
Police have arrested a 15-year-old girl who beheaded a classmate and cut off her hand, apparently posting a series of grisly pictures on 2ch in between browsing other threads and trying to clean up all the blood.
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Seiyuu Saori Hayashi’s failed attempt to hang herself has shocked many – and even more so thanks to the suicide selfie and disturbing writings she left after the attempt, lamenting that “with my face like this after hanging myself, I can never go back to being a seiyuu.”
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An as yet unexplained Shinjuku mass fainting event which saw a large number of young women collapse and lose consciousness has bemused both authorities and the online masses.
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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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Even as the aftermath of the saw attack on AKB48 continues, the Japanese media are still finding creepy otaku in the midst of preparations for the general election – the latest boasting that his election spend will come to 20,000,000 yen and showing off his house-filling and landfill-bound CD collection.
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Police have confirmed that A-1 Pictures worked one of their animators to death, ruling that being made to work hundreds of hours of overtime a month drove him to suicide.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Dec 16, 2013 17:02 JST
- Tags: Comiket, Crime, Doujinshi, Events, Fujoshi, Mental Illness, Osaka, Otaku, Police

Police have finally managed to catch the deranged Kuroko fan whose many threats of mayhem and murder caused so much disruption to events and shops handling Kuroko no Basket related products, surprising many by not being a crazed fujoshi after all.
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Shoko-tan’s latest acts of Mamitasu-abuse have been attracting attention as some of her most extreme yet, prompting more than a little worry about bother her mental health and that of her poor little plaything.
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The latest school suicide scandal to rock Japan has taken on an outrageous new dimension as it is alleged a teacher told a suicidal schoolboy who went on to kill himself later in the day in response to bullying by his peers that he “didn’t have the guts to do it” and that he “should do it if he really could.”
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18 schoolgirls have been hospitalised after a “strong spiritual presence” drove the girls of their school into a frenzy.
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The latest triumph of AKBnomics arrives in the form of an AKB otaku who proudly shows off the stack of 4,000 votes (at a cost of some 6.4 million yen) he is casting on young Anna Iriyama.
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A teacher who punched a 13-year-old girl in his class so hard he broke her cheek has outraged teacher-watchers, with there being no sign he will even lose his job, let alone be arrested.
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