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Moe Madness: Government Realizes Selling Power of Cute 2D Girls

May 14, 2013 by Cara Clegg
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Moe promotion is in right now! Anything can be moe-fied, and a cute persona can help sell anything from regular rice to smelly natto. Recently companies, schools, railways and even government offices have all been getting in on the act. You just can’t get away from it! And this video has the proof. Read More

Hitachi Provides IT Support through Shin and Shin, the Moe Server Fairies

Apr 22, 2013 by Master Blaster
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The life of an IT professional is a hard one. Grueling hours are spent late into the night working out solutions to complex problems.

For these hardworking people Hitachi has come up with a unique solution: “Server Fairies Shin & Shin” who are a pair of magical 20 cm tall girls who dispense valuable network solutions to exhausted IT workers.

Apr 4, 2013 by Master Blaster
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With 1 April behind us we can get back to the usual stream of dubious information on the Internet rather than the onslaught of April Fools’ hoaxes. For people and groups with legitimate announcements that day is a daring scheduling move.

Many thought the subcompact and poorly named AMC Gremlin was satirical when released on 1 April, 1970. SoftBank’s celebration of raising their reception to the “best in Japan” was met with widespread suspicion because of the timing and… well, it’s SoftBank.

And now we have the Oldlensgirl.jp opened on 1 April, 2013. The website’s mission is to catalog old camera lenses as moé (cute and anthropomorphic) girls. The website got popular pretty quickly due to how specific a niche it filled. However, it’s making even more news now as people are realizing it wasn’t a joke. A few days after 1 April, Oldlensgirl is going strong with plans to add more lens-girls.

Mar 2, 2013 by Michelle
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In Japan, there’s the Pokémon airplane covered in images of Pikachu and Pokéballs, as well as the Hello Kitty airplane with, you guessed it, images of Hello Kitty. Now Taiwan is getting on board with cutesy transportation with their updated dining cars featuring Moe girl characters.

Jan 21, 2013 by Steven
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Boy have we got a good dose of internet for you today.

The title of this article really explains everything there is to know about what follows below: a Switzerland-based YouTube user by the name of Melon Pan has uploaded a 25-minute video of himself licking his entire anime figure collection.

Jan 20, 2013 by Steven
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The latest trailer for Fate/Extra CCC, an upcoming Japanese role-playing game for the PSP, has become a talking point after it was uploaded to YouTube and Niconico earlier this week.

The short promotional movie introduces a character called Passion Lip, a girl with long purple hair and gigantic claws. The problem, according to Japanese netizens, is that Passion Lip’s claws are far too big — even for a Japanese video game.

To see what they mean, check the trailer below:

Jan 7, 2013 by Yoshio
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The holidays are over, you’ve gained a few extra pounds, but you’re finding it difficult to start a workout routine after so many peaceful days spent lounging around. What you need is a workout buddy to help you stay motivated. Preferably a cute girl.

For those of you who don’t know any cute girls willing to get sweaty with you, Japanese indie developer Creative Freaks has you covered with Burn your fat with me!!, a fitness app/dating simulation game where players must workout in real life to impress a 2D anime love interest.

Dec 10, 2012 by Steven
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It seems like nearly every city, town, and village in Japan has a cute mascot character to represent it. Usually these are yuru-kyara, anthropomorphic characters often designed with qualities representing whatever that municipality is known for.

The city of Suwa, Nagano, however, knows that the worth of a mascot character should be judged not by how well it represents the region, but by how well it sells. And in Japan, nothing sells better than cute anime girls.

That’s why they came up with Suwa-hime, or Princess Suwa, a young anime princess from medieval Japan with her own manga, voice actress, and line of original figures and goods.

Since her creation in 2011, Suwa-hime has been such a success that the city has even started printing her on their official marriage certificates, and the nerdy public official who came up with her is likely basking in splendid vindication of his hobby for the first time in his life.

Dec 7, 2012 by Steven
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I remember purchasing an anime VHS that had caught my eye while browsing the local video store back in middle school. It was called Tenchi Muyo!, and according to the description, it was about space pirates, legendary scientists, and intergalactic police, which all sounded pretty cool.

When I actually watched it, though, I was surprised to find that all of the above characters were beautiful young women. Not only that, but they all end up living with the main character, a normal young Japanese boy, and develop romantic feelings for him. Comedic antics were involved. It wasn’t exactly what I had in mind and, while there were action sequences, most of it was incredibly embarrassing to watch with my family around.

You see, until then, I thought Japanese anime was all about epic battles, giant robots and, on Saturday mornings on Kids’ WB!, Pokemon. For kids living in the US during the late 1990s, maybe it was.

But it seems that for the past several years in Japan, the whole “uninspired male protagonist stuck in love triangle with beautiful women” convention— a genre now known as “harem“— and similar racy themes like the borderline incestuous “little sister” genre, have become the face of the medium.

