
Shingeki no Kyojin‘s colossal popularity has now even spawned Kyojin Visa cards for crazed otaku to clamor over, with much of the show’s cast gracing the cards and giving fans the perfect means of purchasing yet more Shingeki no Kyojin goods.
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A seemingly harmless amateur sex video filmed within the confines of a dressing room of sacred Japanese retailer Uniqlo has spawned quite a bit of attention online – for more than just its pornographic value, as Chinese authorities have arrested five people for this atrocious act of indecency, and Uniqlo is being accused of staging the video in an entirely unnecessary attempt to boost its notoriety.
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The often terrifying commitment of otaku has been demonstrated yet again with the conclusion of a recent Yahoo auction, with a 35mm 4-frame film strip – a complimentary gift given to viewers of the “Love Live! The School Idol Movie” that debuted on July 18th – fetching an impressive 913,000 yen (some $7500).
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The energetic idols of Love Live! can now grace the surface of otaku credit cards, sure to be the subject of much scorn from retail outlets the world over – though perfect for any obsessed Love Live! collector.
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AKB48 “super carnivore” Rino Sashihara’s fans are as ardent as ever, with a strawberry farmer’s confession that he has to employ an assistant to separate all his thousands of votes from their accompanying CDs still managing to provoke awe online.
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The latest general election drama to grip the nation sees an outraged AKB48 begging for a refund of the ¥950,000 he used to buy 1000 vote tickets which had already been used – having appropriately enough been described in the auction as “second-hand.”
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Even as the aftermath of the saw attack on AKB48 continues, the Japanese media are still finding creepy otaku in the midst of preparations for the general election – the latest boasting that his election spend will come to 20,000,000 yen and showing off his house-filling and landfill-bound CD collection.
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Americans confronted with an unfamiliar IdolMaster credit card apparently found it so cute they could not believe it genuine and instead arrested the owner for fraud, causing some consternation amongst Japanese Aimasu fans.
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An RX-93 Gundam model which fetched ¥926,001 over 311 bids at auction has amazed gunpla otaku and commoners alike – most of whom seem to think it might be worth the price.
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The bizarre otaku-driven economics of Japan’s best-selling “music” group AKB48 are again turning heads, with a vast torrent of unwanted CDs flooding the second-hand market at landfill prices even as the voting tickets they accompanied command top-dollar.
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AKB48’s latest “general election” sees sex scandal idol Rino Sashihara leading the pack even as the group’s creepy otaku fans have succeeded in driving their sales to record levels.
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Japan’s latest teaching scandal, involving a youthful teacher who worked part-time at a “health” establishment in order to pay off her vast card debts, is currently exercising the imagination of many.
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