
Men who view pictures of scantily clad damsels experience similar brain activity to when they are using tools, research suggests.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Feb 13, 2009 02:45 JST
- Tags: Amazon, Censorship, Chikan, Eroge, Mass Media, Politics, Rape, UK, USA


Raep simulator vendor Amazon has been the target of the usual hysterical anti-game criticism after the mass media found out they were stocking Illusion’s chikan simulator “Rapelay”, which allows simulated sex attacks from the privacy of your PC.
The rag soon tried to stoke their “exclusive” by contacting a fiery moralist politician, who was delighted to hear that his earlier unsubstantiated claim that raep games existed was true after all:
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Hackers can turn our PCs into bombs, killing whomsoever they please at will, we are told. You can read the terrible details of their onslaught in the article above.
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Not satisfied with forcing a cancellation of the main TV broadcast of WWII parody anime Axis Powers Hetalia in Japan, or rather, perhaps emboldened by the ease with which the station was overcome, Koreans have redoubled their efforts and are taking action to see the rest of the online broadcasts, DVD sales, and presumably manga, cancelled.
A new petition (below) has already gathered 5,000 signatures, and extremists are advocating attacking Japanese websites connected with the anime to force a cessation of its distribution. The previous petition with more signatures led in part to the cancellation of the TV broadcast…
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A Chinese gaming rag, 掌机迷, one bearing a striking resemblance to Famitsu, has taken a distinctly Chinese approach to respecting copyright, by helpfully including the full ISO and similar data on its cover disc for the games it is reviewing.
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In an outrageous attack on freedom of speech, nationalistic Korean protests have forced the upcoming satirical WWII anime Hetalia Axis Powers off the air entirely; the issue was even taken up in the National Assembly, where the anime was denounced as being “equivalent to criminal conduct”, such was the hysteria against any possible affront to Korea’s dubious claims over Dokdo/Takeshima.
Craven broadcaster Kids Station apparently felt they had no option but to cave in to the Korean claims of “discrimination”, despite the anime apparently not even including the elements which upset the hypersensitive nationalists.
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A man, Takanori Hoshijima (34), who kidnapped and killed a lady, dismembering her corpse, has given his motive for the crime as “I wanted to make her my sex-slave”.
In his trial, the court heard that he was found to have been carrying a variety of his own anime-styled illustrations at the time of his arrest, featuring lurid scenes of violation and yuri sex.
Additionally, Hoshijima was found to have actually published his own doujinshi featuring such content…
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Interesting to see from this picture that the sumo wrestler pictured has something of a taste for erogaming, and that apparently he and the TV station are content to let details of such spread…
Did the TV station really broadcast this?

There will be a second season of the Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi, says major rag Mainichi. For details, see Newtype, they say.
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A TV programme purporting to bust lies has itself been busted for lying.
The show, ウソバスター / Uso Buster (Lie Buster), purported to concern itself such searching questions as “If you massage a Satsuma, will it sweeten?”, along with uncovering the wicked half-truths and outright fallacies spread on the Internet, which as any TV viewer will know is far less reliable than the unerring wisdom of the mass media.
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Idol and actress 釈由美子 / Yumiko Shaku is shown throughout her long career in the above comparison image, though we might be forgiven for thinking that two or perhaps three people feature.
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Another one of those inexplicable scenes of school nudity Japanese TV seems to throw at us with disarming regularity.
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