


The smog cloud choking China is blotting out so much of the sun that plants will have difficulty growing and the country’s agriculture could be crippled, warn Chinese scientists – comparing the effects of the pollution to a “nuclear winter.”
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Pizza Hut has teamed up with the girls of generic idol anime Love Live! School Idol Project to wrap an entire store and its attendant fleet of mopeds in Love Live livery, its first ever such undertaking.
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Otaku girding themselves for another lonely Valentine’s look finally to have discovered how to get their 2D paramours to give them the chocos their hearts desire…
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The Chinese Weibo-sphere has been alight with news of a woman whose stomach exploded and caught fire after some intense China-quality partying.
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Ika Musume’s bellicose antics have inexplicably manifested themselves in her victorious invasion of an illustration contest for a popular Finnish cheese…
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Not content with canned, cartoned, iced and hot, Japan’s latest coffee innovation looks to be moe – top Japanese brand Yukiin is celebrating its 50th anniversary with, of all things, a series of Pixiv-designed “Yukico-tan” moe cartons, and some of the entries are certainly looking more tasteful than the liquid they purport to represent…
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A woman who discovered a rotting goldfish in the Pepsi bottle she had just started to drink has shaken the confidence of Chinese cola drinkers.
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In a departure from merely festooning his room with anime goods, one of Bakemonogatari’s more enterpising fans has won much praise by actually going so far as to recreate Araragi’s excessively stylish banana sofa.
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The maid cafe industry is apparently having a tough time of it, with Akiba cafe numbers halving in recent years, and some fearing the maid cafe bubble may have actually burst for good.
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Top pizzeria Domino’s has conceded that its new Hatsune Miku tie-up was successful beyond its wildest imaginings, with otaku driven into a pizza munching frenzy by all the Miku goodies they are providing.
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Shanghai has announced that thousands of diseased pig carcasses dumped in one of the city’s rivers will “have no impact” on water quality there – sadly an all too believable proclamation…
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Holographic princess Hatsune Miku has been blessing pizzeria chain Domino’s with her support, including appearing on the delivery mopeds for Tokyo orders and providing her likeness for a rather elaborate Miku smartphone app.
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