- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, International, News
- Date: Jun 22, 2009 07:54 JST
- Tags: Bodypainting, Censorship, China, Fine Art, Idol, Marketing, Oppai, Tourism

These ladies have attracted much attention with their semi-naked bodypaint (due chiefly to their nudity rather than to the merits of their feminine beauty or the quality of the painting, we might think), which is certainly their main intent as they are on display in a hotel lobby in the hopes of attracting custom…
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Passionate otaku have been festooning yet another sacred Shinto site with the iconography of 2D goddesses; this time with ita-ema (votive prayer plaques offered to the gods) of the K-ON! girls, showing us once again that devoted otaku are indeed worthy of that name.
You may be familiar with this otaku practice from pictures of the epicenter of such otaku rituals, Washinomiya Shrine, perhaps better known as the home of the Lucky Star cast.
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A Chinese visitor to the “dragon boat races” held recently on China’s southern island of Hainan was speechless when confronted by the beautiful beaches the tropical island is famed for.
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The tale we heard of ardent Haruhi fans booking into Saitama business hotels to catch the very earliest airing of the new season appears to have been true.
For one very special fan, this entailed booking into the hotel, constructing a mobile Haruhi shrine around the TV, and then proceeding to upload pictures of his viewing, along with celebratory comments like “It’s here!” and “Gratz!”, to 2ch’s Haruhi board in realtime.
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In a few hours, it will be known whether the latest episode of the Haruhi rerun will be a new episode or not. But it seems the prospect of waiting days for the episode to air in their own region, or having to wait hours to see it by other means, is just too much for Haruhi otaku.
We hear this from a 2ch denizen:
“I work in a Saitama business hotel. Since yesterday we have been having all kinds of calls asking whether the hotel has reception of Saitama TV [which carries one of the earliest airings of the episode]… I laughed.”
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A lady tourist visiting a tropical island near Thailand was hospitalised after the simian inhabitants of the isle took a decidedly amorous liking to her.
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A man has been arrested for plotting to bomb the house of the characters of Lucky Star, formerly the home of the manga’s creator Kagami Yoshimizu, but was apprehended by police before causing any harm.
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Prime Minister Rozen Aso recently debuted his newest plan to shake Japan out of its economic doldrums: otaku tourism.
With one notable exception, Aso’s new plan differed little from the tired promises made in past.
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A visitor to a sex party sparked an altercation after he refused to strip off when confronted by four naked ladies, and police had to intervene to restore order to the orgy by removing the offending prude.
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