
The many fans of Darker Than Black’s second season have been disturbed to note a production error of epic magnitude, with the anime mysteriously featuring a flying car thanks to the evident thoroughness of its quality control procedures.
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Sony’s latest update to the PSP, the UMD-less PSP Go, has done even worse in Japan than it did overseas, shifting a risible 28,275 units on its release day.
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The Wii’s curious lack of quality software is being highlighted by the release of the worst selling Wii title ever, Sukeban Shachou Rena Wii (“Woman CEO Rena”), a game centred on the managerial leadership of a talking female cat, Rena.
In the week since its release it has sold a total of 100 copies.
The game can be seen in action below:
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Oct 26, 2009 16:51 JST
- Tags: Events, Fail, Marketing, Microsoft, Sentai, Technology, TV, Video Gallery, Windows

Microsoft Japan’s CEO Yasuyuki Higuchi has been humiliated live on stage as Microsoft’s glitzy Akihabara Windows 7 launch event was turned to farce by a failure of the operating system’s glitch prone touchpanel support…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Oct 24, 2009 07:07 JST
- Tags: Fail, Food, Marketing, Microsoft, OS-tan, Technology, TV, Video Gallery, Windows

The glittering Japanese release of Windows 7 has been set awry by the pathetic failure of the operating system’s touchscreen capability on prime morning television:
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Top fashion house Ralph Lauren has apologised for using a grotesquely Photoshopped image of a model, in which the woman’s head is made wider than her waist.
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The first episode of generic school anime 生徒会の一存 / Seitokai no Ichizon has delighted panchira fans with a variety of relatively subtle flashes of pantsu…
However, the quality doesn’t end there:
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Haruhi has been subjected to a number of dire manga cash-ins; the Makoto Mizuno version illustrated above was thankfully canned, but the Tsugano Gaku version visible below is inexplicably still underway…
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A teacher who thought he had what it takes to become one of Japan’s legion of perverted maniacs masquerading as educators was undone by a sharp-eyed schoolgirl in only ten minutes after she spotted his hidden camera, and soon found himself an ex-teacher.
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These three young lions have been named after the iconic cast of Neon Genesis Evangelion (Shinji, Asuka and Rei), but in a stroke of misfortune it seems the naming is rather wide of the mark:
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Quality control in anime and manga is not always what it should be, and in fact in some cases appears to be entirely absent; this gallery highlights some of the more egregious examples of this kind of production quality:
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When it was broadcast, fans were incredulous at the level of quality on display in the seventh episode of Tetsuwan Birdy Decode 2, and many started to speculate that is was an artistically stylised special sequence, rather than the work of starving South Korean animators overseen by Japanese incompetents.
The newly released DVD edition puts any notion that this was anything less than a legendary debacle to rest, as the comparison below plainly illustrates what transpired throughout the entire episode:
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