Hello again from Japan, where seemingly all girls rank Audry Hepburn as their favorite actress, and The Bodyguard as their favorite movie.
Japanese pop music is very popular throughout Asia. Recently, the Kinki Kids (a two-man singing team, named after the Kinki region of Japan, not for any sexual deviance they might have) were mobbed by fans in Hong Kong. Singer/idol Noriko Sakai’s popular in Asia got so great that she released some singles in Chinese, which was completely unheard of at the time. I saw a commercial for a L’Arc~en~Ciel album recently that consisted of a Thai pop news broadcast about the group, in Thai with Japanese subtitles.
There’s a new law in Japan, or at least in Gunma, where we’re located — the Millennium Recycling Law. In an effort to enforce recycling, companies will be charged according to the amount of garbage they generate, and penalized for not using recycled materials. All of the packing materials J-List uses are made from recycled fiber, as we ship nearly everything from the U.S.
Tonight’s update features some nice items, including:
- A wonderful new video by the blazing hot Miura Aika, a lovely new item that features not just the erotic sights of the lovely Aika-chan, but the sounds as well (headphones are recommended, so Aika can whisper sweetly in your ear)
- Many great regular magazines, including excellent new issues of Video Boy and Best Video, and the new issue of Okay!!
- A new magazine item we hope to see more of at J-List, Birei, featuring the lovely Sena Wakana (all new magazines are posted on magazine page 1)
- Several lovely new photobooks, including a great hardcover photobook by the lovely Hitomi Ryo, a “virtual weekend” with your virtual girlfriend, Mizuno Ai, and “Kiss me!” (see photobooks page 1)
- An update to our popular gouka-bon photobook page, some interesting but potentially disturbing new items
- For dojinshi fans, more copies of both Dopyu (large-breast fetish dojinshi) and Takashi Fujiyama’s lovely Vier
- On the hentai manga page, more copies of the popular “How to draw manga girls” illustration book
- For fans of J-List’s new Japanese gum, we’ve added Lotte’s “No Time, a refreshing square gum that has little particles that brush your teeth for you while you chew it (on the Japanese snacks page).
The manga & dojinshi sale continues apace, as a lot of items are picked up by people wanting to take advantage of the 10-20% off all items. We’ve got a lot of stock, but many items won’t be available after we sell our existing stock, so please stop by and check out the many great items we have.
The CM-Watch site has been updated with Esumi Makiko’s smart shampoo commercial, the Pokka Got it!” canned coffee commercial, Amuro Namie’s husband drinking corn soup, and more, so check it out at http://www.cm-watch.com .
