
Recent charity auctions held for earthquake relief have seen a number of mangaka selling autographed illustrations, with To Love-Ru mangaka Yabuki Kentaro topping the auctions with an impressive ¥1,223,000 – over $15,000…
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A man has been arrested for the theft of Saten Ruiko in what must rank as one of the least well thought out robberies ever conceived.
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The confession of a hostess that her first time was with an “ultra-famous” mangaka at age 15 has lately been raising eyebrows online, though not nearly as much as the purportedly huge size of what he was keeping in his trousers.
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Fans of top visual novel studio Key have been rejoicing at the long awaited release of Rewrite – so much so that in one case a fan was driven to buy 20 copies, coming in at over $2000.
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The latest example of “delivery terrorism” to strike down lonely otaku proves even the loveliest of objects can prove a curse when Shonen Jump decides to announce on the package that it is an oppai mouse pad…
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Chinese media are reporting that a youth was so desperate for an iPad that he sold a kidney to pay for one.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: May 28, 2011 04:32 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Bizarre, Collections, Idol, Mental Illness, Music, Otaku, Shopping, TV, Video Gallery


The crazed fan who spent over $100,000 on 5,500 AKB48 CDs seems to have been outdone – no sooner had he been exposed than an earlier report about a similar creature who spent 20 million yen ($250,000) on AKB48, though he only bought CDs in lots of 1,000.
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A crazed otaku fan of idol group AKB48 has been proudly showing off his ¥8,800,000 purchase of 5,500 of the group’s latest single.
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The K-ON! x Lawson Fair is well underway (again), driving moeblob fans into an instinctive buying frenzy as they are presented with masses of exclusive merchandise of all kinds, with competition in some stores so fierce as to require the goodies to be rationed out or reserved.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Apr 28, 2011 22:59 JST
- Tags: Crime, Hacking, Internet, Law, Money, Politics, PS3, Shopping, Sony, Technology

Sony’s admission that 77 million PSN accounts are in the hands of hackers has been followed by scores of reports alleging credit card fraud as a result of the leak, which Sony dismisses with its assertion that there is “no evidence” of the cards being leaked, although they concede they “cannot rule out the possibility.”
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One fan of Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko was so taken with Shaft’s choice of heroine seating that he not only identified the designer chair in question, he went so far as to buy it and install it in his room for the full experience.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime Figures, H, News
- Date: Apr 4, 2011 17:16 JST
- Tags: Auctions, Garage Kits, Hatsune Miku, Nude Filter, Oppai, Otaku, PVC, Shopping


A nude filter modded figure of virtual diva Hatsune Miku has fetched a rather impressive sum at auction.
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