


Cephalopod invader fans are rejoicing at the return of Ika Musume in her second season, now cuter than ever before – and by all accounts, even more entertaining.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Sep 1, 2011 02:33 JST
- Tags: Beach, Crime, Fashion, Kobe, Law, Police, Summer, Tattoos, Yakuza

Kobe’s efforts to make its beaches more family friendly by banning people with tattoos from being on them appears to have backfired spectacularly – far from increasing visitor numbers with a flood of reassured families as was planned, young people have all but disappeared from the beach and visitor numbers are at their lowest ever.
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A young woman who accidentally killed herself and her husband by digging a 2.5m deep pitfall trap in the sand is currently the subject of tragic ridicule throughout Japan.
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A Channel‘s Tooru joins Wave’s Beach Queens line in a frilly bikini, wielding a formidable baseball bat, and set to be released in February 2012.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Japan, News
- Date: Aug 10, 2011 22:38 JST
- Tags: Beach, Bizarre, Crime, Exhibitionism, Fashion, Mizugi, Summer, TV, Voyeurism

A beach-goer caught frolicking and doing handstands whilst wearing an ultra-skimpy micro-sling bikini has once again apparently attracted both police and TV attention.
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IdolMaster has finally aired the ever sought-after gratuitous bikini service episode, with the entire cast gamely showing off their bikinis (save Yayoi, who somehow manages sukumizu).
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- Author: Leon
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jul 26, 2011 08:57 JST
- Tags: Beach, Bikini, Image Gallery, Mizugi, Moe, Sukumizu, Yukata, Yuri, Yuru Yuri


Moe isn’t Yuru Yuri‘s only selling point – it now has a saucy beach episode, replete with the series staple yuri action and plenty of bikini and sukumizu action to boot.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Jul 25, 2011 09:49 JST
- Tags: Beach, Comparison, Final Fantasy, Image Gallery, Loli, Mizugi, MMORPG, Oppai, Summer


The battle of the MMORPGs nobody plays is heating up in more ways than one – Final Fantasy XIV has added some devastatingly sexy bikinis, whilst Tera Online’s grasp of the extremes of both ero and moe is approaching legendary status.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jul 24, 2011 15:54 JST
- Tags: Beach, Crime, Fashion, Kobe, Law, Police, Summer, Tattoos, Yakuza

Recent efforts to ban anyone with a tattoo from visiting public beaches have seen criticism that the policy is violating the human rights of people whose only crime is against fashion.
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China’s beautiful beaches have once again turned a vivid shade of green – not that this seems to have put off beach-goers.
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Chihaya has joined the ranks of Wave’s Beach Queens, donning a reasonably saucy bikini whilst showing off her fashionably anorexic frame; she is due to be released in November 2011.
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- Author: Leon
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jul 9, 2011 00:54 JST
- Tags: Baka to Test to Shokanju, Beach, Bikini, Image Gallery, Mizugi, Moe, Oppai, Pettanko, Trap



The second season of Baka to Test has skipped straight to the beach episode, something omitted in the first season, bringing new bikinis, more cuteness and even a topless Hideyoshi.
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