
Military model makers are celebrating unprecedented increases in sales thanks to the massive success of DMM’s Kantai Collection franchise, with fans obediently buying up even the very un-moe warships the KanMusu are themselves modeled on.
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The glorious Mikasa Ackerman of top giant slaying anime Shingeki no Kyojin has been the subject of a new 17cm figure by Good Smile Company, immaculately reproducing her every part, with particular attention to her three-dimensional maneuver gear evident – Mikasa will come swinging into battle this October, should Eren not prove too much of a distraction.
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The JSDF’s Ibaraki command is the latest to embrace the power of moe as a recruiting aid, with mangaka and ero-doujinshika Pochi providing the art for their latest recruiting poster.
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Beautiful and flirtatious Saori of Girls Und Panzer has graced the battlefield with this moe 12.5cm figure by Max Factory (a scale which may unfortunately prove difficult to find appropriately sized panzer models for), manning her usual role of radio communications to aid her tank busting girl squad toward victory this coming July – should she not be distracted by idle banter.
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The first glimpse of Kantai Collection‘s much anticipated anime adaptation has sailed into view in the form of character designs for three ships – bearing a suspiciously if not promisingly close resemblance to the style which propelled another mecha-musume anime to victory.
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Devoted followers of the hastily growing moe battleship game Kantai Collection will likely be interested in this newly released 22cm Yukikaze figure by FunnyKnights, with Yukikaze shown in her signature seifuku and armed to the teeth with her trusty spotting binoculars in hand; the figure will be ready to scout ahead for opposing fleets this July.
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The Chinese government has revealed it will boost its military spending by 12.2% in 2014, the 4th year running spending has increased and well above the 7.5% GDP growth target for the year – calling the increase “moderate, and limited in scale” and saying it will help “make more contributions to world peace.”
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The ever increasing popularity of moe anthropomorphized battleship game Kantai Collection has roused further interest in otaku, leading them on a journey to the Maizuru Naval Arsenal Shipyard where Shimakaze‘s impressively equivalent WWII battleship was constructed.
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The JSDF have unveiled its annual calendar for 2014, bursting with a plethora of extraordinarily attractive military women in hopes of attracting new recruits – though it seems the women in question are of dubious background, being not actual service women but enlisted as idols, models and other roles typical of a calendar girl.
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The Chinese government has expressed its outrage at a Japanese town’s efforts to get its collection of kamikaze pilot memorabilia granted UNESCO recognition.
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Musically inclined mistress Miku has donned her stylish wardrobe of the well regarded Senbon-zakura work by Kurousa-P, exuding a rather militant and noble aura – the 20cm figure, crafted by FREEing, arrives in July.
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Efforts to award the Nobel Peace Prize to “all Japanese citizens” for their 70-year support of a constitution which technically forbids Japan from maintaining any army at all are already proving incendiary – and that is even without the involvement of any Chinese or Koreans.
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