This weekend marks the first edition of the New York Anime Festival (NYAF... Nyaa~F?), taking place between December 7-9 at the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan. Visitors are promised to get a glimpse of "the best of anime pop culture, including the latest anime, manga, Japanese cinema, music, and games, and anime-influenced comics, animation, and films from around the world". So, naturally, all the big names in US / Western licensing and publishing will be there, with or without the mandatory booth babes.

Apart from lewd attractions, the show will host an arcade space with the latest games straight from Japan, like Culdcept Saga, Soul Calibur Legends, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus, Neves, and plenty more. And there will also be three fighting game tournaments - featuring Virtua Fighter 5, Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection, and The King of Fighters XI - for those who love a good old ass-kicking. More details on the proceedings can be found over here.

But moving on to more serious stuff (yeah, right), here are some of those big names and their menu for the show: (...)

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To provide some background for those of you who haven't been following any recent discussions about the worsening state of the anime industry, largely due to anime piracy of course, at the end of November ANN published "An Open Letter to the Industry" debating why things have gone so horribly wrong (or rather why the anime production companies allowed them to go so wrong), how fansubs are killing the industry, and a few ideas about what could be done to save this slowly dying "fascinating creative landscape".

They even translated their open letter in Japanese, hoping to trigger as many official reactions as possible, and the first response comes from none other than the president of the USA... branch of Bandai Visual, Tatsunori Konno - who doesn't really seem to be that worried about the whole charade: (...)

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Yes, yes, I'm sure you've seen this one coming, as did every otaku who hasn't been masturbating under a rock for the last few months. But did you notice the plural in the title? Aye, mate, movies, as in at least a couple of them. So far, AV film makers TMA and Ifreet are each planning to release an adult movie with their own Miku wannabe, which you can get a glimpse of below. For the full deal, you'll have to (literally) hold your pants on until February 2008, when Zepy-kun says the videos will be out, for all to vigorously enjoy.

TMA should take a queue from Ifreet's AV star Aine Yuu on proper hair coloring; not to mention Yuu is cuter by default, anyway.


Those leeks are going where no hikikomori has gone before...

You've probably seen this coming, so... yeah, time to let the next Vocaloid squeaking loli - Kagamine Rin - take Miku's place as our new loli-of-the-month. We're also putting her name to the test in a new poll, confronting you with the underage-old question: "Hatsune Miku or Kagamine Rin?". Tough choice, I know - but hey, there's always the yuri alternative!

Sure enough, December also brings a new top: "Best blonde anime loli", but this time there's no yuri alternative: just pick one, and stick it in stick with it. Still, should you feel that a grave unjustice has been done, and your favorite goldie-loli-locks was not included in this top, then come, let us reazun together. It would be a regrettable waste; it would be nothing short of madness for you, brave gusy, and your disturbed fantasies to perish. All because of a simple misunderstanding.

Seems like Miku is becoming quite of a hype these days, thanks to Vocaloid 2’s extreme mediatic success. Well, from my part, it’s nice to see a loli going up on the charts, even if most western fanboys don’t have a clue about what they are drooling on. And since good porn entertainment comes in all shapes and sizes (preferably small), GoodSmile announced that they will be releasing a cute chibi-Miku doll, for all of us to take home and do various things to her.

Not surprisingly enough, in the first two days since the announcement was made, thousands and thousands of avid customers invaded the virtual space of Amazon for a quick pre-order, summarizing no less than... 10,000 such shopping sprees. On Amazon only, mind you. There are various other stores there who will probably put Miku’s panties to the test, so I expect this pre-order madness to reach the heights of Hazuki-chan’s hawtness.

Well, what can I say. Miku looks good, the doll looks cute. All I can do now is wait for the Rin figurine, for a certain, unknown, yet strangely arousing reason, she seems to have more sex appeal to me than Miku.

Poke Miku's a-cups for a trip to the product info.


Thanks Dogs in ze can for the scoop.

