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Blackstone Takes Majority Stake in Aniplex

Blackstone Takes Majority Stake in Aniplex

Citing financial difficulties, Aniplex is expected to announce tomorrow that The Blackstone Group is taking an eighty percent stake for an undisclosed sum estimated at $230 million. The rise in the digital distribution of entertainment has eroded the Japanese production company’s margins. This comes at a time when Blackstone, headquartered in New York City, seeks [...]

Anime Figurines Pulled from Wal-Mart

Anime Figurines Pulled from Wal-Mart

The Fortune 100 company announced that it’s pulling all figurines from Air off the shelves immediately. Air is an anime TV series that aired in 2005. It is based on a hentai game of the same name. The decision came earlier this week after a student at the Castlemont Elementary School noticed a classmate playing [...]

The Puella Magi Contract Memorial Wall: Your Wishes, Reprinted

The Puella Magi Contract Memorial Wall: Your Wishes, Reprinted

Three weeks ago, Anime Diet was seized by Kyubey in a hostile takeover, in order to drive innocent girls to make Puella Magi contracts.  We all know the tragic consequences of these devilish deals and it was only through great effort and struggle that the site was restored to normal. And now that all is [...]

Meet Our New Sponsor and Make a Contract!

Meet Our New Sponsor and Make a Contract!

Fans and Citizens of Diet 3 Unite!

Fans and Citizens of Diet 3 Unite!

From the Diet 3 Daily – Friends, fans, comrades, citizens and pedastrian A, B, or C of Anime Diet/Diet 3, hear us! Since the June/July period began, we have been preparing to venture once again into the arena called convention coverage. It promises to be a big battleground. We shall establish our fort and bravely [...]

Obama Declares it Legal to Marry 2D Fictional Characters in the US

Obama Declares it Legal to Marry 2D Fictional Characters in the US

WASHINGTON – In a surprise move today, US President Barack Obama issued an official Executive Order that from henceforth it is now legal for individuals in the United States of America to marry fictional 2D characters. “We have seen progress my friends, and it has come from the east,” Obama said, citing recent advances in [...]

Mai Waifu

Mai Waifu

As spring approaches, Valentine’s Day is upon us, and even the most hardened anime otaku’s thoughts must turn to love. Though some resist this destiny, I will not run, scream, or fight. I have always been of the opinion that the most important decisions are those you make in an instant and stick with for [...]

Ni-pah, Yaan, Au, Fuwa-Fuwa (NYAF)

Ni-pah, Yaan, Au, Fuwa-Fuwa (NYAF)

Anime Diet East will be spreading its banner and once again making the sacred pilgrimage to New York for the New York Anime Festival. Oddly enough, the only set items on the schedule are the Del Ray pre-party, the Yui Makino concert, and a certain karaoke gathering for those of exceptionally refined taste and articulation. [...]

A Brave New Divergence

A Brave New Divergence

I have seen the future, and it is fantastic. Multicolored hair!  Massive oppai¹!  Quantum everything!  Cool robots!  Just ignore the bizarre displays of objectum sexual² behavior that accompany all these things in Divergence Eve, and we’ll proceed.

Anime Diet wishes you a happy Cirno Day

Anime Diet wishes you a happy Cirno Day

Anime Diet wishes all residents of Gensyoko a happy Cirno Day.  ZUN, creator of Touhou, alternately labeled Cirno “the strongest faerie” and “⑨ – idiot.”  With these fateful words, a legend was born.  As such, 09/09/09 is now celebrated worldwide as Cirno Day.

Shocking! The Chief Editor and the Dreamer of Anime Diet Found Together not in San Francisco!

Shocking! The Chief Editor and the Dreamer of Anime Diet Found Together not in San Francisco!

From the Diet 3 Daily – Bangkok, Thailand, Sept. 3, 2009. Our reporters discovered with much shock that the overlords of Anime Diet, Maike, AKA  Ikari Gendo and Jeromy Jagi, AKA Giga J, were sharing a bed together! Upon hearing the news, Rayder, AKA Krauser III, was so shocked that he only said: “Freaking traitors! [...]

Section 9 unsure which party to support at this point.

Section 9 unsure which party to support at this point.

From The Diet 3 Daily – August 27, 2009, somewhere under Tokyo, Japan. Chief Aramaki indicated at a certain gathering that the current Japanese politics is murky at best and the best direction for the people is not up to Section 9, or any other sections at the Public Security. However, our inside source caught [...]