IdolMaster seiyuu Takahashi Chiaki (Azusa) and Imai Asami (Chihaya), are auctioning off autographed copies of the second IdolMaster game, IdolM@ster Live For You, for charity.
As of writing the price of the signed copies has exceeded the ¥110,000 mark, with less then a hundred bids and is continuing to climb, with 8 hours remaining. The game costs ¥7,000 new.
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A student flogging her virginity to the highest bidder claims hymen hunters the world over are showing an interest, with bidding reaching $3.7 million, and one optimistic suitor even promises her a live tiger.
The prostitute in question, Natalie Dylan (22), insists she is not in fact demeaning herself and sullying her good name like a common harlot, but is instead engaged in a cunning fund raising venture to see herself through college; she intends to put her tremendous moral rectitude to good use, as she is studying to become a marriage counsellor.
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A recently concluded auction sees a PC98 compilation disc including the five original Touhou games fetching an impressive ¥651,000. Needless to say, it is long out of print.
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An extremely rare game for the original Nintendo Famicom (the NES) has just fetched a bank-breaking ¥401,010 (some $4,250) at auction.
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It seems the crazed maniacs who obsess over Kannagi heroine Nagi-sama’s virginity truly are on the fringes, or at least are counterbalanced by an equally obsessive contingent of the opposite persuasion, for we hear that in recent auctions membership cards for the official Kannagi Fan Club have reached prices of ¥20-25,000 ($250), with nobody quite able to explain why.
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Few would deny an original work by Type Moon’s top illustrator 武内崇 / Takashi Takeuchi, of Fate/stay night and Tsukihime fame, to be one capable of commanding a high price, and worth it, but a recent auction in which a single page from a sketchbook, featuring but one rather rough pencil illustration, certainly turned heads when the auction concluded at an impressive ¥456,000.
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A top price of ¥35,000, and an average of ¥18,000, for a second-hand PS2 title released in 2003, which has been reprinted numerous times, with the latest reprint due next month, for half the price with a new game?
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A ticket for an Idol Master event, “The Idol M@ster 3rd Anniversary Live” has fetched an impressive ¥138,000, from a starting price of ¥6,500. It would appear to be a good front row seat, at least, though even average seats seem to be fetching ¥50,000. The event in question would appear to be essential attendance for Idol Master fans, since it will have the full cast in attendance, the perfect venue for some otagei perhaps?
But for that kind of money you could probably get a private audience with a seiyuu? For five minutes at least… Via Ore-teki, where we see it is not all price inflation for event tickets; Sakura Taisen tickets just fetched ¥1, for two.
Some enterprising and creative soul has gone to the trouble of etching a refrigerator and a Nintendo DS with characters from Rozen Maiden, and the items are currently up for auction, with a starting price of ¥30,000 for the fridge and ¥20,000 for the DS. For some reason buyers have been slow to pick up on this most creative offering. Images of the items are below.
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Artist Hisashi Tenmyouya’s “RX-78-2 Kabuki-mono 2005 Version”, went for HK$4.8 million (about $600,000) at a recent Hong Kong auction; certainly a gorgeous illustration by any estimation. Hisashi Tenmyouya covers both classical and more modern themes in his art, though always in a finely executed classical style.
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The last appropriately tasteless “gyaru” Bandai MG Gyan auction has been joined by a much improved tasteful version. This one apparently strives to incorporate the intense girliness of the original, with the addition of taste and style, it is said; certainly it seems to succeed in that respect, looking splendid indeed, if still on the gaudy side. The glowing lance is definitely a bit much.
The original may have exceeded expectations and went for ¥50,000, but one seems not to be fairing so well, despite its more tasteful finish, as it has no bids after 3 days, and only a day left – perhaps their stating bid of ¥40,000, aiming for ¥50,000, is going too far? Maybe no one wants a tastefully effete gundam, or perhaps their auction strategy is at fault – having the gall to start the bidding at $1 usually has good results. Pictures are below. Source here.
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“My Lonesome Cowboy”, a figure created by Japanese pop artist 村上隆 / Takashi Murakami, was auctioned off at $15 million in a New York auction, vastly exceeding the expected price of $3-4 million.
The 254cm high figure (including his ejaculation, otherwise roughly life size), which might thus also be called a statue, depicts a naked man engaged in an act of fantastic onanism, in the style of a shonen manga. It was created using steel, acrylic and fiberglass in 1998.
According to Sotheby’s, the highest price previously fetched by Murakami’s work was “Panda”, at a positively meager $3 million, so this represents something of a triumph for him. The identity of the buyer will likely remain a closely guarded secret for reasons we can only guess at.
More detail of this outstanding artwork is below, as well as another fine work along the same lines. See here for an interview with the great artist explaining the work. Here is an English language report on the auction.
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