
Masakazu Katsura, the legendary H mangaka behind such titles as I”s and Video Girl Ai, has held a charity auction of one of his sexiest illustrations, which fetched an impressive ¥1,141,000 – a figure almost as impressive as the illustration itself.
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A ranking of the most beautifully illustrated and animated anime highlights some of the most sumptuous and aesthetically pleasing titles Japanese animation has to offer.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Apr 19, 2011 03:32 JST
- Tags: Aya Hirano, Comparison, Fine Art, Idol, Music, Nana Mizuki, Parody, Plagiarism, Seiyuu

Star twitterer Aya Hirano is being accused of ripping off fellow singer-seiyuu Nana Mizuki by stealing both her album title and cover art.
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Japanese cosplay fans have been striving to select the cosplay pictures they think should be regarded as the finest of art, and casting an eye over their selection seems to more than validate the notion that cosplay can be as artistic as illustration or photography…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Mar 26, 2011 10:10 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Censorship, Courts, Crime, Fine Art, Law, Loli, Lolicon, Otaku, Sweden

Sweden’s dubious status as an enlightened nation is being further cast into doubt by the publication of some of the images it has been attempting to lock people up for possessing.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Nov 6, 2010 07:23 JST
- Tags: China, Fine Art, History, Loli, Mahjong, Military, Politics, Russia, Taiwan, USA

Recent events have prompted Chinese to re-examine the artwork shown above – not for its rather tasteful depiction of naked young girls, but instead for its hidden allegorical subtext, showing as it does with some clarity the power struggle over the future of Taiwan and the wider East Asian region.
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Photographs of naked girls as young as 6 are being sold in Akihabara, with signs in a shop challenging none other than Japan’s top moral crusader Agnes Chan: “Bring It On, Agn*s!” – the situation, and the photographs, can be inspected below.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime Figures, News
- Date: Aug 31, 2010 01:14 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Censorship, Fine Art, France, Onanism, Oppai, Politics, Statues, Tourism

An exhibition of anime art to be held at the Palace of Versailles has been condemned as being a blasphemous insult to the cultural glory of France.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, H, News
- Date: Aug 26, 2010 04:51 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Fashion, Fine Art, Gravure, Idol, Loli, Lolicon, Parody, Sukumizu, USA

None other than Britney Spears has been “reinvented” by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, which sees her “combining high fashion and Japanese manga” – in fact she is wearing sukumizu and a randosel, both major fetish items for Japanese lolicon.
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- Author: linkinstreet
- Categories: Anime Figures, News
- Date: Jul 17, 2010 17:24 JST
- Tags: Beijing, Bizarre, Cars, China, Fine Art, Made in China, Mecha, Statues, Transformers

What do you do when you want to copy another country’s efforts to recreate a giant robot that has been part of its identity for years as life-size statue-cum-tourist trap, but find you have none of your own?
In China’s case, simply copy some other country’s robotic icon, in this case resulting in an impressive life-size rendition of Optimus Prime.
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Kazumasa Uchio, or “ucchiey,” who modestly describes himself as “an old guy who loves dragons,” is an artist few would wish to remain ignorant of.
As with many such artists, his works exhibit something of a fascination with particular themes, in his case overwhelming that of dragons set amidst fantastic landscapes…
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