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theOtaku Under Attack

For the last few days our site has been slower than normal. This is because we've been under heavy DDOS attack, which means that some anonymous hackers/spammers are overwhelming our servers with requests in the hopes of taking us offline.

We're continuing to beef up security to fight this assault off so hopefully all will be well again soon (knock on wood).

Quick Survey + Contest

Every once in a while we run surveys to help us with our advertising sales. Today I'm happy to announce a survey we're doing jointly with a few other websites and that includes five Amazon gift certificates handed out to five random survey takers. If you have some time please click here to take the survey and remember, your odds for winning are a heck of a lot better than the lottery (and you're helping us out as well). Thanks!

theOtaku.com Anime Podcast V - Ep. 10

Bass ackwards, eh? Nice... also, Batou's a bum. Just sayin'.

Music - Dual! by Haru & Sayaka from Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure

For a link to Anime Pulse's theOtaku.com World, go here.
For a link to The Watercooler World, go here.

And finally, you can find Ichigo's travel log over at the Anime Pulse website (under the "features" tab). He's gettin' some crazy adventures over there. Go read. Right after the podcast.

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Five New Quizzes

Time for some more quizzes courtesy of Guru. So head over and check them out. Just be sure to let Guru know which ones you liked the best and what results you got.

Caption Battle: No-Panty Flash?! Skill...

"It's that time again..."
"To berate SomeGuy for being late again?"
"To--"
"It's time for the caption battle!"

So yes, last week's winners:

In third place, going the route of evil soul collector: Aceburner!

Tama sensed something was amiss after every question he asked Hayate throughout the day was quickly met with "YOUR IMMORTAL SOUL!"

In second place, dropping taking Domo-kun's place for internet awareness: themakita!

For every 13 year old that tries to download porn off the internet, a cute white tiger dies.

Please think of the tigers.

And in the coveted first place, using all of six words that work on oh so many levels... cougarsama!

Hayate: Is there a Visine for this?

This was an amazing week. Lots of good stuff and I'm extremely proud of all of you. Let's keep that up, shall we?

Alright, so this week's screencap comes courtesy of AsagiTaichou and features good ol' Bleach for its subject matter. For those of you who need 'em, the girl on the left is Michelle Ruff; the guy on the right is Johnny Yong Bosch. Go for it:

You know the drill: type up the funniest, wittiest, most original caption you can think of for the screencap above in the comments below. Also, if any of you would like some tips on writing a great caption, you can find those here.

And like always, theOtaku is open to all submissions and suggestions for weekly feature content. You have a screencap you want used, you can PM me and we can do somethin' about it. Remember, only you can prevent bad yaoi jokes...