Everyone would imagine it would be safe to ride a train, after all it is littered with people. But that’s not the case for seiyuu Ayana Taketatsu, familiar to many as the voice of Azunyan of K-ON fame.

According to Ayana Taketatsu herself she she was being peeped at by an male “predator”, believed to be an otaku. This was occurring during the one of her usual train rides in Tokyo’s subway system. Feeling uncomfortable solely knowing that she was being looked at strangely, she eventually found out that the peeping tom also was filming her.

She shared this on her twitter:

“Hmmm, this is most suspect. I may have been the subject of a peeping tom on the Fuktoshin line. And using video…

He shouldn’t have got my pantsu or anything, he seemed to be just filming me sat down. What can you do about this?”

“I should have filmed him back!! Maybe that would have been good proof of what he was up to!! But that’s a crime as well… Sorry. I was hungry, I couldn’t think properly. Curse my appetite.”

“Damn it, this is annoying! I should have at least made a face at him!”

Under normal circumstances this would both be creepy and understandable, much due to her fame. But in the case of Japan, it is actually a crime to photograph anyone (especially a woman) without the proper consent. So it doesn’t come as a surprise that the the end result of this encounter resulted in a report to the authorities.

The online reaction is mixed as usual, some take it serious, other simply brush it off. Questions have also been raised whether it was an obsessive otaku which “stalked” her in the subway or just a perverted man taking interest in attractive pretty girls.

“Poor girl!”

“I can’t believe one of those peeping bastards would target Ayachi. Probably it was just a habitual offender shooting a cute girl.”

“She’s gradually turning into the next Hirano. Next she’ll be making stuff up about taxi drivers…”

“I think she’s just trolling for sympathy.”

“Upload your pics, guys.”

“So Ayanyan uses the Fukutoshin line…”

Japan seem to be out of luck lately. Apart from the 2011 magnitude 9 earthquake, scientists has now estimated that there is a 75% chance of an earthquake taking place with a magnitude of 7 within the next 4 years.

The government had previously suggested that the newly discovered data done by University of Tokyo researchers, could occur within the next 30-years. But now the seismic activities would suggest that that number is closing in and just within 4 years Tokyo, the home of a 30 million people, could be in danger.

The death counts are now foretold as of yet, but a 2006 research suggest that if a magnitude 7 hit the Tokyo bay area it would result in the death of 5,600 people and injure a further 159,100.

Whilst Japan is still suffering from the 2011 disaster, fear is already engulfing the nations inhabitants. But Japan’s Reconstruction Minister desperately asks them to not to run away:

Please rest assured, and don’t flee Tokyo.

I can prove this [safety] by pointing to the fact that despite the strong lateral movements triggered by the March 11 earthquake, the shinkansen recovered very quickly. I think this is proof how far our earthquake resistance technology has advanced.

Online reactions:

“Tokyo is finished!”

“A 30% chance of it not coming – what a relief!”

“We can finally move the capital in the next 4 years, great.”

“All the 3/11 damage was down to the tsunami. Take care over tsunami and there’s no real problem!”

“No, if it’s directly under Tokyo none of that earthquake resistance will matter at all…”

“Don’t tell me this professor is in the pay of earthquake insurers…”

“What will happen to the Tokyo Sky Tree?”

“Well, if it is underneath I suppose it will fall over. Still, a 7 in the world’s biggest metropolist with 35 million people is going to create pandemonium which will go down in history in any case.”

“Don’t you just love seismologists, giving themselves a 30% margin like that.”

“You people in the regions realise that Tokyo being finished means Japan is finished, I hope?”

“That’s why people are saying to decentralise away from Tokyo…”

“Probably just more government-beholden scholars trying to jack up their budget by causing a stir.”

“They were saying this decades ago. There are always huge quakes in Japan, it’s nothing to worry about now all of a sudden.”

“They’ll be saying exactly the same thing in 10 years.”

“This lot are the same bunch of liars TEPCO has been hiring to push nuclear safety.”

“First, they said no nuclear accident was possible. Now, they say no quake is going to happen in Tokyo. Japan = No Guard.”

“Ignoring some rubbish uni’s predictions I can understand, but as this is Toudai the repercussions will be big. Who’d buy new apartments in Tokyo now…”

“Remember, it’s magnitude 7.0, which is only shindo 6 or so. That’s not too bad.”

“Does anyone still believe these ridiculous percentages they keep coming out with?”

“I doubt the capital would be severely damaged, but the paralysis would be something else…”

“Please hurry up and correct this overconcentration!”

“Nobody minds if they get it wrong and it doesn’t happen, but if it happens unpredicted they will be hung out to dry – naturally it’s better to exaggerate the risk, isn’t being a seismologist great?”

2011 was a great year for Anime fans, and when great diverse titles pop up during the year there will always be a rank list highlighting the best of the best, and this one is no different.

Anime fans has gathered once more to introduce to the world to what Anime from 2011 is worth investing and will have all watch over and over again.

1. Blue Exorcist

2. Kimi ni Todoke 2

3. Ano Hi

4. Puella Magi Madoka Magica

5. Usagi Drop

6. Nichijou

7. Baka to Test to Shokanju 2

8. Tiger & Bunny

9. Hanasaku Iroha

10. Yondemasu yo, Azazel-san

Comiket 81 excellency continues in a new batch of cosplay phenomenon, and this time around we also see a female Rilakkuma (Relax Bear) with real cleavage appeal. And those are not the only pair of breasts you will be able to spot.

Want to watch the earlier batch from day 1? Click here.

Golden cosplay fairies found nowhere else on earth except on Comiket continues its tradition with even more stunning display of passionated Cosplay at Comiket 81.

Comiket 81 began on December 29, 2011.

