

Lolicon taxi riders and Ichigo Marshmallow fans are sure to be delighted (or at least mildly bemused) by the announcement that ita-taxi (“Moetaku”) bearing the likenesses of Miu and company are finally gracing the streets of Hamamatsu.
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MADs, nude filters and now a gununu quartet; K-On is rapidly shaping up to be an Internet sensation.
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The latest in the anime adaptation of lolicon mangaka Barasui’s loli moe epic Ichigo Marshmallow (or Ichigo Marshmaro) is finally here; Ichigo Marshmallow Encore 1 is the first of the new (second) OVA series, and it offers mild panchira service (take a look below), a new visual style courtesy of a new production staff, and nopan Matsuri.
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I had the good fortune to have a friend show me this video. It is the opening for the upcoming Ichigo Mashimaro Encore OVA.
Like past series it looks innocent enough, save for the last few seconds which display the character Matsuri without panties:
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A gununu illustration featuring the cast of occasionally maligned anime Hyakko. If you’re familiar with Hyakko, you’ll probably soon realise more effort than usual has gone in to preserving the unique traits of each character than we often see with gununu images, whilst still preserving the essential moe elements of the gununu meme…
If you don’t have a clue about gununu, then to the gallery with you.

We have been furnished with a release date for the first volume of the upcoming new Ichigo Marshmallow 2nd OVA we heard of previously, “Ichigo Marshmallow encore”; it will go on sale on the 23rd of January, 2009.
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A comprehensive gallery of ぐぬぬ / Gununu images has fallen into my hands. For those who quite understandably don’t have a clue about this, it is an amusing visual meme which spread from 2ch, with the originating Ana Coppola (of Ichigo Marshmallow) screen above spawning many hundreds of variations with different characters illustrated in the same style and with the same compelling expression (of what exactly I couldn’t say).
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With the recent announcement of a new 苺ましまろ / Ichigo Marshmallow OVA (or Strawberry Marshmallow), now is perhaps as timely a moment as ever to post some fine images of Miu and her playthings. Most of these look to be adaptations of Barasui originals, and most appealing they are too.
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Announced at Rondo Robe 2008 are new Ichigo Marshmallow and Ef: A Tale of Memories titles; the all important Ichigo Marshmallow title is set to be an OVA series of indeterminate length (excruciatingly short would be my guess), with no release details as yet, and Ef will be getting a new season, due to start in the autumn (actually leaked yesterday).
I’m afraid this information is so fresh there isn’t even any groundless 2ch speculation with which to pad things out, so I’ll leave it at that. From the site of some no-name magazine, via Moonphase.