


Kantai Collection’s flagship FamilyMart store has made quite a splash on launch – putting even most anime stores to shame with the intensity of its livery and the profusion of goods on display.
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Notoriously anime-friendly convenience store chain Lawson has launched what looks to be Japan’s first widely distributed line of anime-themed booze, boasting art by no less than Miku originator Kei.
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Hatsune Miku noodles and juice now grace the shelves of Japanese FamilyMarts, testifying both to the virtual diva’s increasing mainstream popularity and the propensity of her fans to buy anything featuring her divine image.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: May 27, 2012 07:43 JST
- Tags: Auctions, Azusa, Conbini, Guitars, K-ON!, Moe, Music, Otaku, Seiyuu, Shopping

Even if the manga and anime are done with for now, the notorious mania of K-ON! fans for high priced guitars has reached the usual frenzied levels, with an Azunyan guitar bearing the signatures of all 5 seiyuu reaching ¥5,081,000 in mere days.
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K-ON! may just have been dumped, but this has not diminished the enthusiasm of Lawson for its regular K-ON! tie-ups, the latest of which has proved more extensive than ever.
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In a highly unusual case of a defendant being found innocent in a Japanese court, a man charged with groping a girl has been cleared after a judge decided that he could not have dashed 6m and groped her all in the 1 second period he was out of view of a security camera – although the fact he was jailed for 6 months, as long as the sentence sought by prosecutors, rather renders the verdict moot.
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Pink princess Sakura Miku has been greeting the onset of spring by taking over yet more convenience stores, this time a series of Tokyo Family Marts, each with unique wrapping.
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The K-ON! x Lawson Fair is well underway (again), driving moeblob fans into an instinctive buying frenzy as they are presented with masses of exclusive merchandise of all kinds, with competition in some stores so fierce as to require the goodies to be rationed out or reserved.
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The manager of a convenience store has been charged with rape after a female shoplifter agreed to have sex with him in an effort to escape punishment.
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Tokyo manga fans are disgusted to witness their beloved manga already being dumped into the porno corner en masse in order to comply with Ishihara’s twisted manga ban.
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A boy who grew bored of stoning a homeless man instead opted to scald him with boiling water as he slept, saying it was “fun” watching his reaction.
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Convenience store chain Lawson is running a “K-ON!! Fair” featuring various K-ON! themed goods and free gifts.
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