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From ANN:

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A legislative proposal was submitted on February 24 to amend Metropolitan Tokyo’s youth welfare law on child pornography to include sexually provocative, “visual depictions” of characters who sound or appear to be 18 years old or younger. In addition to clauses that restrict the depictions of “nonexistent youths,” the amendment has clauses to restrict the Internet use of minors through filtering software and services in net cafés and on mobile phones.

According to a March 4 Twitter post of legislator Yukie Nogami, the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly’s General Affairs Committee plans to deliberate on this proposal on March 18 and vote on it on March 19. If the proposal makes it out of the committee, it will face a vote by the entire assembly on March 30. If the assembly passes the legislation, it can go into effect as early as October 1.

Sources: ITmedia News, Mumei no Icchizaiseisaku Watcher blog via Canned Dogs blog

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From globalissues.org:

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- According to UNICEF, 25,000 children die each day due to poverty. And they “die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death.”

- Around 27-28 percent of all children in developing countries are estimated to be underweight or stunted. The two regions that account for the bulk of the deficit are South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

- If current trends continue, the Millennium Development Goals target of halving the proportion of underweight children will be missed by 30 million children, largely because of slow progress in Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

- Based on enrolment data, about 72 million children of primary school age in the developing world were not in school in 2005; 57 per cent of them were girls. And these are regarded as optimisitic numbers.

- Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen.

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Guys, something does not add up here. Why the heck is the Japanese government making legislation for the salvation of 2D children when they can do something about real kids that are suffering out there?

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They are the same person >.<

For all intentions and purposes, I could not figure out why Aniki is here. But he appears in epi 23 of Kamen Rider W as Ooniki Ichirouta.

Random pic for the night.

Brought to you by Ryukishi7 and Peach Pit, I present to you Nemuru-chan.

If you have been watching so far, you will notice that the people in this show are not normal. More akin to wolves than reinwolf Akaiwolf peanut. Even crazier than higurashi and umineko.
To end this random post, if you like the town, please kindly join me here.

Yes, Im bored.

Its about this time of the year when this kind of post starts popping up all over the place, so I thought it would be fun to share our opinions as well. Of course, standards and tastes are subjective, so you might find our choice of anime and songs a bit… questionable. More NK-DS writers might pop in later with their own selections, so stay tuned.

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Yeah, big size figure is big.

The whole of NK-DS, and indeed, most of our friends, will be embroiled in a giant battlezone in a few days time. I had bought this 1/4 scale figure of my wife in her bikini last week, but I held back from displaying her until today. It seemed more appropriate that we would seek the blessings of Fate at this crucial hour.

Soldier on and brace yourselves, my friends. The storm begins, but the finishing line is in sight.  

This is Julius Firefocht, signing off.

I’m not sure how many of our readers are considered eligible to celebrate Children’s Day, but hey, we were all children once. Not to mention you are most likely going to be young at heart if you are an anime fan!

So yeah, to all the kiddos out there, Happy Children’s Day. If you happen to be a lightning magic-wielding loli with long yellow hair tied into twin-tails, and you are called Fate Testarossa, please drop us a mail. We will go celebrate Children’s Day together.    

This is Julius Firefocht, signing off.

So, like, I woke up this morning and saw this in the Straits Times. Nothing like some humour to start your day. Article after the jump.

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Yummy.

A random visit to Seiup yields this picture of Nana-chan satisfying the megane fetish. And yes, the whole purpose of this post is to showcase this one picture.

This is Julius, signing off.