These image of popular anime K-On! has been making its way through the Japanese internet.

They show K-On! as the anime actually appears now as well as how it "would" appear if it had been drawn in the 1990s, the 1980s, the 1970s, and even the 1960s.

K-On!, of course, is not a decades old anime. It debuted in manga form back in 2007.

While the images are hyperbolic and humorous, they do show how Japanese anime has evolved over the years.

At the very bottom, there's a tongue-in-cheek image of how K-On! would have appeared in the Edo Period, before schoolgirls rocked out on guitars.

年代別で見る『けいおん！』の画像が進化してるｗｗｗｗｗｗ [がぞたん NSFW]

On March 20, 1995, Japan experienced the country's worst act of modern terrorism. It was domestic terrorism carried out by the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo. Members of the doomsday group released sarin gas on the Tokyo Metro, killing thirteen and injuring thousands more.

Ten male Aum Shinrikyo members carried out the attack: five of them released the gas, while five drove the get-away cars. The cult's leader, Shoko Asahara, went into hiding, but was captured later that spring. He, along with other key members, were rounded up and sentenced to death. Today, they still sit on death row. Nearly 200 other members were arrested in connection to the attack and sentenced to prison.

The authorities didn't catch all the perpetrators. For over sixteen years, three of them were on the lam. And today in Tokyo, police arrested the last Aum fugitive, Katsuya Takahashi, who was reading comic books this morning while the entire country looked for him. And he almost got away. Yet again.

For years, wanted photos of Makoto Hirata, Naoko Kikuchi, and Katsuya Takahashi were posted in every post office and nearly every train station in the entire country. Yet, these three former Aum Shinrikyo members evaded capture. They vanished and were on the run so long that the mere idea of their capture seemed unbelievable. The fugitives appeared to exist only on the wanted posters that plastered their mugs across the nation.

Late last December, when one of the fugitives, Makoto Hirata, turned himself in, the Tokyo police station thought it was a joke. It was New Year's Eve 2011, and when Hirata, who was wanted in the kidnapping and killing of a bureaucrat, went to a Tokyo police station, the on duty officer turned him away, not believing him. Hirata tried again, but was once again turned away, so he went to another police station, where he was finally arrested.

The second fugitive, Naoko Kikuchi, was arrested early last week. Kikuchi, who allegedly helped mix the sarin gas, after a tip led authorities to her in Kanagawa Prefecture. She admitted to mixing the sarin, but told authorities she did not know what it was. After her arrest, police learned that she had previously lived with Katsuya Takahashi while on the lam. Both posed as a married couple. Police now are investigating how these fugitives could evade capture so long, how they got new aliases, and whether or not they received financial support.

Kikuchi's capture lead to new information about Takahashi, and the police closed in on the last sarin attack fugitive. Takahashi, like Kikuchi, was living under an alias and had re-entered Japanese society. Takahashi was using the name "Shinya Sakurai" and living in Kawasaki, where he worked for a construction company. Police raided his apartment on Monday, but missed him by hours. Takahashi had already fled, and footage of him withdrawing large amounts of cash from his bank was broadcasted all over the evening news.

Fliers showing Takahashi as he now looked were passed out at stations in Tokyo. Police thought that Takahashi might have escaped into the mountains, but as of this morning, he was in Tokyo at a comic book cafe. Called "manga kissa" (漫画喫茶 or "manga cafe"), these establishments offer manga, magazines, internet, video games, and often, free soda. You pay for a block of time, and then you can just hang out in the cafe and flip through comics or surf the web. Business people use them as a place to crash after missing the last train. Criminals use them as a place to disappear in.

The story circulating in the media is that the police received a tip this morning that Takahashi was at a comic book cafe in Tokyo. Once they arrived on the scene, police asked the man if he was Katsuya Takahashi. He said he was, and police arrested him. That's true; however, according to the Nippon News Network, Takahashi almost got away.

"At 6:09am this morning, this customer came, and I think he kind of looked like Takahashi," a staffer at the manga kissa told NNN. "He read comic books and he read the newspaper. Because he seemed totally normal, I thought maybe it wasn't him."

Police showed up at around 9am, and one officer said, "We've got a report that Takahashi has been here for the past two days." The staffer said, "There's a suspicious guy here now. Could you check to see if it's Takahashi?" The officer took a look at Takahashi and said, "It looks like him, but it's not. You, you're mistaken."

