
The revelation that Saki mangaka Ritsu Kobayashi lives a “total hikikomori” lifestyle and has never even met most of the assistants, editors and animators responsible for realising the mahjong nopan empire Saki has become has come as a surprise to many.
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Even normally tolerant SAO fans have been stuck picking apart the innumerable plot holes and anime battle clichés the 23rd episode’s thrilling climax finds itself riven with – the conclusion being that “it is best not to think to hard about what you’re watching with SAO,” not the first time such complaints have been made…
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For Sword Art Online fans it seems things keep getting better and better – after a full episode of tentacle service, the next episode comes back packed full of further “godly” action – and even some plot.
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The recent “LV0” PS3 key leak rapidly led to the PS3 being cracked and a literal “free-for-all” return of full scale piracy to the platform – a situation Sony has chosen to tackle by threatening evil custom firmware users with a ban if they do not delete the wicked software from their consoles.
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Sword Art Online fans have been complaining (or in less charitable instances celebrating) over the complete absence of poor Asuna from the show’s latest outing, in favour of the busty charms of Leafa (or Lyfa), the minuscule charms of Yui, and the cheating antics of Kirito.
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Founder and former CEO of Square Hisashi Suzuki has damned the company’s merger with Enix as a “total failure,” declaring Square Enix has “no vision for the future” and pointing to its huge losses and a market cap which is now well below the company’s pre-merger valuation as evidence of the disaster.
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The spectacular end times Final Fantasy XIV’s few remaining players have been treated to as the game comes to an end in preparation for the launch of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn have been attracting almost as much attention as its spectacular launch failure.
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Concern is growing about a new class of “herbivorous” men whose disinterest in sex has reached new lows, with these ageing virgins being dubbed “fasting herbivores.”
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Sword Art Online may have ended to much controversy, but the Asuna-inhabited fairy world of Alfheim Online which supplants it has proved an immediate hit, with all manner of cute fairy action laid on in abundance, even as with Kirito wastes no time in returning to his cheating ways…
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Internet denizens in China and beyond have been marvelling at some of the more extreme scenes of chaos and confusion which abound at the nation’s profusion of Internet cafes, already notorious for everything from sexy girls to scenes of non-virtual death and destruction.
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Japan’s police chief has finally apologised for ruining the lives of 4 virus victims suspected of plotting mass murder, all falsely arrested on the belief that an IP address constituted irrefutable proof of guilt, and in several cases apparently coerced into admitting their guilt.
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Sword Art Online may have ended, but the anime has not – facing instead a temporary relocation to the real world – and more fickle fans have already begun dumping comatose Asuna in droves, in favour of the busty little imouto Kirito has taken to sleeping with…
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