
For some anime fans this Valentine’s, the odds of actually receiving any chocos look slim – but thankfully with a trip to a local confectioner and a spare monitor, even the loneliest of otaku can receive a chocolatey treat from the girl they voted for in this latest ranking.
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The yearly affirmation of top moeblob Mio Akiyama’s birthday is still going strong, with lonely otaku celebrating their devotion with as much cake and anime goods as their bulging wallets will support…
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Anime movie lovers have compiled a ranking of their most beloved anime films – with Gainax and KyoAni for once handily supplanting the inescapable Ghibli movies.
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- Author: Leon
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Dec 26, 2012 17:17 JST
- Tags: Blu-ray, DVD, Fate/Zero, Gundam, K-ON!, Movies, Oricon, Rankings, Statistics

The annual Oricon Blu-ray ranking for 2012 has revealed yet another year in which Japan’s Blu-ray sales have been completely dominated by anime – in this case with Gundam UC the best selling BD in Japan of the entire year, matched only by Fate/Zero (which sold fewer but made more money), with K-ON! coming a mere 4th in discs sold but still handily topping the movie BD charts.
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Lonely otaku looking to spend a romantic Christmas Eve receiving presents from their favourite Santa have carefully selected the anime maidens they would like to see crawling down their chimney…
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Tearjerker anime being such a popular genre, it is no surprise to find fans have sought to find just who met what is generally the most sad and tragic fate of all…
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Anime fans confronted with the ends to their favourite shows have prepared their latest wishlist of titles they are desperate to see continued – and fortunately if overly abbreviated adaptations (and in one case, ongoing terrorist threats) do not intervene, it looks as if they will get many of their wished for sequels in due course.
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Anime music lovers have sought to determine which shows have the best theme music, and the results certainly provide an anison tour de force – for once with musical merit rather than the show’s sheer popularity helping settle matters.
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The notoriously well-hidden build of moeblob seiyuu Ayana Taketatsu, or “Debunyan” as more unkind observers have taken to calling her, is once again the subject of speculation amongst seiyuu watchers, with a careless snap revealing “quite a paunch.”
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- Author: Leon
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Nov 27, 2012 21:28 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Anniversaries, Cake, Events, Image Gallery, K-ON!, Moe, Otaku, Ronery, Yui



K-ON! may have ended, but Yui Hirasawa’s innumerable fans are still ardently celebrating her birthday with as much enthusiasm (some would say creepiness) as ever, and sharing their tributes online:
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Appealing anime maidens who it would be wise to avoid at all costs were they real girls, whether thanks to their endearingly horrendous personality defects or other dubious qualities, have been subject to rankification – with the prospect of a Bobbitt moment trumping even the monomania of Haruhi…
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Azusa Nakano‘s legion of fans has been celebrating her November 11th birthday with more enthusiasm than ever, crashing TBS’s site repeatedly in their frenzy to get at her birthday goods, and flooding the Internet with their many tributes.
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