- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, H, News
- Date: Feb 6, 2012 23:51 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Events, Exhibitionism, Mass Media, Oshiri, Pantsu, Taipei, Taiwan, Ushijima


Ero-cosplay queen Ushijima Iiniku has been thrown out of a Taiwan’s “Fancy Frontier” event for serving as a booth girl whilst clad only in her pantsu after local media made a fuss and showed mosaiced pictures of her notoriously shapely rear on TV.
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CNN has been reporting controversial complaints about Hollywood’s unwavering propensity to plunder Asian anime and cinema and recast all the characters as whites, quoting complaints that this amounts to “stealing the jobs of Asian actors and insulting their origins.”
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A British newspaper article blaming 2D for turning Japanese men into effete pillow-frotteurs has lately been provoking controversy online.
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Japanese TV has been investigating what has been hailed as the (second) creepiest train ever – the “maid train,” offering the complete maid service experience and the overpowering combination of maid fanciers and train spotters all in one carriage.
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Fuji TV has been subjected to yet another wave of rabid right-wing criticism after it dared to air a show containing a parody of Bhutan’s royal family.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Dec 23, 2011 07:09 JST
- Tags: Ika Musume, K-ON!, Marketing, Mass Media, Nichijou, Otaku, Rankings, Tiger & Bunny, TV

Anime fans have been lamenting the wastefulness of anime which the mainstream might accept being broadcast at 3AM instead of at “golden time” in the early evening – and with their number one choice, they may have a point…
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1 in every 200 Japanese women have appeared in an adult video, claim pornographers with an intimate knowledge of the industry’s vital statistics.
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Aya Hirano’s lingering career now sees her appearing on game shows billed as “acting intelligentsia” and “super-popular seiyuu,” neither of which escapes the wrath of her legion of detractors – although everyone agrees she looks cute as a button in her glasses and school uniform…
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Aya Hirano has made the cover of the Japanese edition of top music rag Rolling Stone, rock and roll diva that she is.
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Idol otaku are mourning the horrible fate which awaits them after Japanese TV’s latest expose of an elderly idol otaku.
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Over three quarters of Japanese women surveyed admit to faking orgasms – although fortunately a helpful gynecologist has gleefully betrayed her sex to tell men how to spot this.
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A Fuji TV claim that 79% of women cannot abide the prospect of girlie posters in a man’s room has otaku up in arms – not least when they realise female objections extend even as far as desktop wallpaper…
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