

A junior idol group with members as young as 6 has banned one of their fans “for touching and monopolising” one of the girls at an event.
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Service packed zombie-hunting game “Onechanbara Z2 Chaos” has attracted quite a bit of attention with its eccentric showmanship at TGS, beckoning onlookers to play the newest iteration of the game through the lure of one of its signature character’s enormous breasts.
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Tokyo Game Show 2014’s advent has naturally provided a closer look into the gaming industry’s highly anticipated titles, though some may argue that the real “best of show” were the rather supple and vivacious booth babes – who seemed to be more preoccupied with showcasing their bodies more than the products they meant to promote…
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Two idols, the fans they dated and even their parents are all being sued by the group’s management for over 8 million yen in damages for “contract violation” and “betraying their fans,” soon prompting accusations of “slavery” and “human rights violations” against the agency in turn.
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The popular Nintendo fighters of the next highly anticipated entry into the Smash Brothers franchise have been met with new challengers of (for optimists at least) the most unexpected sort – with the likes of AKB48 ready to pit their legendary self-defense skills against Nintendo’s combatants in their latest inescapable TV ad.
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News of a sequel being made for kiddy anime classic Digimon Adventure has been unveiled, prompting high acclaim from Digimon fans worldwide – and likely to reignite the mass marketing endeavor that will surely follow the revived children’s series.
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What looks to be the last SOS of Haruhi Suzumiya has arrived, in the form of a full-on pachinko adaptation sure to induce despair and much protest amongst fans who still awaited a new anime in vain hope…
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Mere weeks after one of them tried to saw off their hands, AKB48 are again hard at work shaking the hands of their creepy fans – who are now under such heavy guard that the entire process has been compared unfavourably to a prison visit or the more unstable kind of border crossing…
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Frozen snack Papico’s decision to outsource the design of their new “Papiko” mascot and her resultant packaging to the denizens of Pixiv seems to have paid off, with some very cool designs now in shops.
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Top singer seiyuu Nana Mizuki has expressed her “profound sadness” at news that one of her fans got himself arrested after illegally dumping the 208kg of potato chips he bought to get the chance to meet her on stage – not least because one of her own fans has just undone all the days she spent charitably picking up garbage herself.
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The results to the 37th AKB48 general election have been announced, seeing something of an upset as super carnivore Rino Sashihara’s reign was ended by Mayu Watanabe with 159,854 votes.
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AKB48 “super carnivore” Rino Sashihara’s fans are as ardent as ever, with a strawberry farmer’s confession that he has to employ an assistant to separate all his thousands of votes from their accompanying CDs still managing to provoke awe online.
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