
Japanese adult mega-publisher DMM’s new English language site R18.com is receiving another boon for international JAV fans in form of access to DMM’s huge streaming video service – which naturally also includes an entire channel dedicated to ero-anime,…
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The Japanese government is promising to finally stamp out illicit anime streaming sites overseas, and in China in particular, and replace them with an official streaming site with the cooperation of publishers and studios.
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Japan’s top JAV publisher DMM has officially gone live with its recently announced English language edition R18.com, which already boasts an absurd 200,000 full length adult movies, and plans to keep adding them at a rate of 2,000 a month.
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Japan’s top porn megasite, forex trading site, car renter and KanKore creator DMM has formally announced its full scale English language porn site in the form of R18.com, due to launch in the spring with their entire catalogue of adult videos, ero-manga and doujinshi, finally providing a centralised legal avenue for barbarian access to all the nation’s “squealing schoolgirl rape porn” and gorgeous ero-manga.
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Top manga publishers are vowing a legal crackdown on sites wicked enough to post spoilers about the plot of such gems as Naruto and One Piece, blaming them for their declining sales, and have already threatened one of one of the largest such sites into virtual closure.
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The Russian federal government has announced it is banning Sankaku Complex over some raunchy Touhou pictures, with the snappily named ROSKOMNADZOR awarding the site the same official honour it bestowed on the likes of Wikipedia and Facebook.
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Japan’s top BBS 2ch.net is reeling after being hacked, with the credit cards and personal details of tens of thousands of users leaked and their anonymity in tatters, and posting disabled across swathes of the site.
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Adorable .moe domains look well on the way to becoming a reality, as ICANN has just approved their creation.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Dec 29, 2012 02:29 JST
- Tags: AV, China, Comparison, Idol, Otaku, Rankings, Sites, Sword Art Online, Wikipedia

Wikipedia’s otapedic tendencies have again been attracting attention, this time with a national comparison of the most viewed Wikipedia pages revealing the most viewed page on the Japanese edition in 2012 was a list of porn stars, followed by AKB48 and a long list of anime, as compared to the English version’s fascination with Facebook and the Chinese edition’s love of Japanese porn.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Oct 22, 2012 14:04 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Hacking, Oppai, Otaku, Paizuri, PSP, Senran Kagura, Sites


Barely had Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus been unveiled than its eager fans discovered the official site’s hidden secret – that they could remove the pesky swords obscuring their view of the heroine’s jiggling breasts.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jun 16, 2012 04:12 JST
- Tags: Atelier, Feminism, Gust, Lolicon, Marketing, Moe, Otaku, PS3, RPG, Sites, USA

Gamespot’s recent review of the English release of top moeblob RPG Atelier Meruru has proven controversial for spending an inordinate amount of time bashing the title for its “sexualised outfits on very young female protagonists,” whilst insinuating that anyone who plays it probably has an unhealthy interest in little girls.
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The White House reports that South Korean accesses downed their homepage after a petition demanding the US make schools stop using the “Sea of Japan” name in their textbooks inflamed the passions of nationalists.
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