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Chinese have been starting to enjoy their nation’s beautiful green beaches yet again, with 2013 proving a bumper year for the pollution nourished algal blooms which have plagued Chinese coasts of late.
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Far from abating with the onset of summer, China’s toxic skies are proving as choking as ever, with Beijing reporting record levels of PM2.5 pollution.
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Japanese children continue to kill themselves at ever earlier ages, the latest case being a 12-year-old girl who apparently opted to hurl herself to her death rather than face the prospect of not handing in her homework on time.
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- Author: Leon
- Categories: Anime, Galleries
- Date: Aug 14, 2012 02:10 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Comiket, Cosplay, Doujinshi, Events, Image Gallery, Oppai, Otaku, Pantsu, Summer

The quality of the cosplay on display at C82 was not the only thing at a record high – with 560,000 attendees in total, on par with C78’s previous record, Comiket 82 may have been the most successful Comiket ever…
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- Author: Leon
- Categories: Anime, Galleries
- Date: Aug 13, 2012 20:23 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Comiket, Cosplay, Doujinshi, Events, Image Gallery, Oppai, Otaku, Pantsu, Summer

Thankfully the world’s biggest cosplay event is fittingly also the most intensively (and at times intrusively) photographed, guaranteeing even the peers of the Gundam box cosplayer an audience of their very own (however momentarily), and for the likes of Enako and Lenfried their own groping throng of creepy otaku at the very least.
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- Author: Leon
- Categories: Anime, Galleries
- Date: Aug 13, 2012 16:44 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Comiket, Cosplay, Doujinshi, Enako, Events, Image Gallery, Otaku, Pantsu, Summer

Comiket 82 attendees ogling Enako in their lusty masses were graced by what truly deserves to be called “kamikaze” – the poor cosplayer suffered a wind induced skirt lift which revealed just how complete her cosplay ensemble was…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, Galleries
- Date: Aug 12, 2012 09:00 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Comiket, Cosplay, Doujinshi, Events, Image Gallery, Mizugi, Oppai, Otaku, Summer

Day 2 of Comiket 82 saw 190,000 attendees (10,000 up on the same time last year) and hundreds of cosplayers gather to provide some of the most authentic and alluring (and also bizarre and crowded) cosplay on display anywhere, with 2ch thankfully once again on hand to photograph them in excruciating detail.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, Galleries
- Date: Aug 12, 2012 08:55 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Comiket, Cosplay, Doujinshi, Events, Image Gallery, Mizugi, Oppai, Otaku, Summer

The quality of cosplay at Comiket 82 has been attracting much praise, not least thanks to all the cute and sexy cosplayers the event finds itself graced with, including some shameless specimens who just couldn’t resist going topless in spite of the otaku hordes…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, Galleries
- Date: Aug 11, 2012 13:46 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Comiket, Cosplay, Doujinshi, Events, Image Gallery, Mizugi, Oppai, Otaku, Summer

Not only were the temperatures scorching at Comiket 82 – the first day of cosplay also proved red hot, with all manner of skimpy costumes on display, and such queens of sexy cosplay as Enako and Lenfried making appearances…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, Galleries
- Date: Aug 11, 2012 13:30 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Comiket, Cosplay, Doujinshi, Events, Image Gallery, Mizugi, Oppai, Otaku, Summer


The first day of Comiket 82 brought with it a huge variety of quality cosplay, including some outstandingly cute cosplayers, to say nothing of their finely crafted costumes…
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The recent Summer 2012 Wonder Festival saw the usual outstanding display of cute and sexy cosplayers, although how well the sexy component holds up to stiffening competition from other recent events or even last year’s summer WonFes may be open to question…
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