Greetings, programs, from all of us at J-List!
English grammar is sometimes too difficult for Japanese to accept, so they “reduce” it to be easier for all Japanese to understand. If you buy shampoo in Japan, you’ll have many brands of “rinse in shampoo” to choose from. (We’ve also got some “Vitamin C In Candy” in stock today.) Movie titles are sometimes “trimmed” in this manner — You’ve Got Mail was released as You Got Mail, since it’s easier for Japanese to digest in that way. Many Japanese words get similarly “adjusted” when they enter use in English, with the original meanings changed. “Hara-kiri” is ritual Japanese disembowelment that was done in the Edo Period, but it somehow managed to enter English usage pronounced “hairy carry,” meaning to commit suicide. In Japan, a hibachi (hee-ba-chee) is a kind of heart that was built into houses 100 or more years ago, for cooking or warmth, but in English it’s a cute little barbecue for apartment-dwellers. Language is fun.
I am a big fan of sushi, and eat it whenever I get the chance. As you can expect, sushi is pretty popular here in Japan, although in land-locked Gunma Prefecture, right in the middle of the main Japanese island of Honshu, we’re as far from fresh fish as one can be. There are many sushi restaurants, including expensive restaurants where a licensed professional chef cuts the fish for you (you have to have a license to prepare sushi in Japan) and “mawari-zushi” (where you wait for your sushi to come along on a conveyor belt). But the best sushi in all of Japan (at least in my experience) is a place called Edokko, in Narita City (near the airport), a fabulous place with “neta” (the fish part of the sushi) so big and fresh it falls off the rice. If you’re ever laid over in Narita, stop by for some good sushi. (To get there, go to the train station and say “Edokko sushi?” to any taxi driver, and they’ll point you in the right direction).
For today’s update, we’ve got another volley of incredibly fun and rare things from Japan, including:
- First, we’ve got new magazines for you, including the lovely new Gal’s Dee, filled with beautiful Japanese gals size “D” and up (all the way up to I cup)
- Also, fun amateur sex and kogal magazines for fans of Japanese girls
- We’ve got some fantastic new photobooks today, including new hardcover and softcover books with some of Japan’s top beautiful models
- If you are into fetish for panties, bikini or “that funny patch of cloth that sits between a girl’s legs” we recommend Sachiyo Isobe’s dynamite photobook
- This month’s Mini Suka Deluxe sold out in record time, sorry for all who wanted to buy a copy — but we’ve got a great replacement item for you, the wonderful Mini-skirt and Panty Stockings Collection, featuring tons of famous Japanese idols
- For fans of hentai manga, we’ve got a very special update for you, including the incredibly erotic manga “The Den” by Yukio Shijima
- Like doujinshi? We’ve got stock of the very nice Angel Pain 5, an *all color* doujinshi, as well as fresh stock of the best-selling Blue Eyes by Tohru Nishimaki
- We’ve got tons of great adult DVDs for you, including the bold new slut-in-hospital performance with a funny English title (“We’re crazy about the act of molesting”) (region free)
- The popular “Bukkake Circle in the Blue Sky” series continues, with Yukari Sawamura performing boldly with many actors (region free)
- For fans of Japanese indies hardcore, enjoy the great sexual performance by Yuna Akimoto with tons of very hard themes and bukkake (region 2)
- We have more very special and impossible to find videos from Milky Cat, some of their finest bukkake material ever!
- Finally, we’ve got a good restock of several very popular DVDs, including Kanabun’s tekoki special, Aika Loves You, Semen White Paper and fresh stock of the G-Taste hentai DVDs from Kodansha
- For fans of Japan’s bold and fun pro wrestling world, see an idol DVD by Soft on Demand capturing the life and times of two professional wrestling idols, Miho Wakizawa and Kayo Noumi
- We’ve two beautiful new “cold cast” (polyresin) anime statues in, Sayuri and Jun from Hiroki Yagami’s “Futari ni Omakase” — and they are just too cool
- Also for Japanese toy fans, we’ve got the first-ever stock of the brand-new Kubrick Tron figures, with very cool figures and vehicles from the classic movie
- For fans of lovely Japanese idols, we’ve got a very nice idol card series, the HIP Virtual Photocard Collection (features Yuka and others)
- For Japanese food and snack fans, we’ve got several items, including tasty Ramune candy, “Vitamin C in Candy,” Lotte “Crunky” chocolate and almonds, crab pilaf, Japanese “Matcha Milk” mix (green tea milk), and orange soda flavored Hi-Chew Kids
- Also: a major restocking of our unique Japanese chewing gum, including Black Black, No Time (toothbrush gum), Plum Gum (Ume), Blue Berry and Sweetie (Grapefruit)
- For Hello Kitty lovers, we’ve got several fun new items, including a very cool “Kogal Kitty” set of bad-girl Hello Kitty plush dolls, as well as fresh stock of toilet paper, chopsticks, straws and other items
- If you like cool Japanese monster movies, we’ve got a dynamite “Perfect Analysis” of Gamera, one of my own favorite movie monsters
- Finally, fresh stock of onigiri makers, sushi molds, bento boxes, Japanese vocabulary study cards, funny signs in Japanese, Licca-chan memorabilia, and much more. Check out all the new items!
J-List has many unique products for fans of Japan, and one of the most wacky are our own Wacky Japanese T-shirts, which contain funny messages in Japanese like “Looking for a Japanese Girlfriend” or “Hen na Gaijin” (‘m a Strange Foreigner). Wearing these funky shirts are great ways to shock Japanese people you run into, who will wonder why you got a shirt like that (they may want to take a picture of you). Please note that we’re always closing out our current stock of shirts to make room for new designs, so most of the shirts we have in stock now won’t be available in the future — so you should get yours now while we have the design and sizes you want. The shirts are all printed in the USA and all sizes are American sizes, and we have size M through XXL in most of the shirts.
