

CNN have been reporting that the “New South China Mall,” supposedly the or one of the world’s largest shopping malls, is now almost totally deserted.
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So cute is seiyuu and orthodontics poster girl Emiri Kato that she reports being mistaken for a precocious little girl on a recent shopping expedition to obtain cosmetics.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Manga, News
- Date: Jan 2, 2013 16:56 JST
- Tags: Anime Goods, Bizarre, Eroge, Fetish, Guro, Marketing, Otaku, Shopping

Novelty shopping bags continue their innovative race to the lowest depths of perversion – this time with an even more explicit design, although fortunately it looks as though only in the event of an accidental prolapse will it result in the arrest of the bearer.
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Even the lowly novelty shopping bag has been wryly highlighted as an abject illustration of certain fundamental differences in outlook between Japanese and Americans.
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The sight of creepy otaku holding hands with cute little girls around Comiket and Akiba has been causing a stir online – not least because they have now worked out how to get away with it every time.
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Shoppers in a Chinese department store have been injured by an exploding shark tank, which spewed water, glass and sharks onto hapless shoppers, injuring over a dozen onlookers and staff.
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The behaviour of ardent ***48 fans is again causing waves of revulsion online – this time provoked by a SKE48 fan who spent $12,000 on handshaking event tickets in order to secure several hours of “quality” time with his favourite maiden, and another maniac auction in which a single cookie made by AKB48’s Mariko Shinoda reached a similar sum at auction.
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The delight of some online retailers for outing their creepy otaku customers with the most embarrassingly packaged goods possible – dubbed “delivery terrorism” by its many victims – is yet again in the spotlight, the latest being a less than discretely packaged Nanoha doujinshi…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime Figures, H, News
- Date: Sep 29, 2012 03:47 JST
- Tags: Auctions, Mods, Onanism, Oppai, Otaku, PVC, Shopping, Tomodachi ga Sukunai

Sexy figure fanciers have been astounded at the price a modified figure of Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukuanai’s busty heroine Sena Kashiwazaki has fetched at auction – ¥553,000 ($7,000) – to say nothing of what she is doing for all to see…
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Shibuya has been trumpeting its success in driving out adherents of the various youth subcultures it largely spawned, with herds of gyaru, ganguro, yamanba and other undesirables now a rarity on its fair streets.
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Fans of anime and cake have been lauding the work of a cakery specialising in providing some rather well illustrated cakes for the discerning otaku palette.
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A maniacal AKB48 fan’s purchase of some $30,000 worth of CDs so he can cast 1770 votes for his favourite idol has inspired the usual speculation as to what drives creepy otaku to such extremes, and why they seem to be appearing in increasing numbers and with increasing budgets.
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