Well it looks like Japan has finally had enough: according to a survey conducted on Anime One in which nearly 6000 people replied, anime fans are sick of harem, little sister, and other bland and erotic subgenres.

Dec 7, 2012 by Michelle
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Leave it to Japan to turn the world’s most notorious dictators into sexy female anime characters. Fascists, commys, nationalists, socialists…the gang’s all here.

When I first heard about these dictators-turned-anime, I was a little shocked that someone “went there,” but after seeing the end result, I’m starting to think that scantily clad dictator girls with cleavage galore isn’t the worst idea.

Dec 2, 2012 by Michelle
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First, there was “itasha,” or “pain mobile,” a car so nerdy it hurt. Then there was a “painful” helicopter created by the Japan Self Defense Forces that featured manga-influenced designs.

Now, there’s a transparent “itaPC,” or “pain PC,” featuring the official, Japan-exclusive Windows 8-themed “moe” mascots, Yuu and Ai Madobe.

Nov 17, 2012 by Steven
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One of the most common stereotypes of nerds, or otaku as they’re known in Japan, is that they cannot cook and subsist on a diet of instant noodles and soft drinks.

Kitchen a la Mode is a new cooking school in Akihabara that hopes to get otaku off their chairs and into the kitchen by providing simple, hands-on cooking lessons with cute girls.

You may remember reading about Kitchen a la Mode on our site last month. Curious as to how the school has been doing since opening, RocketNews24 sent its handsomest American correspondent (me) to Kitchen a la Mode to experience moé cooking firsthand. Check out his (my) report below!

Oct 31, 2012 by Steven
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On October 29, Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said that since its release on Friday, Windows 8 has been selling at a higher rate than Windows 7, the best-selling version of Windows to date.

Despite confusion over alleged magic touch screen-imbuing capabilities, Windows 8 seems to be doing well in Japan as well— so well, in fact, that limited-quantity DSP editions of the operating system, which feature two unofficial Windows 8-themed “moe” mascots, are already beginning to sell out, proving once again that the Japanese will buy anything with a cute anime girl on it (not that there was a lack evidence).

Oct 19, 2012 by Philip Kendall
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“It just goes to show that we really do live in a peaceful country.”

A quote from an internet user sums up the mood perfectly after Japan’s Self Defence Forces unveil a unique attack helicopter covered with manga-influenced designs and colours.

Presented as part of an air show in Chiba prefecture last weekend, the quirky new helicopter quickly stole the show, with hundreds of people taking photos and video to share on the internet.

Whether we’d ever see a helicopter like this fly into battle or not, there’s no denying that it has an awful lot of charm.

Oct 15, 2012 by Steven
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Remember those Hatsune Miku steamed buns? Those were pretty cute, even if they didn’t hold up in the heat too well. But most of the time, the virtual idol’s turquoise/grey color palette doesn’t make for the most appetizing themed dishes. Yakisoba is no exception.

Aug 8, 2012 by Master Blaster
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Tokyo’s famous Comic Market (Comiket) 82, the world’s largest doujinshi convention, is set to kick off on 10 August. We can be sure to expect cosplayers and original comics a plenty, but one particular creation has be stirring up a fair bit of hype weeks before the gates open – the PC game Sutra Master.

Sutras are, in a nutshell, short pearls of spiritual wisdom like something you might find in a high-brow fortune cookie and are often compared to prayers in other religions. Taken from Buddhist texts and often chanted during meditation or religious ceremonies, sutras are generally treated with solemn dignity but Sutra Master takes them to a weird new place.

Jul 11, 2012 by Steven
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A shocking image has surfaced on the net that may prove to be a nail in the coffin of President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.

If the information in the image can be believed to be true, President Obama is following the Twitter account of 13-year-old moe anime girl bot, @akari_daisuki.

Jun 30, 2012 by Steven
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It was bound to happen, we just didn’t think it would be this fast.

In light of the recent “misfire” by international hactivist collective Anonymous after their first foray into Japan, Japanese netizens have done what they always do when they want to make fun of someone and personified the group as anime characters.

Jun 29, 2012 by Master Blaster
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Sadly with Japan’s many recent economic woes, visitation to the remote stations of Kofuku and Aikoku has been low. So in an effort to drum up some visitors, the local communities did what anyone would do in this situation. They made some gods.

Mar 26, 2012 by Steven
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Highly trained athletes tearing through a course on sleek racing bicycles against the cheers of a fervent crowd on is probably representative of most people’s image of professional cycling.

Apparently in Japan, the image is a little different.

Nagoya Bicycle Racing recenlty created a mascot character in an attempt to add more heat to the already passionate world of bicycle racing, but when a hyperactive promotion video featuring the character hit the net several days ago, many people were left wondering what the hell it had to do with cycling.

The heat, however, was brought in spades.