Thursday, July 31, 2014

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Moetron as a Monster

What is Moetron?

By Just An Otaku 1:15 AM Anime Chitchat, Kimekona-chan, Moetron Leave a Comment

Moetron Details

Moetron is a community-made character who was originally just a forced summer meme on 4chan’s /a/.

She is a character that focuses on things that are “moe.” However, with the same irony as Pedobear and other board-related characters, she has been the subject of discussion to the point of her becoming a legitimate character. Though a few may joke that she is an abomination, she is considered to be /a/’s daughter.

The theory behind the way she looks is that she was created from parts of many different girls, most likely by a mad scientist who wanted to make a perfect daughter. She has multiple personality disorder as a result, and can go from being tsuntsun to kuudere to yandere in a moment’s time. This also explains her stitches.

Origin

Two years ago, someone from Futaba Channel (2chan) mashed up different moeblobs from various anime. The original image uses a similar template of a super deformed form of Ikeda Kana from Saki.

The result is this:

On almost a daily basis on 4chan’s /a/, some random /a/non would make a thread with no text and just the edited image of Konata as seen above. No one paid attention to the threads for weeks, but in one of them someone asked for actual art of this mysterious girl. The request was completed by a tripfag from /a/, and the “original fanart” of Moetron was born. After that, she took off. As more fanart of her began to pop up, she was dubbed “Moetron” by another random /a/sshole, and now she has even made her way onto Akinator and Japanese blog sites.

Her birthday is May 7th.

Source: KnowYourMeme

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Japanese Government to Start Anti-Anime/Manga Piracy Operation Next Month

By Just An Otaku 11:48 PM Anime News Leave a Comment

In cooperation with 15 major anime production companies and manga publishers, the Japanese government will next month start a huge extermination operation against 580 foreign sites which have illegally uploaded anime and manga contents on the web without the copyright holders' permission, NHK reported on July 28. While the government has started supporting the genre as one of their important cultural exports, there appears to be no end of illegal uploading of anime and manga via pirate sites, mainly operated by Chinese. The Cultural Affairs Agency estimates the loss caused by the Chinese pirate sites last year was amounted to at least 560 billion yen (about US$ 5.5 billion).

On August 1, the government will start simultaneously sending requests to delete illegal anime and manga contents to the operators of the 580 foreign pirate sites which they have found. In addition, the operation will launch a new site to guide the fans to a legitimate site offering some 250 titles including the latest ones at a cost of several hundred yen.

Read more on the official English pages for:

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

Manga-Anime Guardian Project