As the officer said this and as he once overed Takahashi, the suspect appeared like he was getting ready to leave. The police, just to make sure, approached him as he exited the shop. When they asked him if he was Katsuya Takahashi, the 54 year-old replied that he was, thus ending one of the longest manhunts in modern Japanese history and ending it at a comic book cafe.

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Only rarely do they ever see each other in a game, so it's nice to see the stars of every Grand Theft Auto title (at least the ones that had a star) find the time to catch up.

Swap stories, talk about beatings, car chases and unfair checkpoint structures.

If you're wondering who the brooding chap on the far right is, that's the mysterious "star" of the Grand Theft Auto V trailer.

The piece is by artist Patrick Brown who, uh, we've featured here once or twice before.

Grand Theft Auto Legends 2012 [DeviantArt]

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While it's not as cute as the feline edition, this round of cosplay featuring humans dressed as the characters from PS3 game Journey is just as impressive.

True, I'm pretty sure the game is set in a fantasy universe, and not a beach in New Jersey, but when you cosplay, sometimes compromises need to be made.

Journey [Ollie, via @JenovaChen]

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I don't know what, specifically, it is in the water in South Korea that makes so many of its artists so damn talented, but if they ever feel like bottling it, they could make a fortune.

Latest example: Sang-heun Nam, who works at Korean developer Nvius, and whose cheery style is brightening up my dreary winter's day.

Yeah, it's winter down here.

You can see more of Nam's work at his personal site.

To see the larger pics in all their glory (or so you can save them as wallpaper), right-click on them below and select "open in new tab".

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Those with a fancy for traditional Japanese art and popular video game heroes, this gallery is just. For. You.

Artist Jed Henry has been doing this series - called Ukiyo Heroes - for a while now, but he's finally got enough of them together to run them as a collection.

The name derives from Ukiyo-e, the Japanese term for a type of woodblock prints that were so popular from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Only, instead of featuring landscapes, Henry's pieces feature people like Mega Man and Mario.

He's promised to do more of them all through the summer, so bookmark the link below if you like what you see.

Jed Henry [Tumblr]

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Sega earned itself quite the reputation during the 1990s for its bold advertising, especially in the European market. Sometimes, though, the company went a little too far.

Like these British ads from 1992. Which had dick jokes, masturbation jokes, pissing, enormous breasts and, well, pictures of a guy either rubbing his junk on the back of a Game Gear or...look, let's just move on.

For readers outside the UK, know that these appeared in Viz, a publication that can best be described as Mad Magazine for horny, clinically unfunny teenagers.

Which explains the angle. I guess. Actually, you know what, it doesn't. There's no angle in which hairy dude's balls sticking out of a pair of budgie smugglers, all in the name of a Game Gear + Sonic bundle, are OK.

SEGA'S BIZARRE EARLY 1990S VIZ ADVERTS [UK:R, thanks for the reminder, Blake! We miss you, Zorg]

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The world of film has seen so, so many gruesome deaths. Some are funny, some are terrifying, some are nauseating. Some are all three.

The delightful, all-over-the-place blog "My New Plaid Pants" has long been my go-to place for movie deaths. Every Thursday, Jason Adams posts the very best movie deaths under the tag "Thursday's Ways Not to Die." In fact, his list has evolved beyond horror movies and started to include every genre.

I've actually found that it's really fun to pick an entry and try to guess which movie it'll be from before I click.

Here are a ton (though amazing, not nearly all) of past entries in the series, see if you can guess the death before you click the link:

