
The OP and ED for Mio oppai anime K-ON! were recently released as singles, and to no one’s surprise both have proved hits, coming in at third and fourth in the national Oricon charts. Both also seized the top two positions on Amazon’s rankings.
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Otaku are displaying their usual suggestibility in response to schoolgirls with guitars anime K-On!, and have launched into a guitar buying frenzy.
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Sharp-eyed observers have spotted some very odd touches in Mio anime K-On! Most notably, the girls seem to be used to a life of true luxury, evident in all the episodes so far…
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Ronery fans of hugely popular Evangelion heroine Ayanami Rei appear to have been snaffling up an unusual life-size figure version of her, despite its ¥430,000 price tag, and the fact that it has to be made to order.
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A very appetising cut of finest Indonesian tuna, or maguro, going for the bargain price of ¥100.
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Desperate for every last item of Idolmaster merchandise, one otaku bought no less than 39 copies of the new PSP Idolmaster title(s), Idolmaster SP, with most of his haul being in the form of telephone cards limited to specific outlets.
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For exhibitionists, and their titillated observers, nothing is more arousing than the everyday given a shocking twist, so these photographs of shopping exposure surely represent one of the most fully realised and extreme elements of the fetish.
From flashing to full on nude romping, in every establishment from supermarkets and conbini to department stores and fast food outlets, all kinds of mania are in evidence…
This being Japan, we are also presented with a selection of ladies posing at vending machines (which actually double as remarkably effective street lighting at night).
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Up until now we’ve seen only a small trace of 3D female fundoshi, but that may well change with the availability of these undergarments for a mere ¥1,680.
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A comparison of the scenes from the Japanese release of the two consoles. Probably few then would have predicted just how one-sided this would eventually turn out…
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This unfortunate lady seems to be unawares of the state of her skirt, but perhaps of more concern is the follower she has gained as a result, to say nothing of the inevitable passage of his spoils onto the likes of 2ch.
Nowhere, it would appear, is safe from these observers, and they can materialise at the slightest gust of wind or other inconvenience…

An otaku erogamer has procured no less than 43 copies of newly released remade eroge title Shin Koihime Musou, in what must rank as one of the most expensively pointless mega-purchases to date.
Each copy cost in the region of ¥10,000, so in total he spent nearly $5,000 on the title…
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In case you were wondering who was buying all those Xboxes in Japan, at least some have been going to otaku masters such as the one whose sanctum you see pictured here. He looks to have amassed ten of them, along with every game imaginable… Now we just need to know if they are all working.
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