


Naruto’s latest movie outing “Naruto: Road To Ninja” is the top grossing Naruto movie ever, taking in nearly $19 million and being seen by some 1.25 million dutiful Narutards – apparently in no small part due to the interesting direction certain beloved characters have been taken…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: May 25, 2012 02:19 JST
- Tags: 2ch, AKB48, Idol, Marketing, Mental Illness, Music, Otaku, Records, Shopping

An AKB48 fan boasting of buying 1500 singles has become the latest example of the unbelievable creepiness such fans have become a byword for.
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Hatsune Miku fans are rejoicing at the news that Miku has seized the top spot in the iTunes charts with her latest single.
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The K-ON! Movie has been awarded an Academy Award – if only Japan’s knock-off domestic version, although this is still being hailed as quite the accomplishment.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Jan 1, 2012 21:34 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Comiket, Cosplay, Doujinshi, Events, Otaku, Records, Statistics, Tokyo Big Sight

Comiket attendance numbers are apparently in long-term decline, prompting much speculation as to why – and some scepticism about the official position that lingering disruptions from the earthquake and the strong yen driving off barbarian attendees being the main cause of C81’s “low” numbers.
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Tales of Xillia has proven a major hit, shifting over half a million copies in its first week and already securing the title of fastest selling Tales title ever.
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The widely held belief that the Haruhi franchise is a spent force seems to have been shattered by the news that the latest novel in the series, “The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya” (Suzumiya Haruhi no Kyougaku), has sold a record 341,000 copies.
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A teacher boasting to local rags about his class nearing a “record” 3 years of perfect attendance, without so much as a single student taking a day off, is being accused of human rights abuses and endangering the health of his pupils for the sake of self-aggrandisement.
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Critically acclaimed PS3 strategy RPG Valkyria Chronicles has been proclaimed the “best PS3 strategy RPG” by the Guiness Book of Records.
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Surpassing initial expectations, Evangelion 2.22 has outsold even the mouldering corpse of Michael Jackson to become the best selling Blu-ray ever.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: May 27, 2010 02:56 JST
- Tags: Asuka Langley, Blu-ray, Evangelion, Mari, Marketing, Movies, Oricon, Records, Rei Ayanami

The DVD and Blu-ray release of Evangelion 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance has proven a record-breaking success, with a total of 320,000 copies being sold on the first day alone.
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A Vocaloid album, Vocalogenesis, has hit the number one spot in Japan’s national album charts.
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