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Poll: Which Anime Girl Attracts the Most Desperate Fanboys?
“In a new Biglobe poll, over seven thousand Japanese anime fans named which female characters attract the most unhealthy fanboy obsession. There’s an evident recency bias at work, so while Madoka Magica has a strong showing (two of the five are left out), along with the obvious K-on! and Haruhi, Aqua…”

Let us visit yet another possibility, the opposite of Idiocracy (which I have seen), and more like Children of Men (which I have not seen).

FuturistSpeaker.com – Empty Playgrounds: Global Populations in Decline
“In the next sixty seconds 245 babies will be born worldwide. India and China alone will add 36 and 29 respectively. When numbers such as these are reported by the news media they paint a very gloomy picture of the world to come. This portrayal is seriously misleading.”

Twitter / Crunchyroll: “Why Some Japanese Young People Have No Interest in Sex ...”

Why Some Japanese Young People Have No Interest in Sex
“It’s no secret that Japan is currently experiencing a bit of trouble in the bedroom. Earlier this year, a survey indicating that a 1/3rd of young people in Japan have no interest in sex or relationships made world headlines. Even scarier, the number of people said to be dropping out of one of nature...”

Let us observe the origin of the problem, and how a line appears
at the interface between air and water, in which they must be floating.
Source: Three lovely Idolmaster girls. Does anyone else find these 2D,
fictional characters to be more interesting than the actual girls of groups like AKB48? - J-List Tumblr

Sex, speciation, and fishy physics
“Holding a prism up to a bright window demonstrates a basic principle of optics that the plain white light radiating from our sun is actually made up of a rainbow of colors. Through air, these colors of light all travel in about the same way, but in water, different colors travel differently. Water…”

Twitter / Crunchyroll: “News: VIDEO: ‘AKB0048’ Anime Launch Trailer. Sci-fi anime based on AKB48 kicks off on Japanese TV.” ... Somehow, this does not help to solve the origin of the problem.

VIDEO: ‘AKB0048’ Anime Launch Trailer
“With AKB0048 just starting in Japan, a final preview tries to prepare you for Macross co-creator Shoji Kawamori’s anime about idol group AKB48 in a dystopian future in which pop music has been banned.”

Sarah once led me around Jefferson Starship.
Source: Big Macintosh (FIM)

Mysterious Girlfriend X - 04 | Lost in America - Anime ...
“As I mentioned last week it seems to me that the drool represents Oka’s femininity.. (I think you mean Urabe here). You did miss the UFO on her bag, which matches the one on her pen. In a way, you might say that Oka has begun to tame the savage Urabe. Being a girl, she can interact with Urabe …”

This blog, and computers from this era, will be unreadable
to archeologists in two hundred years; I don’t know, do you?

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