
Japanese asked what popular girly character goods they think it permissible for a male to possess reveal a surprising degree of tolerance – for non-otaku goods at least…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Nov 24, 2009 01:53 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Disney, DLC, Internet, Kingdom Hearts, PSP, RPG, Sony, Square Enix

Disney has apparently ruled out online distribution of its upcoming Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep on “copyright grounds,” a decision which certainly comes as a blow to Sony’s ill-received PSP Go…
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A Chinese film company has released its answer to Dreamworks’ animated feature, “Kung Fu Panda”. “Wong Fei Hong vs. Kung Fu Panda” is a Chinese-produced unofficial sequel (to put it politely).
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This image purportedly comes from a European event of some description, and as you can see it attempts to pick up the different portrayals of Lewis Caroll’s Alice in Wonderland, starting with a classic depiction and moving on the now iconic Disney portrayal, and then on to the Japanese depiction.
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This MAD combines a slew of NicoNico memes, popular videos and screencaps from famous anime with the seemingly unrelated Tokyo Disneyland version of the nightly Electrical Parade to create something that (as happens often with MADs) makes far more sense in its entirety than the sum of its parts would suggest.
Miku, Haruhi, Ronald McDonald and the well-known (to NicoNico users) gay porn actors inserted into many a video to irritate the watchers all make cameo appearances.
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Here we have ideal (at least for a lolicon otaku) and actuality converging once more, with this loli’s innocent riding antics given some imaginative reworking, such that we might wonder at whoever designed a Donald Duck riding machine with such obvious innuendo inherent?
A more innocent soul than any of us, or perhaps the opposite…
See proper riding machine videos in the relevant article.

Production IG and Fuji TV are said to be laying down the gauntlet to Hollywood, with their just announced CG film collaboration, provisionally titled ホッタラケの島 / Hottarake no Shima, set to be a family friendly fantasy tale of a girl mixed up with a mysterious world. Most original.
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As part of the upcoming Olympic marketing event, some original promotional efforts have been taken up by Beijing entrepreneurs. Any resemblance to any Disney characters, or for that matter Doraemon or the like, is purely incidental. Regarding the not-Mickey statues: “They have holes in the ears, so it’s not a copy” we are assured.
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