
K-ON! fans are rejoicing at finally getting an official opportunity to engage in some tongue action with the girls of the keionbu – albeit only by way of Japan Post’s official K-ON! stamp set.
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A Fuji TV claim that 79% of women cannot abide the prospect of girlie posters in a man’s room has otaku up in arms – not least when they realise female objections extend even as far as desktop wallpaper…
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Ika Musume can now add home invasion to her many crimes, having done a credible job of invading this happy otaku’s room, although she probably has some way to go to catch up with the likes of K-ON! and Miku…
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A list of 9 hobbies which will purportedly cause any right thinking male to spurn any woman so deviant as to pursue them is currently the subject of much attention online – boys love, online gaming, visual-kei and, of course, anime figures, all seem to be regarded as shortcuts to spinsterhood…
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Japan’s ever increasing population of doll fanciers are once again busy spreading their fancy by the simple expedient of posting photographs of them online and telling others they can have one for as little as $500.
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The denizens of 2ch’s VIP board have been sharing pictures of their lovely wives – which of course can only mean their ball-jointed little friends, as exquisite as they are expensive…
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Summer is here, and as ever the denizens of 2ch are preparing to spend it sat in front of their PCs and surrounded by their collections and, in some cases, rather stylish interiors, in the best tradition of otaku everywhere.
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Fans of top visual novel studio Key have been rejoicing at the long awaited release of Rewrite – so much so that in one case a fan was driven to buy 20 copies, coming in at over $2000.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: May 28, 2011 04:32 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Bizarre, Collections, Idol, Mental Illness, Music, Otaku, Shopping, TV, Video Gallery


The crazed fan who spent over $100,000 on 5,500 AKB48 CDs seems to have been outdone – no sooner had he been exposed than an earlier report about a similar creature who spent 20 million yen ($250,000) on AKB48, though he only bought CDs in lots of 1,000.
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A crazed otaku fan of idol group AKB48 has been proudly showing off his ¥8,800,000 purchase of 5,500 of the group’s latest single.
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The female inhabitants of 2ch have been laying their creepy rooms bare for all to see, demonstrating in no uncertain terms that the chances of them entertaining anyone of the opposite sex are just as remote as with their male counterparts.
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The denizens of 2ch’s VIP board have been engaged in one of their periodic ota-room show-and-tell events, demonstrating the obligatory vast collections of anime goods, along with some rather tasteful layouts and, for some reason, quite a few nicely stocked aquariums.
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