Beckii Cruel – a young lady at the age of 14 gained popularity from the videos that she posted on YouTube of her dancing to JPop and anime tunes. Today she performed at the Enta Matsuri in Akihabara where 600 fans showed up to egg her on.
Ai Sp@ce is a Japanesevirtual3Dmassively multiplayer online social game (MMOSG) developed by several companies that form the Ai Sp@ce Production Committee which was launched on October 15, 2008, despite an earlier announcement of a summer 2008 release.[1][2]Beta testing commenced between mid-September and mid-October 2008.[3] Primary development was handled by Headlock, with Dwango providing the world’s infrastructure and Internet service. Dwango’s subsidiary Niwango ties in the Nico Nico Anime Channel from the Nico Nico Dougavideo sharing website by providing users the opportunity to upload gameplaysequences online.[4]
A downloadable client program enables its users to interact through motional avatars with each other and primarily with bish?jo game heroines from three visual novels:Clannad by Key under Visual Art’s, Shuffle! by Navel under Omegavision, and Da Capo II by Circus.[5] After a player creates an avatar, one of the bish?jo game heroines is selected as a personal character doll, or “chara-doll”, to live with on one of the game’s three virtual “islands” which are patterned on the worlds featured in the three visual novels. The islands are connected by a central Akihabara Island where players with their chara-dolls can gather for chatting and events.[1] The first theme song for Ai Sp@ce is sung by Kotoko.[1]
The latest erotic addition to the booming Queen’s Blade franchise is to be a suitable erotic cosplay photo album/game book featuring gravure idol ???? / Yuuri Morishita, cosplaying maid assassin Airi.
A survey asking whether Japanese thought a ban on “simple possession” of pornography featuring underage participants is necessary found only 1.6% of respondents thought so, with most condemning it as an excessively radical measure which endangers freedom of expression.