
Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten has caused outrage after being exposed as selling customer personal information, including names, email addresses and home addresses, to all comers for a trifling ¥10 each.
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Not satisfied with making their founder into the world’s most influential person, 4chan has flooded cat video sharing site YouTube with pornographic videos, declaring it “International Porn Day.”
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TIME Magazine has announced the most influential person in the world in 2009 to be 4chan founder Moot, or Christopher Poole as he is sometimes known.
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- Author: linkinstreet
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: May 5, 2009 06:10 JST
- Tags: Anime Goods, Collections, Crime, Fraud, Mangaka, Marketing, Otaku, Sites, Yahoo!

Collectors have been shocked to discover a sustained campaign of signed goods forgery, with the perpetrator selling off his fraudulent handiwork as the genuine article.
The fraud appears to have been perpetrated on an almost industrial scale, with sales reaching a million yen a month ($10,000).
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In the latest attempt to milk the otaku market, Japanese company C.S.T. Entertainment has created a site for matchmaking services, catering specifically to Otaku.
“OtakuMa” or “Otaku Match” is of course not used for dating like typical matchmaking sites, but rather for hardcore otaku to find friends (or rather, other otaku) with similar interests to themselves.
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Major social networks in Japan have been forced to close hundreds if not thousands of online communities alleged to have been used for online dating, whilst police have launched a drive to close unregistered dating sites; all this comes as a result of a new law forcing any sites with dating activity to register with police or shut down.
An attempt to crack down on the popular schoolgirl job of prostitute, euphemised as “enjo kousai”, or compensated dating, is the reason for the ban.
With the choice to close or register, sites have little option, and major social sites Mixi and Mobagetown have been purging any suspect groups.
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Major adult retailer DMM has launched a porn download service specifically for the PSP, apparently a first; much of their extensive catalogue looks set to become available.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime Figures, H, News
- Date: Feb 5, 2009 23:49 JST
- Tags: Cosplay, Crossover, Dollfie, Dolls, Mirai, Pantsu, Saber, Sites

The world of Dollfies never ceases to impress: here we have a custom sailor fuku Dollfie, in the colours and livery of DC.com, based on DC mascot Mirai Suenaga.
You may recognise the Dollfie in question as Dollfie Saber, with her hair let down and sporting an extravagently enhanced bust, along with some very lacy panties…
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China’s audacity in flagrantly copying and pirating all it can continues to impress, with the news that an entire Chinese clone site of NicoNico Douga has been created, carrying the very same MADs and copying exactly the signature tickered comments of NicoNico Douga.
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The charms of the Japanese schoolgirl are doubtless not lost on many of you; thus you may be interested to see some particularly tasteful and rather intimate photography courtesy of “School Girl Complex”:
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This looks to be one of the most stylishly realised itasha thus far seen, at least equalling the famed Hatsune Miku racer (which is now ignominiously reduced to seeking sponsorship by selling Miku goods), though still quite far behind the Macross ero-van.
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This dakimakura offers something for the ladies, in particular fujoshi dandy gentlemen fans, being released by the Crear Academy “School Community” site, which describes itself as a virtual private Catholic boys school, and offers the prospect of allowing participants to explore exciting boys school antics (especially of the classic kind) in a community environment emphasising communication. So they say.
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