of her sweet cookies being sold for some $12,000 to one of her creepy fans.
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The behaviour of ardent ***48 fans is again causing waves of revulsion online – this time provoked by a SKE48 fan who spent $12,000 on handshaking event tickets in order to secure several hours of “quality” time with his favourite maiden, and another maniac auction in which a single cookie made by AKB48’s Mariko Shinoda reached a similar sum at auction.
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A Japanese man has bid $780,000 for the virginity of a Brazilian woman in an auction, stoking the usual disgust at the creepiness of virginity-obsessed Japanese men.
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A tiny strip of film from the new OP to the Puella Magi Madoka Magica movie edition has fetched ¥1,081,001 at auction – for reasons which are not hard to fathom, as it shows the already much cherished Madoka-Homura OP nuzzle.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime Figures, H, News
- Date: Sep 29, 2012 03:47 JST
- Tags: Auctions, Mods, Onanism, Oppai, Otaku, PVC, Shopping, Tomodachi ga Sukunai

Sexy figure fanciers have been astounded at the price a modified figure of Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukuanai’s busty heroine Sena Kashiwazaki has fetched at auction – ¥553,000 ($7,000) – to say nothing of what she is doing for all to see…
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6 mothers have been arrested for hawking lewd pictures of their daughters – one as young as 7 months – to creepy lolicon online, all of them claiming they just needed the money – although their unwillingness to work or even pursue similar avenues themselves seems to have ensured them very little sympathy indeed.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: May 27, 2012 07:43 JST
- Tags: Auctions, Azusa, Conbini, Guitars, K-ON!, Moe, Music, Otaku, Seiyuu, Shopping

Even if the manga and anime are done with for now, the notorious mania of K-ON! fans for high priced guitars has reached the usual frenzied levels, with an Azunyan guitar bearing the signatures of all 5 seiyuu reaching ¥5,081,000 in mere days.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Mar 17, 2012 13:01 JST
- Tags: Aki Toyosaki, Auctions, Comparison, Fashion, Idol, K-ON!, Money, Otaku, Seiyuu, Yui

Aki Toyosaki is once again offering loaded otaku the chance to pay to grab one of her cute bags, with the proceeds to go to charity – but thanks to her new-found scandal seiyuu status, cruel speculation rages amongst seiyuu otaku as to how much less than the $20,000 she received last time will be offered this time, and how badly she will be humiliated as a result.
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