- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Oct 27, 2009 21:12 JST
- Tags: Crime, Dating, Fraud, Marriage, Murder, Otaku, Plamo, Ronery, Saitama, Suicide

Police have arrested a woman suspected of tricking an otaku into giving her some $50,000 to cover the couple’s imminent marriage, after which the man promptly committed suicide.
Further investigations revealed three other men connected with the woman had died under mysterious circumstances, in a case police are treating as murder.
Update: Now it appears no less than 6 men connected with the woman died or committed suicide, and we learn that the woman, a convicted fraudster, led a lavish lifestyle from which she swelled to just shy of 100kg…
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Yoshito Usui, author of the famous manga Crayon Shin-chan, has been found dead on mount Arafune, apparently after a hiking trip gone wrong.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, H, News
- Date: Aug 2, 2009 08:15 JST
- Tags: Crime, DVD Extras, Oppai, OVA, Saitama, Shonen, Theft, To Love-Ru


The latest OVA and uncensored manga edition of top oppai anime To Love-Ru is apparently so packed with nipples that one schoolboy couldn’t contain his lust, grabbing the DVD, detailed in pictures below, and attempting to make off with it before being chased down and arrested.
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A taxi driver has been arrested after luring a 13-year-old aspiring seiyuu to a hotel room with promises of filming, only to spike her drink with sedative and have his way with her.
Not satisfied with brutally outraging her, he then stole the contents of the girl’s purse, netting $13…
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The tale we heard of ardent Haruhi fans booking into Saitama business hotels to catch the very earliest airing of the new season appears to have been true.
For one very special fan, this entailed booking into the hotel, constructing a mobile Haruhi shrine around the TV, and then proceeding to upload pictures of his viewing, along with celebratory comments like “It’s here!” and “Gratz!”, to 2ch’s Haruhi board in realtime.
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In a few hours, it will be known whether the latest episode of the Haruhi rerun will be a new episode or not. But it seems the prospect of waiting days for the episode to air in their own region, or having to wait hours to see it by other means, is just too much for Haruhi otaku.
We hear this from a 2ch denizen:
“I work in a Saitama business hotel. Since yesterday we have been having all kinds of calls asking whether the hotel has reception of Saitama TV [which carries one of the earliest airings of the episode]… I laughed.”
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A man has been arrested for plotting to bomb the house of the characters of Lucky Star, formerly the home of the manga’s creator Kagami Yoshimizu, but was apprehended by police before causing any harm.
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A woman who had the gumption to tell another passenger on her train that his mobile phone gaming was a nuisance was viciously beaten for her trouble, leaving her with a broken jaw, we hear.
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A man who robbed a convenience store with a knife is being praised for his integrity after he gave back ¥5,000, having asked for ¥10,000 and received instead ¥15,000.
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An 83-year-old man has been arrested after he offered a group of schoolboys classes in the finer points of onanism. He had also apparently been offering impromptu instruction, by way of exposing himself to the school’s younger students, on a charitable basis for a number of years…
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An unemployed man desperate for schoolgirl sex has been arrested after he pulled a fast one on a schoolgirl, passing her an envelope full of flyers instead of the $750 agreed.
Claiming “I was tricked!”, the young strumpet reported him to police for non-payment after having sex with him unawares of the deficient payment, and police threw the book at the cheeky man.
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Washinomiya, the real life location of Lucky Star‘s Kagami and Tsukasa‘s family shrine, received a flock of otaku pilgrims celebrating the Japanese New Years tradition of hatsumoude – visiting a shrine/temple on Jan. 1.
Good Smile Company, maker of Nendoroids and Figma, took the opportunity to join in by releasing limited edition Miko cosplay Nendoroids of the 4 main girls at the gathering, the latest of many such events to happen at the small town since Lucky Star turned it into a moe version of Mecca for otaku.
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