The otaku netizens from 2ch usually gather photographies of their usual “Christmas” celebration in their ronery quarters. This year is no different, and as expected, even Christmas Eve – the most important day some would say, is just as ronery as ever. Well, that is if only 2D wifes doesn’t count.

But even with all that, the crowd over at 2ch never cease to surprise with their extravagant display of collectors items, dedication and not to mention cooking skills.

This must be the cutest Christmas yet.

Google is on the hunt after a piece of the Japanese browser market and has cleverly hired one of the more popular virtual idols, Hatsune Miku, in order to have more of an impact.

The browser market in Japan isn’t as competitive as in the western world due to the populations refusal to stray away from the Windows OS built in Internet Explorer. Due to this 50% of the market share belongs to Internet Explorer. But Google is looking to gain some of that using their very own popular browser Google Chrome.

To achieve their goal Google has hired Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber. But as their ace in the game they have managed to hire the virtual diva Hatsune Miku, and together they have produced the following marketing video:

The ever so expansive adult market in Japan has reached a point where it it said for every 200 woman, 1 of those women are no doubt included in some form of adult entertainment. The previous estimation the year before (2010) claimed it to be 1 out of 500.

Though nothing can be confirmed, the numbers doesn’t seem to be entirely wrong, or at least not doubt worthy. Especially when you consider that whether it may be legal, underground or even online, everyday there is 100 new adult entertainment made in Japan.

The number of AV titles produced annually, if we include online and underground videos, is said to be in the region of 35,000 titles.

Simple arithmetic suggests 100 videos a day are being released.

Since we see from 2,000 to 3,000 new AV girls making their debut each year, it’s said that 150,000 women have worked in the industry.

There are some 30 million women aged 19 to 55 in Japan, so the 150,000 performers give us the rough “1 in 200″ figure.

The Japanese online community seems to be split about the subject. Some claim it is obvious, whilst others lean more towards a feminist attitude.

“We knew.”

“Wherever you work, play or study, if you look hard enough through enough AVs, you will find an AV of one of the girls – how wonderful.”

“I once picked up a girl who casually admitted appearing in one… it was good as she proceeded to do for me the same things as in the AV!”

“My favourite performer changed her name 5 times though…”

“Japanese girls are easy. Virtually all of them could be AV girls.”

“Why up to 55? Surely it should be up to 30, in which case the proportion is rather higher…”

“And the industry is totally centred on Tokyo, so it should be closer to 1 in 50 there, and much less elsewhere.”

“There’s no real basis for the statistics they give in any case.”

“90% of them come from the sex trade. There are clearly enough of them to give rise to the 150,000 AV girls figure.”

“DMM have 180,000 titles. They’ve been around 10 years, so that is 18,000 a year.”

“Non-virgins are disgusting sluts.”

“I’m embarrassed to be Japanese.”

“I think it is more like 2 in every 400.”

“That’s if you count rank amateurs with only one appearance. But I expect 1 in 3 have experience of prositution though…”

“AV is prostitution, you’re taking money to have sex with men after all. Include prostitutes and sluts and you probably get most women.”

“It’s all those filthy Korean sluts.”

“Most of them are just Koreans!”

“It should be ’1 in every 200 AV girls are Japanese’.”

“Are these people who bring Koreans into every single thread Koreans themselves or something? Give it a rest already.”

“The net right can’t decide whether it should be bashing women or bashing Korea so this is the result.”

“You guys just blame anything inconvenient on the Koreans…”

“Japanese women are the world’s worst bitches. They are worse at doing the chores than English women, more selfish than American women, more arrogant than French women, and as greedy as Korean or Chinese women. And their hobbies are bullying and killing their kids. Cockroaches have more sense of shame than Japanese women.”

“Stop bashing your fellow Japanese – this is all a plot by Korean agents!”

“This topic really set off the net-uyo, didn’t it?”

“Most only have 1 or 2 appearances, I’m sure. Only a tiny number will be professional AV performers.”

“Really, if you include prostitutes you should have 1 in 5 I think.”

“If 10% of Japanese are petty criminals and 1% serious felons, it’s hardly surprising to have 0.5% AV performers. And there are barely enough Koreans in Japan for anything but the vast majority of AV performers to be Japanese, idiots.”

“At 0.5% it is nothing to get worked up about.”

“It’s really worse than that. With Google, all of them are going to be preserved online for the rest of their lives, and beyond. There’s no way to avoid being found out now. What happens when they are wives and mothers…”

“These trashy and baseless articles will be translated and published overseas as part of a plot to ruin the image of Japan!”

Scandal diva queen Aya Hirano has once again changed her looks, but former fans cannot help but to think of her new change being tasteless and out of fashion so much so her looks portray her as “old”, and not young and attractive as her previous silky black hair look once did.

No matter how you might view Loli’s, there is no denying that their cuteness sells. And it wouldn’t be entirely wrong to state that the younger they go the more of their personality there is to love.

There has as of late been great shows which features these cute little 2D angels in one way or another. Fans that follow these small 2D angels has made it their quest to gathered their top ten ranking of the Anime titles which are well worth anyones time.

1. Kaga Rin (Usagi Drop)

2. Sengoku Nadeko (Bakemonogatari)

3. Last Order (To Aru Majutsu no Index)

4. Minato Tomoka (Ro-Kyu-Bu!)

5. Hakamada Hinata (Ro-Kyu-Bu!)

6. Hachikuji Mayoi (Bakemonogatari)

7. Hakase (Nichijou)

8. Hasegawa Kobato (Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai)

9. Tenshi (Angel Beats!)

10. Okazaki Ushio (Clannad)

The list features some girls which in traditional “loli” standards would probably be questioned, but their cuteness is something which clearly stands true no matter what.