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Straight from the mouths of ANN:
Earlier this week, a group of anime bootleggers in Hong Kong was sentenced by local authorities to 42 months in prison after it was caught in an investigation that took place in January 2005. The private Japanese industry group Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA) announced the sentence to the press. CODA was formed in 2005 to fight the piracy of Japanese media, DVDs, and other content in foreign countries.
The bootleggers were caught by local investigators from the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department (C&ED). The bootleggers were in possession of over 40,000 pirated DVDs of the Gundam anime and other anime content.
Currently, the Hong Kong C&ED is motioning to seize assets totaling 40 million Hong Kong Dollars (over 5 million US Dollars) possessed by the leader of the bootlegging group. However, this process has been delayed as the party charged with the crime awaits an appeal, citing an unfair verdict.
This announcement comes two months after another arrest by the Hong Kong C&ED where four bootleggers were arrested for pirating Astro Boy DVDs and other anime.

Now this is what happens when you try to be a pirate. Only Stephanie should ever be allowed to be a Pirate. At least untill she turns 18. On a sidenote, 42 months is like 3,5 years (yeah, all praise my uber elite math skills), and it seems to me a bit too short for the charge of piracy. In other countries, gaming piracy is punishable with much more than that (up to 10 years in the U.S.), plus a special and confortable jail room filled with horny black people who like to take showers. In the ass.
The ninth sequel to the by_now_pretty_famous Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu, entitled The Surprise Sex with of Suzumiya Haruhi, has been pushed back from a release date in June 1, to a galaxy far far away. The reason called for this move involves "various circumstances", though they refuse to elaborate about this (or to tell us about Mikuru's new underwear wardrobe). Alongside this, the tenth volume of Ghost Hunt was also delayed, from May 25 to the same galaxy far far away. Ghost Hunt is surprisingly good, actually.
Hello, my name is Puchiko and I have issues. Nobody loves me, not even my god damn mom, all guys and gals at school bully me for no reason. Well, no reason at all. So that is why I have decided to shave my legs, put on a Stalin costume, and jump off o building while singing WMCA. This, my friends, is the result of some survey among high school students in Japan – it seems that one in four is suffering from depression. But, by all that is mighty, how can you possibly live in Japan and suffer from depression? The Health Ministry says it’s because of bullying, or because they are being isolated. At the said survey, questions like “Does life have no meaning to you?” topped the cake, while all kids hurried to give plenty of emo answers.
A total of 557 students answered all the questions. Of them, 24.6 percent or 137 students -- 59 boys and 78 girls -- might suffer from depression.

Not to mention that depression leads to suicide. OK, since we are so lovingly attached to Japanese people due to certain... conveniences, I have made a list of things to do to evade depression and to, eventualy, get away from a Higurashi-like scenario (which, no matter how lolicious is, becomes surprisingly sick after the first three buckets of tears blood).

1. Download pr0n. For beginners, any kind of pr0n will do. Be it scatophilic, be it normal or lesbian, no matter – just get your God damn porn. You’ll figure out what to do with it in about 5 minutes of loneliness.
2. Install World of Warcraft. If you are a guy or girl with absolutely no personal life, this will not hurt your schedule one bit. It’s a fun game, you’ll get to meet all these kinds of nice gold farmers, bots and gold sellers, most of them asian, so you can „ni hao” them all day long. Then, you can roll a Hunter and climb on buildings, one-shotting lowbies just for the fun of it. Or you can roll a Paladin and become even more imbecile than you are right now.
3. GET A FUCKING JOB. I’d link Wikipedia for the definition of this strange world, but I’m to lazy to do it. Long story short, working involves doing stuff for other people that spit in your ear, stuff that, eventually, earns you money. With money you can, of course, buy even more porn.
4. Start drinking. My personal favourite. I allways drench myself in alcohol whenever I get the chance, be it in front of the TV, with friends (another Wikipedia-worthwhile word), or while masturbating on some random underaged anime chick. Au contraire to what evil people tell you, alcohol does *NOT* affect your liver in any way, it is actually a benefic toxin substance that prolongs your youth and makes your penis bigger. Or your vagina more delicious.
5. Become an otaku. Easiest way to avoid depression is to be depressed and not to give a shit about it. Whenever you feel like jumping in hot lava, just take a look at that gorgeous Chiyochan poster on the wall, feel the boner and *poof!* depression vanishes almost as fast as the credibility of George „I’ve got Allzeihmer” Bush. Not to mention all those illegal terrabytes of anime you can downoad via the internets.

There now, see? Easy as pie. With just a little patience, Japan’s teenagers can live a day or two longer.

LATER EDIT:
The name Puchiko was randomly chosen. It has absolutely no correlation whatsoever with the fact that my pedo comrade's World Of Warcraft character is named that way. Or with the fact that he plays a paladin. Or that he has crappy gear and couldn't keep me alive even if Chi chan's life was at stake.
Browsing through the intarweb, I found a nice article about the differences between the Japanese otaku culture, and the so-called Korean otaku culture. I actually laughed so hard that I almost closed my loli porn tabs in Firefox. Here are some bits:
Koreans not adapting to the concept of moe - the Japanese otaku's buzzword for whatever turns them on. "There's still a concept close to moe in Korean otaku culture. There's a word 'haakku,' which means to get excited, or feel good. But this word doesn't really apply to the gaming or cosplay worlds here, yet it does apply to kinky stuff,"

Japan – Korea: 1-0. Not adapting the concept of moe should end up with a death penalty. Prior to that, torture should be in order.
Korean adult entertainment world expert Chan Nan Woo from Jake Media tells Weekly Playboy. "In Korea, Lolicon is outlawed and maid cafes were a flop."

