
An exploding fireworks truck has caused an entire stretch of Chinese highway to collapse, with two of China’s most notorious and frequent accidents combining with spectacularly tragic severity.
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Fans of oral insertion heroine Karen Araragi have been blessed with this new figure of her standing astride a steamroller, a pose taken from her cover art and due to arrive June 2013 thanks to Good Smile Company. Those looking for an actual oral insertion figure will unfortunately have to wait a bit longer…
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The sexiness of the girls at the recent Tokyo Auto Salon 2013 has been causing a stir, with everything from a strip show to the obligatory itasha on display for car fanciers to gawk at and everyone else to photograph wildly.
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Toyota has announced they will actually launch their previously shown “Char Aznable” Gundam-themed Auris as a commercial vehicle in Japan, with general sales to commence in 2013.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Dec 17, 2012 08:40 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Buses, Cars, China, Crime, Exhibitionism, Fujian, Toilets, Trains

A man brazenly urinating from the window of a bus into passing traffic is the latest example of China’s public toileting habits to outrage the nation.
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The operators of a highway tunnel which collapsed catastrophically causing the deaths of 9 people have caused outrage with their excuse that the reason safety inspections were not carried out there was “because the inspectors couldn’t reach that high.”
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Fans of cars, cosplay and sexy ladies have been admiring the latest appearance of a quintet of Neon Genesis Evangelion race queens, easily eclipsing the cars they are supposed to complement, and – in the opinion of some admirers at least – almost eclipsing the charms of their 2D models as well.
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The Chinese government’s vindictive decision to turn a couple’s home into a roundabout after they refused to sell up to make way for a new road has been making headlines in China and beyond.
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The majority of Japanese women think men who take their dates to the venue using a train rather than a car “deserve to be single for life,” “have no right to love” and are “abusing women,” according to a recent article – which has predictably proven highly incendiary amongst Japan’s increasingly carless men.
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Magical puella fans have been marvelling at the rather striking design of two new Puella Magi Madoka Magica ita-scooters, in particular the one bearing the likeness of lovable akuma QB…
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The propensity of Chinese bridges to spontaneously collapse when subjected to weather, usage, construction, or what some wags have classified as “magnitude 0” earthquakes, is currently creating much controversy in China – and with even official statistics claiming a Chinese bridge falls down on average at least every 2 months, it is not hard to see why.
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The pathos of one of the victims of the latest typhoon to molest Japan has struck both itasha and Clannad fans alike.
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