Hello, all. We’ve had a busy Monday today, mostly with cleaning and arranging the J-List office. Monday is our designated day to clean anything, anyway, but we had a lot of extra work because the rest of our furniture (a small sofa that Chiharu insisted we get for the downstairs, since all Japanese companies have a small sofa near the front door for guests to sit down at) arrived today.
In sports news, Yomiuri Giants coast Nagashima has said he will not retire this year, but will continue to coast the most popular Japanese baseball team. Why? Word is, his retirement would cause many baseball fans to lose interest in the sport, which could exacerbate Japan’s recession. Nagashima, a nice old man by now, is by far the most popular Japanese sports figure in the country.
Today’s update is a nice little one. On the magazines/photobooks pages, we have added four different Photoshot issues to the page. Photoshot is one of the most popular of all Japanese magazines. With its square back, its large, glossy pages and his high photographic quality, it’s more like a high-class hardcover shashinshu than a magazine. Very nice…
Then, we have more anime toys, including some that I am personally very in love with. For Ultraman fans, we have several Ultraman toys, including a deluxe giant-size replica of the original Ultraman. We have Kamen Rider soft vinyl toys, a super-cool detailed replica/figure of the flying turtle-monster Gamera, soft rubber key chains from To Heart, and more. The really cool one is the cast-iron figure from Ashita no Joe — perfectly detailed and heavy in the hand, this is one dynamite item for fans of campy Japanese pop culture.
Please stop by and see all the cool new items.
