Strange

Those of the spring 2013 season which survived the ruthless culling of inferior shows and have been accorded the honour of being added to fan watch lists are hereby ranked – with the foremost title being a gigantic hit indeed.

The ranking:

1. Shingeki no Kyojin

2. Hataraku Maou-sama!

From the anime Ore no Imouto comes this figure of tsundere otaku queen Kirino Kousaka wearing a fashionable one-piece dress – in likely preparation for a date with her fans this December, thanks to the efforts of Alphamax.

Square Enix’s latest exciting new title has been announced as “Grand Union” – a social card battle game for mobile phones, prompting the usual howls from the few remaining gamers who expect anything more from the company.

The quality of Chinese artists has been in the spotlight after some of the candidate Vocaloids for the 2nd “Vocaloid China” project were revealed – securing much approval even in Japan.

The top-runners of the 666 entrants the competition received have received much praise:

With the spring 2013 season reaching its halfway point, fans have collectively ranked the anime series they have most frequently dumped from their watch lists – revealing imouto fanciers are none too satisfied with their latest offering….

The ranking:

1. Ore no Imouto 2

2. Hataraku Maou-sama!

3. Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru

4. Hentai Ouji to Warawanai Neko

One of Japan’s valiant defenders has been arrested for controlling his sexual energy with the help of two schoolgirls.

The 20-year-old leading private was apparently led by his privates into an encounter with two girls aged 15 and 16.

The prospect of a Hollywood movie version of shocking titan anime Shingeki no Kyojin has been causing some enthusiasm for once, after a parody Hollywood-style poster stimulated the imagination (to say nothing of naive optimism) of fans.

By Kouji Tajima, the theatrical poster is strictly unofficial – but has inspired the vanishingly rare sight of actual enthusiasm about a Hollywood adaptation online:

“I thought this was real, damn it.”

Soviet mech pilot Inia Sestina, joins in the shiny Total Eclipse figure action wearing her skin-tight pilot suit, and is cleared for arrival this September thanks to Kotobukiya.

After having posted the worst losses in its history and sacking its CEO, Square Enix has announced its new focus will be social games.

Its final balance sheet for the last fiscal year showed an operating loss of 6 billion yen – the first time since the merger with Enix that the company has posted an operating loss – and total losses stood at 13.7 billion yen, the worst result in its history.

The leader of Japan’s third largest party has spoken of the “cold” reaction his suggestion to the commander of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma that he have his soldiers make better use of Japanese prostitutes received, and for good measure has stated that Japan’s wartime use of “comfort women” was justified too.

Tooru Hashimoto, Osaka’s ex-mayor and the founder of the Japan Restoration Party, now Japan’s third largest, made the comments at a recent press conference.

Anime fans have again been busily voting on which titles they most want to see sequels to, this time apparently being in more difficulty than usual as continuations for most of the previous top choices are already confirmed…

The ranking:

1. Hyouka

2. Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou

3. Accel World

4. Girls & Panzer

A new trailer for the highly controversial Ghost in the Shell ARISE movie series has been released, and the scepticism of GitS fans disturbed by radical changes in both character design and voice casting appear to be evaporating rapidly.

The latest trailer: