This would be no longer legal.Many famous manga creators have signed the petition against proposed law that would ban any slightly erotic depiction of 2D characters who would be or appear to be younger than 18 years old. A group of mangaka went to the Tokyo Governmental Office to present their petition against the speculated measure. The list contained names of many famous mangaka.Fujiko Fujio ATakao SaitoJuzo YamasakiKenichi KitamiMitsuru AdachiRumiko TakahashiGosho AoyamaMoto HagioMichiyo AkaishiWakuni AkisatoHiroshi MotomiyaMakoto OginoBig Joe Takeshi ŌmiUzuki NakamuraYudetamagoTakashi SanoTetsuya ChibaKenshi HirokaneKaiji KawaguchiMakoto KobayashiTakeshi MaekawaHiroki YagamiKen AkamatsuTohru FujisawaKazuki YamamotoKanji SorasakiNaoki SerizawaTetsuya KoshibaUchū NishikawaWaki YamatoJun FukamiMariko NakamuraNami AkimotoYasuyuki Kunitomo Ryohei SaiganJun HayaseSatosumi TakaguchiKaworu WatashiyaMasako WatanabeKeisuke ItagakiKenji HamaokaYoshikazu YasuhikoTakayuki Yamaguchi Yoshiaki TabataYousuke TakahashiAkihito YoshitomiYūki YogoYasuhiro ImagawaYasunari TodaKenetsu SatouHiroyuki YoshinoMasahiro ItosugiKenji YamamotoKoban SamedaMakoto UezuShigeru MoritaHiraku KanekoMunenori NawaManga, anime, and game industry is facing a big jeopardy that calls for some defensive counter-attacks. This petition is indeed a reasonable way to stand up against the proposed measure. If the new legislation passed, it would seriously harm a big part of Japanese pop-culture, and young characters in anime and manga would be no more. I really don't want to see that happen.I find it very preposterous to spend time and money on such senseless regulations that won't help anyone. On the contrary, masses of people would be very displeased by it and it will most likely have a negative effect on Japanese economy as well. Anime, manga, and games related goods bring a lot of money to Japan and if pop-culture companies had to stop doing what they've been doing up to now, the consequences might be unexpectedly large and inflict damage to Japanese economy, which hardly is in a position where it could afford saying goodbye to any profit possibilities.I hope common sense prevails in the end; we must believe this senseless idea will be crushed and washed away and will fall into oblivion for good.
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  Kaiji in a nutshellAn unfortunate (and rather unintelligent) young man gets into trouble with loan sharks when his friend, who he co-signed a loan for, skips town. He finds himself on a gambling boat playing a unique game of Jan Ken Pon (rock paper scissors).Though the series starts with paper, rock, scissors, Kaiji takes us through a number of games, both silly and sadistic, but all with serious repercussions. At the conclusion of one such arc, the evil Tonegawa is bested by Kaiji at C-card, and is forced to apologize to Kaiji, per their agreement in the game.   That's not a happy face The really awkward part comes with the chairman (who employs Tonegawa) forces the professing to be performed on a hot iron bed. He had to performer a formal, knees-hands-head bow on the ground, on a bed of hot iron.  So... yeah, Kaiji's apology turns into something horrific, as he watches the man burn several parts of his body. So, anyway... we've got this really cool figure depicting this moment I totally wanted to remember forever .  The best part... IT BURNS INCENSE. Yes, now you can associate with the smell of burning flesh with lavender, peaches, or even anything, really. Oh right, and its from WonFes, if you haven't had enough figures yet. Link Factory makes it, and costs 5,000 yen.  (via gigazine)
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p>Deploying the artwork I got anyway series, Part 5 (Because I'm anal like that.) Eagle © Kawaguchi Kaiji/Shogakukan (Serialized in Big Comic) Published in Indonesia by Elex Media/Level Comics Eagle 9 By Kawaguchi Kaiji Original title: イーグル (Eagle) Shogakukan, originally serialized in Big Comic, seinen Volume 9 first released in Japan 2000.09 Published in Indonesia 2010.01 by PT Elex Media
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   <object width="640px" height="388px"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KdcaUMfzXSI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"> </param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> </param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KdcaUMfzXSI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640px" height="388px" wmode="transparent"> </embed></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"> </param></object> Darker Than Duck: Who ever thought Darkwing Duck and Darker than Black would work together deserves to be hugged. This video is just spectacular, the special effects and the overall editing is outstanding. If this doesn't make you want to watch Darker than Black, then I don't know what will.    <object width="640px" height="518px"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/r_p0dsCwONg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"> </param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> </param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/r_p0dsCwONg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640px" height="518px" wmode="transparent"> </embed></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"> </param></object>   Revolutionary Girl Lelouch: Code Geass and Utena go together like raptors and Jesus; they are just a perfect combination together. Why? I don't know, Maybe because they have shojo blood running through them, or because Lelouch used to be a girl, either way this is amazing. Very professional, would watch again A+++.    <object width="640px" height="518px"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HfP_rJ7Jn84&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"> </param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> </param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HfP_rJ7Jn84&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640px" height="518px" wmode="transparent"> </embed></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"> </param></object>   How a Real Man Plays Children Games: And that my friends, is with pain. Much like Kaiji, this person transformed an innocent game and made it deadly. He took out the teeth of this innocent crocodile, and put sharp pins in their place. Push down the wrong tooth, and you have a oneway ticket to pain town.       <object width="640px" height="518px"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BzdI_GDHYWY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"> </param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> </param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BzdI_GDHYWY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640px" height="518px" wmode="transparent"> </embed></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"> </param></object>   Tales of Hesperia: Here is an awesome opening MAD of the characters from Hetalia within the Tales of Vesperia opening. This makes geography cool, and would help me pass the class if I had this video to help me back then.        <object width="640px" height="518px"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PAzRYjpMPms&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"> </param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> </param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PAzRYjpMPms&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640px" height="518px" wmode="transparent"> </embed></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"> </param></object>   Japan's Bukkake Festival: Ok so you might have already guessed, this is not really a bukkake festival, but you know it's on everyone's mind. This is actually the Oshiroi festival, a festival that is kind of like Groundhog Day here in the west. The stickier the rice that sticks to your face, the better the harvest.        <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1926105&amp;fullscreen=1" width="640" height="360"> <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"> </param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"> </param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"> </param><param name="movie" quality="best" value="http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1926105&amp;fullscreen=1"> <embed src="http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1926105&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="640" height="360" allowscriptaccess="always"> </embed></param></object> See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.     Random Video of the Week:
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Don’t get me wrong, every edition of How Can Cosplay be this Good is sexy cosplay edition, but who’s counting? Well I know you have been dying to see more cosplay, I can see it in your eyes; worry not because I have a great catch for you today. For one I bring you a life-like Kaiji who looks incredibly like the character. If you don’t like men with pointy noses, I then have for you those two crazy cat girl things from Escaflowne, there needs to be more of them instead of Vash cosplay during the con circuit, am I right guys? Zawa Zawa 
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Halfway there to Christmas! Time for another memory from summer 2009. I’ve noticed though that I don’t have all that many anime-related memories of last summer, possibly due to my work in brain-boiling temperatures staring at a flow of cardboard sheets for 8 hours a day. Twelve Moments # 6 – Kaiji Hates BMW’s And don’t [...]
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Kaiji is an incredibly intense experience from start to finish, with a good plot, lots of twists and a fantastic protagonist. But what has consistently stuck with me about the series from the moment I completed it is this issue brought up by Baka-Raptor in this post by ghostlightning. The comment: “It’s ok (and often preferable) [...]
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In today’s video the manga Kaiji gets a live action adaption, Astro Boy is in the news…again, an otaku marries Nene from Love Plus, and Durarara!! posts a twelve minute preview video from its upcoming official anime.
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Even though most of us have not seen the first live-action Kaiji film, it’s sequel has just been green lit. Not much is known right now about this sequel, other than Tatsuya Fujiwara will return as Kaiji , and that this will hit theaters some time in 2011. I’m unsure if this film is going to be a brand new story, or continue down the path of the manga. I don’t have a trailer for you or anything, but check out the first film’s trailer; I’m still pumped to see it. Now that I think about it, when the hell is the second season coming out? [Via ANN ] <object width="425" height="344"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/K7XRk0gQsRs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"> </param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> </param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/K7XRk0gQsRs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"> </embed> </param> </object>
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Saki is slightly unlike the normal Shonen series. Whereas most series about "anything" will beat us in the face with information about everything about series, they've left us mostly to our own devices about Mahjong... freaking Mahjong   In Kaiji we got an entire episode devoted to explaining rock, paper, scissors, yet Saki cannot form the words to actually tell us what a winning hand is, or how scoring works.   To this effect I decided to put together an off hand glossary to terms and concepts that go on in Saki. Enjoy.   Basics Meld = sets of one particular character, or a run of 3   Pung = Three of a kind Kong = Four of a kind Shuntsu = 3 in a row, of the same suit (1, 2, 3 of stones, etc.)   Winning the game A Winning hand is one that consists of 3 melds and one pair. This is referred to as a mahjong.   Tsumo - completing your hand off of a random tile draw Ron - completing your hand off of another players discard  Tempai - Being one tile away from victory   A player who is Tempai may reveal this to the other players by declaring Richi. Calling Richi (when they throw the sticks in) declares they are one away, and obligates them to discard any tile they draw that does not immediately win the game. Winning while Richi gets a bonus, and losing enforces a penalty.   Saki Excitedly revealing her winning hand Flow of play/Winds: Dice are rolled to figure out who is starting player/dealer. A round is over when all players finish being the East wind/dealer   Special rule about the East wind: The Wind only passes when the East wind loses. As long as he or she wins, the number of hands they play continues to lengthen. Thus, the concept of momentum and the importance of the East wind come out.   Each turn players draw a tile, then choose to discard one. Players may take a discarded tile out of turn, if it forms a Pung, Kong, or the pair neccessary to win a hand. They discard normally afterwards, and play continues to the right of the player who stole the tile (which could easily result in skipping players)   If mulitple players call the same discard, they reveal what it was for, and the hand of largest importance (Pung vs Kong vs winning hand). In particular, if a player calls Kong with a discard, but another player can use the tile to win, it is referred to as "Robbing the Kong" and often connotates bonus points.   Special rule about Kong : If a player calls a kong, he or she then immediately takes a tile and discards as normal. That tile, however, comes from a particular part of the remaining pool, and they have no say over which they take.      Her classic Tsumo after Kong. But now you know what that means.
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