There's one tiny detail I seem to have omitted from that lolicon crusade, a couple of days ago. Namely that Tokyo isn't the only censorship hotspot in Japan, whose authorities are keen on regulating access to sexual depictions of "nonexistent youths" (manga, anime etc.). At one point throughout this saga that's been dragging on for the better part of the last two months, there was a brief update saying that the city of Osaka "is also considering a measure similar to Tokyo's proposed legislation".



Although that particular story has had no follow-ups so far, another one involving Osaka has been (re)developing this week. This time, involving yaoi (boys-love) manga. On April 26, the Osaka Prefectural Government black-listed 8 magazines featuring yaoi manga as "harmful publications", making them illegal to be sold to - or read by - anyone younger than 18 years of age.

Based on their definition, a "harmful publication" is one that features sexual content or other restricted content in at least (...)

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Suzumiya Haruhi no Kyougaku as it's titled, or The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya in prain Engrish, is the next volume in Nagaru Tanigawa's light novel series that was adapted into... right, you know that part. Mkay, so word on the Nippon webs is that the next novel - the 10th one - is optimistically planned for release this year, under the Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko imprint. And just like that, in the agonizing spirit of Chinese torture, the news ends without actually offering a specific date. So how about a random picture, instead?



If it's any comfort, the report does state that the novel is 75-80% complete, which is about 370 pages according to the author's estimation. ANN also adds that "400 characters can be written on each page of Japanese-style composition paper" - a crucial piece of information which can only lead to one conclusion: (...)

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Now that we're back on track on the trailers front, with today's liberating scoop of 16 videos, it's finally time to get those anime news going again. So let's see what new titles have cropped up over the past week. We have those two in the title above, a new ToHeart2 OVA, some MazinKaiser mecha bullshit, and... well, let's just take them one at a time.



The "rebirth" of the Code Geass franchise in various shapes and forms - from manga to anime and beyond - was first revealed back in December. No details about the new anime project were given at the time, but last week saw the release of a certain Code Geass event video disc, announcing a narrative backdrop and a title for it: Code Geass Gaiden: Boukoku no Akito. Still no release date or format, though.

Code Geass Gaiden will actually be a side-story set in (...)

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As you probably heard by now, there's been some good news and some bad news for lolicons around the world recently. None of which directly affect most of our readers; or this here writer, for that matter. But, nevertheless, they're both of grave importance, thus deserving of our utmost attention. If nothing else, for the hellish Orwellish precedents they are setting.

Starting with the bad news: British lolicons are fracked. Literally and up the arse, too, if they get caught with this kind of filth, jailed (for up to three years!) and ambushed in the showers while bending over to catch their slippery soap. Outrageous as it may be to any free-thinking individual, as of this April 6 in England and Wales, it is illegal to possess "non-photographic visual depictions of child sexual abuse", or which are "grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character", or depicting various kinds of sexual acts "with or in the presence of a child". Non-photographic! Just some stupid drawings, can you imagine?!

This censorship law is wrong is so many ways, I don't even know where to begin. For one thing, where are the victims? (...)

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Scrolling down on our index page, you'll see that we still have a few news gathering dust from all the way back in December. So you can literally count the number of "news" we posted this year on your fingers: not something to be proud of, sure enough. Well, if anyone was wondering what the hell is going on here, and when we'll be getting our heads out of our lazy asses, this here update is meant to put your mind at ease. Sort of.

The thing is, we're notoriously errating with our postings, as shamelessly stated on plenty other occasions, whenever we were resuming our activity after weeks or even months of slacking. Only to fade out into complacency again, a couple months later... Call it a chronic defect, from our old days of writing for monthly publications - which usually consisted of slacking for 2-3 weeks a month, and then going ape-shit in Wordpad for the last week before a deadline.

Will we ever change our way, and become a respectable, reliable anime website with constant, daily news? (...)

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I was going to post this a lot sooner, I really was. But then - about a month ago - it hit me! What if Kiss x Sis actually qualifies for our annual "Best Lolicon Anime" award? What if those perverted Suminoe twins are in fact lolis, despite them being older than their step-brother? What if... What if a flat chest isn't fine, too!? Could humanity possibly survive such a dreadful revelation?

But, alas, it was too late for such existential doubts. By that point, way too many votes had been cast, and the fate of the Best Lolicon Anime of 2009 was all but sealed: the Kojikan lolis were once again emerging victorious, as they did when we first introduced this award two years ago, and nothing was going to stop them. So, long story short, our third annual award goes to the Kodomo no Jikan: Ni Gakki OVA.



As for Kiss x Sis, last month's poll did indeed confirm my worries: that most of you do think of Ako and Riko as being full-fledged lolis. So the question begs itself: which anime would've won, between Kodomo no Jikan: Ni Gakki and Kiss x Sis? (...)

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