
Desperate for every last item of Idolmaster merchandise, one otaku bought no less than 39 copies of the new PSP Idolmaster title(s), Idolmaster SP, with most of his haul being in the form of telephone cards limited to specific outlets.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, H, News
- Date: Feb 21, 2009 14:09 JST
- Tags: Anime Goods, Collections, Dakimakura, Guro, Otaku, Ronery, Sky Girls, Switzerland

Dakimakura expert Melonpan provides a practical guide to the proper use of a dakimakura, utilising his extensive harem of Sky Girls amongst others.
Those with lesser power levels will want to pay close attention…
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Bandai Famicon game キン肉マン マッスルタッグマッチ / Kinnikuman Muscle Tag Match, or Tag Team Match M.U.S.C.L.E. as it is known outside Japan, has fetched an impressive ¥921,000 at auction. There are said to be only eight copies extant in Japan…
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This is the room of Swiss uber-otaku Melonpan, of dakimakura waifu Nia fame. His dakimakura harem is rivaled only by his enormous collection of figures and manga, enough to put the most ronery of 2ch otaku to shame… Behold, “mai room”:
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A Mandarake store in Tokyo is selling what is billed as a “Famicom (NES) Complete Cartridge Set” for ¥650,000 ($7,200). The set contains 1,051 different cartridges and is reported as having every Famicom ROM cartridge commercially sold.
It is a pity they are Famicom games and not compatible with the Super Famicom that recently went on sale for $5,500, as that combination would have been enough to cement a gaming otaku’s credentials for life…
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Amazon.co.jp is listing Nintedo’s classic Super Famicom (SNES), now nearly 20 years old, for the extravagant price of ¥500,000. The item in question is described as “new”…
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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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This maniacal otaku bought no less than five of the newly released 1/7 scale 八神はやて / Yagami Hayate figures, each in the region of ¥10,000, marking him out as an otaku’s otaku indeed. Stacked, the boxes reach a height of some 2m. Is he perhaps trying to communicate something?
Observers are speculating as to just what he needs five of them for; one to admire, one to save, one to show off, and… ?
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Quite the harem. I couldn’t help but notice that the more human looking wives have cushions and mattresses, whilst the horrific ones have to make do with bare bars.
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Couldn’t resist posting this rather impressively comprehensive compilation image of more than a hundred dakimura… myriad pillows to relieve your roneriness. This version is high resolution (4mb), and a little censored, unfortunately. There are also some sheets, towels, etc, in there. Bottom right appears to be the ladies corner. Grabbed from here.