Previous Ways Not To Die: Satanic Self Sacrifice — Fist and Fortune — Psychedelic Penis Slice To Window Toss — For Crimes Against Accent — Sacked — Speed Bumped For Traffic Spikes — Shark Versus Jet-Ski — Hot Oil Treatment — Tucked In By Jason — Just A Pair of Snowbodies — Poison Pellet Kibble Swap — Dolly Disassembled — Fire Escape Fall Out — Unbuggered — Tell 'Em Large Marge Sent'cha — Blue Man Gooped — Tongue Stung — Now Wouldn't Cha, Barracuda? — Leaving on a Rat Plane — Panthers! — Fashion Faux-Pwned — "It's Just A Box." — Blasted Pigeons — Taunting Ahnuld — The Too Hot Tub — Beyond the Veil — Sunken Prayers— Super Crack — Brains Blown — Fur For The Boogens — White Hot Bunny Rabbit Rage —Dragged To Hell — The TV Van That Dripped Blood — Don't Mess With Mama — Heads Ahoy —Martyred For Sheep — Heads Nor Tails — He Loves Me Knot — The Great Bouncing Brad —Miss Kitty's 8 Mishaps — Boat Smoosh — Meeting the French-Tipped Menace — A Magic Trick — Slick Suck — We Who Walk Here Walk Alone — Raptor Bait — Kneegasm'd — Dare to Dream in Fincher — Reach Out and Throttle Someone — De-Faced — Voluntary Drowning — Cross Borne — Pulled Up Hell's Sphincter — An Arrow Up The Ass - The Numerous Violent Unbecomings of Olive Oyl — Ack! Ack! Zap! — Baby's First Acid Splash — Chop, Drop and Sashimi Roll — Forever Rafter — Can't You Hear Me Now? — Daisies Ways #5 - Harpoony Side Up — Acid Dip — On a Wing and a Prey — For Standing in the Way of Sappho — Busting Rule Number Three (For The Purpose of Number Two) — Daisies #4 - Window Dressed To Killed —Hands Off the Haas Orb — Bullet Ballet — A Single Vacancy at the Roach Motel — A School Bus Slipped Thru The Ice — Trache-AAHHHH!!!-tomy'd - For Mel Gibson's Sins — A Wide Stanced Slashing —- Daisies Ways #3 - Scratch n' Snuffed — The Victim of a Viscous Hit & Run— Curled — Kabobbed — Daisies Ways #2 - Aggravated Cementia — Boo! Nun! — 2009's Ways Not To Die — Bug Scratch Fever — Daisies Ways #1 - Deep Fat Fried in My Own Unique Blend of 500 Herbs & Spices — By the Yard End of the Stick — Screwed From A Very Great Distance— A Righteous Bear-Jew Beatdown — Fisted By Hugo Sitglitz — Xeno Morphed — Fuck-Stuck — A Vengeful Elevator God: Part 4 — Lava Bombed — The Cradle Will Rock... Your Face Off!!! — The Food of the Nilbog Goblins — The Slugs Is Gonna Gitcha — Phone Shark — Hide The Carrot — Sarlacc Snacked — Avada Kedavra!!! — Hooked, Lined and Sinkered — "The Libyans!" — Axe Me No Questions — Pin the Chainsaw on the Prostitute — The Wrath of the Crystal Unicorn — The Ultimate Extreme Make-Over — Drown In A Sink Before The Opening Credits Even Roll — The Dog Who Knew Too Much — Don't Die Over Spilled Milk — Inviting the Wrath of Aguirre — An Inconceivable Outwitting — The Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique — Nipple Injected Blue Junk — Your Pick Of The Deadly Six — Thing Hungry —Don't Fuck With The Serial Killer's Daughter — DO Forget To Add The Fabric Softener — Any Of The Ways Depicted In This Masterpiece Of Lost Cinema — Rode Down In The Friscalating Dusklight — Good Morning, Sunshine! — Mornin' Cuppa Drano — The Cylon-Engineered Apocalypse — Tender-Eye-zed — Martian Atmospheric Asphyxiation — Maimed By A Mystical Person-Cat — The Sheets Are Not To Be Trusted — Handicapable Face-Hacked — I Did It For You, Faramir  

Rocket, of the development team behind the Arma II mod DayZ tweeted moments ago that "due to sustained and constant hacking, the central database is being dropped until further notice. You will not be able to connect." Kotaku has emailed Rocket for clarification and additional details.

Update: That didn't last long. All functionality was quickly restored; "Server is back online. Those identified as hackers in last weeks have received permabans. Sorry for the downtime," Tweeted rocket.

Update (Midnight EDT): Rocket clarified what happened in extend remarks to Kotaku. BattlEye Innovations, makers of ArmA II's anti-cheat protection, notified the DayZ admin team that they had permabanned—globally—"some thousands of those who had been previously detected cheating and hacking." The hacking attempts were solely to gain competitive advantage in the game; they were not attacks meant to steal user information or gain any type of administrative control over the game.

"At no time could they get control of the server itself, but they could kill other players, remove their gear, make them dance - all sorts of things," Rocket said. "But they could not, say, install files or anything.

"This is a very difficult time for the project, we have been under a sustained attack on nearly every system, both within game and in DayZ," Rocket added. "Without Bastian's help (makers of BattlEye), I am confident the project would have had to close. This, however, only represents an initial step, we will need to keep working with both BattlEye and Bohemia Interactive to achieve the results that those playing DayZ deserve. We have a long way to go to truly improve security but we're committed to that."