

The willingness of the Gundam Seed Destiny HD Remaster director to ensure fans are fully serviced has won him more than a little appreciation from loyal fans of the show, with some major improvements clearly on display.
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Japanese police have come under fire for managing to combine the legendarily creepy kigurumi cosplay with the ever unpopular furry fandom in an effort to fight crime.
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“Japanese cartoon” fans of RDG – Red Data Girl – have caused an upset in a UK paper after the volume of their twits on the #RDG hashtag easily obliterated the previous Reading-related activity.
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AKB48 starlet Minami Takahashi is back in the news again – this time after her off-duty ensemble was outed on Twitter and swiftly became the butt of innumerable jokes.
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Apple has banned all 2ch-related Apps from its app store for offering too-ready access to porn and hurtful remarks.
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The official Kill Me Baby site has published 686 Twitter avatars for fans of the anime – one for every person who bought a copy of the first volume of the anime, marking perhaps the first time an anime has been masochistic enough to make light of its own dismal sales figures.
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New Year’s well wishes from otaku have taken a new twist – with an envelope printed with a manga of QB quizzing Madoka as to her heart’s desire, to wish she responds with the name and Hamamatsu city address of the person she wishes her New Year’s greetings delivered to. Needless to say, the letter was delivered without issue.
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Top AKB48 idol Mariko Shinoda has expressed her dismay at one of her sweet cookies being sold for some $12,000 to one of her creepy fans.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Nov 26, 2012 21:58 JST
- Tags: Bullying, Comiket, DS, Events, Love Plus, Marriage, Otaku, Relationships, Twitter


An otaku wedding where the bride arranged for the surprise destruction of her new husband’s (ex) virtual girlfriend Nene by ceremonially smashing the memory card with a mallet has prompted a wave of disgusted criticism online, with even non-Love Plus fans decrying it as “bullying” and “tasteless.”
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Scandal seiyuu Aya Hirano’s “deko-bitch” nickname has passed her own lips for the first time, with Hirano sharing one of her famous stories – this time about a random admirer commenting on how beautiful her surgical mask and/or forehead is on the street – with her 366,000 diligent (or merely morbidly curious) followers.
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A man whose efforts to reach 1000 sexual conquests finally culminated in him plucking a girl off the street has has been causing a stir online – not least because of the envy all the photographic evidence of his conquests has aroused amongst jealous virgins online.
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