


Papurika.moe’s soon-to-arrive “Love Language Japanese Year 1 Gentlemen Edition” has cleverly melded language learning with a visual novel, allowing even avid gamers the opportunity to learn something new while doing what they love – and bound to silence those who believe games can’t be educational.
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Serious Games Interactive has earned the scorn of soldiers of internet righteousness due to a mini-game present in their point and click adventure game “Playing History 2: The Slave Trade“, a title intended to inform younger individuals about slavery – decried as “offensive” for its not historically inaccurate take on slave ship cargo stacking.
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An educational event being held in Saitama featuring a giant inflatable bottom for the kiddies to poke away at has lately been doing the rounds online.
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Shingeki no Kyojin has found itself co-opted into Tokyo’s anti-drug propaganda in the hopes of wiping out the dangerous evils of drug use.
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Tokyo’s Tokai University recently held a class on the mahou shoujo phenomenon that is Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica in hopes of actively discussing its psychological depth, though its many participants may well have attended simply to gain the benefit of a course which includes the instructions “watch all episodes again.”
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Educational company Benesse has released an animated CM promoting their line of courses, featuring the vocal talents of top seiyuu Hanazawa Kana – and naturally receiving near limitless acclaim, if perhaps solely due to Kana’s staggering popularity.
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The 3rd humorous PV for upcoming informative medical series Anime de Wakaru Shinryonaika (“Psychosomatic Medicine Understood Through Anime”) has surfaced, giving some insight into what viewers can expect of the comedy series which seeks to deliver both humor and information about various mental disorders.
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A man and his girlfriend have been arrested for inviting several schoolboys they met on the street to watch them have sex in public, with the young woman saying “I gave them some sexual education” and going so far as to let them touch and feel her.
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South Korean Christian groups have reportedly succeeded in forcing school textbooks to drop inconvenient evidence of evolution from their pages, lest they poison the minds of Korean children with the satanic notions of science and rationality.
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The sight of students in a Chinese school hooked up to intravenous drips in order to better study on through the night has lately been drawing much attention to the remarkable quality of Chinese education.
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The appearance of Saber in a French Japanese conversation phrase book and Haruhi and her minions in a Japanese social education tome have been causing some astonishment online.
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A teacher who included such searching questions as “what is the name of my cat?” and “what is your name?” in a midterm science test has been told to stop it.
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