I'm full aware of the fact that we need more Japanese erogames. The question is, do we actually need live-action porn inspired from them? No offense to them hawt (and yet, overaged) Japanese missies that work so hard for hours and hours a day, just to give some folks a good boner, but I'd rather stick it in with my games. More exactly, with my visual novels. Porn has nothing to do with visual novels, unless you consider a bunch of green tentacles chasing helpless ladies around a crashed spaceship to be something... story-wise. And for god's sake, au contraire to popular belief among certain communities, real-life Japanese women do NOT have big, pink eyes, nor do they get born with natural green hair. And not all of them are actual aliens or strange, yet arousing robots, bent on destroying the world after having sex with you, countless times.


That being said, the 2002 old PC title Tsumamigui from AliceSoft is going to be viciously turn into porn. And while I do have some links that you may, or may not find interesting (depending on your sexual orientation, of course), I shall refrain myself from sharing them with you. Or not.

... Or when mind and stomach work together for the benefit of mankind. Sunrise, the animation studio behind the loli hit Mai Otome, and Cure Maid Café, based where else but in the Akihabara district, the holy shrine of otakus all over the world, made a deal to promote special bentos and other delicious (and pedolicious) products, based on some specific anime intellectual proprieties. This glorious collaboration will take place in February, being split in two phases. First, between the 9th and the 18th, the said café will offer a wide variety of Mai Hime/Mai Otome panties and free porn food and drinks - who wouldn't want to get his trembling hands on some of Mai's Handmade Ramen (after thoroughly checking the size of her cups), or get completely wasted pouring down his stomach large quantities of Commodore Armitage's Spirit Drink? The second phase will take place between February 23rd and March 4th and will include Ryosuke Takahashi's Votoms, plus some related weird items. Sounds pretty good. I would certainly want to try some of them naturist and freshly baked Natsuki-chan products. Hell yea.

While this is trying to be a promotional campaign that supports safe sex (although I would pretty much require one that emphasizes on surprise sex), I am guessing it's going to turn bad. Why? Because Okomoto Industries plans to launch a series of condoms (yes, that thing you usually lie about putting on), based on Aki Kondou's famous bear character, Rilakkuma. Yes, you've heard me right. Men will now be able to prove their godly sexual potency, proudly wearing a bear on their Kami-sama. Women, on the other hand, have a thing for this happy hippy, especially those in their 10's - 40's. Or so they say, I actually never tend to ask a woman about how, where or how much she fantasizes with wild animals. Beginning this Wednesday, you can start searching the stores for your pink rubbers, at the low price of 1050 Yen per box. Okomoto actually hopes to make 100 milion Yen worth of sales in the first year.


I bet you'd hit that.

Never expected licensing anime would be so pricey - but it seems it actually is. According to some info gathered at INikkei BP Anime Business Forum (Japan), to localize, and furthermore, distribute a TV series in the US of A in the current fiscal year would require you to spend around 20.000 USD per episode. On average. These numbers have been growing over the past few years, even more than a little sister would grow while exposed to alien, mass onee-chans-producing, radiations. At first, when the anime phenomenon stroke the valiant American distributors, the price ranged for about a couple of thousands bucks per episode. Somewere in the mid 1990, the price went up like a healthy erection caused by the loli Ichijo sisters, especially when Evangelion stroke. Later, Cimpokomon would receive no less than 40000 USD per episode, and now, some of the most hyped and shitty appreciated shows are having a nice income of $80K or more, depending on the contract and on the jewishness of the guys who barter for it. And they whine that anime is not profitable.

Now it would be a good time to say that IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAND!!

We sure do like cosplay. Lots of it. And if it's about some Choco-chan cosplay when she comes out of a present box, we're drooling already. Well, The World Cosplay Summit takes place in Japan (ORLY?), once every year, and this time, we have 11 countries that are throwing their lolitas in the contest, hoping to grab the big time award. As some of you know, last year, the newly participating team from Brazil actually won the contest (I don't really know how, nor do I want to know how - it probably involved some brazilian lapdancing for the elderly jury), and in 2007, two more countries seem to be prepared to enter the Dark Portal of Cosplaying. One of them is Mexico, and the other - yet unannounced. We are looking forward to see the innocent participants naked. I mean cosplaying.

