


Microsoft’s decision to market the Xbox One as a cable TV replacement for Dew swilling EA Sports fans is enjoying near universal ridicule online, as the response to their latest advertising masterpiece makes clear.
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HKT48 idol Haruka Shimazaki disastrous efforts at cosplaying no less than Asuka Langley herself have proven even more provocative to Eva fans than her efforts at Miku were galling to Vocaloid devotees…
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Microsoft has confirmed the happy news that its new Xbox One console will not be released in Japan or the rest of the lucky “tier 2” world in 2013, asking only that this fantastic announcement not be reported “too negatively.”
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Following from the confirmation that Japanese TV will start 4K UHDTV broadcasts in 2014, 8K broadcasts are now firmly on schedule for 2020.
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Japanese are supposedly now more interested in the AKB general election than their own parliamentary general election, with 68% more concerned over which idol finds herself “elected” to than which bunch of incompetents will be running the country next.
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Aya Hirano now really is unrecognisable, with all but the most sharp-eyed viewers of her latest TV outing having no idea who she is until being told of her appearance…
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Eye-watering rents for tiny Tokyo apartments seem to have reached a new low, with “capsule apartments” in central Tokyo making their TV debut.
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Anime in 3840×2160 “2160p” UHDTV resolutions should be available by the summer of 2014, as the Japanese government is pressing for the rollout of 4K UHDTV 2 years ahead of schedule in an effort to save the TV industry from collapse.
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The saccharine intensity of popular AKB48 idol Haruka Shimazaki’s newly exposed chest has been turning heads online – with plenty of praise and envy at the fact she apparently lives in a doll house.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Galleries, Games, H
- Date: Dec 16, 2012 02:53 JST
- Tags: Bikini, Gravure, Idol, Image Gallery, Mizugi, Oppai, Pettanko, Sports, TV



FIFA 13 has provided for a “world cup” which is rather more sexy than the regular sort – with gaming idols of all sizes competing for victory, and yielding an eventual winner in the form of “Group A.”
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Japan has again been gawping at the immaculate fashion sense of their youngest schoolgirls – this time in the fashion choices made by one stylish 12-year-old “JS” (“joshi shougakusei” – elementary school girl) even on her way to school…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Japan, News
- Date: Nov 13, 2012 13:41 JST
- Tags: AKB48, AV, Censorship, Fuji TV, Guro, Idol, Music, Prostitution, TV


AKB48 fans have been taken aback by the horrifying decline of AKB48 “graduate” Rina Nakanishi, whose promotion from AKB to SOD certainly seems to have taken its toll…
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