Ahhh, what a fine day... for a party! And not just any kind of party, mind you, but a "Lage-Size Figure Party", straight in the heart of the Akihabara district. The girls at Tokyo Anime Center gave all otakus a huge boner, when they announced that, between December 2 and December 14 a huge, gargantuan feast will be held there, and all of you horny and thirsty folks can attend and be amazed by the large collection of life-sized dolls presented by Paper Moon.

Around 30 of these beauties, ranging from Saber (Fate/stay night) to Sakura (Sakura Wars), will be available for touching, eye peeling and upskirt filming, in an environment dedicated to all of us anime lovers, so be sure not to take your girlfriend (here is a link to Wikipedia, for all you confused people) to this unique and lovely event.

More, even, if you feel that your pockets are surprisingly full with what we like to call money, you can even purchase one of the dolls on the spot. The price may be a little too high for a hikikomori who rarely leaves the safety of his (full of anime porn) apartment - between 200,000 and 480,000 yen - but hey, it’s worth every last penny. Or yen.

I'd like to take a moment of your time to thank ANN for being so keen as to spot this kind of stuff.

How do you like your loli served? Fresh? In a maid costume? Naked? Or maybe with a twin sister? Ah well, any choice you make, this time you’ll have to settle for a nice mouse pad, featuring lovely Rin and her boobs from Kodomo no Jikan. Animate had their perverted employees work on some other related handy pieces, like a pair of panties, for those who like to masturbate while sniff-sniffing little girls underwear.

Since I myself don’t use a mouse pad (for various reasons, like my pedo comrade spilling vodka on it every time he gets drunk), I might as well get one. Not to put my mouse on it, but to put something else on it. Like a box of tissues.

Thanks to Secret Japan for this lovely and very useful information.


Umm... Cock goes here?

And in other news from the wacky land of Osaka, a security guard was just seized for trying to seek bribe from an elementary school teacher. Yes, I know, elementary and school, when used in the same sentence, cause massive and irreversible boners. The reason for this blackmail is pretty simple: the guard found some photos and videos featuring naked school girls in the teacher’s locker, and decided this is a good opportunity for some well earned spendola.

The police, hard workers as we all know they are, are now suspecting that someone from within the school was casually involved in masterminding the whole “let’s take some cool pictures” concept, be it when the innocent soon-to-be ladies were taking a shower, changing into their tight swimsuits, or measuring their a-cups for the delight of the audience.

After the guard tried to go on a blackmail rampage, the teacher complained to the Osaka police, and the officials raided the culprit’s home - only to find tons and tons of videos, pictures and other stuff involving naked lolis. Poor fellow, he made a terrible mistake. How the hell can a fellow lolicon try to bribe another fellow lolicon for being a lolicon? This just doesn’t make any sense to me. Ah well, Osaka, the land of all possibilities.

Via Mainichi (via CryoCopy, should the link be soon gone)

US teenagers are pretty fucked up, we all know that. Almost periodically, one of them wakes up in the morning feeling pissed off on the entire world, grabs a gun, a chainsaw or the Transformer he has in the basement and goes to school, shooting random people with a vengeance. Nothing new here. Recently, one similar dude was suspended from his school in Virginia, after the teachers found him writing malicious death notes. Yes, you got me right. Death notes, like in the… Death Note anime/manga.

The little kid was targeting many of his fellow classmates, wishing them a most painful and long death. Not only that, but according to Anime UK News, similar things happened in China and Taiwan, where people are actually even more weird when it comes to this kind of stuff. Ah well, what can I say. Ban the fucking show, it is retarded anyway.

Feeling emo and lonely? Normal tissues just don't get the job done anymore? Worry not, Suzumiya Haruhi cums comes to the rescue once again! After a cosplaying session made of win, fans can now diversify their useless collection of disposable anime crap with some Haruhi tissues. There's a set of 20 tissue boxes selling on kamikau.com, for the insane price of $95... That's over nine thousand yen! Still, if none of those suit your perverted needs, you can also make your own layout with some applet thingie, but only using the images from the 20-box set. Fail.