[Rakshasa]

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Issue #26

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Hatsune Miku “World’s Fakest Pop Star”

The US network CBS has lately been the target of strong animosity from Miku fans all over the globe, after writing an article in which they had the audacity to call the holographic princess Hatsune Miku “the world’s fakest pop star.”
The article is a rather large entry into the “Hatsune Miku = creepy Japanese hologram” genre.

Hatsune Miku is the rarest kind of pop star. She is enduringly popular in her native country of Japan. She has never been photographed stumbling out of night clubs in the early hours of the morning, and never had issues with drugs or alcohol. She has, in fact, never been seen outside of her concerts at all. This is because Miku is also the fakest kind of pop star. She is a hologram.
More accurately, Hatsune Miku is a digital avatar. Wikipedia describes her as a “singing synthesizer application with a female persona,” created by Crypton Future Media. Using Yamaha’s Vocaloid software, anyone with enough technical know-how can program Miku to perform any song on a computer.
In Japan, where synthetic characters — such as Hello Kitty — are often far more enduring than real celebrities, Miku has been a huge hit. The holographic star has performed multiple sold-out concerts in her home country and abroad. Projected larger than life on a screen, Miku sings and dances according to the direction of programmers who “choreographed” the concert weeks or months in advance.
The stark unreality of Hatsune Miku doesn’t seem to bother her fans at all.

Azusa Nakano’s Birthday

On a day of remembrance, we think of all the times; through thick and thin, and through happy and sad. And Azusa has definatly brought us both. The little moe brought us her birthday and boy did the Otaku's go crazy for it! TBS went down several times with so many frenzied Otaku's trying to grab some unique goodies to celebrate; not only that there were many tribute pictures posted around the web. Congrats on your 15th, or 16th or 17th birthday! We still don't know! Happy birthday Azu-nya!

If any of you guys want to get a hold on any of her cool things and grab a deal; check out here:
http://ishop.tbs.co.jp/special/tbs/k-on/...adid=90054

China’s “Star Gate” Project -- The Center of Mockery

China's latest political patronage project, built in Liaoning province, will supposedly take the form of a gigantic ring, 157m tall, consuming 3000 tons of steel, make use 12,000 LEDs, and an undisclosed amount of electricity in its nocturnal illuminations. The project is so pointless that it soon found itself the butt of mass Photoshop mockery.
Plans were to allow bungee jumping off it, but was later concluded that it would be too dangerous even for China.

Numerous speculations have been made about possible uses for the seemingly-pointless structure: (Click to View)

Former Morning Musume idol in $1 million Porno Deal

Maki Goto former Morning Musume has just accepted a pronogrpahic movie deal worth around $1million and will appear in two hardcore films; which means a grand total of $500,000's for each movie she makes. Not only was this slightly shocking due to her being in one of the biggest girl bands in Japan, but she was also a former top idol. Sometimes money is everything though and turning down 80,000,000 yen is very hard to do. Heck, I can't even imagine what 80,000,000 would look like. The 27 year old has already posed in some very - well - rude poses, but has never truly showed everything to the camera, and well, technically she will, but the public won't see.

Those who are familiar with Japanese Porno, will know that due to Japanese law, adult material cannot be published in Japan without certain "areas" being blurred. So it begs the question: "is this too much money for a blurred porno?" Probably. The public won't get a clear view on what she looks like down below, but with some creativity, I'm sure they can imagine it.

Ghibli's 'Giant God Warrior' Theatrical Version Shown With Evangelion 3.0

An announcement was made during NTV's Friday Road Show! showing of Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone this Friday, stating the debut of the extended theatrical edition of Ghibli's "Kyoshinhei Tokyo ni Arawaru" (Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo) live-action tokusatsu (special-effects) short to be shown with Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo film this month. The live-action was developed by Evangelion director Hideaki Anno and produced by Studio Ghibli, NTV aired a teaser for the original version in May. The two will make a theatrical debut throughout Japan on November 17.

The short was inspired by the 'Giant God Warriors' from Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind manga and anime film. Anno, who was also a key animator for said film, later drew inspiration from the same concept (and childhood memories of the tokusatsu franchise Ultraman) to create Evangelion.

According to Anno, the short will not make use of computer graphics, but relies on traditional filmmaking techniques like miniatures to make the "definitive tokusatsu work." The original version was 9 minutes and 3 seconds, while the upcoming theatrical version will be 10 minutes and 7 seconds with revised footage and sound.

