For all you loli fans out there, you may want to wait for the DVD to come out, but in any case… Today, we get to learn about Mika’s dere-dere side concerning dogs. It’s really a cute and a small heart warming story being told by a girl. What could be better than that? For [...]
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From Weird Asia News – Japanese Men Give New Meaning to “Pillow Talk” …Nisan (pictured above) is a balding, flacid, 37-year-old, never-married video gamer. He describes his 3-year relationship with “Nemu” – whom he’s driven hundreds of miles on trips to visit Kyoto, Osaka and Nara — as blissful but chaste. He even prides himself [...]
Kyon-kun, denwa (キョンくん, 電話) [With apologies to Leonard Cohen] I heard there was a secret chord Nagato played that pleased the Lord but you don’t really care for spoilers, do ya? Well it goes like this: the fourth, the fifth the minor fall and the major lift the baffled queen composing Kyon-kun, denwa~ Kyon-kun, denwa… [...]
From ANN – United Nations Group Urges Japan to Ban Explicit Games, Manga …However, it expressed concern “at the normalization of sexual violence in the State party as reflected by the prevalence of pornographic video games and cartoons featuring rape, gang rape, stalking and the sexual molestation of women and girls.” It also noted that [...]
In what can only be described as a landslide election, the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan lost approximately 300 of 480 Diet seats. Taro “Rozen” Aso was quoted by Associated Press as saying, “There has been a deep dissatisfaction with our party.” Visitors to the official website of the LDP were greeted with the promise, [...]
From Japan Times Online – For ¥1,800 at the Kamishichiken Beer Garden in Kyoto’s northwest, you can enter the geisha’s “Floating World,” a term coined by 17th-century writer Ryoi Asai to describe the pursuit of pleasure and the transience of life. The fee buys you a beer, snacks and a chat with a maiko or [...]
From ANN – Kirsten Dunst Cosplays in Akihabara for Video …actress Kirsten Dunst appeared in Tokyo’s Akihabara otaku shopping district in a sailor-suit costume and a blue wig for a video directed by McG (Terminator Salvation). Ray’s Take: Uh…I’m going to channel Buffy’s sister and go: “GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT!” XD [...]
Art and Soul 6 (MP3) [ 10:55 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (966) Update, 3/13/2011: welcome, new visitors. I felt these reflections were worth reposting in the wake of current events in Japan. I am aware that this is based on a half-watching of Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 and does not account [...]
From Japan Today – Sketches of pretty girls draw visitors to Akita town AKITA — Illustrations of pretty girls adorning packages of locally grown specialty rice and other products in a small snowy town in northeastern Japan are taking the rest of the country by storm. Japan Agricultural Cooperative Ugo put Akita Komachi on the [...]
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