We’re having a great time here at Anime Expo in Los Angeles, meeting fans and customers and selling lots of fun J-List products to everyone. It’s been a bang-up show, and we’re pleased as punch with how it’s turning out. Everyone has been having a blast, picking up top eroge like Demonbane and Escalation, plenty of “oppai” mouse pads, more than a few of those Itazura Cat Banks plus our signature J-List T-shirts. If you’re at the show, be sure to come by booth 819 and say hi!
Having fun at Anime Expo. Hope you are here!One of the highlights of the convention has been the Miku Hatsune Hatsune Miku concert — apparently the only approved way to write her name is in Japanese word order, with the family name of Hatsune first and her given name Miku last. It was a blast seeing Japan’s premier “virtual idol” perform in front of thousands of fans, and it was cool seeing the Vocaloid idol going more mainstream than she already is. (Toyota is heavily promoting her on their cars.) The concert was truly amazing — Miku’s image was projected on a glass pane while a live band played music for her, and the effect was nearly perfect.As is often the case, the convention hotel contains many guests who aren’t affiliated with the convention, and its always fun to imagine how the complex world of anime fandom looks from the outside. While I was drinking in a bar with some friends, the person next to me leaned over and asked, “Do you know what’s going on here? Is there some kind of masqurade party here?” I smiled to myself, wondering what the extravagant anime cosplay, Gothic Lolita outfits and K-On! uniforms would look like to those unannointed into the world of fandom. I tried my best to explain it to the man, but realized it was going to be an hour or more long discussion or more to try to teach him why we’d all gathered in Los Angeles to celebrate 2D visual pop culture.Just a reminder: you can get 2x J-List Points on all purchases on our site. This means that all the awesome T-shirts, figures, bento boxes, plush toys, snacks and gum or even Morning Rescue gives you double J-List points. Ends July 4, so make your purchases soon!
Remember: we’ve been busy on the eroge front. In addition to the happy news that our 100% yuri (girl-girl) game Yukkuri Panic Escalation is in stock and shipping in San Diego, we’ve announced a huge volley of new games to be translated into English over in 2011-2012. The new games legendary Nitroplus titles like Saya no Uta, Outlaw Django and the magical girl ero title Sumaga, the gorgeous Starless by the creator of Bible Black, plus the gorgeous RPG Seinarukana. For more information, read the JAST USA post, or get our new game catalog at booth 819 (or order something from J-List and we’ll send you one).
Also: we’ve printed some awesome J-List Anime Glasses and are giving them out with all orders through the wbsite. Which anime character would you like to become?
