
Angel Beats boasts record TV ratings in excess even of K-ON!, on some stations at least.
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The saucy spectacle of 1,940 bikini-clad girls forming the characters for “Guangzhou,” or “广州,” has set some record or other, ostensibly to promote the 2010 Asian Games.
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The Japanese manga industry has recorded the biggest slump in sales ever.
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The title of world’s most obsessive Pokémon collector ever has been seized by a British lady.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jan 15, 2010 19:40 JST
- Tags: Events, Idol, Mental Illness, Otaku, Records, Rie Kugimiya, Seiyuu, Taiwan, Tsundere

Otaku desperate to meet with tsundere seiyuu queen Rie Kugimiya in her first visit to Taiwan are said to have staked their places in the queue a staggering 25 days prior to her actual arrival.
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The Blu-ray edition of Bakemonogatari’s second volume has sold in excess of 39,000 copies, making it the best selling Blu-ray TV anime ever, and the second best selling Blu-ray anime of all time, easily beating K-ON! and only surpassed by Evangelion 1.11.
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A 9-year-old boy has been charged with the rape of a 6-year-old girl, becoming the youngest convicted rapist in Indian history.
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As expected, Comiket 76’s final Day 3 surpassed Day 1’s record-breaking number of attendees, bringing in over 200,000 pilgrims who braved the sweltering summer heat to come to the semiannual otaku Mecca for the event’s most ero-heavy day.
This means the reported figure for total C76 attendance over its three days is a whopping 560,000 (roughly 4.5% of the population of Tokyo, the world’s most populous metropolitan area), beating last year’s summer Comiket 74’s piddling 550,000.
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Comiket 76, this summer’s August event of the twice annual otaku mega-convention in Ariake has broken its already massive attendance records on its first day, with a reported figure of 180,000 attendees, on a blisteringly hot August 14, topping last year’s C74 by 10,000.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Aug 5, 2009 19:02 JST
- Tags: Blu-ray, K-ON!, Kadokawa, Kyoto Animation, Moe, Oricon, Rankings, Records, TV

The release of the K-ON! Blu-ray edition has seen a new opening day sales record set, with the Blu-ray edition selling 33,000 copies, with a further 8,000 sales of the DVD edition, a total which makes it the best selling TV anime of all time, and one of the best selling anime titles ever.
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In the first half of 2009 some 17,076 Japanese killed themselves, almost a 5% increase on the same period a year prior.
Should matters worsen any further, the all time record number of 34,427 deaths by suicide recorded in 2003 will be broken.
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The apparent possessor of the world’s strongest vagina recently broke her own vagina weight lifting record by hefting 14 kilograms using only the powerful grip of her intimate muscles.
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