- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Dec 27, 2009 06:39 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Aya Hirano, Bizarre, Internet, Marketing, Otaku, Seiyuu, Stalkers, Virginity

Each Christmas, 2ch otaku start a “Supervise female seiyuu to make sure they aren’t spending time with a man” thread, in which they pore over seiyuu blogs for suspect updates, check for possible alibi, and examine the dates of any photographs posted to make sure they are genuine evidence of a Christmas spent alone.
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Otaku incensed at a mangaka’s decision to portray a heroine as being a non-virgin have launched a campaign of harassment which has seen the writer forced to close her blog, reporting that she is “heart-broken” over their hateful attacks.
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An otaku fan of seiyuu 門脇舞以 / Mai Kadowaki, known for her appearances in Doraemon, Kodomo no Jikan and Strike Witches, and lately Rorona no Atelier and Amagami, has been arrested after threatening to kill her parents.
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A man who developed and exercised the disturbing fetish of cutting the skirts of women he stalked about town has finally been arrested.
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A woman has been arrested for harassing and threatening to kill famed One Piece mangaka Eiichiro Oda.
The apparent stalker, an unemployed 27-year-old woman, was said to have repeatedly sent Oda threatening emails, admonishing him to “die!” and similar.
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Obsessed Malaysian otaku have launched a hunt of epic proportions for bikini idol Aya Hirano after it emerged she was in the country briefly for filming; their hysteria has in a day spanned 20 pages and encompassed efforts to check hotels, to analyse her photos and even to track her down using Google Earth, after she unwisely posted pictures from her hotel on her blog.
Their manic efforts have taken on a bizarre sense of farce, as it has emerged that throughout their frantic search Aya Hirano had in fact already returned to Japan, with the result that their hunt was focused on prey already far out of reach.
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The story of 湊ヒロム / Hiromu Minato is a tragic and interesting one. The image you see above, as well as those shown later, are all her works, but you may be surprised to learn that the crude illustration below is not one of her earlier works, but rather one of her last, a shocking deterioration from her once accomplished character design talents.

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Firstly, a girl (17), who posted messages to a bulletin board stating that she would perpetrate a massacre at a local train station which would put the recent Akiba rampage to shame, has been charged with a misdemeanour. She claimed she did it as a prank. Read the rest of this entry »