China-Quality Anime Statues Inflicting Mass Trauma

Images spread like a plague through the internet from Sina Weibo, taken from the Wenzhou anime event in China.
Displaying the best of Chinese artistic quality, it has lately been attracting major attention among Asian anime fans, though more for sake of mockery than admiration in any case.

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Reading through the comments on the original article, this specific one caught my eye:
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• Happeh has launched an amazing free [email protected] email service. Check it out here: https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=3017667
  


• Black Hole just made the 19th AA Weekly Poll, rivaling the two well-known slice of life anime Lucky Star and K-ON. Check it out here: https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=3019482
  


• Azusa Nakano aka. Tails just returned to us and seems to be doing well after the surgery. Check his return-thread out here: https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=3021171
  


• I just finished my large in-depth information thread about to the Japanese game-production company, Type-Moon. Check it out here: https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=3014837
  

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Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou



Genres: Comedy, School, Shounen, Slice of Life

Synopsis
Tadakuni, Hidenori, and Yoshitake are students at the all-boys academy, Sanada North High School. This is a tale about just that—their daily lives as students. Winning the basketball tournament? Finding true love? You won't find any of that here. Whether it's sparking random arguments while hanging out with friends, meeting that one weird co-worker at a part-time job, or even letting imaginations run wild on a windy afternoon, we've all experienced the show's ordinary but true-to-life themes at one point or another.

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• Rakshasa
  

Again I apologize for a very late issue, been busy with exams coming up and shit. (Thanks Happeh for covering a lot of this one)
Will try my best to get the next one up on time.

[Hentai]

Good like you usual. Its interesting to read these. Gives me something to do.

[Happeh]

Was in tears over the Long Cat in the Star Gaze. Love the humor. What every news article needs. :3

[Hentai]

What series is that anime in amv scope..I like it.

[Rakshasa]

Well obviously there are various, but the girl with all the monitors comes from this: http://myanimelist.net/anime/10568/Kamisama_no_Memochou

@Happeh
Yeah I know >.<
By the way there were a couple of more as well, but I did a major image clean-up throughout the thread because of that damn image limit -.-

[Marshmellow]

Well obviously there are various, but the girl with all the monitors comes from this: http://myanimelist.net/anime/10568/Kamisama_no_Memochou

This anime is amazing by the way.
Highly recommended.

[Happeh]

Good to see you back Marshmellow, btw. ^^

[Hentai]

Good to see you back Marshmellow, btw. ^^

His avatar looks like a hentai I might happen to know of a girl getting rapped and is brainwashed and orgasming allot and it might or might not have been really hot. 🤫

[rinluvr]

Lol. Let CBS hate on Vocaloid. She has had sold out concerts here in the US too.
Great choice on the Series Highlight BTW!!
I had to pause it a couple times because I was laughing so hard when I first saw it.

[juniiflow]

Ahhhh... beatifull content here.

good post

[Lonephenom™]

Ahhhh... beatifull content here.

good post

Congrats 1,000 posts

They celebrate characters birthdays o.0 ?

I didn't think people took it that far.

[Rakshasa]

Great choice on the Series Highlight BTW!!
I had to pause it a couple times because I was laughing so hard when I first saw it.

God yes. I mean, Mio and Gintoki in the fucking best love story ever told <3 This anime didn't give me a single break between outbursts of almost-painful laughing >.<
One of the best SOL's ever.

I was disappointed when nobody could guess it in the screenshot game, which is partially why I put it.

@Lone
Far? Boy that's not far by a long shot, considering the shit that people can think of >.>

[Kina]

Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful content everywhere. Nice job on this.
May get some of that AzuNyan stuff. If I get some money.

[Programmargorp]

God yes. I mean, Mio and Gintoki in the fucking best love story ever told <3 This anime didn't give me a single break between outbursts of almost-painful laughing >.<
One of the best SOL's ever.

I was disappointed when nobody could guess it in the screenshot game, which is partially why I put it.

@Lone
Far? Boy that's not far by a long shot, considering the shit that people can think of >.>

I watched the first ep of that. Didn't really like it.
Don't know if it's the comedy or the character design that put me off.

[Lonephenom™]

@Lone
Far? Boy that's not far by a long shot, considering the shit that people can think of >.>

I'm quite sheltered i'm not really sure how far people can/will go.