Thanks to ANS, we got our sticky hands on a link to Senkablog, where the dude (or dudette) in charge made a huge collection of insane pictures from last year, representing what other people would call "absolute mental instability", or what we like to call "perfect example of common sense". Though it involves cars (which I am not too comfortable about), the little screenies depict many treasures hidden away in the outmost attractive country of Japan. When I'll visit, I'm going to get such a car. And, of course, a young girl driver to carry me around (and to do sono kono ano), because my driving skills are teh suck.

The Americans have it, and lookie, the Japanese have it. The Bunshun Raspberry Awards are distributed annually, recognizing the worst of Japanese cinema releases, including movies, actors, and, of course, directors. The 2007 edition of the awards took aim at Japan's worst cases of "inspiration, ou va tu?" for 2006 - much in the same way that The Golden Raspberry Awards does for the US of A every year. Goro Miyazaki's debut movie, Tales from Earthsea, managed to much out the grand prize, while mister Miyazaki himself received the "worst director of 2006" award. Haven't seen the movie yet, and I'm not rushing. As far as I can tell from the press reviews of Tales from Earthsea, this guy is some sort of Uwe Boll, Japanese version. Hopefully, he has a little sister. And here are the much sought after awards:

1. Tales from Earthsea (Japan)
2. Sinking of Japan (Japan)
3. Da Vinci Code (US)
4. Nada Soso (Japan)
5. The Promise (China)
6. Umizaru 2: Test of Trust (Japan)
7. Now and Forever (Korea)
8. Rough (Japan)
9. Angel-A (France)
10. Christmas on July 24th Street (Japan)

Worst Actress: Masami Nagasawa
Worst Actor: Tom Hanks
Worst Director: Goro Miyazaki

Ah, two of my favourite subjects. No wonder they're so succesful. It just occurred to us that, in the outmost shiny land of South Korea, people have started to take a liking in in Japanese manga that embraces the subject of alcohol. You know, stuff like wine. And vodka. And various cocktails involving little girls handling otherwise difficult to control shakers. And, of course, other little girls that can be used in sono kono ano ways after you have experienced the marvelous effects of the said hedonistic fluids. For instance, Kami no Shizuku, a manga focused on wine (and on the multiple benefits this particular, and quite natural, substance has upon your lolita-filled brain), sold more than 550.000 copies in South Korea, and 950.000 copies in Japan. Hence, the creators decided to pay a visit to Korea to investigate the posibility of a sequel and, why not, an entire series based on booze. More than that, some big bad-ass TV company there has monopolized the rights to create a TV drama, also.

Talking about more casual stuff, just before Comiket 71 started, more exactly on December 25, a cosplaying site launched out into the space, traveling faster than lighting to the planet of beautiful lolitas. RTV, the company that hosts this, offers space for users to create their own homepages and to fill them up with pictures of their little sisters. Cosplaying, of course. We look forward to it, and expect to see lots of Choco and Hazuki-chan costumes soon enough.

In every damn country on this entire sort-of globe, there exists one mighty and all-powerful, godly entity, called The Police. That, and Sting's ex-band. Usually, The Police takes care of stuff involving groceries store thefts, donut eating contests (U.S.A. fat policemen only), cow raping or flower harassment. Recently, though, some guys from Japan's National Police Agency woke up from their esoteric slumber and decided to investigate the influence that the internet, with all it's not-entirely-sane content, has on children's (healthy) development.

We all here know what the internet was created for. Two big bad things, porn and illegal fansubs. Well, it seems that these dudes have different opinions about this, reporting that godly stuff like manga, computer games or, why not, animation, have the casual effect of turning our precious little children into anti-social machines. While I do not totally disagree (take the case of MMOs, for example - playing World of Warcraft has the awfully high risk of making you wank on night elven chicks wallpapers), the generalization is typical for such organizations, organizations that start involving themselves in areas of expertise that are above the clouds and far away from them.

NPA's sole target is to eradicate child pornography. In manga and animation. In other words, to suppress comics that deliver sexual situations with characters that seem less than 18 years old. In yet other words, to suppress god damn 90% of the existing manga and anime, because, we all know, each and every piece of Japanese animation has it's twisted and perverted erotic situation, even cleverly disguised under the cover of, let's say, alien-san trying to take over the world with his big bad robots piloted by hawt-looking imouto-alien-chans. Eh, well, do it if you must. NPA's particular interest seems to be the bookstore websites where "pornography manga involving children" can be purchased. They seem to have found, browsing and flurping the internet, about 9000 adult manga items, from which 30% were "child pornography".

Does this mean I won't get a little sister for Christmas?