Hello again from Japan, where a condom is also called a “skin.”
Have you ever wondered what all the suffixes on Japanese names mean? Well, I’ll tell you. The most well-known Japanese suffix is -san, and it goes on the last name (sometimes the first name) and works like “Mr” or “Mrs.” It’s a polite term, and places a degree of distance between you and the person you’re speaking to. In Japanese organizations, or in school settings, lowerclassmen would use “-san” when referring to their upperclassmen, or “senpai”; senpai would tend to use “-kun” when referring to students younger than them. In business settings, you treat a company as a person, when it comes to speaking. If I called Million Publishing to check on J-List’s latest magazine order, I’d refer to the person I was talking to as “Million-san.” Two more suffixes are “-chan” and “-kun.” These are “cute” suffixes which are used when talking to children. In my children’s school
For tonight’s update, we’ve got an extra special bunch of new items for you, including:
- First, several excellent new magazines for you, including the new Urecco (an excellent issue!), the new Peach Water, and a super all-new erotic magazine, Million Publishing’s Extreme Love (recommended for Hazuki Arisa fans)
- We’ve got some great photobooks for you, both new items as well as some great back-in-stock items — Asagi Sumiere’s lovely “Umteen” erotic nude photobook, fresh stock of Miyazawa Rie’s “Santa Fe, and more
- Also on the photobooks page, we’ve got great fresh stock of the most popular photobook in recent J-List history, Ohura Anna’s iNude”
- We’ve got a bunch of really excellent erotic manga posted to the adult manga pages, including two volumes of the super “Kangofu Rock” series (fantastic erotic nurse manga) and several other great items
- We’ve got some copies of Comic Jumbo, the popular large bust manga, on the manga page, too
- If you love dojinshi and fan-produced dojin-soft (including CD ROMs of computer images), we’ve posted another volley of a twenty or so all-new dojinshi books — with some very cool items for you
- We have two fabulous erotic videos from SOD’s “Deep’s” label — Cosplay Doll Special, a *90 minute* video featuring the best cosplay performances of this great series; and Les Hospital 2, with the super Hazuki Arisa (directed by female AV director Kaori Kobayakawa)
- For our DVD customers, see the lovely new 100 minute DVD by Akina Riko — a wonderful production for DVD
- Another dynamite item — Deep Kiss Best Selection, a fantastic collection of SOD’s most popular erotic video series, on DVD (region 2)
- For fans of the lovely AV idols of the past, we’ve got another great video featuring the pure and angelic Ikegami Misa
- For fans of Japan’s lovely Race Queens, see our idols page for a nice photobook
- We have some great in-stock issues of Japan’s most interesting magazines, including Kindai (current JPOP scene), JJ (a fantastic Japanese fashion magazine, posted to the Anime -> Anime & JPOP magazines
- On the Japanese snacks & food page, we’ve got authentic Japanese wasabi from Japan!
- On our Wacky Things from Japan page, we’ve got fresh stock of many cool items, including our our best-selling perfect-bound Japanese notebooks (complete with funny English on them), a “back roller, the plug extender” (handy extension cord for those annoying power bricks), and Japanese warming pads for your shoes
- New Wacky Things from Japan items include a cool item for Hello Kitty fans — paper lunch bags, beautiful full-color paper bags with beautiful printing of Kitty-chan on them
- Finally, when the Star Wars Special Edition was re-released on video last month, it was re-released on Laserdisc here in Japan. We’ve got this wonderful set of CLV LDs at J-List, a wonderful item for collectors. See it on the DVD page!
Okay, see you on the web!
