
Dengeki readers continue their dubious efforts at punditry by listing the most likely anime of the coming summer season, and what they fancy as the best of the passing spring.
Notably, the ranking reveals Angel Beats has unseated even K-ON!, possibly suggesting even the previously unassailable heights of moeblob anime may be under siege by anime daring to include actual plot.
Read the rest of this entry »

Major publisher Dengeki have apologised and withdrawn all copies of a light novel which 2ch discovered plagiarised “Baka to Test” in the most egregious manner imaginable, reproducing entire passages with minor changes in wording and even copying the author’s postscript address to readers.
Read the rest of this entry »
- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Mar 13, 2010 04:30 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Artists, Comparison, Copyright, Dengeki, Image Gallery, Photoshop, Pixiv, Plagiarism

Award-winning illustrator Shirokitsune has been found guilty of first degree Simmonsing by 2ch’s Plagiarism Police.
Read the rest of this entry »

Dengeki provides what its users consider the top animated movies of (fiscal) 2009, a list which may prove controversial amongst Haruhi fans…
Read the rest of this entry »

Dengeki provides some insight into the most anticipated anime of the current season, a list which already looks set to be turned on its head.
Read the rest of this entry »

Dengeki once again compiles a ranking of the best anime of the fall 2009 season, along with a comparison of how highly anticipated these titles were.
Read the rest of this entry »
- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, H, News
- Date: Nov 2, 2009 05:25 JST
- Tags: Dengeki, Eroge, Image Gallery, K-ON!, Little Busters, Moe, Rankings, Statistics

Readers of eroge rag Dengeki G’s Magazine have ranked their favourite characters, but it seems even hardened visual novel fans cannot resist the charms of K-ON!…
Read the rest of this entry »

Dengeki readers were surveyed as to which anime they thought the best of summer 2009, yielding results which in retrospect are not entirely surprising.
However, when their most anticipated summer anime are compared to the most well received after the fact, the results are quite interesting…
Read the rest of this entry »
- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Sep 6, 2009 02:28 JST
- Tags: Clannad, Dengeki, Famicom, Final Fantasy, Nintendo, PS2, Rankings, RPG, Wii

Japanese gamers were surveyed as to what games they felt would be the best to leave to posterity, and the results include the expected slew of Nintendo classics and blockbuster RPGs, but also includes surprising entries such as Okami and Clannad.
Read the rest of this entry »

The latest ranking for the most interesting anime of Spring 2009, brings with it some upsets, though obviously the number one title is a given…
Read the rest of this entry »

The June issue of popular moe magazine Dengeki Daioh marks the 15th anniversary of its publication.
By way of celebration, Dengeki will include a special “Heroine” gallery featuring a huge array of famous female characters that have previously graced the magazine’s pages, illustrated by a variety of top names.
Read the rest of this entry »

Tora no Ana, the well known purveyor of all things otaku, is advertising a revolutionary new method of using your dakimakura – instead of merely filling the cover with a pillow as is normally done, the new idea is “to join” with the moesome girl printed on the sheet by entering her innards for what is billed as “the ultimate dakimakura experience”.
Pictures of the intended use as demonstrated with the dakimakura included in this month’s Dengeki Moeoh are included below…
Read the rest of this entry »