
This interesting video details one approach to making a desktop ita-PC, a PC whose moe qualities (or more likely, obsessively involved construction) induce pain in the viewer, as with an itasha. In this case, a rather tsundere Zero no Tsukaima design is opted for…
The total cost, including the case, came to about ¥13,000, and it took some 5 hours to make, with a week of preparations.
The video is basically visually self explanatory:
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Sony’s latest portable is the “Pocket Style” Vaio Type P, which you can see rather optimistically illustrated above almost fitting into a pocket, in what Sony probably hopes is the latest fashion trend.
Their slogan is “The PC you can’t keep your hands off”; wags immediately added “(because it’ll fall out)”.
The online reaction has not been kind:
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Fans of KyoAni’s Clannad have reason to look forward to March, when this ita-mouse aimed at the otaku market and decorated with a moe picture of the show’s popular Nagisa Furukawa will be released.
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Above we see Street Fighter staple thigh service character Chun Li; below we see the latest merchandising to carry her name. As a Chun Li 1GB unit of USB memory, we might expect it to include a sexy illustration of her in her trademark crane kicking position, or at least a chibi moe character version…
Instead, we get what you see below:
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These charming felines look as if they want to help in assembling the computers they infest, or else destroy them completely… PC assembly has never been so fraught.

The latest work of the many ardent Pantsu Witches fans, here we have an EeePC noteboook given some witchy flavour.
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I had another look around Yodobashi Camera’s flagship megastore in Akihabara recently. It certainly has a excellent selection, and the store itself is very nice, but pricewise it is beaten heartily by Amazon, and any serious seller with Kakaku.com or Rakuten (although these two really require a Japanese bank account to get the best deals).
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