

Japanese asked about how appealing they consider each of the 47 Japanese prefectures have rendered their verdict – the frigid wastes of Hokkaido are the place to be, with the nation’s capital scraping in at 4th.
Whether Hokkaido’s top placing (along with its capital Sapporo being top city) has anything to do with Sapporo being Rie Tanaka’s birthplace is naturally a matter of some conjecture…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime Figures, News
- Date: Aug 31, 2010 01:14 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Censorship, Fine Art, France, Onanism, Oppai, Politics, Statues, Tourism

An exhibition of anime art to be held at the Palace of Versailles has been condemned as being a blasphemous insult to the cultural glory of France.
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Konami has again demonstrated its dual mastery of control over otaku heart/purse-strings, this time by offering a complete Love Plus seaside tourism package giving otaku the chance for some imaginary time alone with the girl of their choice.
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The 1:1 monster RX-78-2 Gundam formerly menacing Tokyo has been re-erected in Shizuoka with upgraded armament. Below the animatronic statue can be seen in detail, as ever striking a particularly impressive figure against the night sky.
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Not content with merely locating the Kanagawa hotel featured in episode 4 of K-ON!!, one desperately ronery otaku actually rented a room and recreated a bedtime scene from the anime using his dakimakura collection.
Naturally, he then posted it all online.
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The famed 1:1 RX-78-2 Gundam, previously dominating Odaiba, is now being re-erected in Shizuoka.
Some shots of its reconstruction can be seen below:
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Though now generally associated with its sprawling complex of cities, where most of the population resides, most of Japan actually consists of forested mountain regions interspersed by hamlets and villages, often as picturesque as they are insignificant.
2ch has done its best to share a variety of these bucolic scenes:
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Konami has unveiled its cunning plan to save the Japanese economy through Love Plus tourism, whilst simultaneously furthering its diabolical otaku enslavement program.
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Saitama Prefecture, well known for being the spiritual home of Lucky Star, has published an official proposal to bolster the prefecture’s already substantial anime tourism trade via such otaku-oriented methods that include a previously reported plan to change schoolgirl uniforms to anime seifuku cosplay.
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Americans have come top of a survey of which countries have the “most attractive” inhabitants, unsurprisingly crushing the lesser nations of the world.
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A 2ch otaku has seemingly undergone one of the more devout sacrifices possible by the breed by making a pilgrimage from Japan to the historic city of Cuenca, Spain to pay homage to scenery of the town used as reference material for the sublime Sora no Woto.
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Ayanami Rei appears to have taken a break from piloting giant robots and gratuitously taking her top off in order to promote tourism to Hakone, a region of Shizuoka prefecture renowned for its hot springs.
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