Japan – Korea: 2-0. Lolicon and outlawed should not be used in the same sentence. EVER. Maid Cafes are probably the best thing that happened to the world since the descovery of fermentation.
"Korean sex services are straight shooters. They tell you what you can do and that's what you pay for," Chan says. "For Koreans, it's a totally foreign concept to sit with a pretty woman all night and get nothing other than small talk like in Japanese nightclubs, or the maid clubs where you're not allowed to touch the women at all. There's no way these places would ever become popular."

Japan – Korea: 2-1. While I do fancy drooling all night long over some asian young ladies dressed up like maids, I’d surely like to pinch their nose a couple of times. And various other parts of their bodies.
There are many Japanese otaku who shun real women because they find them "scary" or "difficult" compared to virtual reality girls, but again Korean otaku find such an idea hard to comprehend. Thanks perhaps to compulsory military service, few young Korean men have not experienced women in some way and when it comes to relieving sexual frustration, no punches are pulled.

This bit is wrong, and here is why. First of all, Japanese otakus shun real women because they suck, they smell, they talk too much and because most of them are fat, not because they are scary or difficult. Nothing that a good baseball bat over their empty heads could not solve. Second of all, due to compulsory military service, Korean men have probably experienced other Korean men, not women, in one way or the other, perhaps mostly when they were dropping the soap in the showers. I doubt they are sharing the army bedroom with gorgeous, horny, female cadets that would perform oral sex every five minutes. So, for trying to mislead the readers, it's Japan - Korea: 3-1.

Japan wins at the internets.

This is all a matter of marketing which I fully understand and approve of. In Tokyo, there is a place called Nakano Brodway Shopping Mall, that is the epicenter of all otaku activities – especially the Japanese otakus, due to the long list of stores that sell various pop culture, manga, anime, or cosplay items. Until now, the foreign shoppers were not necessarily drawn to this place, either due to it’s weird location, or due to the fact that… well, foreign shoppers usually do not speak Japanese. Things are about to change, it seems, since a certain pamphlet, published in 4 different languages, started advertising the new “revamp”, intended to draw gaijin otakus to their stores. In the same time, the official NB website will get a similar treatment soon.

It may actually surprise you, but some Japanese newspapers have websites. That’s the case of Central Daily News, who posted some (unofficial) photos from China, which they say are location shots of the Blood: The Last Vampire, the live action adaptation of Production I.G.’s short watch. The chick there is Jun Ji-Hyunn, and her pictures appeared before in certain Chinese media – probably because she plays the lead role in this vampire thinghie. Well, I, for one, when I think about vampires, I think about Hazuki. And when I think about Hazuki, I usually get a huge boner.
According to the folks at ANN, two companies, the speech software developer, Animo, and the anime creation tool software developer Celesys, have joined forces in the hopes of creating a tool that will take good care of all the voice acting, be it in anime, or in certain video games. The said program, which uses Animo’s Free Speech software, will generate all sorts of narration and dialogue lines, all according to the shameless desire of the user. Now I personally don’t have a problem with this, it can probably help independent and/or amator developers in their work by drastically reducing the production fees (i.e. no more money spent on voice actors or on countless hours spent on recording, editing and two tones of coffee), but I do see this… computerization as a step towards consumerism. I’d rather have the lovely and rapeble voice of Yuko Goto whispering naughty things in my year, than a computer generated one, really. Oh well.
Mannequins… Can’t live without them. And no, I ain’t talking about inflatable dolls, those are a different story that we can discuss later, right after I get my Hazuki-chan inflatable and after I’ll put her name to the test. This one is about the growing popularity of mannequins that are made to look (and probably feel) just like anime characters. You know, big, squishy eyes, a flat chest or various other anime and manga elements. Japanese people love them, and they have been constantly doing it for the past five years or so. Because of that, Heiwa Mannequin decided to blend with the flow, with their Charamore 2 line of models debuting just recently, featuring no less than six pieces of anime material, ranging from men, women and children. Due to this, their sales have gone up 15% with, of course, the children models being the most popular among customers. I wonder why.
The guys over at Banday love children. That’s OK, we all love children, especially little girls. And just for that, they will launch their Kids Photo Bandai Studio on June the 16th, right in the middle of Kohoku Tokyu Department Store Shopping Center Akachanhonpo. Kids will be able to wear kimonos, yukatas, all sorts of suits and (short) dresses, plus a bunch of cosplay costumes, inspired from Bandai’s various animation and live action products. The children must be up to 9 years old, and must not be over 130 cm tall. Or else. So there you have it, from Power Rangers, Ultraman, right up to Pretty Cure, kids will be having a blast, and the reservation start on May, 7th.
Animekon v2 will have to wait some more, unfortunately, because fate (and a fudged-up SQL server) played a perverted trick on us yesterday, when everything we wrote since November just vanished. Of course, real men don't make back-ups - they get pissed drunk, that's what they do did, after realising that months of postings have been lost... for a while. We did manage to save the lost posts from Google's unmanly cache today, so we'll be putting them back shortly slowly.

Update #1: All posts from 2006 are now back online, moving on to 2007...

Update #2: My eyes haven't been bleeding like this since I saw Fukuyama naked, in that opening shower scene from Girls Bravo 2. But after a week of dining in hell every single night, Animekon is finally back up to date (sort of). And now, it's time to recover the 450+ not-so-lost clips from TVkon... But first, if you'll pardon me, I have a LOT of catching up to do in the self-pleasuring department.

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